VIENNA/WASHINGTON,October 30, 2023 (by Michael Dickens) From first ball to last ball, the 9,600 fans who packed Wiener Stadthalle for Sunday’s final of the 49th edition of the Erste Bank Open in Vienna, Austria, were treated to an epic Top-5 […]
VIENNA/WASHINGTON, October 29, 2023 (by Michael Dickens) There’s a meaningful lyric from the 1977 Billy Joel classic hit song, “Vienna,” which asks: “When will you realize that Vienna waits for you?” Well, as it turns out, it was the 9,600 […]
VIENNA/WASHINGTON, October 28, 2023 (by Michael Dickens) Jannik Sinner did what no other Italian man has ever done in a single tennis season on Saturday. He won his 55th singles match of the year, breaking the Open Era record of […]
VIENNA/WASHINGTON, October 27, 2023 (by Michael Dickens) Stefanos Tsitsipas reached his 46th career tour-level semifinal and sixth of the season at the Erste Bank Open in Vienna, Austria on Friday afternoon. But he had to earn his last-four berth; it […]
VIENNA/WASHINGTON, October 26, 2023 (by Michael Dickens) Consistency has been the hallmark of Andrey Rublev‘s 2023 season. For the third straight year, the 26-year-old Russian has achieved 50-plus wins on the ATP Tour. Following his 7-5, 6-3 second-round victory over […]
VIENNA/WASHINGTON, October 25, 2023 (by Michael Dickens) Defending Erste Bank Open singles champion Daniil Medvedev has won 18 of his 20 career ATP Tour singles titles on hard courts, and all 20 of his titles have come at different events […]
VIENNA/WASHINGTON, October 25, 2023 (by Michael Dickens) It’s been said that Germany’s Hall of Fame great Boris Becker has forgotten more about tennis than any of us will ever know. Well, Becker put that to a good test as he was a guest […]
VIENNA/WASHINGTON, October 24, 2023 (by Michael Dickens) Favorite son Dominic Thiem always likes coming home to Austria this time of the tennis season to play in the ATP 500 Erste Bank Open in Vienna. The crowd that fills Wiener Stadthalle […]
VIENNA/WASHINGTON, October 23, 2023 (by Michael Dickens) Alexander Zverev is among a quartet of stars along with Andrey Rublev, Stefanos Tsitsipas and Tommy Paul in this year’s high-quality field at the Erste Bank Open in Vienna, who are still alive […]
STARNBERG, October 23, 2023 The Pepperstone ATP Live Race To Turin continues to heat up this week with just three weeks to go until the Nitto ATP Finals. A host of players will jockey for position at a pair of European ATP […]
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