Turin: Jannik Sinner recorded his first win over top-ranked Novak Djokovic, delighting a raucous home crowd at the ATP Finals. Sinner triumphed 7-5, 6-7 (5), 7-6 (2) in a match spanning more than three hours on Tuesday night and into Wednesday morning. It was the 22-year-old Sinner’s first win in their four head-to-head meetings….
Turin: Novak Djokovic patted his chest, crouched down, placed his right hand on the court and looked inward. It was clearly a moment to cherish for the 24-time Grand Slam champion after securing the year-end No. 1 ranking for a record-extending eighth time. Djokovic needed only one match win at the ATP Finals 2023…
The 24-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic will enter the ATP Final 2023 event in Turin with an eye on breaking another record. This season, the Serbian equalled Rafael Nadal’s all-time record of 22 men’s major singles titles at the Australian Open before blowing past it with victories at Roland Garros and the US Open….
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Hangzhou: In a huge upset, gold medal favourites and top seeds Rohan Bopanna and Yuki Bhambri were on Monday knocked out of the Asian Games 2023 after being stunned by lower-ranked Sergey Fomin and Khumoyun Sultanov from Uzbekistan, in Hangzhou. Bhambri struggled with his serve and strokes in the latter part of the match while…
London: Two-time Grand Slam champion Simona Halep has been suspended from professional tennis for four years for doping violations, the International Tennis Integrity Agency said on Tuesday. The 31-year-old Romanian ‘committed intentional anti-doping rule violations’ by failing a drug test during the US Open 2022 and for irregularities in her Athlete Biological Passport, the ITIA…
New York: Halfway through a second set that lasted 1 hour, 44 minutes, a test of tenacity as much as talent amid a US Open 2023 final as exhausting as it was exhilarating, Novak Djokovic and Daniil Medvedev engaged each other in a 32-stroke point. It was among many such elongated exchanges between two…
All four Grand Slam trophies were there. When Novak Djokovic played Daniil Medvedev in the 2021 US Open final — the same two men who will meet Sunday in Arthur Ashe Stadium for the US Open 2023 title — there was more than just the championship of that particular two-week tournament at stake, and the…
New York: Coco Gauff is still a teenager, after all, and so it should surprise no one that she was on her phone in the locker room, scrolling through social media, right up until 10 minutes before heading out on court for the US Open 2023 final. What the 19-year-old from Florida was reading, she…
New York: Carlos Alcaraz found himself in a hint of a predicament 35 minutes into his US Open 2023 quarterfinal against Alexander Zverev on Wednesday night. At 3-all in the first set under the lights in Arthur Ashe Stadium, Zverev earned the first break points of the match. An opening. An opportunity to gain an…