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By Scoop Malinowski Status: WTA current no. 143 in singles and 20 in doubles. Won four Grand Slam doubles titles: 2018, 2020 AO; 2019, 2020 Roland Garros. First Hungarian-born player to reach the No. 1 ranking in WTA singles or doubles (July 2018). Best singles ranking was 25. Also won the WTA Finals doubles three […] Continue to read full article...
AO · Fila · Hungary · Roland Garros · Timea Babos · Yonex
Sep/21
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Did Federer Loss Ruin Sandgren’s Career?
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Tennys Sandgren held seven match points on Roger Federer to advance to the semifinals of the 2020 Australian Open. The American failed to convert those match points and lost to Federer 63 26 26 76 (8) 63. Sandgren was on a roll in 2020 and on the cusp of becoming an elite ATP player but […] Continue to read full article...
Jul/21
29
Djokovic Offers Powerful Advice to Biles, Osaka and any aspiring athlete
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The disturbing recent trend of major sports champions suddenly quitting in the face of adversity of high pressure competition – as demonstrated by Naomi Osaka pulling out of Wimbledon and Roland Garros and Simone Biles dropping out of the Olympic gymnastics competitions – was addressed by ATP world no. 1 Novak Djokovic today. “Without pressure […] Continue to read full article...
AO · ATP · Novak Djokovic · Olympic Games · Roland Garros · Wimbledon
Feb/21
20
Osaka Scores Fourth Major, Bests Brady in AO Final
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Naomi Osaka has established herself as the dominant force in women’s tennis, with another masterpiece major final conquest last night, a 64 63 triumph over American Jennifer Brady. The 23 year old Osaka is now 4-0 in her four Grand Slam finals (Serena Williams was 6-1 in her first seven major finals). She will regain […] Continue to read full article...
AO · Japan · Jenn Brady · Naomi Osaka · Nike · Yonex
By Glen Andersen Medvedev is in his second grand slam final, In his fist slam final(the 2019 U.S. Open), he lost to Nadal in 5 sets. On Sunday he willface another “Big 3” guy when he faces Novak Djokovic in the Aussiefinal. . I was curious as to how many times any of the big […] Continue to read full article...
In late 2019 Jennifer Brady was a decent WTA pro, nobody projected her to be anything special. Then it all changed. A colleague from Germany named Jannik Schneider did a German language podcast with Brady’s coach Michael Geserer, a German who connected with Brady in late 2019. Geserer was once ranked 189 in ATP singles […] Continue to read full article...
AO · Jannifer Brady · UCLA
Remember the days when Naomi Osaka had no fear of playing Serena Williams, in fact, in younger days she eagerly anticipated the chance to play and beat Serena and even trash talked her. Before their first court encounter Osaka said with a mischevious smile how she was looking forward to “to make her yell CMON.” […] Continue to read full article...
Novak Djokovic was in peril of being ousted from the Australian Open by Alexander Zverev. The top seed lost the first set 76, won the second but found himself down 4-1 in the third. His instinctive reaction was to smash his Head Speed Pro racquet into the court three times to destroy the faulty equipment. […] Continue to read full article...
By Scoop Malinowski By all evidence it appears to my senses Novak Djokovic is playing as if his tennis life is on the line. He survived Taylor Fritz 76 64 36 46 62 to advance to the fourth round and Milos Raonic. I assert Djokovic is a wounded, bloodied champion, still suffering the trauma of […] Continue to read full article...
AO · Asics · Head Speed Pro · Lacoste · Nole · Novak Djokovic · Serbia
Feliciano Lopez is 39 now but it doesn’t matter at all, he can still play and win five setters in a Grand Slam. Yesterday he beat Lorenzo Sonego in five sets to advance to the third round of his 75th consecutive Grand Slam main draw, an ATP record that will likely never be broken or […] Continue to read full article...
