Until her triumph at the weekend at the Qatar Open, the first WTA1000 event of 2026, the fact that Karolina Muchova had only ever won…
The Golden Swing is currently underway. It’s been a fixture on the ATP calendar that defined South American tennis for years. The name refers to…
Marin Cilic’s week on the indoor hard courts at ATP Dallas was a reminder that elite tennis careers don’t always end quietly. Competing as an…
It was quite the week for Maria Sakkari. A former top-3 player who has struggled to maintain her ranking in recent years, the expected result…
Denis Shapovalov was once tennis’s golden child, especially after stunning Rafael Nadal on home soil in Canada. The hype felt justified. He had the game,…
For most of his career, Alexander Bublik existed in tennis purgatory. The Russian-born Kazakh player clearly had talent, extraordinary talent even. but he couldn’t channel…
There was a time, not so long ago, when Matteo Berrettini stood among the very best players in the world. He was making Grand Slam…
Emma Raducanu has stood in only two finals during her professional career so far. Remarkably, both occurred within the same fortnight, sort of. It was…
On the ATP and WTA tennis calendars, most months have a cohesive throughline. January is the Australian swing. March is the Sunshine Double. June is…
In the first part of a new series to follow every Slam, Martin Keady, our resident tennis historian, considers what lessons we can draw from…
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