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Lindsay Brandon is a lawyer whose previous purchasers embody athletes disputing doping suspensions. In her new put up because the WTA’s first director of safeguarding, Brandon is main an elevated effort to guard athletes from predatory coaches - and others - on the ladies’s skilled tennis tour. “Safeguardi...

By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Monday April 3, 2023Novak’s again!22-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic has returned to the highest of the ATP rating for the eighth time as of Monday, April 3. The 35-year-old leapfrogs Carlos Alcaraz to start his document 381st week atop the desk.Djokovic, who will return to the court docket at Monte-Carlo subsequent week, has a 380-point lead over second-ranked Alcaraz. He will defend simply ten factors at Monte-Carlo, the place he misplaced his first match to Alejandro Davidovich Fokina final 12 months.The World No.1 will defend a complete of 1880 factors between now and the top of Roland-Garros.Alcaraz, in the meantime, solely defends 10 factors at Monte-Carlo as properly. The 19-year-old is defending 1870 factors between now and the top of Rol...

INDIAN WELLS, Calif. — Carlos Alcaraz returned to No. 1 within the ATP rankings on Monday, changing Novak Djokovic, and Rafael Nadal dropped out of the highest 10 for the primary time in 18 years. Alcaraz rose one spot, swapping locations with Djokovic, a day after ending Daniil Medvedev’s 19-match success...

By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Monday April 3, 2023Petra Kvitova produced her personal model of Miami warmth this weekend, burning by means of the ladies’s singles draw to say her greatest title on tour because the summer time of ‘21.Now the former World No.2 and two-time major champion is back inside the Top 10.33-year-old Kvitova rises two spots in this week’s WTA rankings and claims a spot within the Top 10 for the primary time since September of 2021.The Czech claimed her thirtieth WTA title on Saturday, dispatching 2022 Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina in a hard-fought battle. She is the oldest participant – and solely participant over 30 – contained in the WTA’s Top 10 in the mean time.There wasn’t a lot motion contained in the Top 10 on Monday. Belinda Bencic departs, dropping...

LONDON — Martina Navratilova returned to TV work at Tennis Channel for its protection of the Miami Open on Tuesday, lower than three months after saying she had throat most cancers and breast most cancers. “It’s great to be back. … Thrilled to be here,” mentioned the 18-time Grand Slam singles champion and...

Tennis leaders dropped the ball in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Iga Swiatek says.In a brand new interview with BBC, Swiatek slammed a "lack of leadership" amongst WTA and ATP executives in responding after Russia invaded neighboring Ukraine.Svitolina: WTA "Useless" Response to Ukraine"I feel like tennis, from the beginning, could do a bit better in showing everybody that tennis players are against the war," Swiatek advised BBC. "I feel they could do more to make that point and tell their views, and help us cope a bit better in the locker room because the atmosphere there is pretty tense."Swiatek mentioned in put up World War II, Germans, Italians and Japanese athletes weren't allowed to play internationally, and since nations use sporting success as propaganda, tennis ou...

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Bianca Andreescu of Canada — the 2019 U.S. Open champion — beat 2020 Australian Open winner Sofia Kenin of the United States 6-4, 6-4 within the third spherical of the Miami Open on Sunday. Andreescu superior to the fourth spherical of the Miami Open for the third time. She had seven ...

Sofia Kenin is suiting up for the United States.The 2020 Australian Open champion Kenin has changed Madison Keys on the U.S. Billie Jean King Cup group that may compete in its 2023 Qualifier vs. Austria April 14-15 on the Delray Beach Tennis Center in Delray Beach, Florida.Svitolina: WTA "Useless" Response The 24-year-old Kenin, from Pembroke Pines, Florida, gained the 2020 Australian Open singles title and has been ranked as excessive as No. 4. She's performed in 4 ties for the U.S. Billie Jean King Cup group since making her debut in 2018. Kenin will be part of a U.S. group that features No. 3 Jessica Pegula, No. 6 Coco Gauff, No. 40 Danielle Collins and doubles No. 22 Caty McNally. The Qualifier, which Billie Jean King will attend, is a best-of-five match sequence that begins Fr...

BERLIN (AP) — More than 300 fencers, together with 9 medalists from the final Olympics in Tokyo, signed an open letter revealed Tuesday urging the game’s governing physique and the International Olympic Committee to not permit Russian fencers to compete whereas the battle in Ukraine continues. The Internat...

By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_Now | Tuesday, April 5, 2023The WTA response to points Ukrainians face is "useless" says Elina Svitolina.Wimbledon introduced it would raise its ban on Russian and Belarusian gamers, letting them play the 2023 Championships. Wimbledon banned Russians and Belarusians in 2022 in condemnation of Russia's unprovoked invasion of neighboring Ukraine.More: Muguruza Out of Clay, Grass-Court Seasons"The WTA should have done more, much more, on many issues," Svitolina instructed L'Equipe in a brand new interview. "Now it's too late."There have been plenty of press releases, plenty of interviews. It was ineffective." The 28-year-old Svitolina made her comeback in Charleston this week bowing to Moscow-born, Kazakh Yulia Putintseva 6-7(3), 6-2, 6-4 in two hours, 47...