Following the cancellation of the 2020 edition of the Mutua Madrid Open the organisers decided to set up a virtual online tournament for 16 men...
READ MOREMelbourne | Remembering Wilma Rosewall
by Barbara Wancke | Apr 27, 2020 | Off Court
Tennis Australia has posted an obituary on Wilma Rosewall, who died in Sydney on Sunday, acknowledging that she was a much-loved member of the Australian tennis community,...
Belgium | Flipkens fined for crossing border
by Barbara Wancke | Apr 27, 2020 | Off Court
Kirsten Flipkens has been stopped by police in Belgium and fined €250 after taking a 130 kilometre bike ride during lockdown that inadvertently took her into the Netherlands...
London | Rebooting the sport
by Barbara Wancke | Apr 26, 2020 | Off Court
There are many scenarios spinning around the official think-tanks as to how to reboot the sport, both internationally and domestically, in the light of travel restrictions...
London | ATP/WTA merger idea gaining ground
by Barbara Wancke | Apr 25, 2020 | Off Court
It seems there is an appetite to unite the men’s and women’s tours after all, with the likes of Simona Halep, Rafael Nadal, Billie Jean King and Judy Murray all giving the...
London | Jabeur says restart season at Indian Wells
by Henry Wancke | Apr 24, 2020 | Off Court
For the season to get underway following the coronavirus worldwide lockdown, is one of the major problems which the tennis authorities are currently...
Further Reading

Wimbledon | Djokovic, on Day One, shows he’s still the player to beat
Jul 4, 2023
Novak Djokovc may have, as defending champion, officially opened the 136th edition of the Wimbledon Championships but it was play on two of the minor show courts featuring Andrey Rublev on Court 3 and Lorenzo Musetti on Court 14 who had the honour of actually, at...

Wimbledon | The Championships kick off with wins for Swiatek, Pegula and Garcia, amongst others
Jul 3, 2023
World No 1 Iga Swiatek opened proceedings on No 1 Court by cruising into the Wimbledon 2nd-round with an emphatic 6-1 6-3 win over China’s Zhu Lin in 81 minutes, laying down a marker that, this year, the top seed means business on the grass of the All England Lawn...

Bad Homburg | Siniakova wins first grass court title
Jul 2, 2023
Doubles World No 1 Katerina Siniakova won her first grass-court singles title at the Bad Homburg Open presented by Engel & Volkers on Saturday, defeating Lucia Bronzetti, 6-2 7-6(5), in a rain-affected final at the WTA 250 tournament.

Eastbourne | Keys lands her 3rd grass court title
Jul 2, 2023
Madison Keys won the Rothesay International on Saturday when she beat Daria Kastakina, 6-2 7-6(13) in the final, bagging the second Eastbourne crown of her career, having first lifted the trophy in 2014, the first WTA title of her career.

Eastbourne | Cerundolo tops two Americans for title.
Jul 2, 2023
Following Friday’s rain disruption suffered in Eastbourne which delayed the completion of the Rothesay International semi-finals being staged at the Devonshire Park complex on the south coast of England, the eventual finalists had to play two matches on Finals Day,...