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Roger Federer’s recurring knee injury has cast a cloud of uncertainty over his participation in the American hard-court season beginning in a few weeks. Needless to say, this is a huge setback for him and his fans. Fitness concerns have had a toll on the Swiss’s relentless pursuits to stay on top of his game […] READ MORE
The British No. 1 has pulled out of the Tokyo Olympics. Dan Evans has been forced out of the delayed Tokyo Olympics due to a positive COVID test. Dan Evans has tested positive for COVID-19 and joins Johanna Konta in withdrawing from the British Olympic team. The Brit joins the mounting list of players who have […] READ MORE
The tennis world has been dominated by the “Big 3” for the last 17 years or so. Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic have 20 Grand Slams each. While Djokovic and Nadal are still the dominant players in the world right now, there have been signs of a changing of the guard. Daniil Medvedev, […] READ MORE
At last year’s French Open, Rafael Nadal finally equalled his long-time rival Roger Federer. Nadal had been trailing Federer their entire careers, but the Spaniard had been hot on his rival’s heels. Chasing both, though–and rapidly gaining since his career revival in 2011–has been Novak Djokovic. When the 2011 season begin, Federer had 17 Major […] READ MORE
World #3 Rafael Nadal accepted a wild card into the Citi Open in Washington, D.C. where he will begin his hard court season. For the first time, the tournament will be held from August 2-8. “I am very excited to come to Washington for the first time,” Nadal said. “I have never been there and […] READ MORE
Ahead of the 2021 Final, Martin Keady, our resident tennis historian, looks back at the finest Wimbledon Men’s Singles Finals ever. The 2021 edition will have to go some to match these classics. In ascending order, here are the five finest Wimbledon Men’s Singles Finals Ever. 2001: Goran Ivanišević beats Pat Rafter 6–3, 3–6, 6–3, […] READ MORE
The Wimbledon organizers have never been the saints of scheduling. In the last few years alone we’ve seen several questionable and disrespectful decisions, all the way from Novak Djokovic on Court 2 just a few years ago to Venus Williams on Court 18–that’s right, a five-time champion on Court 18. But this year the organizers […] READ MORE
As per usual, the first round of the men’s singles draw at Wimbledon was a bloodbath. Eleven seeds were unable to survive their debut. Sam Querrey, a battle-hardened soldier in the SW19 trenches, was the perpetrator of one of these upsets, defeating World No. 13 Pablo Carreño Busta in straight sets. Avid fans will point […] READ MORE
For so long, Novak Djokovic has been the most famous ‘Third Man’ since Harry Lime. Even after a phenomenal decade of dominance or near-dominance in tennis, he has still been somewhat in the gigantic shadows cast by Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, who established their own formidable rivalry (and thereby won their own armies of […] READ MORE
The Wimbledon Championships return to the All-England Club for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic. The “Big Four” of tennis–Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, and Andy Murray–have dominated the Men’s championships at Wimbledon for the last 17 editions. There hardly have been any major surprises, barring a few Nadal early exits over the […] READ MORE