LONDON/WASHINGTON, June 30, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) Despite a few skillful spills on the slippery grass, reigning Australian Open and Roland Garros champion Novak Djokovic is safely through to the third round of the Wimbledon Championships after defeating 2018 finalist […]
LONDON/WASHINGTON, June 28, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) After 715 days, the wait was finally over. The 134th edition of the Wimbledon Championships commenced – sort of. Thank goodness for the covered roofs over Centre Court and No. 1 Court. Under […]
WIMBLEDON/WASHINGTON, June 25, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) The Wimbledon draw ceremony, in which names are drawn randomly to select the first round match-ups for this year’s third – and grandest – major, took place Friday morning at the All England […]
CALVIA, June 24, 2021 Novak Djokovic has returned to a doubles final for the first time in 11 years. Alongside Spaniard Carlos Gomez-Herrera, the singles World No. 1 defeated No. 3 seeds Oliver Marach from Austria and Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi of […]
CALVIA/MALLORCA, June 23, 2021 All eyes on doubles in Calvia, as singles World No. 1 Novak Djokovic and his Spanish partner Carlos Gomez-Herrera won their second consecutive match to reach the semi-finals at the inaugural Mallorca Championships. The wild card […]
PARIS/WASHINGTON, June 15, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) Novak Djokovic rewrote tennis history with his come-from-behind 6-7 (8), 2-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-4 victory over Stefanos Tsitsipas to win his second Roland-Garros men’s championship and 19th Grand Slam trophy overall on Sunday […]
PARIS/WASHINGTON, June 13, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) Following his brilliant four-set victory over 13-time French Open champion Rafael Nadal two days earlier, Novak Djokovic had a chance to win his 19th Grand Slam singles title in the men’s championship of […]
PARIS/WASHINGTON, June 13, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) What began a fortnight ago with 128 players – including the Big Three of Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer all in the upper half of the draw – the French Open […]
PARIS/WASHINGTON, June 11, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) There’s plenty of shared history between Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic. Enough to fill an encyclopedia. The two future Hall of Famers have combined to create the most prolific rivalry in men’s tennis […]
PARIS, June 7, 2021 (by Alessandro Boroch) For the fifth time in his career, World No. 1 Novak Djokovic completed a comeback from two sets down to secure a place in the Roland Garros quarterfinal round. The 17-time major champion […]
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