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Rybakina Positive Ahead of the French Open After Stuttgart Win
Elena Rybakina is on fire ahead of 2024’s second Grand Slam, the French Open, which begins at Roland-Garros in Paris on May 20. The 24-year-old Kazakhstani world number four’s confidence is high after claiming her third title this season at the Stuttgart Open. Besides Rybakina’s personal confidence levels, the odds on offer by the top […]
Novak Djokovic’s plan for 2024
What can we expect from Novak Djokovic in 2024? In one word – everything. The choice of tournaments could be dramatically different from previous ones. The Serbian tennis player will turn 37 in May 2024. Accordingly, he undoubtedly needs a longer recovery period, so a less demanding season is expected. Another issue in scheduling is […]
Mayami String Review
Konstantinos Kalfountzos is back with another play test. A Mayami String Review, focusing on Tour Hex and hybrids with Machete and Big Spin. Introduction to Mayami Mayami is a tennis string brand with roots in Ukraine. The pandemic and war took a toll on the supply chain these past two years, but as of now, […]
Tsitsipas and Ruud Wins, Advance to Barcelona Open Quarter-finals
Norwegian Casper, ranked number 6, advances to the Barcelona Open quarter-finals with a defeat of Australian Jordan Thompson, ranked 33, scoring 6 – 1, 6 – 4. The third-seeded Ruud easily outplayed Thompson securing the most tour-level triumphs of 2024. The twenty-five year old, ten time ATP tour champion’s pristine hitting from the baseline was no […]
Nadal’s Comeback Has Ended In A Defeat From Alex de Minaur
Rafael Nadal, the 37-year-old twenty-two time Slam winner was prevailed upon in victory by 25 year old number 10 ranking 4th seed Australian, Alex de Minaur 7-5 and 6-1 in the Barcelona Open’s second round. Nadal had begun his Spanish homecoming with a 6-2, 6-3 win Tuesday against Italian Flavio Cobolli. However, he was unable to […]
Nakashima Defeats Andrey Rublev in Barcelona Open First Round
Brandon Nakashima has achieved a second Top Ten victory in his career and first time on clay, as he defeated Andrey Rublev 6 – 4, 7 – 6 in an upset win that sent Rubler out of the Barcelona Open. Unseeded number 87 ranked, American Brandon Nakashima has defeated number 8th ranked, number two seed Russian […]
Takeaways from the Monte-Carlo Masters
And just like that, the first clay Masters tournament of the 2024 season is already in the rear mirror. As players are moving on to Barcelona and Munich, let’s take a second to reflect on what happened and what we can take away for the remainder of the clay season. Tsitsipas is all the way […]
The Lowest Seeds to Reach a Men’s Grand Slam Final in Recent Years
The 2024 tennis season is already well underway, but in a couple of months, things will ramp up a notch when the Grand Slam season kicks off. Additionally, we have already seen one slam event so far this term, and it resulted in a first-time winner. That of course was Jannik Snner, who reigned supreme on […]
Billie Jean King Cup Qualifiers
The eight qualifying nations and their players will be competing in the Billie Jean King Cup finals in November after a competitive round of qualifying matches. The eight qualifying teams are Australia, Poland, Great Britain, USA, Japan, Germany, Slovakia and Romania. The 2024 qualifying competition took place between April 12, 2024 through April 13, 2024, […]
WTA 500 Porsche Open Stuttgart 2024 – Preview
After two days of qualifying rounds the main draw is finally complete. From the qualis, in they come: from Italy Sara Errani, who surprisingly took out seed number 1 Kalinskaya and who will meet her fellow countrywoman Jasmine Paolini (with whom she teamed up to play doubles here in Stuttgart), to win the opportunity of […]
