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, […]
MELBOURNE/WASHINGTON, January 23, 2022 (by Michael Dickens) Just a few days after being pushed to five sets in his second match of this year’s Australian Open, Denis Shapovalov didn’t expect that his fourth-round match against World No. 3 Alexander Zverev Saturday […]
SYDNEY/WASHINGTON, January 9, 2022 (by Michael Dickens) The torch has been firmly been passed in Canada. Its new bearers are a couple of Next-Gen whiz kids, friends since childhood, who play with poise and class. They are the present and […]
SYDNEY/WASHINGTON, January 8, 2022 (by Michael Dickens) Team Canada had lost the first four matches of the 2022 ATP Cup competition and, by all appearances, looked down on their luck a week ago. Now, fast forward and what a difference a […]
ST. PETERSBURG/WASHINGTON, October 27, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) Since reaching the semifinals at Wimbledon, World No. 13 Denis Shapovalov has struggled with his tennis game. As he arrived in Russia’s second-largest city for this week’s St. Petersburg Open, Shapovalov had […]
LAVER CUP Press Release, July 21, 2021 Canadian duo Denis Shapovalov and Felix Auger-Aliassime have been named alongside Argentina’s Diego Schwartzman as the first three players to represent John McEnroe’s Team World in the upcoming Laver Cup, to be held at TD Garden in Boston, September 24–26, 2021. Shapovalov reached […]
LONDON/WASHINGTON, July 7, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) Denis Shapovalov is very happy with his game these days. On Manic Monday, the young, 22-year-old Canadian lefty, seeded 10th at the Wimbledon Championships, beat a very good No. 8 seed Roberto Bautista […]
ROME/WASHINGTON, May 14, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) Each year, our love affair with Rome grows as the bond gets stronger and stronger. What a difference a day at the Internazionali BNL d’Italia made with the return of fans at Foro […]
MADRID/WASHINGTON, May 3, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) Only a week since Rafael Nadal‘s remarkable three-hour, 38-minute marathon triumph over Stefanos Tsitsipas that earned him his 12 ATP 500 Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell crown in just his third ATP Tour event […]
ESTORIL/WASHINGTON, April 30, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) Tennis stars-turned-rappers Denis Shapovalov and Corentin Moutet, who collaborated on the rap song “Drip,” squared off in the ATP 250 Millennium Estoril Open Thursday on red clay in this Portuguese Riviera town near […]
