MOTW: Heather Watson In 2015 Heather Watson got to a career high of thirty-eight in singles. That was the year she had Serena Williams on the ropes at Wimbledon. Although she had been to a singles final last year, she had not won a singles title since 2016. She fell out of the top hundred…
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Chile Open, Santiago [38] Casper Ruud (NOR) vs. [45] Albert Ramos-Vinolas (ESP) Twenty-one-year-old Ruud finally found the recipe to defeat Ramos-Vinolas. In four previous meetings, the Norwegian came up short. Although, he managed to win two sets previously, he could never seal the deal. Today was a completely different story as Ruud is finally putting…
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Americans love their sports. The top five most popular sports in the US are: Football, Baseball, Basketball, Ice Hockey and Soccer (by the way, these are all team sports). Â Tennis (an individual sport) comes in at number six and some sources have it ranked even lower. Americans got spoiled with Pete Sampras, Andre Agassi, and…
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Qatar Total Open 2020, Doha [5] Sofia Kenin (USA) vs. [25] Dayana Yastremska (UKR) Today was simply not Kenin’s day. After dropping the first set, she had a 3-0 lead in the second set and could not hold on to her serve to win the set. Although she fought well enough to force a tiebreaker,…
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Gianluca Mager At A Career High Mover of the week honors go to twenty-five-year-old, Gianluca Mager. Mager broke unto the scene in 2013 and en route to his first ATP Tour final, he defeated the heir apparent on clay, Dominic Thiem. Perhaps it was a bit too much to ask of the Italian, to win…
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MOVER OF THE WEEK Mover of the week honors go to Irina-Camelia Begu. She won an ITF tournament in Egypt over the weekend to give her some much-needed ranking points and more important, re-confirm her belief in her ability to win. When you have been losing more than winning, doubts creep in and you have…
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