Nishikori stuns Stef in Montreal madness
JUST two days after grabbing his biggest win in a couple of years, Kei Nishikori has gone even better in the second round of the National Bank Open in Montreal, taking out world number 11 Stefanos Tsitsipas in straight sets. The current 576th ranked player in the world secured his first Top 20 win in […]
Shelton cracks Bublik code in impressive win
AFTER two losses on clay to his doubles partner over the last 18 months, American Ben Shelton got one back on Kazakhstan’s Alexander Bublik in the first round of the ATP Masters 1000 in Montreal overnight. Two characters on the ATP Tour, it was only fitting that the 7-6 6-2 victory ended with a hilarious […]
Aussies hold nerve to claim historic gold
AUSTRALIA has its first tennis gold medal in almost 30 years after Matthew Ebden and John Peers stunned American duo Austin Krajicek and Rajeev Ram to win the men’s doubles at the 2024 Paris Olympics. In a hard fought, over two hour long match, the Australian boys fought off a late American surge in the […]
No escape from Alcaraz in Paris for Felix
THERE was nowhere to hide for Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime who felt the full brunt of an impressive Carlos Alcaraz overnight, going down 6-1 6-1 in the Paris Olympics semi-finals. Alcaraz stormed to the win in just an hour and 15 minutes to guarantee himself a medal, making light work of the North American who had […]
Musetti denies Zverev back-to-back golds
ITALIAN Lorenzo Musetti is through to the Paris Olympics semi-finals, all while denying reigning men’s singles gold medallist Alexander Zverev a shot at back-to-back golds. Zverev won the top gong in Tokyo, but has fallen in the last stage before the medal rounds with Musetti getting up in a tight 7-5 7-5 contest on Court […]
Alcaraz storms past Safiullin into Olympic quarter finals
WORLD number three and reigning Roland Garros champion Carlos Alcaraz is just three wins away from a maiden Olympic gold medal after skipping past Roman Safiullin in a comfortable straight sets victory, 6-4 6-2. Alcaraz needed an hour and 29 minutes to dispatch of the neutral athlete and advance through to the Paris quarter finals. […]
2024 Paris Olympics draw talking points
LAST night the 2024 Paris Olympics took place and there was no shortage of talking points coming out of the draw. Here is some of those talking points from the men’s and women’s singles. MEN’S SINGLES: Novak vs Rafa one last time? Speculation pre-draw was whether or not the two most successful Grand Slam winners […]
Defending champ Alcaraz overcomes Medvedev to reach decider
REIGNING Wimbledon champion Carlos Alcaraz is through to another All England club final after defeating Russian Daniil Medvedev in a come-from-behind four-set win over night. After dropping the first set in a tiebreaker, Alcaraz got back on track to win in just under three hours, 6-7 6-3 6-4 6-4. The Spanish third seed needed two […]
Meddy magic ends Sinner’s Slam shot
FIFTH seed Daniil Medvedev managed to overcome a red-hot Jannik Sinner in an epic four-hour Wimbledon quarter final to reach the last four of the grasscourt Grand Slam. The Russian needed to pull out all the tricks against the world number one who was albeit under the weather with illness, eventually winning 6-7 6-4 7-6 […]
Alcaraz “unbelievable” in hard-fought win
SPANISH world number three Carlos Alcaraz was made to work for it by Frenchman Ugo Humbert in four sets across three hours, but eventually came away with the day seven win on Centre Court at Wimbledon to reach the quarter finals. Alcaraz had to dig deep after the 16th seed produced some lights out tennis […]