CINCINNATI/WASHINGTON, August 18, 2025 (by Michael Dickens) Coming into Sunday afternoon’s Cincinnati Open women’s singles semifinals at the Lindner Family Tennis Center, major champions Iga Swiatek and Elena Rybakina had met 11 previous times, with the six-time Grand Slam champion […]
PARIS/WASHINGTON, May 28, 2025 (by Michael Dickens) Lorenzo Musetti has been nearly unbeatable on clay since last July, highlighted by his winning the bronze medal at the Paris Olympic Games. More recently, the 23-year-old reached the semifinals at all three […]
ROME/WASHINGTON, May 17, 2025 (by Michael Dickens) By the time Jasmine Paolini secured championship point to win the biggest title of her professional career, just an hour and 29 minutes after she and her opponent, Coco Gauff, began the women’s […]
STUTTGART/WASHINGTON, April 19, 2025 (by Michael Dickens) One among many reasons players enjoying competing at the WTA 500 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart, Germany each April is a chance to visit the Porsche Museum. During free time away from […]
DUBAI, February 19, 2025 (Press Release) Italy’s Olympic Gold-winning doubles duo Jasmine Paolini and Sara Errani swapped groundstrokes for ground beans on Monday as they took a break from the landmark 25th edition of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships […]
MALAGA/WASHINGTON, November 21, 2024 (by Michael Dickens) Throughout championship week at the Billie Jean King Cup by Gainbridge Finals in Malaga, World No. 4 Jasmine Paolini was near perfect. After all, she won four of the five matches she played […]
MALAGA/WASHINGTON, November 19, 2024 (by Michael Dickens) Italy are four-time Billie Jean King Cup by Gainbridge Finals champions but have not won this season-ending team competition in 11 years. Their defeat in the final last year to Canada was as […]
MALAGA/STARNBERG, November 17, 2024 The first semi-finalists of the 2024 Billie Jean King Cup by Gainbridge were confirmed after Italy and Poland were victorious in Malaga on Saturday. Italy came from behind to beat Japan 2-1 as Jasmine Paolini won […]
LONDON/STARNBERG, July 11, 2024 Jasmine Paolini defeated Donna Vekic of Croatia in a thrilling semi-final on Thursday, becoming the first Italian to reach a Wimbledon women’s singles final. In one of the tournament’s best matches, Paolini missed two match points […]
PARIS/WASHINGTON, June 5, 2024 (by Michael Dickens) At age 28, Italy’s Jasmine Paolini won the biggest tennis match of her life Wednesday afternoon at Roland-Garros. It happened on a beautiful and sunny, late-spring afternoon on Court Philippe-Chatrier – the biggest […]
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