TAG: Roland Garros

2021 Adelaide and 2020 Roland Garros champion Iga Swiatek was comfortable, open and pretty revealing during his first press conference of the year in Adelaide, Australia… THE MODERATOR: How pleased are you to be here defending your title from last year, thoughts on being back in Adelaide. IGA SWIATEK: You know, it’s great because I […]
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Adelaide · Iga Swiatek · Poland · Roland Garros · Technifibre · WTA

By Scoop Malinowski The longest Grand Slam men’s matches are well known… Isner vs Mahut, Gonzales vs Pasarell, Roddick vs El Aynaoui, Djokovic vs Nadal… but for some reason, the longest women’s Grand Slam matches don’t get the same positive attention. I just discovered that the longest match ever at Roland Garros happened in 1995, […]
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Lacoste · Noelle van Lottom · Roland Garros · Virginie Buisson

The tennis world has of course recently been rocked by the apparent disappearance of one-time Wimbledon and French Open doubles champion Peng Shuai, with the story having more twists and turns than a five-set Grand Slam final. Peng, who in February 2014 became the first ever Chinese player, male or female, to reach number one […]
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China · Peng · Peng Shuai · Roland Garros · Wimbledon · WTA

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 […]
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AO · Fila · Hungary · Roland Garros · Timea Babos · Yonex
LAST week former WTA no. 1 doubles player Peng Shuai announced on social media that she was sexually assaulted by a top communist on more than one occasion. Since the shocking revelations by the 35 year old former Wimbledon and Roland Garros doubles champion, she has apparently vanished and the story allegedly wiped off Chinese […]
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#metoo · CCP · China · Communism · Roland Garros · Shuai Peng · Wimbledon
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Hollywood film star and legend Marlene Deitrich was one of the hugest stars in the world in the 1930s for her films Blue Angel, Shanghai Express, The Devil Is A Woman, Morocco, Blonde Venus, Destry Rides Again. She was romantically involved with Orson Welles, Frank Sinatra, Errol Flynn, John F. Kennedy, George Bernard Shaw, John […]
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Blue Angel · Hollywood · Jimmy Connors · Marlene Dietrich · Paris · Roland Garros

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 […]
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AO · ATP · Novak Djokovic · Olympic Games · Roland Garros · Wimbledon
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