Andrey Rublev beat American Taylor Fritz 5-7, 6-1, 6-3 on Saturday, coming back from being down a set to move on to his third Masters final. He will now play Holger Rune, a Danish youth, in the final. Fritz was ahead of Rublev in the semi-finals because he had won three straight matches against him. […]
Dominic Thiem’s ability to generate power was limited by a wrist injury he got in 2020. After a strong start at the Monte Carlo Masters, the former number three player in the world said he can now use his big weapons again. Thiem broke the grip of Roger Federer, Rafa Nadal, and Novak Djokovic on […]
Ons Jabeur, the fourth-ranked player in the world, has her sights set on winning her first Grand Slam trophy this year after defeating Belinda Bencic 7-6(6), 6-4, at the Charleston Open on Sunday. Jabeur lost to Elena Rybakina at Wimbledon and Iga Swiatek at the U.S. Open in the finals of two major tournaments in […]
On Monday, former champion Stan Wawrinka beat Tallon Griekspoor 5-7 6-3 6-4 to advance to the second round of the Monte Carlo Masters, while Andy Murray’s return to the competition for the first time since 2017 resulted in a defeat to Alex de Minaur. After losing a close first set, Wawrinka appeared to be in […]
After being forced to postpone events in the United States last month, world number one Novak Djokovic says he hopes to get started right away at Monte Carlo and has started getting ready for the clay season early. Djokovic, 35, was denied entry after attempting to obtain special permission from the U.S. authorities to compete […]
The world number four will enter the Monte Carlo Masters hoping to strike the right balance between changing his game for the claycourt swing and maintaining the approach that has led to four victories in 2023. The 2021 U.S. Open is one of Medvedev’s 19 victories; the other 18, including the Mallorca Open, which he […]
When a bad start jeopardized her prospects of reaching her first final in 2023, Ons Jabeur claimed a rain delay of more than three hours helped her refocus and ultimately win her Charleston Open semi-final against Daria Kasatkina. After a rain delay, world number five Jabeur, who had minor surgery in February and missed matches […]
Stefanos Tsitsipas, now ranked third in the world, is looking forward to competing on clay courts again as he prepares to defend his title at the Monte Carlo Masters and go into the French Open next month. After losing the Australian Open final to Novak Djokovic in January, the 24-year-old Tsitsipas went on to lose […]
The top seed Lorenzo Musetti of Italy was defeated by Frenchman Alexandre Muller of France 6-3, 1-6, 6-4 in the Grand Prix Hassan II quarterfinals on Friday in Marrakech, Morocco. Muller defeated Pavel Kotov of Russia in the semifinals after winning 35 of 48 first-serve points (72.9%). In two hours and 53 minutes, Kotov defeated […]
Daria Kasatkina, the eighth-ranked player in the world, has expressed her disapproval of professional tennis players engaging in “trash-talking,” claiming that such behavior would not be appropriate in a “intellectual” sport. Fellow Americans Jessica Pegula and Coco Gauff said they would not mind some “trash-talking” too after Frances Tiafoe urged tennis to relax its stringent […]
