2025 ATP/WTA Tour Week 6 preview
TENNIS is truly ramping up post-Australian Open with four tournaments played across the ATP and WTA Tours this week. Both Tours have 500 events to headline Week 6, while also having a smaller 250 event in Cluj Napoca on the WTA Tour. We preview that event, as well as those 500s in Abu Dhabi, Rotterdam […]
On-fire indoor master Felix does it again
FOR the sixth time in his career, Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime has lifted an ATP Tour indoor hardcourt trophy, defeating American qualifier and giant-killer Aleksandar Kovacevic in a three-set Open Occitanie final overnight. Auger-Aliassime has started the year on fire, with a title in Adelaide, and a 9-1 start to the year. Had it not been […]
Qualifier stars to upset top seed
AMERICAN qualifier Aleksandar Kovacevic‘s dream of a maiden ATP Tour title is not over after stunning top seed and world number 10 Andrey Rublev in the Montpellier semi-finals overnight. Kovacevic has been on a tear of late, having won a Portugal Challenger event as top seed, then after failing to qualifier in Quimper at the […]
Felix through in Montpellier mixed bag
CANADIAN Felix Auger-Aliassime is through to the semi-finals of the Open Occitanie after an impressive straight sets win over eighth seeded Canadian Yunchaokete Bu. The world number 23 proved a step above the Chinese world number 71, winning 6-3 6-4 in an hour and 24 minutes to move one victory away from the final. Auger-Aliassime […]
Kovacevic re-enters Top 100 in French quarters
AMERICAN qualifier Aleksandar Kovacevic is through to the quarter finals of the 2025 Open Occitanie after a hard-fought triumph over Italian Mattia Bellucci in the second round. Ranked just four places behind Bellucci coming into the tournament, Kovacevic was forced to qualify for the ATP 250 event, doing just that then winning back-to-back main draw […]
Rublev Eu-banks breakthrough win in Montpellier
IT WAS the win that just had to happen for the world number 10. Russian Andrey Rublev has had a horror run in 2025, with losses to Marton Fucsovics and Joao Fonseca in Hong Kong and the Australian Open respectively to start the year without a ‘W’ to his name. That changed last night as […]
2025 ATP Tour Week 5 preview: Montpellier
WHILE the 2025 Davis Cup takes the majority of focus throughout this week, there is an ATP Tour event taking place in France, with the Open Occitanie in Montpellier. An ATP Tour 250 event, the action kicks off on Wednesday to allow sufficient rest for those having competed at the Australian Open over the past […]
Fast Learner: Medvedev exit headlines day five upsets
FIFTH seed Daniil Medvedev has become the third top 10 player to go down to an unseeded teenage opponent within the first two rounds of this year’s Australian Open, after losing a five set marathon against American qualifier Learner Tien, 6-3, 7-6, 6-7, 1-6, 7-6. >> SCROLL to see all the day three results The […]
Djoker, Kyrgios return for Brisbane
THE first of the 2025 ATP Tour tournament entry lists are out, with former world number one Novak Djokovic and Australian firebrand Nick Kyrgios both set to headline the Brisbane International which kicks off at the end of this month. Though technically a 2025 calendar event, the first round of action takes place from December […]
Zverev zooms into semis as Alcaraz misses out
JUSTIFYING his world number two status, Alexander Zverev overcame Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz on the final round-robin day of the John Newcombe Group at the ATP Finals to secure a semis spot. The German fended off the world number three, 7-6 6-4. The win ensured Zverev will end the year at a career-high world number two, […]
