WASHINGTON, September 14, 2020 (by Michael Dickens) On the day after Naomi Osaka won her second US Open singles title and third major championship overall, she spent a part of her Sunday doing a photo shoot on the grounds of […]
WASHINGTON, September 13, 2020 (by Michael Dickens) If there’s an award for last man standing at the US Open, Austria’s Dominic Thiem is your winner. In a tournament that final didn’t include any of the three biggest stars in men’s tennis […]
WASHINGTON, September 13, 2020 (by Michael Dickens) Neither of the finalists competing for the TEB BNP Paribas Tennis Championship Istanbul singles title, former World No. 5 Eugenie Bouchard of Canada and 88th-ranked Patricia Maria Tig from Romania had met on the WTA Tour […]
WASHINGTON, September 13, 2020 (by Michael Dickens) When Patricia Maria Tig returned to the WTA Tour in July of 2019 after giving birth to a baby daughter nine months earlier, she said she missed tennis. In time, not only did the […]
WASHINGTON, September 12, 2020 (by Michael Dickens) Saturday’s US Open women’s singles final will be remembered for having the smallest crowd gathered for a title match in the world’s largest tennis venue. Blame it on the coronavirus pandemic, which shut […]
WASHINGTON, September 12, 2020 (by Michael Dickens) As the semifinals unfolded at the TEB BNP Paribas Tennis Championships Istanbul on clay Saturday with a foursome of unseeded players, only Eugenie Bouchard had previously won a WTA title. After defeating 2015 […]
WASHINGTON, September 12, 2020 (by Michael Dickens) There’s a lot wisdom and personality – and plenty of heart and soul – that comes from watching Naomi Osaka and Victoria Azarenka, this year’s US Open women’s singles finalists, give their virtual press […]
WASHINGTON, September 12, 2020 (by Michael Dickens) For the first time in 16 years, the men’s semifinals at a Grand Slam tournament happened without Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal or Novak Djokovic. How about that! With no Big Three in the […]
WASHINGTON, September 12, 2020 (by Michael Dickens) While much of the tennis world has been focused this week on the US Open, 5,000 miles and an ocean away in Istanbul, Turkey, Eugenie Bouchard has gone about the business of rediscovering […]
WASHINGTON, September 11, 2020 (by Michael Dickens) When second seed Dominic Thiem beat Alex de Minaur to secure the final berth in the men’s US Open semifinals, he made some history on Wednesday inside Arthur Ashe Stadium. The World No. […]
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