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Novak Djokovic is almost ready to make his debut in the 2025 season. The former world number 1 will be the top favorite at the Brisbane International, where he will immediately have the opportunity to face very insidious opponents to test his condition. The Serbian legend has high expectations for 2025, which must be the…
Carlos Alcaraz will compete at the ATP 500 event in Doha next year! World no. 3 will debut at the Qatar ExxonMobil Open, joining an incredible field of players. Carlos will challenge Jannik Sinner, Novak Djokovic, Daniil Medvedev, Andrey Rublev, Alex de Minaur and Grigor Dimitrov! The Qatar ExxonMobil Open has been on the ATP calendar for over three…
The start of the new season is getting closer and closer and all the players are preparing with great meticulousness. Carlos Alcaraz is undoubtedly one of the most anticipated men in 2025, in which he will try to add other important titles to his palmarés and return to the top of the ATP ranking. It…
Jannik Sinner is waiting to know his fate regarding the doping case that has affected him in recent months. Since he was told that he had tested positive for Clostebol twice in March, a very stressful period began for the Italian ace who had to prove his innocence. The world number 1 received a provisional…
Nick Kyrgios didn’t appreciate at all being told that he acts tough on social media but backs down in person as the Australian acknowledged that he and Casper Ruud had a tense history but underlined that they corrected it even before playing doubles together. On Saturday, the 2022 Wimbledon finalist and the Norwegian tennis star…
Nick Kyrgios and Casper Ruud seem to be officially on good terms after the two teamed up for a doubles match and later gave recognition to each other on social media. On Saturday in Abu Dhabi, the Australian and the Norwegian defeated Jordan Thompson and Sumit Nagal 6-4 in a one-set match at the World…
Zheng Qinwen has made a scheduling change for the start of the 2025 season as the Chinese tennis star won’t play at the United Cup leading up to the Australian Open. After making her debut at the event last season, the world No. 5 agreed to represent her nation in Australia once again. But after having a…
Katie Boulter described facing Roger Federer as “a daunting experience,” not because she thought something bad of the Swiss but because she feared she maybe wouldn’t do well and that would lead one of the greatest ever have certain opinions about her game. At the start of the 2019 season, the current top-ranked British female…
Former world No. 4 Guy Forget believes Novak Djokovic is still motivated to keep playing because of the possibility of adding a 25th Grand Slam title but doesn’t expect the 37-year-old to stay much longer in tennis if he starts losing some matches that he would usually win. For the first time since 2017, the…
Nick Kyrgios may be one of the harshest critics of Jannik Sinner’s doping case but he wasn’t impressed at all after seeing an X post that was made in a way to make it look like he was speaking negatively about the success and impact of the 23-year-old and Carlos Alcaraz. This year, the Italian…