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World No. 5 Andrey Rublev is looking to end the year just the way he started–by winning a title. However, the Russian faces a daunting task against two-time champion Andy Murray on Saturday. Who will be crowned champion in the 13th edition of the Mubadala World Tennis Championship? Mubadala World Tennis Championship Final Prediction Head-to-head: […] READ MORE
The 13th edition of the Mubadala World Tennis Championship will kick off slightly earlier than usual. The tournament has suffered a minor blow this year, with a few major names pulling out at the last minute. But three of the world’s Top 20 men’s players will be in action. We have predictions for action on […] READ MORE
So often in recent years, the Mubadala World Tennis Championship signals the unofficial welcoming of the new tennis season. And in its 13th edition since the tournament’s inception in 2009, the event will return to the Zayed Sports City (16-18 December), in Abu Dhabi, after a one-season hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic. The three-day […] READ MORE
We arrive in the semifinals of the 2019 Mubadala World Tennis Championship. Will it come down to the one match everyone has been waiting for? We look at Novak Djokovic vs Stefanos Tsitsipas, as well as Rafael Nadal vs Karen Khachanov. Novak Djokovic vs Stefanos Tsitsipas Head-to-head: 2-2 Embed from Getty Images Although one could have […] READ MORE
Amanda Anisimova will never forget the year 2019. On the bright side, she captured her maiden WTA title in Bogota. Moreover, she proved at the Australian Open and especially at Roland Garros that she’s a threat to go deep at any event she enters. However, she also suffered the worst loss of her life, as […] READ MORE
Serena Williams’ first match in almost a whole year, ended in a tight defeat to Roland Garros champion Jelena Ostapenko. You could argue that Serena’s return to the women’s game was the return that everyone had been waiting for since she stepped away from the tour to give birth to her first child. Williams was […] READ MORE
Andy Murray made his big return to tennis after a longstanding right hip injury that had massively impacted him towards the second half of the 2017 tennis season. He had only played one match in five months, that being the brief exhibition appearance in Scotland, where he played Roger Federer in a match that really […] READ MORE
Serena Williams will make her long-awaited playing comeback in Abu Dhabi next week following the birth of her daughter Alexis Olympia, a little over three months ago. The legendary American won a record-breaking 23rd Grand Slam singles title at the Australian Open earlier this year, edging her sister Venus Williams in straight sets, and was […] READ MORE
World No.1 player Rafael Nadal has pulled out of the Mubadala World Tennis Championship exhibition in Abu Dhabi next week. This latest piece of news is yet another setback to the beginning of the 2018 season and casts some serious doubt as to whether Nadal will be ready to play some competitive tennis by the […] READ MORE
Tennis, outside of the Grand Slam tournaments, once grew in popularity in large part due to exhibition tennis that was played for a profit by the world’s best tennis players before the “Open Era”. These exhibitions had a way of introducing more fans to the sport, and providing for innovation and change as well, in […] READ MORE