TOKYO/WASHINGTON, September 30, 2025 (by Michael Dickens) The Kinoshita Group Japan Open Tennis Championships got the final it wanted – a matchup of the top two seeds, World No. 1 Carlos Alcaraz of Spain and World No. 5 Taylor Fritz […]
STARNBERG, September 24, 2025 Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner return to Asia, leading the fields at the Kinoshita Group Japan Open Tennis Championships and China Open, respectively. World No. 1 Alcaraz is making his debut in Tokyo, where former champion […]
STARNBERG, September 25, 2024 The Asian swing continues with two eagerly anticipated ATP 500 hard-court events in Beijing and Tokyo. World No. 1 Jannik Sinner, who is competing for the first time since winning his second major title at the […]
STARNBERG, October 16, 2023 With four weeks until the Nitto ATP Finals, the home stretch of the ATP Tour continues across two continents this week, with action in Asia and Europe. Defending champion Taylor Fritz from the United States leads […]
STARNBERG, October 3, 2022 It will be a star-studded week of action on the ATP Tour, with ATP 500 events taking place in Astana and Tokyo. Current World No. 1 Carlos Alcaraz and former World No. 1s Novak Djokovic of […]
ITF Press Release, August 4, 2021 The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Tennis Event finished on Sunday 1 August after nine days of thrilling action at the Ariake Tennis Park. While these Games were like none that came before them, they still […]
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 31, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) Belinda Bencic became the first Swiss woman to win an Olympic tennis singles gold medal Saturday evening in Tokyo, something even Hall of Famer Martina Hingis never accomplished. The No. 9 seed Bencic […]
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 […]
TOKYO/WASHINGTON, July 30, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) Belinda Bencic has positioned herself to do something that Swiss greats Roger Federer and Martina Hingis could never achieve: win an Olympic gold medal. On Thursday at Tokyo’s Ariake Park, the World No. […]
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