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Venus Williams has been given a wildcard entry for the BNP Paribas Open, which would make next month’s tournament in Indian Wells her first event in nearly a year.
The 44-year-old hasn’t competed anywhere on tour since a first-round loss at the Miami Open on 19 March 2024. That was less than two weeks after she lost her opening match at Indian Wells.
Continue reading...An emotional Emma Raducanu was knocked out of the Dubai Tennis Championships by Karolina Muchova, after a man in the crowd who had displayed “fixated behaviour” was ejected from the venue.
Raducanu appeared rattled and in tears as she went to the umpire’s chair after going behind 2-0 early in the encounter at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Stadium. The British player had become upset due to a man who she had seen in the front few rows of the stands.
Continue reading...Andy Murray will continue to coach Novak Djokovic through to the French Open – and possibly at Wimbledon.
Djokovic confirmed the Scot had agreed to continue their partnership, which began in the buildup to last month’s Australian Open. The 24-time grand slam champion said the collaboration was “indefinite”, opening the possibility of the former rivals also linking up at Wimbledon this summer.
Continue reading...Novak Djokovic has claimed the majority of players believe Jannik Sinner was shown “favouritism” with his three-month doping ban.
Sinner reached a settlement with the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) over two positive drug tests in March last year. Sinner’s explanation that he was inadvertently contaminated with the banned substance clostebol by his physio was accepted by Wada, but the agency added that “the athlete bears responsibility for the entourage’s negligence”.
Continue reading...Emma Raducanu ended her losing run in style with a straight-sets victory over Greece’s Maria Sakkari in the Dubai Duty Free Championships.
Raducanu came into the match on the worst run of results in her career, having lost four successive matches. But the former US Open champion made the ideal start with a break of serve in the opening game and rounded off a 6-4, 6-2 victory in fine fashion with her third ace of the 90-minute contest.
Continue reading...Jannik Sinner has agreed to accept an immediate three-month doping ban from the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) – a decision that was quickly met with criticism from inside the game, with Nick Kyrgios calling it “a sad day for tennis”.
Sinner, who successfully defended his Australian Open title last month, tested positive for the anabolic agent clostebol last year which he said had entered his system from a member of his support team through massages and sports therapy.
Continue reading...Emma Raducanu will continue to try to arrest her losing run against the best players in the world after taking another wildcard into the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships.
The former US Open champion is enduring the worst sequence of her career having lost four successive matches. Raducanu failed to capitalise on wildcard entries into tournaments in Abu Dhabi and Doha over the last two weeks, losing in the first round both times, to Marketa Vondrousova and Ekaterina Alexandrova.
Continue reading...The US Open’s revamped mixed doubles format is a “profound injustice” that disrespects the players, reigning champions Sara Errani and Andrea Vavassori have said.
On Tuesday, the year’s last grand slam announced that the mixed doubles competition, which will offer a $1m winners’ prize, is scheduled for 19-20 August – the week before the singles main draw.
Continue reading...The US Open is moving its mixed doubles tournament to the week before singles play begins, hoping a revamped format and $1m prize will persuade top players to chase a grand slam title.
This year’s event will feature 16 teams competing over two days in shorter matches. Tournament organizers believe that can attract the sport’s biggest stars, many of whom have passed on doubles to keep themselves fresh for singles.
Continue reading...Emma Raducanu’s struggles continued as she suffered a fourth straight loss for the first time in her career.
Raducanu began her season with victory over Russia’s Ekaterina Alexandrova in the first round of the Australian Open but could not repeat the feat at the Qatar Open in Doha. A 6-3, 7-5 loss to Alexandrova followed first-round defeats by Marketa Vondrousova in Abu Dhabi and Cristina Bucsa in Singapore as well as a third-round defeat by Iga Swiatek in Melbourne.
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Continue reading...The former world No 1 Simona Halep has announced her retirement after enduring a resounding defeat in her first match of 2025.
Halep belatedly got her season under way in her home event, the Transylvania Open, in Romania on Tuesday, after being handed a wildcard. But the two-time grand slam title winner secured just two games as Italy’s Lucia Bronzetti powered to a 6-1, 6-1 victory in just 59 minutes.
Continue reading...Emma Raducanu suffered a third straight defeat in the opening round of the Abu Dhabi Open. The 22-year-old was beaten 6-3, 6-4 by the former Wimbledon champion Marketa Vondrousova to add to her losses to Iga Swiatek in the third round of the Australian Open and to Cristina Bucsa in Singapore last week.
Originally given a wild card into qualifying, the British No 2 was bumped up to the main draw and handed a tricky opener against Czech Vondrousova, who has struggled with injury since last summer.
Continue reading...Olympic champions John Peers and Matt Ebden have reunited to seal an emphatic Davis Cup triumph in Sweden and celebrate their Australian team earning a rare tie back on home soil.
With Lleyton Hewitt’s outfit 2-0 overnight in the first-round qualifying tie after the first-day singles in Stockholm, the golden veterans teamed up on Saturday for the first time since their Paris triumph to win the tie-clinching doubles rubber.
Continue reading...Great Britain face a relegation playoff in the Davis Cup after a makeshift team were beaten 3-2 by Japan.
Debutant Jacob Fearnley’s impressive singles win on Friday had given Leon Smith’s side hope of victory despite being without grand slam semi-finalists Jack Draper and Cameron Norrie.
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