WTA Tour hypothetical: What if they had Next Gen Finals this year?
THE ATP Tour’s Next Gen Finals are a highly sought after event to show off the best young talent coming through the men’s competition. In past years, Stefanos Tsitsipas and Jannik Sinner have triumphed, leading them onto successful years the following seasons and beyond. As it stands, the WTA Tour does not have a Next […]
WTA Countdown: 2020 Top 5 Improvers – #5 Sofia Kenin
AS the WTA Tour comes to a close for the 2020 season, Draft Central is counting down the top five standout performers across a severely disrupted year who have stepped up to a new level since the Tour’s return. Coming in at number five is American Sofia Kenin who started her year on a high […]
Trevisan destroys top seed in qualifying, becomes fifth Italian in Palermo
IT was an unsurprisingly bumpy start to the return of the WTA Tour at Palermo Ladies Open, but qualifying is now completed with the final 32 players determined ahead of main draw matches in just under 12 hours. Following the withdrawal of the top two ranked players – Simona Halep and Johanna Konta – as […]
Konta and Evans go down in ominous sign for return of tennis
READYING for the eventual return of international tennis, a Battle of the Brits team event has begun in Roehampton, London, with 40 singles matches and 20 doubles matches playing out over the next seven days featuring Britain’s top male and female talent. Organised by Jamie Murray, the event features two mixed teams – Union Jacks […]
Opinion: What would a WTA Tour version of the Laver Cup (Williams Cup) look like?
IN yesterday’s opinion article, we took a look at the current format of the ATP Tour’s Laver Cup, a team tournament which pits Team Europe off against Team World. We analysed how the current method is not the best way to have the closest contest, and some alternatives that the Tour could look at to […]
Opinion: Is there a better way to run the Laver Cup?
MANY tennis fans love when the best of the best come together and face off in a huge week of action whether it be at Grand Slams or Davis Cups, or especially the ATP Finals series. One unique idea that began in 2017 was the Laver Cup, which pits the best ATP Tour players against […]
Five ATP/WTA players who might have benefited from the Tour lockdown
NO ONE would have enjoyed not being able to play out the ATP and WTA Tours since March. But there might have been a select few for whom the break came at the perfect time be it through injury or form. Bianca Andreescu (CAN) Still ranked at number six in the world, the Canadian 20-year-old […]
US Open 2020 – Will it go ahead?
JUST 41 days out from the rescheduled US Open, the tennis world is in somewhat of a disarray with continued escalating fears of COVID-19 and the risks it could have to players, especially after reports of positive tests from players at an exhibition tournament in late June, hosted by world number one Novak Djokovic. The […]
The Rise and Fall of American men’s tennis: Where to from here?
FOR the first time since the 1970s when the Open era commenced, the United States have gone through a decade without a representative holding the number one ranked position. Long considered a tennis super power, the United States have had Jimmy Connors of the 70s, John McEnroe through the 80s, Jim Courier, Pete Sampras and […]
Who will be the next ’Serena’?
SERENA Williams has been the face of American tennis for more than 20 years now, and with the champion still making waves and in the top 10 at almost 40, there is no doubt that she will go down in history as one of the all-time greats. With the intensity, talent and physical and mental […]
