WASHINGTON, September 13, 2020 (by Michael Dickens) When Patricia Maria Tig returned to the WTA Tour in July of 2019 after giving birth to a baby daughter nine months earlier, she said she missed tennis. In time, not only did the […]
WASHINGTON, September 12, 2020 (by Michael Dickens) As the semifinals unfolded at the TEB BNP Paribas Tennis Championships Istanbul on clay Saturday with a foursome of unseeded players, only Eugenie Bouchard had previously won a WTA title. After defeating 2015 […]
WASHINGTON, September 12, 2020 (by Michael Dickens) While much of the tennis world has been focused this week on the US Open, 5,000 miles and an ocean away in Istanbul, Turkey, Eugenie Bouchard has gone about the business of rediscovering […]
WASHINGTON, September 10, 2020 (by Michael Dickens) Top seed Svetlana Kuznetsova made her long-awaited return to the WTA Tour at the TEB BNP Paribas Tennis Championships Istanbul in Turkey on Thursday. The 34th-ranked native of St. Petersburg, Russia, faced 272nd-ranked qualifier […]
WASHINGTON, September 9, 2020 (by Michael Dickens) A week ago, France’s Caroline Garcia was seen slaying US Open No. 1 seed Karolina Pliskova on Louis Armstrong Stadium, winning convincingly in straight sets 6-1, 7-6 (2), and garnering major headlines for her […]
WASHINGTON, September 8, 2020 (by Michael Dickens) Anna Karolina Schmiedlova describes herself in her WTA biography as quiet and shy. On the court, however, it’s another matter, where she allows herself to be a bit more outgoing. On Tuesday, the 25-year-old […]
WASHINGTON, August 30, 2020 (by Michael Dickens) “The Professional Tennis Players Association (PTPA) did not emerge to be combative, to disrupt, or to cause any issues within or outside the tennis tour,” wrote Canadian men’s tennis player Vasek Pospisil on […]
WASHINGTON, August 29, 2020 (by Michael Dickens) By walkover, unseeded and 59th-ranked Victoria Azarenka won the Western & Southern Open women’s singles title for the second time on Saturday. Earlier, World No. 10 Naomi Osaka withdrew from the final due […]
WASHINGTON, August 29, 2020 (by Michael Dickens) Friday was supposed to have been finals day at the Western & Southern Open in its temporary New York home at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. That was before Naomi […]
WASHINGTON, August 28, 2020 (by Michael Dickens) On Wednesday night, Canadian No. 3 Milos Raonic fought off one match point on serve, then broke his Serbian opponent, Filip Krajinovic, and served out his quarterfinal match that earned him a hard-fought 4-6, […]
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