DUBAI/WASHINGTON, March 9, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) Nineteen-year-old Amanda Anisimova made her much-awaited season debut Monday evening at the WTA 1000 Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships. Much-awaited because she hadn’t appeared in WTA tour-level match since Roland Garros last fall. […]
DUBAI/WASHINGTON, March 8, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) Thirty-first-ranked Ons Jabeur of Tunisia was among the group of seven first-round winners safely through to the second round of the first WTA 1000-series event of the season, the Dubai Duty Free Tennis […]
LYON/WASHINGTON, March 7, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) Sunday’s final of the Open 6ème Sens – Métropole de Lyon matched a pair of qualifiers, Denark’s Clara Tauson and Viktorija Golubic from Switzerland, one a walking Wikipedia of tennis knowledge, the other friendly with […]
LYON/WASHINGTON, March 7, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) While Danish teenager Clara Tauson‘s dream week to remember continued at the Open 6ème Sens – Métropole de Lyon on Saturday, it’s been a pretty dreamy run for another qualifier, Viktorija Golubic of […]
LYON/WASHINGTON, March 6, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) At age 18, Clara Tauson of Denmark is the youngest player in the Open 6ème Sens – Métropole de Lyon draw. However, throughout her marvelous, breakout week in Lyon, France’s third-largest city, she […]
DOHA/WASHINGTON, March 5, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) Coming into the semifinal round of the WTA 500 Qatar Total Open, the last four left competing in Doha included three Top 20 players – all former Grand Slam champions – and an […]
LYON/WASHINGTON, March 5, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) Belgium’s Greet Minnen needed six match points to win her second-round match against No. 8 seed Arantxa Rus of the Netherlands at the Open 6ème Sens – Métropole de Lyon in France’s third-largest city […]
DOHA/WASHINGTON, March 4, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) Victoria Azarenka remained undefeated (4-0) against World No. 5 and top seed Elina Svitolina, but this time it wasn’t easy. The two-time Doha champion fought through physical pain in her back the entire […]
LYON/WASHINGTON, March 4, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) France’s Clara Burel may only be 19 years old, but she’s wise beyond her years. After receiving a wild card and winning a couple of rounds during last year’s Roland Garros, Burel is […]
DOHA/WASHINGTON, March 3, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) On a mostly clear, warm (21º C) late-winter evening in Doha, along the Persian Gulf, a championship-calibre match between two Top 20 stars broke out at on Center Court of the Khalifa International […]
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