LONDON, July 6, 2019 (by Michael Dickens) World No. 1 Ashleigh Barty celebrated her status as this year’s top seed in the ladies’ singles at the Wimbledon Championships by finally playing her first Centre Court match as the British fortnight […]
LONDON, July 5, 2019 (by Michael Dickens) When Simona Halep and Victoria Azarenka last met at the Wimbledon Championships in 2017, the Romanian prevailed but it happened to be in only Azarenka’s second tournament back on tour after giving birth […]
LONDON, July 5, 2019 (by Sharada Rajagopalan) Fifteenth seed Milos Raonic was the first to reach the second week of the 2019 Championships at Wimbledon. In the third-round battle of two big servers, the Canadian brushed aside United States’ Reilly […]
LONDON, July 4, 2019 (by Michael Dickens) World No. 1 and top seed Ashleigh Barty raced into the third round of the Wimbledon Championships easily on Thursday. However, a couple of hours later, defending champion and fifth seed Angelique Kerber […]
LONDON, July 4, 2019 Two-time Wimbledon champion Rafael Nadal faced a tough challenge when he met Nick Kyrgios in Thursday’s second-round match on Centre Court. In the pair’s first meeting at SW19 in 2014, a 19-year-old Kyrgios stunned then-World No. […]
LONDON, July 3, 2019 (by Michael Dickens) World No. 3 and third seed Karolina Pliskova had never lost to Monica Puig in four matches going back to 2012, including their only prior grass-court encounter which Pliskova won 6-2, 6-2 in […]
LONDON, July 3, 2019 (by Sharada Rajagopalan) On the day, Wimbledon second round results were peppered with five-setters, Reilly Opelka (literally), and Thomas Fabbiano and Fernando Verdasco stood tall as they crossed the distance over their respective second-round opponents. United […]
LONDON, July 2, 2019 (by Michael Dickens) Within the span of just a couple of minutes, a sense of normalcy returned to the women’s singles draw at the Wimbledon Championships on Tuesday afternoon. That’s because unlike Monday’s madness, in which […]
LONDON, July 2, 2019 (by Sharada Rajagopalan) Eight-time former champion, Switzerland’s Roger Federer was one of the biggest – if not the biggest – seeded attractions on Tuesday at The Championships, at Wimbledon. The second seed who played the tournament […]
LONDON, July 1, 2019 (by Sharada Rajagopalan) Social media had repeated references about how the opening day at Wimbledon felt similar to Christmas. However, as the day actually panned out in earnest, some of the players looked like they had […]
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