WASHINGTON, June 6, 2020 (by Michael Dickens) Chicago native Evan King, a three-time All-American tennis player at the University of Michigan, admits he’s one of the only American players who prefers to play outside of the United States. “I feel […]
WASHINGTON, June 5, 2020 (by Michael Dickens) James Blake left Harvard to become a professional tennis player in 1999, playing until he retired at the US Open in 2013. During his career, Blake attained a career-high World No. 4 ranking, […]
WASHINGTON, June 4, 2020 (by Michael Dickens) In an alternate universe, one free of a global health pandemic that has shutdown pro tennis since early March and the recent civil unrest permeating many U.S cities, Rafael Nadal would be gracing […]
WASHINGTON, June 4, 2020 (by Michael Dickens) Add Felix Auger-Aliassime of Canada to the growing list of black tennis players and tennis players of color using social media platforms to protest racial injustice. As a child of a mixed-race family growing […]
WASHINGTON, June 3, 2020 (by Michael Dickens) At the beginning, France’s Jo-Wilfried Tsonga recalled, it started with little nicknames. Then, little insults. In an interview with Franceinfo (francetvinfo.fr) published Tuesday, the 34-year-old Tsonga discussed how racism translated into his childhood. “Afterwards, […]
WASHINGTON, June 2, 2020 (by Michael Dickens) Over the weekend, people all across the sports world began to speak out against the brutal killing of an unarmed black man, George Floyd, by a Minneapolis police officer. One of them, Frances […]
WASHINGTON, June 1, 2020 (by Michael Dickens) In a frenetic week filled with global coronavirus pandemic and the killing of an unarmed black man, George Floyd, by a white police officer in Minneapolis that was the lightening rod for coast-to-coast […]
WASHINGTON, May 31, 2020 (by Michael Dickens) Imagine, a US Open with charter flights to ferry tennis players – and their limited “teams” – from Europe (Paris, Vienna, Frankfurt), South America (Buenos Aires) and the Middle East (Dubai) to New […]
WASHINGTON, May 31, 2020 (by Michael Dickens) Angelo Biaghi, president of the Italian tennis federation (FIT), said in an interview with Super Tennis on Friday that there is a good chance that the Internazionali BNL d’Italia could be played in September, […]
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