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 […]
VIENNA/STARNBERG, September 28, 2023 Five Top 10 players headline this year’s Erste Bank Open entry list. This was announced by the organizers of the ATP Tour 500 tournament, which will be held from October 21 to 29 at the Stadthalle […]
VIENNA, August 28, 2023 Starting today, the tennis world’s attention turns to New York, where the last Grand Slam tournament of the year, the US Open, will take place over the next two weeks. From October 21 to 29, the […]
VIENNA, June 28, 2023 Defending champion Daniil Medvedev of Russia and 2021 winner Alexander Zverev from Germany will compete in the 2023 Erste Bank Open in Austria. This was announced by the organizers of the ATP 500 hard-court event on […]
VIENNA/WASHINGTON, October 30, 2022 ( by Michael Dickens) With the pressure of qualifying for next month’s Nitto ATP Finals in Turin behind him, Daniil Medvedev was able to come out free swinging against Denis Shapovalov in the title match of […]
VIENNA/WASHINGTON, October 29, 2022 (by Michael Dickens) The common denominator among the four semifinalists competing at the ATP 500 Erste Bank Open Saturday afternoon was all four were appearing in their first Vienna semifinal. Of the quartet, only one of them, […]
VIENNA/WASHINGTON, October 29, 2022 (by Michael Dickens) After coming back from a nine-month respite, in which he dealt with injuries to both his wrist and finger, then contracted COVID-19, Dominic Thiem put together an 18-16 ATP Tour-level win-loss record and […]
VIENNA/WASHINGTON, October 28, 2022 (by Michael Dickens) As the quarterfinal round of the Erste Bank Open began in the Austrian capital city of Vienna on Friday, only three seeded players had made it to the last eight. Two of them, […]
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