
Cori Gauff has made a massive impact on this year's Wimbledon tournament, but should there be caution in planning the future of Cori Gauff? READ MORE
Cori Gauff has made a massive impact on this year's Wimbledon tournament, but should there be caution in planning the future of Cori Gauff? READ MORE
Day four sees the conclusion of the second round matches at the 2018 Australian Open. Last Word on Tennis writers, David Adair, Sam Barker, James Cunningham and Yeshayahu Ginsburg give their predictions on a handful of the most competitive matches including Naomi Osaka against Elena Vesnina and Maria Sharapova facing Anastasija Sevastova. Simona Halep vs […] READ MORE
This offseason, Last Word On Tennis will be looking back at the seasons of the top-50 players on each tour. This installment covers the WTA 2017 players ranked 35-31 including Anett Kontaveit and Mirjana Lucic-Baroni. 35. Shuai Zhang A year of two halves with improvement coming later in the year. High Points A second career […] READ MORE
There are just two rounds left in this year’s Australian Open. The winners of Thursday afternoon’s (Wednesday night if you’re watching from America) will meet in the final. Our two semifinal matches are Venus Williams vs Coco Vandeweghe and Serena Williams vs Mirjana Lucic-Baroni. As always, our panelists are here to predict the matches for […] READ MORE
(5)Karolina Pliskova vs. (22)Daria Gavrilova Embed from Getty Images Steen: Pliskova leads Dasha 2-0 in the h2h and has been solid all month (8-0 in 2017). Gavrilova is a great player, but having survived three setters, three straight times, Pliskova is going to be too much I’d imagine. Pliskova in 2 sets Sam: Karolina Pliskova had […] READ MORE
The first week of the Australian Open has officially ended as far as the woman’s singles is concerned, with Daria Gavrilova winning against Timea Bacsinszky in the last match of the day. The fourth round scenario is thus defined. Among the women, five unseeded players reached the fourth round, some after huge and unexpected upsets, other […] READ MORE
Novak Djokovic suffered perhaps the most stunning upset of his career, going down in five sets to wild card Denis Istomin, who began the tournament ranked outside of the top 100. Denis the menace played the match, set, and service game of his life, to defeat Djokovic 7-6 5-7 2-6 7-6 6-4. The world #2 […] READ MORE
The day of shocks at the Australian Open continued as third seeded Agnieszka Radwanska suffered straight sets defeat at the hands of world number 79 Mirjana Lucic-Baroni. The upset bug started with Novak Djokovic’s shock defeat to Denis Istomin earlier in the day and continued with Lucic-Baroni’s excellent display against Radwanska. The third seed and […] READ MORE