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, […]
STARNBERG, June 2, 2020 According to Spanish national daily sport newspaper Marca, players have been sent e-mails from the ATP inviting them to attend a zoom meeting, which is set to be held on Wednesday, June 10 at 4 pm […]
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) 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, […]
STARNBERG, May 30, 2020 Roger Federer has become the world’s highest-paid athlete for 2020. The Swiss superstar is the first tennis player to top the annual Forbes list released on Friday, overtaking footballer Lionel Messi. Twenty-time Grand Slam singles champion Federer […]
WASHINGTON, May 30, 2020 (by Michael Dickens) Earlier this week, in a TennisMajors.com “Match Point” panel discussion video, Marion Bartoli, the 2013 Wimbledon singles champion, suggested – in the words of one British tennis writer, she “bizarrely proposed” – reducing […]
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