HALLE/WESTPHALIA, September 22, 2021 World No. 4 and reigning Olympic champion Alexander Zverev has signed a three-year contract with the NOVENTI OPEN. This was announced by the organizers of the ATP 500 grass-court tournament in Halle, Westphalia on Wednesday. “I […]
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON, September 10, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) Alexander Zverev is one win away from returning to the US Open men’s final for the second straight year. He’s pragmatic enough to know that winning his next match won’t be any […]
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON, September 9, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) Emma Raducanu, the 150th-ranked British teenager with the beaming smile and bubbly personality, did it again. Her dreamy run at this year’s US Open continued with an impressive 6-3, 6-4 victory over […]
MASON, OHIO/WASHINGTON, August 23, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) Alexander Zverev won his fifth ATP Masters 1000 title and lifted his first Rookwood Cup, the trophy given to the annual winners of the Western & Southern Open in suburban Cincinnati, Ohio, […]
MASON, OHIO/WASHINGTON, August 22, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) Russia’s Andrey Rublev had never taken a set let alone win a match against countryman Daniil Medvedev in four previous meetings. That all changed in his fifth attempt at the Western & […]
TOKYO/WASHINGTON, August 1, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) Thirty-three years after Steffi Graf won Olympic gold in Seoul, Alexander Zverev has won Germany’s second singles gold medal in tennis. The moment Zverev clinched his nearly-perfect, 80-minute 6-3, 6-1 victory over the […]
TOKYO/WASHINGTON, July 30, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) World No. 1 Novak Djokovic came to Tokyo with the dream of winning an Olympic gold medal, something that has eluded him during his remarkable career. Now, after Germany’s Alexander Zverev rallied from […]
PARIS/WASHINGTON, June 11, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) Stefanos Tsitsipas reached his first career Grand Slam final – and sealed it with an emphatic ace to beat Alexander Zverev in the first Roland-Garros men’s semifinal Friday afternoon. The 22-year-old Greek rose […]
PARIS, June 2, 2021 (by Alessandro Boroch) No. 6 seed Alexander Zverev opened Wednesday’s second-round action at Roland Garros on Court Suzanne-Lenglen with a 7-6(4), 6-3, 7-6(1) victory over 23-year-old Russian qualifier Roman Safiullin. Zverev and Safiullin share a long […]
MADRID/WASHINGTON, May 10, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) World No. 10 Matteo Berrettini was a set away from winning his first ATP Masters 1000 title in the biggest final of his career at the Mutua Madrid Open on Sunday. After dramatically winning […]
