Sonay Kartal fell to a 6-1, 6-3 defeat at the hands of world No. 15 Amanda Anisimova, but has plenty of positives to take from an historic week in women’s tennis
Carson Branstine upset women’s top seed Liudmila Samsonova while fellow Canadian Gabriel Diallo downed men’s eighth seed Jordan Thompson on Wednesday at the Libema Open grass-court tennis tournament.
Professional tennis players who take time off from competition for a fertility procedure such as egg or embryo freezing will have their ranking protected under a WTA Tour policy announced Wednesday.
Female tennis players who wish to freeze eggs or embryos, so they can start a family at a later date, will have their ranking protected by the WTA Tour. The offer is open to any player ranked in the world’s top 750 who spends more than ten weeks out of competition.
Bianca Andreescu had a winning start to her grass-court tennis season with a 6-1, 6-3 win over Taiwan’s Joanna Garland in women’s first-round action Tuesday at the Libema Open.
TENNIS fans slammed the BBC for snubbing live coverage of Emma Raducanu and Katie Boulter’s doubles debut.
The takeaways from Carlos Alcaraz’s fifth-set tiebreaker victory over Jannik Sinner in the riveting and record-breaking French Open men’s final were multiple and significant.
