At the weekend, Canada won their first Billie Jean King Cup in history by beating the Czech Republic in the semis and Italy in the finals. The team of Leylah Fernandez, Marina Stakusic, Rebecca Marino, Eugenie Bouchard and Gabriela Dabrowski and captain Heidi El Tabakh stunned the field to take home Canada’s first-ever trophy. On Saturday, Canada knocked out 11-time champions Czech Republic in the semis to set up a final match with Italy. In the final, the team only needed to call two of their players, Leylah Fernandez and Marina Stakusic to sweep aside Italy. Canada called on 18-year-old …
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She needed to win the WTA Finals and she did. Iga Swiatek is back at number one on the WTA Tour. How will she perform in 2024? Iga Swiatek is back at number one When she gets on a roll, she gets on a roll! For the second consecutive year, Iga finished as WTA World number one after winning 11 matches to win the WTA 1000 in Beijing and the WTA Finals in Cancun. Pundits talk about Iga’s bakery because she often deals out breadsticks (6-1) and bagels (6-0). The final was no different, where Iga put on a clinical …
Our tennis oracle, Alex Mann, is doing his Masters, but he still had time to write a US Open 2023 Women’s Semi-Finals Predictions. US Open 2023 Women’s Semi-Finals Predictions 128 players entered this year’s women’s tournament. Only four remain. Coco Gauff, Aryna Sabalenka, Karolina Muchova and Madison Keys. Let’s jump into this year’s women’s semi-finals predictions. Aryna Sabalenka (2) vs Madison Keys (17) With Iga Swiatek’s loss to Jelena Ostapenko in the fourth round, Aryna Sabalenka is guaranteed to end the US Open ranked number 1 worldwide. Now that the Belarusian knows she will dethrone Swiatek on Monday when the …
She kind of came out of nowhere to snag the Wimbledon trophy from Ons Jabeur. But who is really Marketa Vondrousova? Marketa Vondrousova Marketa Vondrousova drop-shotted her way to her first major title at this year’s Wimbledon, but who is the cat-loving, tattooed champion? Marketa Vondrousova was born on 28th June 1999 in Sokolov in the Czech Republic. The Czech first picked up a racquet at four, playing with her father, David Vondrous. Vondrousova had a stellar career as a junior. In 2015, she reached world junior number 1. She also reached the back-to-back semi-finals of the 2014 girls’ singles tournament at …
Iga Swiatek often seems unbeatable. Bagels and breadsticks. But Muchova wasn’t having any. Still, Swiatek won her 4th Grand Slam title. Iga Swiatek won her 4th Grand Slam This is Swiatek’s 4th grand slam in her young career. She turned 22 less than two weeks ago. But like Alcaraz on the men’s side, she plays a game more mature than her age. She had many points to defend, which meant the number one ranking in the world was on the line in this year’s French Open. But she managed to keep her cool and fend off a stern challenge from …
Novak Djokovic and Aryna Sabalenka got the two singles titles at the 2023 Australian Open. In the Tennisnerd podcast we say, Congrats Novak and Aryna! Congrats Novak and Aryna! Djokovic winning his 10th Australian Open and 22nd Grand Slam was not a difficult prediction. We got it right in our Australian Open 2023 predictions, but we didn’t quite predict that Aryna Sabalenka would win her first Grand Slam down under. However, she has one of the biggest games on the WTA Tour, so it’s not entirely surprising. It felt a bit too predictable when you look back on the first …
The inaugural United Cup takes place in Australia from the 29th of December to the 8th of January. But what is the United Cup? What is the United Cup? The United Cup is a mixed-team competition, sort of like the Hopman Cup. Â The tournament will be played across three cities, Sydney (Sydney Olympic Park Tennis Centre), Brisbane (Queensland Tennis Centre), and Perth (RAC Arena). Interestingly, the Sydney and Brisbane competitions will be played on outdoor hard courts and the Perth one on indoor hard courts. All tournaments will use Dunlop Australian Open balls. Format Each city will host two groups …
In the last edition of this year’s, This Week in Tennis, let’s round up the ATP Finals. Let’s also look at the Top 10 ATP players 2022. Top 10 ATP Players 2022 It was a sensational sixth title for Novak Djokovic at the ATP Finals as he defeated Casper Ruud, 7-5, 6-3, in Turin, Italy. A close first set saw Djokovic and Ruud battle it out from the back of the court, with neither player able to break. Serving at 5-6, it looked like Ruud was going to take the first set into a tie-break; however, Djokovic had other ideas. The Serb hit …
Prize money in tennis is a hot topic. It has increased over the years, but many would argue not enough for smaller events. Prize money in tennis If we look at the prize money in tennis, it looks like this: Grand Slams 2022 Australian Open: A$33,784,200 French Open: €21,256,80 Wimbledon: £18,652,000 US Open: (not announced yet) Grand Slam singles winners for Wimbledon as an example get £2,000,000 while the runner-up gets £1,050,000 -£1,050,000 a 17% approx increase since last year. Below you have a good overview from Perfect Tennis about the Wimbledon prize money. As you can see a grand slam …
Alex Mann has written two pieces ahead of the third grand slam of the year. This is his Wimbledon 2022 Women’s Preview. Wimbledon 2022 Women’s Preview by Alex Mann Can Swiatek continue her dominance and add a third major, or will someone finally crack the code and end her 35-match winning streak? The last few weeks of the grass-court season may have given us an indication of who has successfully swapped their clay court shoes for grass, but it still feels like this Wimbledon title is up for grabs. We know that Russian and Belarussian players will not be competing at …