To this day, everyone in Drummondville remembers the moment they witnessed the future of Canadian tennis. In fact, there is a poster commemorating the historic encounter between Denis Shapovalov and Felix Auger-Aliassime on display at the Challenger Banque Nationale de Drummondville.
Jamie Murray and Neal Skupski advanced to their first ATP Tour championship match as a team on Friday, defeating Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury 7-5, 6-3 at the Western & Southern Open.
First, NBA players walked off the courts in solidarity with Jacob Blake and racial justice. WNBA players did too, and a ripple effect reverberated across the sports world with baseball, soccer, and tennis games also getting postponed.
Canadian Milos Raonic advanced to the Western & Southern Open final Friday with a 7-6(5), 6-3 victory over Stefanos Tsitsipas.
Naomi Osaka overcame a faulty serve and reached the finals of the Western & Southern Open on Friday following a one-day break in the tournament prompted by her call for racial justice.
There are many, many things about the US Open that will be different in 2020, not least the absence of fans, qualifiers, many players’ families—indeed a good number of players themselves, especially with a heavily reduced doubles presence.
Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan will be the first ATP Tour players to automatically qualify for inclusion on the International Tennis Hall Of Fame ballot.
David Mercer, the sports commentator and 1984 Wimbledon final umpire, passed away suddenly on Wednesday aged 70. He was part of the Wimbledon commentary team for 35 years and, from 1994 until 2019, was also emcee at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships, an ATP 500-level event.
