Australian Open: Men’s Day 1 review – Top seeds breeze through as Shapovalov dumped, Fognini in trouble
IT was a huge Day 1 of the Australian Open with most matches played until the rain hit which suspended six and forced 11 to be moved to today before starting. In the results that did occur, most of the favourites advanced with just two seeds dropping out on the men’s side as 13th seed […]
ATP/WTA Rankings: Risers and Sliders – 13/01/19
IN the first edition of a regular piece tracking the risers and sliders of the ATP and WTA Tours, we take a look at five players who have improved their ranking, and five who have dropped theirs, on each tour as we head into the next week of competition. It is worth noting that in […]
Qatar Open: Day 3 wrap – Tsonga, Raonic knocked out of contention
SEEDED players dropped like flies in Day 3 of the Qatar Open, with Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Milos Raonic among those knocked out in only the second round of the tournament. Qualifier, Corentin Moutet put up a spectacular performance against Raonic to head into the fourth day of competition, collecting a debut win against the fourth […]
2020 Qatar ExxonMobil Open preview: Is Stan the man for this year’s title?
BOASTING an open field with plenty of potential winners, the 2020 Qatar Open will almost certainly have a first-time title holder. The most recent winner was Roberto Bautista Agut, with Gael Monfils winning in 2018, ending the run of back-to-back victories by Novak Djokovic, and triumphs to David Ferrer and Rafael Nadal. In fact, the […]
Young Gun focus: Alexander Zverev
GERMAN youngster Alexander Zverev is one of tennis’ bright young stars. He finished 2018 with consecutive straight set victories over Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic en route to winning the biggest title of his career, the ATP Finals. As such, Zverev came into 2019 with the number four ranking and lofty expectations that were difficult […]
Davis Cup Final: Spain claims sixth title in 2-0 sweep of Canada
SPAIN has earned its sixth Davis Cup title and the first under the new 2019 format with a sensational 2-0 win over Canada overnight. In the story of the final Roberto Bautista Agut came back into Spain’s line-up just three days after the death of his father. Meanwhile Felix Auger-Aliassime was a surprise call-up to […]
Davis Cup Finals – Round 1: Pospisil stuns Italy as Canada snatches victory
WHILE Round 2 of the Davis Cup Finals began overnight, we recap how the first round of action went down across the past two days with each group completing one match. There were some interesting results including Russia’s clean sweep of reigning champions, Croatia, as well as a rank outsider taking down a top 12 […]
2019 Davis Cup preview: Group F
IN the sixth and final preview of our Davis Cup group previews, we take a look at Group F. The group is in our opinion the strongest of the lot. In the sense that any of these teams could advance not just in this group, but in other groups as well. USA are technically the […]
