LONDON/WASHINGTON, June 29, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) Ashleigh Barty was given the honor of opening Centre Court on Day Two of the Wimbledon Championships against Spain’s Carla Suárez Navarro, something which the World No. 1 and women’s top seed called […]
LONDON/WASHINGTON, June 29, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) Let’s face it, and Roger Federer certainly has. Age is his ultimate opponent. The Swiss tennis icon has an eternal need to compete like all elite athletes do. For much of his career, […]
LONDON/WASHINGTON, June 28, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) After 715 days, the wait was finally over. The 134th edition of the Wimbledon Championships commenced – sort of. Thank goodness for the covered roofs over Centre Court and No. 1 Court. Under […]
LONDON/WASHINGTON, June 28, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) Today, the Wimbledon Championships commence play. The All England Club welcomes back players and tennis fans to its famed grass courts in southwest London for the first time in two years. It’s been […]
BAD HOMBURG/WASHINGTON, June 27, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) A smiling and elated Angelique Kerber had just come off the Centre Court from winning the WTA 250-series Bad Homburg Open in central Germany on Saturday, her first WTA title since her 2018 […]
EASTBOURNE/WASHINGTON, June 26, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) Saturday’s ATP 250-series Viking International men’s final on grass in Eastbourne, a resort town on England’s southeast coast, featured two of the bright young stars at the ATP Tour in Alex de Minaur of […]
BAD HOMBURG/WASHINGTON, June 26, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) It’s been a homecoming week for Angelique Kerber in Bad Homburg, Germany. In a tournament in which she’s been both the star attraction on grass in this Wimbledon tune-up event and its […]
EASTBOURNE/WASHINGTON, June 26, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) Saturday’s WTA 500-series Viking International women’s singles title match will have a Baltic feel to it because both finalists are from that region of the world – wild card Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia and […]
BAD HOMBURG/WASHINGTON, June 25, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) Katerina Siniakova is an unlikely finalist in this week’s WTA 250-series grass court Bad Homburg Open presented by Engel & Völkers. Like her Czech Republic doubles sidekick, Barbora Krejcikova, who earlier this […]
WIMBLEDON/WASHINGTON, June 25, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) The Wimbledon draw ceremony, in which names are drawn randomly to select the first round match-ups for this year’s third – and grandest – major, took place Friday morning at the All England […]
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