Category: Tennis

Raducanu, who shot to prominence with a stunning triumph at the 2021 US Open as a teenage qualifier, is ranked too low for direct entry into the top WTA tournaments. A protected injury ranking of 103rd helped the former British number one enter last month’s Australian Open without needing to go through qualifying. But the...

British tennis star Andy Murray has hinted he could retire this year. Speaking in Dubai after his 500th win on hardcourt, the 36-year-old said: “I still love competing, I still love the game. It gets harder and harder the older you get to compete with the young guys. “It’s not easy, I probably don’t have...

Three Just Stop Oil protesters have been found guilty of aggravated trespass after disrupting Wimbledon tennis matches by throwing confetti and puzzle pieces. Deborah Wilde, 69, Simon Milner-Edwards, 67, and William Ward, 66, were convicted at City of London Magistrates’ Court on Monday. Wilde, a retired teacher, and Ward, a retired civil engineer, were each...

Andy Murray may have snapped his six-match losing streak but his future has come under further scrutiny after he lost in the second round of the Qatar Open last week. Murray has repeatedly said he is not about to retire after a horror run of form, but the fierce competitor inside him will not be...

Qualifier Anna Kalinskaya stunned world number one Iga Swiatek to reach the Dubai Tennis Championships final. Kalinskaya, 25, took one hour and 42 minutes to seal a 6-4 6-4 win against the four-time Grand Slam champion. “I knew if I didn’t stay calm and aggressive, she would destroy me,” said Kalinskaya. The Russian faces Italy’s...

Jannik Sinner will climb to a career-high third in the world ranking after beating Alex de Minaur in straight sets to win the Rotterdam Open. The Australian Open champion will become Italy’s highest-ranked male player in history after beating world number 11 De Minaur 7-5 6-4. It is a 12th career title for Sinner, who...

World number one Iga Swiatek claimed the Qatar Open title for the third year in a row with a straight-set victory over Elena Rybakina. Poland’s Swiatek trailed by a double break in the first set but regrouped to beat Kazakhstan’s Rybakina 7-6 (10-8) 6-2 in Doha. Swiatek lost her three matches against Rybakina in 2023....

Grand Slam champions Venus Williams and Caroline Wozniacki have been awarded wildcards to play in the Indian Wells tournament next month, live on Sky Sports.  Williams, a seven-time Grand Slam champion, has not played since suffering an early exit from last year’s US Open after a humbling defeat by qualifier Greet Minnen in the first...

Britain’s Emma Raducanu was denied a place in the Abu Dhabi Open quarter-finals by second seed Ons Jabeur. Competing as a wildcard in Abu Dhabi, the 21-year-old Raducanu lost 6-4 6-1 to the Tunisian world number six. A surprise US Open champion in 2021, Raducanu made her Grand Slam return at last month’s Australian Open...

Saudi Arabia will host a new elite tennis exhibition featuring Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal and three other Grand Slam winners in October. The Six Kings Slam event will form part of the Saudi cultural and entertainment festival Riyadh Season. Major winners Carlos Alcaraz, Daniil Medvedev and Jannik Sinner will also line up, as well...

Navratilova, 67, and Evert, 69, each won 18 Grand Slam singles titles between 1974 and 1991. Their opinion column in The Washington Post last week was headlined: ‘We did not help build women’s tennis for it to be exploited by Saudi Arabia’. In it they said moving the “crown jewel” women’s event to Saudi Arabia...