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Catherine ‘CiCi’ Bellis announced her arrival onto the world stage at the age of just 15 by beating Dominika Cibulkova, then ranked inside the world’s top 20, at the US Open in 2014. She then went on to reach a career-high ranking of world #35. But Bellis’ path forward since has been anything but straightforward […] READ MORE
The Mutua Madrid Open officially announced the cancellation of its 2020 edition. The increasing number of Covid-19 flare-ups Spain has been suffering lately has forced organizers and local authorities to pull the plug on the joint event. “We have given our all to stage the tournament,” said tournament director Feliciano López in an official statement. […] READ MORE
The tournament was supposed to the first one on the revised schedule The ATP has unfortunately decided to cancel the Citi Open due to the growing issues about the coronavirus and international travel restrictions. Christopher Clarey of the New York Times first reported this story. Many countries have imposed a 14 day quarantine period for anyone […] READ MORE
Is there anything human beings enjoy more than apportioning blame? It is a phenomenon doubtless amplified by the advent of social media, but one rather suspects that it is as old as society itself. But it is also reductive. The ‘blame game’ has little to no interest in contrition, let alone taking a measured view. […] READ MORE
It’s official. The ATP Tour is set to return in Washington D.C. The organization that oversees professional men’s tennis issued a provisional, eight-week-long calendar that includes two Grand Slams, three Masters 1000, one ATP 500 and one ATP 250. The revamped tour will return on Friday, August 14 with the Citi Open, over five months […] READ MORE
After some weeks of speculation, Andrew Cuomo, Governor of New York State, has announced that the US Open will be played in September in Queens but without fans. The announcement marks the most definitive step yet in the return to competitive professional tennis, with the regular season having been suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic […] READ MORE
World No. 26 Alex de Minaur dominated a round robin competition on clay featuring three fellow Top 55 players. All Spaniards. I don’t think I ever envisaged leading an article with these words, but it’s 2020 after all. Expect the unexpected. Three-day tournament by the Mediterranean The Region of Valencia Tennis Challenge usurped the final […] READ MORE
COVID-19 has forced professional tennis to come to a long-term stoppage. But, while the top players on the ATP Tour and WTA Tour might not be financially crippled by the tennis shutdown, plenty of lower-ranked players are massively affected by the lack of prize money available to them from the sport. While there are many […] READ MORE
Back in the summer of 2018, Bianca Andreescu was not yet a household name in Canada; and Carol Zhao was the country’s No. 1 ranked female player. But a lot can change in less than two years. Since then, we’ve seen the rise of a new and bona fide superstar in Andreescu, who shocked the […] READ MORE
COVID-19 has caused the tennis world to come to a halt. All tournaments, whether they be Wimbledon or an ITF $15k, have been cancelled until July 13th, at the earliest. Yet the impact across the tennis world will not be so uniform. Roger Federer was injured going into the coronavirus pandemic, but even so, with […] READ MORE
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