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Cries of unfairness rang out across the tennis world when news broke of the Wimbledon ban on Russian and Belarusian tennis players. Daniil Medvedev, Andrey Rublev, Viktoria Azarenka, and Aryna Sabalenka are among the stars who won’t step on the exalted grass of Wimbledon this summer as a result of Russia’s Ukraine invasion. Is the […] READ MORE
A Chinese media outlet has posted a copy of an e-mail it says was written by missing WTA tennis star Peng Shuai to the tour’s CEO Steve Simon. The content of the brief e-mail was tweeted by CGTN Europe, a China state-affiliated media organization. The e-mail purporting to be from Peng claims the missing star […] READ MORE
Roger Federer is reportedly back on the tennis court, training hard and is eyeing a possible return to tennis at the 2022 Australian Open. Darren Cahill, a respected television analyst for ESPN, former coach to Simona Halep and native Australian said on the Aussie TV program Sportsday that he’s “pretty sure” Federer will play in […] READ MORE
The 2022 Australian Open is shaping up to have a vastly different look than the previous year’s tournament, due in part to the possibility of eliminating hard quarantines as well as an altered lineup of players. Newly crowned Indian Wells champion Paula Badosa will have a starkly different experience, for one. Previous reports have shown […] READ MORE
Getting into the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells as a fan is not simple in 2021. First of all, let me state for the record that I’m pro-vaccine and pro-showing proof of vaccine. What the US Open did in New York this year, by requiring proof of vaccine, but for the most part, not […] READ MORE
Tennis Australia is considering a few different protocols for the 2022 Australian Open, including an “open bubble,” which would allow players to train and compete without having to stay sequestered in a hotel room. Earlier this week, The Age of Australia reported that the Australian government is leaning heavily toward requiring all players to be […] READ MORE
Official Grand Slam data analysis partner IBM has skeptically graded the chances of Novak Djokovic to win the 2021 US Open. Heading into the tournament, “Power Rankings” on the US Open website have put 20-time Grand Slam Champion Djokovic as only the #2 favorite to win. At this stage, IBM Watson has picked current World […] READ MORE
The Roger Federer withdrawal from two major North American hardcourt tournaments has put his participation in the US Open very much in doubt. The tournaments announced separately that Federer had pulled out due to his lingering right knee injury. The reason that the Federer withdrawal from these Masters 1000 tournaments makes his US Open future […] READ MORE
Belinda Bencic of Switzerland took home Olympic gold with a three-set win over Czech Marketa Vondrousova, but controversy surrounding medical timeouts once again threatened to overshadow the on-court action. On serve in the third set, with Bencic leading 4-3 and Vondrousova ready to serve, the Swiss called for and was granted a medical timeout for […] READ MORE
After the exits of Simone Biles and Naomi Osaka from the Tokyo Olympics, as well as Emma Raducanu from Wimbledon, all implicating pressure as a reason, I have to wonder: What are we doing to our female athletes? Has the pressure around these women gone too far? Hear me out for a sec. I really […] READ MORE