Australian Open Wild Card Challenge Gets Underway

USTA Press Release, October 19, 2021 Eighteen-year-old Elvina Kalieva leads the USTA’s Australian Open Wild Card Challenge after Week 1, after qualifying and reaching the singles final of the USTA Pro Circuit ITF World Tennis Tour W60 in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. […]

Cristian Knocks Out Zidansek At Tenerife Ladies Open

TENERIFE/STARNBERG, October 18, 2021 Main draw action at the inaugural Tenerife Ladies Open kicked off Monday with an upset, as qualifier Jaqueline Adina Cristian knocked out the tournament’s No. 2 seed Tamara Zidansek of Slovenia 7-5, 4-6, 6-1. The World […]

Murray: ‘I See No Reason Why I Can’t Have A Big Event’

ANTWERP/WASHINGTON, October 18, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) It’s been two years since Great Britain’s Andy Murray’s last ATP Tour title triumph. It came at the ATP 250 European Open in Antwerp, Belgium, in an emotional final against Stan Wawrinka. It also occurred […]

Miriana Tona Earns Maiden Title In Comeback Tournament In Brazil

PIRACICABA/STARNBERG, October 18, 2021 What a fairytale run! After almost three years without competing in a professional tennis tournament, unranked Miriana Tona of Italy clinched her first career title on the ITF Pro Circuit by winning the Copa Feminina de […]

This Week On The ATP Tour – CW42

STARNBERG, October 18, 2021 Russian Andrey Rublev leads the field at the VTB Kremlin Cup, where he is the reigning champion on home soil. The World No. 5 is targeting his second tour-level title of the season, after triumphing in Rotterdam. Countrymen Aslan Karatsev and […]

Vekic Qualifies For Tenerife Ladies Open Main Draw

TENERIFE/STARNBERG, October 17, 2021 Tenerife, the largest and most populous island of the Canary Islands, welcomes the players of the WTA Tour for the inaugural Tenerife Ladies Open this week. The WTA 250 hard-court event, organized by MEF Tennis Events, is being […]

Baez Triumphs At Santiago Challenger Again

SANTIAGO/STARNBERG, October 18, 2021 Sebastian Baez of Argentine is the champion of the Dove Men & Care Legión Sudamericana Challenger Santiago 3 hosted by the Club Deportivo Palestino in Chile. The No. 5 seed of the $52,080 clay-court tournament, who beat Peruvian […]

Badosa Wins Historic Indian Wells Final Over Azarenka

INDIAN WELLS/WASHINGTON, October 18, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) Regardless of who won Sunday’s BNP Paribas Open women’s singles title match, between two-time champion Victoria Azarenka and first-time WTA 1000 finalist Paula Badosa, it was going to be historic. In Badosa’s […]

Norrie Earns Biggest Title Of His Career At Indian Wells

INDIAN WELLS/WASHINGTON, October 18, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) The BNP Paribas Open men’s singles title match was a tale of two first-time ATP Masters 1000 finalists, 26th-ranked Cameron Norrie of Great Britain and No. 36 Nikoloz Basilashvili from the former […]