TAG: Mutua Madrid Open
May/23
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Zhizhen Zhang Finally Blossoming In Madrid
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This week has changed the career of Zhizhen Zhang. The Chinese stylist had a bad habit of blowing match points in big matches and not finishing opponents he was in control of. At US Open last year first round main draw after qualifying, Zhang blew seven or eight match points in the third set vs. […] Continue to read full article...
China · Head tennis · K Swiss · Mutua Madrid Open · Zhizhen Zhang
By Scoop Malinowski Emma Raducanu has had enough of the same stale, redundant questions from the tennis media and she took effective action at the Mutua Madrid Open. Media day for players was yesterday and in the mixed zone Raducanu sent a blunt message to tennis reporters about how she feels about their unoriginal questions […] Continue to read full article...
Apr/23
22
Hsieh Finally Returns In Madrid
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Su-Wei Hsieh has not played a match since Guadalajara WTA doubles final in November 2021. But the 17 month hiatus from pro tennis is over and the 37 year old Hsieh will return to action in the Mutua Madrid Open next week where she will play doubles with old partner Barbora Strycova, who is also […] Continue to read full article...
Some pro players are happy just to be living the life of luxury and glamour of the ATP World Tour. But Carlos Alcaraz is not one of those kind of ordinary competitors, according to Andrey Rublev. “I can see that he also really is in love with tennis,” said the ATP’s 8th ranked player and […] Continue to read full article...
May/22
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Djokovic Admits AO Trauma Lingered For Months
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By Scoop Malinowski Novak Djokovic got the walkover win to the quarterfinals today from Andy Murray and took time to do an interview with Prakash Amritraj on Tennis Channel at Madrid Mutua Open. Djokovic revealed the traumatic experience of detention, unlawful interrogation, two court trials and then finally expulsion out of Melbourne at his favorite […] Continue to read full article...
Gae Monfils has won 11 ATP singles titles and 522 matches and over $20m in the ATP since turning pro in 2004 but he has never beaten Novak Djokovic in seventeen tries. Today in Madrid, Monfils will play Djokovic for the 18th time. Djokovic is the only player of the Big Four the 35 year […] Continue to read full article...
Bianca Andreescu has fallen. The former US Open champion is currently ranked 111 after a totally lost 2020 and except for a final at Miami Open, an otherwise dismal 2021. But the former top five player is just 21 year old and there should be plenty of magical tennis left in her body. Yesterday Bibi […] Continue to read full article...
Reilly Opelka continues to rise almost as fast a beanstalk, straight setting Pablo Carrena Busta. Fine win for the American over the slumping Spaniard who is having a quiet year. Continue to read full article...
By Scoop Malinowski Status: Former WTA No. 1 ranked doubles player (2014). Won Roland Garros (2014) and Wimbledon (2013) doubles titles (both with Peng). DOB: Jan. 4, 1986 In: Hsinchu, Taiwan First Memory Of Tennis: “I remember when I play the first tournament. I was playing under the big rain back home when I was […] Continue to read full article...
