MIAMI GARDENS, Florida — The moment Danielle Collins let Elena Rybakina and 14,000 fans at Hard Rock Stadium and everyone else in tennis know what was going down on Saturday happened when she was a point away from taking the first set and facing maybe the most dangerous serve in the game. Rybakina did what she … Read more
After being on the sidelines, Netflix has started dipping into live sports. Over the past few months, the streaming giant has aired exhibition events in golf and tennis. It is also slated to air the July 20 bout between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul. Beginning next year, Netflix will start carrying World Wrestling Entertainment’s flagship … Read more
After being on the sidelines, Netflix has started dipping into live sports. Over the past few months, the streaming giant has aired exhibition events in golf and tennis. It is also slated to air the July 20 bout between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul. Beginning next year, Netflix will start carrying World Wrestling Entertainment’s flagship … Read more
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Andy Murray says he “would love the chance to play in another Olympics” before retiring, but only if he feels capable of medalling – and earns a Team GB spot on merit. That end date would still leave time for the three-time major champion to compete at the French Open, Wimbledon and the Paris Games … Read more
There are tennis matches that play out like a game of chess, filled with attacks and feints and turning on the slightest strategic adjustments. And then there are matches like Friday night’s semifinal between Coco Gauff and Maria Sakkari at the BNP Paribas Open, a hard-hitting, full-gas battle between two of the best pure athletes … Read more
They are in a hurry, this younger cohort of tennis stars, with no interest in waiting their turn to take over their sport, or respecting their elders. On a warm Sunday evening in Rod Laver Arena, Jannik Sinner, the 22-year-old fast-rising star from Italy, became the latest member of the ‘next generation’ to win a … Read more
Aryna Sabalenka won the Australian Open with a decisive, straight sets win over Zheng Qinwen, a fitting end a fortnight that established her as the class of her sport at the moment, even if that’s not what the rankings say. For the seventh time in as many matches, Sabalenka, a 25-year-old power hitter from Belarus, … Read more
Coco Gauff’s run at the Australian Open ended in the semifinals on Thursday as the 19-year-old U.S. Open champion ran into a foe who has proven too much for everybody at Melbourne Park in the past two years. Aryna Sabalenka, the big-hitting defending champion from Belarus who crumbled against Gauff and 24,000 delirious fans in … Read more
Carlos Alcaraz is out at the Australian Open after a four-set defeat to Alexander Zverev at the quarter-final stage. Zverev, the tall and powerful German, took advantage of a rare off-night for Alcaraz, the 20-year-old wonderkid, who lost in four sets in a match that appeared for most of the first 90 minutes to be … Read more
Mirra Andreeva showed up to tennis in the middle of last season, like the new kid at school whose mother or father has just been transferred into the local branch office. One day, no one had ever heard of her, the next, she’s all anyone is talking about: 16 years old, three days into the … Read more