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Mirra Andreeva will face an all-too-familiar opponent in her Round of 32 match at the 2025 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix on Tuesday, April 15. Due to the withdrawal of Marta Kostyuk who was slated to be Andreeva’s opponent, her older sister Erika Andreeva has slid into Kostyuk’s place in the draw as a lucky loser. […]
The entire world was watching the 2025 Masters golf tournament on Sunday. There was a collective cheer when Rory McIlroy won his first Masters and completed the legendary golf grand slam, a feat accomplished by only five players besides McIlroy, with Tiger Woods the most recent in 2000. There are a lot of parallels between […]
Front Office Sports is reporting that Reilly Opelka testified in an emergency hearing on Friday that he was threatened by the ATP to remove his name from the PTPA lawsuit filed on March 18, 2025, against the ATP, WTA, and ITF. The professional tennis system is unfair, nontransparent, and rigged against the players. The PTPA […]
The first two sets of the Monte-Carlo Masters final were classic chess matches. Lorenzo Musetti played a cleaner first set and won 6-3. Carlos Alcaraz cleaned up his game in the second set and won 6-1. Before the third set, fans were on their feet, applauding both players for the entertaining match thus far and […]
For those of us who thought the match of the Monte-Carlo Masters tournament was the quarterfinal between Arthur Fils and Carlos Alcaraz, we were wrong. It was the see-saw tug-of-war semifinal between Lorenzo Musetti and Alex de Minaur. Both men looked like they could win the match, and it was unclear who would pull through […]
Carlos Alcaraz needed over two hours to defeat compatriot and good friend Alejandro Davidovich Fokina. This was a match of contrasts. After the sluggish start in previous rounds, Alcaraz got off to a good start with a service break for Davidovich Fokina. However, Davidovich Fokina hung in the first set and gave himself opportunities to […]
Lorenzo Musetti personified resilience in his Monte-Carlo Masters quarterfinal match with three-time champion Stefanos Tsitsipas. A quick first set with Tsitsipas cruising along ended at 1-6 for Musetti. He did not give up. Musetti revamped, retooled, and began firing his shots, winning the second set 6-3. In the deciding third set, Musetti found a groove […]
In a match befitting a final, Carlos Alcaraz edged out Arthur Fils in a three-set quarterfinal thriller at the Monte-Carlo Masters. This was the first career meeting for the early twenties tennis stars, and if it is any indication of what is to come, tennis fans should be thrilled. Alcaraz again started sluggish and found […]
Chinese tennis star and World No. 8-ranked player, Qinwen Zheng, is the latest and most surprising withdrawal from the WTA 500 Porsche Grand Prix clay court tournament, slated to begin on Monday, April 14 in Stuttgart, . Zheng was a quarterfinalist at last week’s Credit One Charleston Open. Going into the European clay court […]
Greek tennis player Stefanos Tsitsipas is rumored to be getting a new tennis coach after the 2025 French Open. These reports are circulating on the internet but have not been substantiated by Tsitsipas or anyone in his camp. He is currently in the 2025 Monte-Carlo Masters quarterfinals and attempting to win his fourth ATP 1000 […]