WASHINGTON, September 21, 2020 (by Michael Dickens) Top-seeded Simona Halep came out ready to play when she stepped out on Centrale for her Internazionali BNL d’Italia final against Karolina Pliskova Monday afternoon. Unfortunately, the same couldn’t be said for the defending champion […]
WASHINGTON, September 21, 2020 (by Michael Dickens) While Simona Halep and Karolina Pliskova, the World’s No. 2 and No. 4 players, respectively, diligently worked their way toward semifinals victories on clay in Rome Sunday afternoon, thus setting up a championship showdown […]
WASHINGTON, September 20 2020 (by Michael Dickens) It’s too bad there had to be a loser when top seed Simona Halep faced Garbiñe Muguruza in the first Internazionali BNL d’Italia women’s semifinal Sunday afternoon. The former No. 1 players and two-time Grand Slam winners […]
WASHINGTON, September 20, 2020 (by Michael Dickens) In a battle between Garbiñe Muguruza and Victoria Azarenka, both two-time Grand Slam champions and former World No. 1 players, something had to give when they faced each other during Saturday’s quarterfinal round of […]
WASHINGTON, September 19, 2020 (by Michael Dickens) Both top seed Simona Halep and No. 2 seed Karolina Pliskova, the defending champion, advanced to the quarterfinals of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia in Rome on Friday. Each beat their respective opponents in straight sets […]
WASHINGTON, September 18, 2020 (by Michael Dickens) It doesn’t matter that less than a week ago Victoria Azarenka was playing in the final of a major while quarantined in “the bubble” in New York. She’s arrived in Rome and has […]
LONDON, September 17, 2020 (ATP Press Release) The ATP and WTA have today announced the cancellation of the 2020 VTB Kremlin Cup in Moscow, due to issues relating to COVID-19. Cancellation of the ATP 250 event, scheduled to run from […]
WASHINGTON, September 17, 2020 (by Michael Dickens) A win is a win in Eugenie Bouchard‘s book these days. Even though the former World No. 5 lost a hard-fought, three-set final to upstart Romanian Patricia Maria Tig on Sunday, which capped a […]
WASHINGTON, September 16, 2020 (by Michael Dickens) Novak Djokovic held his first news conference since he was disqualified from the US Open on Monday. The occasion was media day for the Internazionali BNL d’Italia in Rome. Djokovic said he hopes […]
WASHINGTON, September 13, 2020 (by Michael Dickens) Neither of the finalists competing for the TEB BNP Paribas Tennis Championship Istanbul singles title, former World No. 5 Eugenie Bouchard of Canada and 88th-ranked Patricia Maria Tig from Romania had met on the WTA Tour […]
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