BRUSSELS/WASHINGTON, January 30, 2025 (by Michael Dickens) For the past nine years, champions were crowned and memories made at the ATP 250 European Open in Antwerp, a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium and the country’s third largest city. […]
WASHINGTON, December 13, 2024 (by Michael Dickens) Dominic Thiem‘s tennis career came to an end in October, but his most important match has just begun. This week, the 31-year-old Austrian was honored with the Arthur Ashe Humanitarian Award by the […]
WASHINGTON, December 11, 2024 (by Michael Dickens) The NCAA has approved a bid to award the USTA National Campus the NCAA Division I men’s and women’s tennis championships for a 10-year period beginning in 2028. The announcement was made by […]
WASHINGTON, November 24, 2024 (by Michael Dickens) When Andy Murray stepped away from professional tennis following the Paris Olympics last August, he wrote wryly on X: “Never even liked tennis anyway.” On Saturday, as he was tabbed by his friend […]
WASHINGTON, January 10, 2024 (by Michael Dickens) Life is good these days for Grigor Dimitrov. The personable, 32-year-old Bulgarian started the New Year right by winning the Brisbane International presented by Evie on Sunday. It was Dimitrov’s ninth career ATP […]
WASHINGTON, December 21, 2023 (by Michael Dickens) Lately, mercurial Australian Nick Kyrgios has had a lot to say about the sport of tennis even though a series of injuries limited him to exactly one match during the 2023 season – […]
WIMBLEDON/WASHINGTON, July 19, 2023 (by Michael Dickens) Japan’s 17-year-old Tokito Oda became a Wimbledon champion for the first time Sunday afternoon. The World No. 1 Oda defeated Alfie Hewett of Great Britain, 6-4, 6-2, in one hour 25 minutes to […]
WASHINGTON, June 21, 2023 (by Michael Dickens] With the Wimbledon Championships less than two weeks away, all eyes this week are on World No. 2 Carlos Alcaraz. The personable, 20-year-old Spaniard began his grass-court campaign in the ATP 500 Cinch Championships […]
KITZBÜHEL/WASHINGTON, July 28, 2022 (by Michael Dickens) Germany’s Philipp Kohlschreiber, who recently retired from the ATP Tour following his loss in the second round of Wimbledon qualifying, was honored in a farewell ceremony on Centre Court at the Generali Open […]
SYDNEY/WASHINGTON, January 12, 2022 (by Michael Dickens) There was frustration and disappointment for Great Britain’s Emma Raducanu as she bowed 6-0, 6-1 to No. 7 seed Elena Rybakina in her opening performance of the 2022 season, in the first round […]
