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By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_Now | Friday August 25, 2023The US Open draw is a blueprint for American breakthrough, says Frances Tiafoe.Twenty years in the past, a 21-year-old Andy Roddick defeated David Nalbandian and Juan Carlos Ferrero to seize the 2003 US Open championship.Allaster: US Open Ball is in WTA's CourtFormer world No. 1 Roddick stays the final American man to boost a Grand Slam singles trophy.A 12 months in the past, Tiafoe made an exceptional run to the US Open semifinals the place he examined eventual-champion Carlos Alcaraz shedding in a five-set thriller.Returning to New York to fulfill the media in the present day, Big Foe feels like a person on a serious mission.The Tenth-ranked Tiafoe says "it's a matter of time" earlier than an American man breaks by means of to...

By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_Now | Friday August 25, 2023Carlos Alcaraz will carry a trusted confederate on courtroom for the subsequent seven years. World No. 1 Alcaraz has signed a seven-year contract extension together with his long-time racquet sponsor, Babolat, guaranteeing he'll play with a Babolat racquet by way of at the least 2030.Allaster: US Open Ball is in WTA's CourtThe extension continues Alcaraz's career-long dedication to Babolat. The 20-year-old Spaniard has performed with a Babolat racquet since he was 10.Reigning Wimbledon and US Open champion Alcaraz, who has been enjoying together with his Babolat Pure Aero 98—and Babolat RPM Blast strings—signed the most recent extension of his contract alongside Eric Babolat the Chief Executive Officer of Babolat, and the great-...

By Tennis Now | @Tennis_Now | Thursday August 24, 2023Jennifer Brady tuned up for her US Open return sharing her abilities with children and media in New York City.Long-time Babolat participant Brady led a particular on-court clinic at Court16 FiDi (Financial District) on Wednesday afternoon the place she put a choose group of media members by way of a follow session, supplied suggestions for enhancing their recreation and allow them to expertise the unsettling expertise of going through her large topspin forehand.The 2021 Australian Open finalist Brady regarded match and struck easily all through the clinic.Following her media clinic, Brady performed a clinic for younger tennis campers after which held a query and reply session the place she lined tennis and her comeback.<Reaching ...

In attire, Wilson’s newest sportswear drop will function on-and-off the court docket appears for women and men, in colorways impressed by the most effective of NYC tennis – tennis ball yellow, traditional navy and area inexperienced.Wilson will even have an unique assortment of commemorative US Open graphic tees, and a limited-edition Billie Jean King tee, celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the Battle of the Sexes and equal prize cash.Top kinds from the newest sportswear drop embrace: Everyday Performance T-Shirt, Unmatched Tennis Dress, Tournament Short, Skirty Short, All Day Tennis Short, Ace Seamless Bra,Top Millenium Crewneck and Midtown Tennis Dress.“It’s been an amazing experience working with the Wilson team to influence the designs of my gear from head-to-toe, for each match,”...

LONDON — Saudi Arabia will host the lads’s tennis tour’s Next Gen ATP Finals in Jedda via 2027 below an settlement introduced Thursday, the most recent foray into sports by the dominion. ...

By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_Now | Thursday August 23, 2023World No. 1 Iga Swiatek and Coco Gauff gave us a summer time basic in Cincinnati.Reigning champion Swiatek and Cincinnati champion Gauff are on a US Open quarterfinal collision course.Allaster: US Open Ball is in WTA's CourtThe US Open attracts had been performed right this moment and the potential for a Swiatek-Gauff rematch pops off the web page.No. 4-seeded Elena Rybakina, the 2022 Wimbledon champion who knocked Swiatek out of the Australian Open fourth spherical, Miami Open champion Petra Kvitova, 2017 Roland Garros champion Jelena Ostapenko, former world No. 1 Victoria Azarenka, Olympic gold-medal champion Belinda Bencic, 2017 US Open champion Sloane Stephens and Roland Garros finalist Karolina Muchova are among the many ...

NEW YORK — Novak Djokovic’s return to the U.S. Open after lacking it final 12 months as a result of he wasn’t vaccinated towards COVID-19 will come towards an opponent who by no means has performed within the match, whereas defending girls’s champion Iga Swiatek and Coco Gauff had been drawn Thursday right into a potential quarterfinal matchup. ...

By Tennis Now | @Tennis_Now | Wednesday August 23, 2023US Open fan week hit a brand new excessive—for a worthy trigger—in Louis Armstrong Stadium on Wednesday night time.NBA celebrity and tennis fanatic Jimmy Butler shared the court docket with Grammy Award-winning singer Sebastián Yatra, US Open champion Carlos Alcaraz and US Open semifinalist Frances Tiafoe.Allaster: US Open Ball is in WTA's CourtButler, an enormous fan of Big Foe, Alcaraz and Coco Gauff, routinely attends the Miami Open and confirmed his ball boy expertise. It was all a part of the US Open's Stars of the Open occasion, which raised $320,000 for Ukraine humanitarian aid earlier than a an engaged and capability crowd of 14,000 inside Louis Armstrong Stadium.Butler and Yatra stole the present whereas sharing the cour...

John Isner will retire from skilled tennis after enjoying on the U.S. Open, he introduced Wednesday, bringing an finish to a profession that included one Grand Slam semifinal look and a victory within the longest match within the sport’s historical past. ...

Based on the reactions on social media, it appears everybody on the earth of tennis was riveted by Novak Djokovic’s victory over Carlos Alcaraz within the last of the final event for each forward of the U.S. Open. ...