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, the brand is fully operational in Europe with a new distribution center in Poland. It …
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 match for Thompson. Ruud maneuvered into an early 5 – 0 lead as he closed …
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 keep up with de Minaur’s onslaught of speed and agility on the court, living up to …
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 Andrey Rublev. Rublev had won only a single match since his controversial disqualification in Dubai …
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 back, is he? There were quite a few experts in the tennis world that were …
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 the hard courts of the Australian Open at the expense of Russian star Danll Medvedev. The …
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, with sixteen teams competing and these are the results. Canada, the reigning champions, runner-up Italy, …
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 facing Ribakina in the second round; from the US, Sachia Vickery, upsetting seed number 3 …
Level: WTA 250 | Prizemoney: $267,082 | Surface: Clay | Singles: 32 | Doubles: 16 With the beginning of the clay season in full swing, we turn to Rouen in France for the 2024 Capfinances Rouen Metropole Open. This is an interesting tournament on the WTA tour as it’s played on indoor clay, posing an exciting deviation from the usual clay court grind. The surface means players will benefit from …
The twenty-five year old Greek followed up his win over Jannik Sinner to advance to the finals with a commanding performance and win over Casper Ruud 6-1, 6-4. Stefanos Tsitipas joins other tennis greats as a three-time winner of the ATP’s clay court Monte Carlo Masters Tournament. Tennis Channel’s Jason Goodall stated, “Stefanos Tsitsipas is back with a vengeance this week in Monte Carlo”, with a statement from Paul Annaconde …
