Osaka, Zverev make the last four with contrasting wins
Day 9 at the Flushing Meadows saw men’s World No.7 Alexander Zverev and 2018 US Open champion Naomi Osaka move to the semi-finals of the year’s last major. The German,…
Djokovic marches into Round 4, Tsitsipas bows out
Day 5 at the Flushing Meadows saw seventeen-time Grand Slam winner Novak Djokovic marching into Round 4 with a straight-set win over 48th-ranked German Jan-Lennard Struff. The victory took his…
How baseline tennis pushed serve and volley to the shadows
For those who grew up watching lawn tennis in the eighties, nineties, or even earlier, including the writer himself, the serve and volley game remains a piece of nostalgia which…
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Tied 2019 World Cup Final, Wimbledon Tiebreak redefine sporting epics
One team did not win but the other did not lose. Another contest was decided only by a tie-breaker. Two mega events in the same city, on the same date…
‘Stupidity, irresponsibility’: Nick Kyrgios, Andy Murray slam Novak Djokovic
Novak Djokovic, the men’s world number one tennis player, has tested positive for COVID-19, the Serbian said in a statement on Tuesday June 23. The final leg of the Adria…
Did COVID-19 hiatus expose the underlying incongruities in Tennis?
Tennis had come to a standstill in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic and there have been several discussions about the resumption of the sport for the benefit of fans,…
Djokovic launched Adria Tour to see big names
A press conference, announcing Adria Tour , assured the return of tennis with exhibition match for Novak Djokovic and this time the names of some other high-ranked stars such as…