Queen’s 2019: Relaxed Andy Murray brings fresh perspective back to his home turf
The abiding memory of Andy Murray’s departure from the tour at the Australian Open five months ago is of a beaten, despondent man brought low…
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Nottingham 2019: Dan Evans clinches back-to-back titles on home soil at Nature Valley Open
Briton Dan Evans has won his second consecutive grass court title on home soil, beating Russian 13th seed Evgeny Donskoy, 7-6(3), 6-3, to clinch the…
Queen’s 2019: Stefanos Tsitsipas has high hopes for grass – and also for London’s O2
He has been perhaps the biggest and brightest star to burst on the men’s tennis scene in the last year. And Stefanos Tsitsipas, top seed…
Halle 2019: Roger Federer goes for 10th title: “Victory must always be the goal in Halle”
It was an early start for Roger Federer at the Noventi Open on the Sunday before the stars came out to play. And even allowing…
Queen’s 2019: Tough openers across the board for Britons Edmund, Evans, Norrie – and Andy Murray
British players will face some of the top players in the draw in the Fever-Tree Championships at The Queen’s Club when play gets under way…
Birmingham Premier: Konta joined by Pliskova, Osaka, Barty, Venus Williams, in world-class field
The window between the closing climax of the clay season at Roland Garros and the pinnacle of the grass season at Wimbledon has always been…
Halle 2019: Roger Federer goes for record No10, but young challengers are lining up
There have been six different German champions at the newly-named Noventi Open—formerly the Gerry Weber Open—who have between them won seven times since the inaugural…
Queen’s 2019: Tsitsipas, Anderson, Del Potro, Wawrinka among seven top-20 men
The Fever-Tree Championships, one of the pair of prestigious ATP500 events that pave the way to Wimbledon, gets underway this weekend at the iconic and…
Laver Cup 2019: Federer and Nadal to be joined by Thiem, Zverev and Fognini in Geneva
World No4 and French Open runner up Dominic Thiem, No5 Alexander Zverev, and No10 Fabio Fognini, who has entered the top 10 this week for…
Back to grass roots: Tsitsipas, Del Potro and Shapovalov join The Boodles lineup
After three months of sweating it out on the hard courts of Australia and North American, and two months skidding across the red clay of…
Daniel Evans kicks off grass swing with victory in Surbiton Challenger
Great Britain’s Dan Evans has lifted the trophy at the LTA’s Surbiton Trophy, defeating Viktor Troicki 6-2, 6-3, in a rain-interrupted final on Sunday. Evans…
French Open 2019: Rafael Nadal champion for 12th time, but Thiem’s time will come
Where to start with the greatest French Open champion of them all? Rafael Nadal was into his 12th Roland Garros final, and had never been…
French Open 2019: Ashleigh Barty beats Vondrousova for first singles Major and No2 ranking
How many would have predicted that the last two women standing come final Saturday would, before this tournament, have won a combined total of just…
French Open 2019: Rafael Nadal beats great rival Federer to reach 12th Roland Garros final
We have been here before, in many places around the world. We have seen the two most prolific winners of Major titles in men’s tennis,…
French Open 2019: Teenager Vondrousova denies Konta her first Major final; will meet Barty in final
When the 2019 edition of the French Open got underway a little under two weeks ago, there were probably very few who predicted that Johanna…
French Open 2019: Stand-out stats for a unique schedule – all four semi-finals on one day in Paris
It is a rare occasion when all four singles semi-finals of a Major are played on the same day—or at least are scheduled to play…
French Open 2019: Novak Djokovic and Dominic Thiem dominate to set semi-final clash
The wait was long, wet and tedious for all four of the men biding their time at the quarter-final stage of the French championships. Already…
French Open 2019: Teenager star Amanda Anisimova downs defending champion Simona Halep
At last, the defending champion, Simona Halep, got to court for her quarter-final match against the fast-rising star, Amanda Anisimova—two days after the women in…
French Open 2019: Halep, Barty, Keys, Anisimova put on hold by rain
In the bottom half of the Roland Garros women’s draw, just one of the original 16 seeds still stood standing at the conclusion of the…
Gabriela Sabatini, Novak Djokovic and Simona Halep honoured at ITF’s World Champions Dinner
Gabriela Sabatini, the 1990 US Open champion and five times a French Open semi-finalist, was presented with the ITF’s highest accolade, the Philippe Chatrier Award,…
French Open 2019: Roger Federer avenges 2015 loss to Stan Wawrinka with 70th Paris win
Perhaps someone in the French Open scheduling office had a wicked sense of humour. For it surprised many that the quarter-final contest between Swiss rivals…