Petra Kvitova has decided to make the French Open her comeback event after six months convalescing from the horrendous knife attack she...
READ MOREZverev comes of age
by Henry Wancke | May 22, 2017 | ATP Tour, WTA Tour
Both the title favourites on the day, suffered unexpected defeats in their respective Rome finals. The first upset saw Simona Halep beaten by the in-form Elina Svitolina for...
Sharapova Snubbed
by Henry Wancke | May 17, 2017 | WTA Tour
The long-awaited announcement regarding Maria Sharapova playing the French Open was revealed on Tuesday evening and the decision is...
Nastase casts shadow over Halep’s victory
by Henry Wancke | May 14, 2017 | WTA Tour
Simona Halep retained her Madrid Open title but her successful defence with a three sets victory over Kristina Mladenovic, was marred by the appearance of Ilie Nastase on...
Mladenovic upsets Kuznetsova
by Henry Wancke | May 13, 2017 | WTA Tour
Kristina Mladenovic played a controlled game of tennis to defeat the two-timegrand slam champion and eighth seed Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-4 7-6(4) to make the championship...
Halep remains on course
by Henry Wancke | May 12, 2017 | WTA Tour
Defending champion Simona Halep remains on course to retain the Madrid Open title after a convincing 6-1 6-1 quarter-final win over Coco Vandeweghe to set up a last-four...
Further Reading

Paris | Swiatek survives to take on Pegula in quarters
May 31, 2022
Iga Swiatek, the World No 1 who has been unbeaten since February, found herself in big trouble on Monday in Paris against Zheng Qinwen, a 19-year old Chinese, but the Pole found her way through into the French Open quarter-finals after dropping only her second set in...

Paris | Rune and Cilic take out Tsitsipas and Medvedev
May 31, 2022
Two major upsets were the feature of the men’s draw on the first day of the second week and ironically, the demise of Daniil Medvedev and Stefanos Tsitsipas were at the hands of a veteran and a teenager, namely Marin Cilic and Holger Rune and it was the latter who...

Surbiton | Murray starts his grass court preparations
May 31, 2022
On a day hampered by rain, Andy Murrays match was the only one from the main draw of the Surbiton Trophy which was completed and it took him 57-minutes to dispatch Austria’s Jurij Rodionov 6-2 6-1.

Paris | Fernandez and Trevisan made to battle as Gauff and Stephens sail into quarters
May 30, 2022
The biggest battle on Sunday at Roland Garros was between Leylah Fernandez and Amanda Anisimova, from which the Canadian emerged to take on Martina Trevisan in the quarter-finals, who edged past Aliaksandra Sasnovic in 2 tight sets, while Coco Gauff set up a meeting...

Paris | Djokovic, Nadal, Alcaraz and Zverev reach quarter finals
May 30, 2022
As hoped for, the two players who have mopped up the French Open titles over the last decade, have come through their quarters of the draw to meet in the quarter finals on Tuesday with the reigning champion Novak Djokovic comfortably sweeping past Diego Schwartzman...