By Scoop Malinowski As usual, there was an abundance of distinguished competitors this year at the 2025 Masters Clay Courts Longboat Key, a USTA sanctioned Category 2 national tournament contested from Dec. 1-7 at five different venues on Longboat Key. One competitor was President Jimmy Carter’s tennis coach in Camp David – Kenneth Fugate. Another […] Continue to read full article...
Tennis observers are not thrilled with the silly circus UTS exhibitions, Laver Cup, Six Kings, and most exos just look like half-hearted practice sessions. It’s not real tennis with something to prove, it’s just business tennis. How about this… One set each… No. 1 ITF 55s senior player in the world Oren Motevassel vs. Coco […] Continue to read full article...
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Gaël Monfils has officially become the fifth player in ATP history to reach 1,000 weeks inside the ATP Top 100 rankings. Here is the list of players with 1,000-plus weeks in the ATP Top 100: Andre AgassiRoger FedererRafael NadalNovak DjokovicGaël Monfils Gaël Monfils has stated that he plans to retire in 2026 — a remarkable […] Continue to read full article...
One of the world’s biggest tennis tournaments is being contested this week in Bradenton – the IMG International Junior Championships previously called the Eddie Herr Championships. Around 1500 entrants in the boys and girls 12s, 14s, 16s and 18s divisions, with both singles and doubles adds up to a lot of revenues, at a $175 […] Continue to read full article...
Carlos Alcaraz sparked controversy after announcing that he will not participate in the tennis “Pride Night,” declaring: “This sport should focus solely on the results on the court, not on political issues or social movements.” Marketa Vondrousova revealed on her Instagram she is being hounded by excessive invasive drug testing. Meanwhile two-time drug cheat Jannik […] Continue to read full article...
Carlos Alcaraz · IMG Junior Championships · Jerrid Gaines · Jimmy Arias
Nick Kyrgios will no longer be sponsored by Nike. But the former 2022 Australian Open doubles champion has joined forces with a company called Stack. A new chapter for Stack—led by the sport’s biggest personality. Nick Kyrgios has officially joined Stack Athletics as Owner and Creative Director, bringing his electric personality and unapologetic style to […] Continue to read full article...
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Pat Cash Autobiography Uncovered Dropped Truth Bombs
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I’ve read a lot of tennis books and no autobiography has ever dropped more truth bombs than Pat Cash’s Uncovered which was published in 2002. Here is the first truth bomb of when I will post many more… “Six months earlier (1997) John McEnroe had declared that the last two remaining great bastions of communism […] Continue to read full article...
Ivan Lendl · John McEnroe · Pat Cash · Petr Korda · Thomas Muster
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Five Puzzle Players Courier Could Not Solve
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Jim Courier was ATP world no. 1 and a four time winner of Grand Slam major titles but he had five prominent players he was unable to beat. Three of these puzzling players never won a major title. Courier was 0-3 vs Marcelo Rios, 0-4 vs Alex Corretja and 0-2 vs Alberto Berasategui. The two […] Continue to read full article...
Andre Agassi · Australian Open · French Open · Ivan Lendl · Jim Courier · Marcelo Rios · Pete Sampras
22 time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal gave an interview with Movistar sponsor to update the public about his status, one year after he retired during Davis Cup final 2024. Nadal and is family recently returned to Majorca from a vacation to Japan. His relationship with tennis at the moment. “I played 45 minutes with […] Continue to read full article...
Columbia University’s Michael Zheng won the NCAA singles championship for the second year in a row today in Orlando, FL. He beat SMU’s Trevor Svajda 64 16 63. The last man to repeat as NCAA champ was Steve Johnson back in 2012. Zheng has won three ATP Challenger titles this year and currently ranks at […] Continue to read full article...
ATP · Columbia · Michael Zheng · NCAA
