PERTH/WASHINGTON, December 27, 2024 (by Michael Dickens) A new tennis season began Friday before the old year ended. Talk about a packed calendar! That’s tennis being tennis. ”Still ’24, but it’s next season, yeah,” quipped China’s Zhang Zhizhen, after seeing […]
WASHINGTON, December 26, 2024 (by Michael Dickens) The 2025 United Cup, featuring a host of top-ranked players from both the ATP Tour and the Hologic WTA Tour in a mixed teams format, begins Friday Down Under in Perth and Saturday […]
United Cup Press Release, December 20, 2024 In a world first for tennis, the United Cup will introduce timeouts to mixed doubles matches this summer. A standard device in many team sports, the timeout will be implemented to give players and […]
BRISBANE, December 18, 2024 (Press Release) Rising Australian stars and Queensland locals Adam Walton and Kimberly Birrell have been awarded wildcards ahead of the Brisbane International presented by Evie. Walton, who cracked the top 100 in May and later peaked at world No.86, will compete in […]
WASHINGTON, December 16, 2024 (by Michael Dickens) During a recent episode of The Tennis Podcast, World No. 19 Donna Vekic of Croatia was asked by one of her coaches, Hall of Famer Pam Shriver, to describe her favorite memory of […]
CHARLESTON, S.C./WASHINGTON, December 14, 2024 (by Michael Dickens) The Credit One Charleston Open, North America’s largest women’s-only professional tennis tournament and the WTA Tour’s annual kick-off to the spring clay-court season, has been named WTA 500 Tournament of the Year […]
ST PETERSBURG, FL, December 13, 2024 (WTA Press Release) The WTA has today announced the winners of the 2024 WTA Tournament Awards, bringing an end to Awards Week which has seen the stand-out performers of the season from across the […]
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 […]
ST PETERSBURG, FL, December 12, 2024 (WTA Press Release) As part of WTA Awards week, four more winners have been revealed as the WTA honors the stand-out performers of the 2024 season. Today’s announcement sees the WTA Coach of the Year […]
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 […]
