2022 Australian Open Scoreboard: Day 2
DAY TWO of the 2022 Australian Open saw more upsets than its predecessor, and some epic five-set and three-set contests in the men’s and women’s draws respectively. At the conclusion of the day, the full first round is complete, with second round matches – Round of 64 – kicking off today. Despite a scare from […]
2022 Australian Open Scoreboard: Day 1
THE 2022 Australian Open got underway yesterday and in Rookie Me Central’s Australian Open Scoreboard, see how every match went down. The men’s singles went largely to plan, with only Sebastian Korda‘s win over British 12th seed Cameron Norrie, and Australian wildcard Aleksandar Vukic victory 30th seed South African Lloyd Harris the sole seeded upsets. […]
Canada gets revenge over Spain in ATP Cup
CANADA’s rising stars have taken the world by storm over the past couple of years, and now they have some silverware to go with it. After going down to Spain in the 2019 Davis Cup Final, the North American nation has achieved some retribution with the 2022 ATP Cup title. Though there was no Rafael […]
Around the Tours: Top seeds claim titles
IT might have been a touch predictable, but the top champions across the country predominantly won their respective WTA and ATP Tour titles. In Adelaide, the home court favourite and world number one Ash Barty saluted with a straight sets win over seventh seed Elena Rybakina. The win marked her 17th win from her last […]
Around the Tours: Barty dispatches Swiatek
ASH Barty is into the Adelaide International final today with a chance to win her second Adelaide International title. Having won the title a couple of years back, Barty overcame her biggest hurdle of the tournament thus far with a dominant straight sets win over reigning champion, Iga Swiatek. Both Roland Garros winners, Barty won […]
Around the Tours: Adelaide champions to battle in semi
THE only two Adelaide International champions will do battle in the semi-final of the 2022 tournament, when world number one Ash Barty comes up against Poland’s Iga Swiatek. Both are Grand Slam winners and overcame their respective Grand Slam-winning opponents in Sofia Kenin and Victoria Azarenka. Whilst Barty won in straight sets over Kenin 6-3 […]
Around the Tours: Chinese teen continues run
CHINESE teenage Qinwen Zheng continued her remarkable run in Melbourne to reach a quarter final at the event. In what was only her fifth main draw match of her career – she made her WTA Tour main draw debut in Palermo last July – she was able to get past the always tough Vera Zvonareva […]
Around the Tours: Barty overruns Coco
WORLD number one Ash Barty produced a strong comeback to put away teenage prodigy Coco Gauff in three sets at the Adelaide International last night. In one of the matches of the day, Gauff took the first set against the rusty Australian, and went 4-2 up seemingly set to advance to the quarter finals. Instead, […]
2022 ATP Cup: Group A preview
A LAST minute withdrawal from world number one Novak Djokovic has shaken up the 2022 ATP Cup draw, in particular Group A. The Serbians were strong favourites to reach the final again, having won it back in 2020. But with the news Djokovic is out of the event, the Serbian side drops back, holding the […]
2022 ATP Cup Spain preview
SPAIN will attempt to overcome the loss of two of its top four stars to take out the 2022 ATP Cup. Entering the third edition of the event, Spain has always reached the knockout stage of the draw. Spain lost to Italy in the semi-finals of the 2021 ATP Cup, after missing out on the […]
