NEW YORK — The chant rang out in cavernous Arthur Ashe Stadium on Monday at the U.S. Open before Coco Gauff’s first service game of her first match of her first Grand Slam tournament as a defending champion: “Here we go, Coco! Here we go!” Coming to Flushing Meadows off a series of early exits … Read more
.jpeg "Ahead of the US Open, Carlos Alcaraz, Caroline Wozniacki, and Taylor Fritz Played a Little Pickleball at the Annual Palace Invitational")
Mid-August in New York means the US Open is just around the corner, and to help drum up excitement for the American Slam, on Thursday Lotte New York Palace hosted its seventh annual invitational tournament, coaxing major names from the world of tennis to the 135-year-old hotel’s midtown courtyard for a little friendly pickeball. The … Read more
Team GB’s Olympic women’s 800m champion Keely Hodgkinson has ended her 2024 season early, announcing on her Instagram account that she had picked up an injury, preventing her from competing in September’s Diamond League meetings. By Ros Satar Last Updated: 22/08/24 8:12am Keely Hodgkinson won gold in the women’s 800m final at the Paris Olympics … Read more
NCAA champion Alexa Noel’s debut as a professional tennis player arrives next week at the U.S. Open — a decade after she went to Flushing Meadows with a racket in hand for the first time. When she was about 11, the now-21-year-old American recalled, she was invited to a camp run by the U.S. Tennis … Read more
Top Australian tennis player Alex de Minaur has declared he will be fit to play in the US Open after a long layoff due to injury. De Minaur has not played a singles match since tearing the cartilage in his hip during the match-winning game of his fourth-round match at Wimbledon in July. He closed … Read more
Alexei Popyrin has continued his giant-killing run to become the first Australian in more than two decades to capture a Masters 1000 crown with a thunderous final triumph in Montreal. Mixing sublime touch with ferocious firepower, Popyrin out-gunned volatile Russian world No.6 Andrey Rublev 6-2 6-4 in one hour 29 minutes to land the third … Read more
The U.S. Open is still a few weeks out, but tickets to enter the Arthur Ashe Stadium are available—and for those who’ve already secured theirs, you’ll want a winning look to watch those matches. With more than 950,000 spectators over a three-week period in 2023, it is one of the most highly anticipated sporting events … Read more
Novak Djokovic has finally claimed the Olympic gold that eluded him, and with it, admittance to one of the only clubs the sport has denied him entry to. Djokovic joined the elite group of Golden Slam winners on Sunday, defeating Carlos Alcaraz 7-6 (7-3) 7-6 (7-2) at Roland Garros. The masterful Serbian, already the all-time … Read more
Steven Spielberg couldn’t have written it any better. Czechia’s Katerina Siniakova and Tomas Machac have won Olympic gold in the tennis mixed doubles, just weeks after ending their romantic relationship. The pair defeated China’s Zhang Zhizhen and Wang Xinyu in a match tie break, 6-2, 5-7, 10-8, to claim gold at Roland Garros. Know the … Read more
PARIS — Iga Swiatek dabbed at her eyes with a white towel while sitting on her sideline chair at the 2024 Olympics after a lickety-split, clean-as-can-be win Friday that earned a bronze for Poland’s first tennis medal at any Summer Games. Sure, she beat Anna Karolina Schmiedlova of Slovakia 6-2, 6-1 in 59 minutes on … Read more
