Tennis

The greatest players in the world have a cabinet full of them, but on the other side of the coin, there are a host of fine tennis stars who never managed to get their hands on one of the game’s biggest prizes. Here we look at five super players who couldn’t quite get over the […]

Roger Federer will go down as one of the all-time great tennis players after calling time on his career in September.

A third-round exit at the hands of Australian Ajla Tomljanovic in the 2022 US Open brought to an end one of the most illustrious tennis careers of all time. Serena Williams has played her last ever professional match, calling time on a 27-year career which featured an eye-watering 23 Grand Slam titles. Here is a […]

The fourth and final Grand Slam of the calendar year is almost upon us and the 2022 US Open will be the 142nd edition of the Stateside competition. With Emma Raducanu springing one of the biggest shocks in Grand Slam history with her title triumph in the women’s competition last year, we’ve taken a look […]

Tennis rackets have come a long way since the game was first widely played towards the end of the 19th century. Here, we take a look at how the equipment used for the most popular of the various racket sports has changed and developed over time. Basic Early Models When the game first started to […]

The 34-year-old will be hoping to add to his achievements in the remaining years of his career as he vies with Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer to be declared the best of tennis’s ‘big three’. The Serbian has racked up 20 Grand Slam wins and is the only player to have won each of the […]

Anyone who has thought that tennis is a young player’s game has been forced to eat their words more than once in recent years and the modern era has seen the game’s top stars continue their dominating well beyond the age of 35. Novak Djokovic will reach that milestone in May, but if he makes […]

A busy week on the ATP Tour sees the Rio Open take centre stage and a strong field in South America is spearheaded by Italian world number six Matteo Berrettini. Past winners of Brazil’s clay-court competition include Rafael Nadal, who won the inaugural edition in 2014, and this year should see another high-profile victor with […]

Novak Djokovic never got to strike a ball in anger in Australia, was never offered the chance to create Grand Slam history, yet still he flew back into Belgrade on Monday morning to a hero’s reception from his adoring public. Tears had been shed throughout Serbia at a nation’s perceived mistreatment of their idol, a […]

In recent times, the older tennis players – particularly in the men’s game – have enjoyed plenty of success in the four Grand Slam events. We have rounded up the five oldest winners across both men’s and women’s singles, with all five claiming success in their 30s! Ken Rosewall (37 years, two months and one […]

For the first time since the US Open final in September, Novak Djokovic is back on court this week, competing in the Paris Masters and he is both top seed and favourite for the event, leading the outright market at 7/5. But the Serbian does not have a lot of recent game time under his […]

US Open champions Daniil Medvedev and Emma Raducanu are among the headline names competing in the men’s and women’s singles at this week’s BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells. It is less than a month since world number two Medvedev dismantled Novak Djokovic to claim his first Grand Slam men’s singles title at Flushing Meadows, […]

With the rescheduled Indian Wells Masters just a week away, a number of the ATP World Tour’s star names have decided to head to California a few days early to contest the San Diego Open. Previously home to a WTA event, San Diego has not hosted top-tier tennis since 2015 but this 250 level tournament […]