I did not recognize Dominic Thiem last night. He was overcome by the moment and tied down by nerves. But in the end, he got through it to win his first grand slam title. I don’t think anyone could have predicted the first two sets of last night’s US Open 2020 Grand Slam final. Zverev came out like a man on a mission and Thiem couldn’t put a ball in …
In a recent press release, the ATP has announced the addition of four new ATP events to the 2020 provisional schedule. The updated schedule included the back-to-back ATP 250 events in Cologne (Germany, Indoor Hard) that I wrote about in my previous Bett1HULKS post. And also two new ATP 250 events in Sardinia (Italy, Clay), and Nur-Sultan (Kazakhstan, Indoor Hard) issued as single-year licenses for 2020. You can only get …
Murray and Zverev are confirmed to join two ATP tournaments in October under the collective name of Bett1HULKS. My friends at e|motion group have not been laying low during COVID. After the Bett1Aces the group expands its tennis portfolio with two tournaments under the name of Bett1HULKS in the LANXESS arena in Cologne, Germany. So there will be two ATP 250 indoor tournaments from October 11th to 25th, 2020. The two …
In a couple of weeks, the WTA and ATP Tours will get back underway with top-level tennis events taking place across the United States. They are, for all intents and purposes, warm-up tournaments, though; a chance for players to get some much-needed match fitness ahead of the US Open at the end of August. Doubts still hang over the year’s second, and final, Major at Flushing Meadows on August 31st, …
Live tennis competitions are on the way back. There will be an exhibition tournament called Bett1 Aces in July already. Thiem, Kyrgios, and Zverev are all confirmed. Bett1 Aces is a new exhibition tournament for six men and six women in two different locations in Berlin between the 13th and 19th of July. One site is the Steffi-Graf-Stadium. The matches there will be played on grass courts between 13th – …
The ATP and WTA Tours take professional tennis players across the world to play tournaments in-front of fans. The season begins in Australia with the first of the Grand Slam tournaments which is the Australian Open. The fact this tournament starts in January means tennis fans have something to be excited about early in the year. Novak Djokovic defended his title by defeating Dominic Thiem in the 2020 final to …
If you are a true tennis nerd, I am sure visiting Wimbledon is on your tennis bucket list. It is the most iconic of the grand slams after all. I got a dose of “the Wimbledon experience” in 2015 and hope to go back there sometime soon. That time, I was fortunate to get an invite from one of my friends who work with the ATP, but you can’t always …
The brand new season of tennis is about to be served up from January 6th through the 11th in the ATP season opener in Doha, Qatar. At this point, we have the eight entrants for the 2020 event confirmed and this in already are the Top 8 seeds. There a handful of top players expected to enter the ATP season opener in Doha, but at this point, according to SBR …
It is time for the Shanghai Masters 2019. Is the stage all set for Djokovic to defend his title? Or can someone upset him? Here are my predictions. Djokovic came back from injury in Being next week and did not look rusty at all. He had a good draw and rushed to the title without dropping a set. This makes him the overwhelming favorite for the Shanghai Masters 2019. Federer …
The Senior Masters Cup in Marbella is an exhibition-style tournament played over a weekend. I was there to capture some highlights. The 2019 edition of the Senior Masters Cup included players that are just about “senior” and two that are not even retired. Three Spanish stars were there: Tommy Robredo, Feliciano Lopez and David Ferrer. They were joined by German former world number two, Tommy Haas. The format of the …
