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BIRMINGHAM, England (AP) - Top-seeded Barbora Krejcikova and No. 2-seeded Jelena Ostapenko will contest the Birmingham Classic ultimate after taking contrasting paths. ...

HALLE, Germany (AP) - Alexander Bublik defeated Germany’s Alexander Zverev 6-3, 7-5 on Saturday to ebook his place within the remaining of the Halle Open. ...

By Alberto Amalfi | @Tennis_Now | Friday, June 23, 2023A close to physique blow from Lorenzo Musetti stoked Holger Rune's aggressive fireplace at Queen's Club.  After Rune repelled Musetti 6-4, 7-5 to achieve the Queen's Club semifinals, he credited the sixth seeded Italian's physique smash for pumping him up.Alcaraz: Federer's Elegance Inspires Grass GameWatch Rune duck a Musetti smash right here.Though the Italian raised a hand in apology, the Dane didn't recognize the shot. Heating up 👀#cinchChampionships pic.twitter.com/yp5cnCoXFy — Tennis TV (@TennisTV) June 23, 2023 Afterward, Rune mentioned whereas the play is completely authorized "it's not the best thing to do" and shared it sparked him to motion noting "I'm in the semifinal and he's not.""Yeah, of course he can do what he ...

By Erik Gudris | @atntennis | Friday, June 23, 2023 If you might be searching for a darkhorse favourite for this 12 months’s Wimbledon, look no additional than Sebastian Korda.   And that’s immediately from his phrases.   The rising 22-year-old American Korda made one other step to being within the combine for Wimbledon with a formidable straight units win over British No. 1 Cameron Norrie at Queen’s Club.   Korda booked his first ever look in a grass courtroom match semifinal after defeating Norrie 6-4, 7-6 (1) of their quarterfinal assembly on the ATP 500 grass warmup Clinch Championships, now the house of the long-running Queen’s Club occasion.   FINE WEEK CONTINUES 👌Korda reaches his first semi-final with out dropping a set after taking out Norrie 6-4 7-6(1)!@QueensTenni...

By Erik Gudris | @atntennis | Friday, June 23, 20232023If there's one factor that the newest season of the Netflix Break Point actuality tennis sequence proves is {that a} "Hollywood Ending" within the sport could be very onerous to supply.Alcaraz: Federer's Elegance Inspires Grass Game The sequence' second installment follows its chosen solid of gamers by means of final yr's Wimbledon, US Open, and the season-ending ATP and WTA Finals.The sequence kicks off with Nick Kyrgios offering some somewhat astonishing confessionals about his former personal life whereas he was on his approach to reaching the 2022 Wimbledon remaining. I don’t assume you’re prepared for the primary episode 👀Break Point Batch 2 is out now, solely on @netflix 🎬 pic.twitter.com/9OOwPl9CK9 — ATP Tour (@atptour) ...

BIRMINGHAM, England — Venus Williams couldn’t trigger a fair greater shock on the Birmingham Classic. The 43-year-old American, now ranked No. 697, ...

BERLIN (AP) - Second-ranked Aryna Sabalenka and seventh-ranked Coco Gauff had upset losses to Russian gamers within the second spherical of the Berlin Open on Thursday. ...

By Scoop Malinowski | Thursday, June 22, 2023Monica Seles is far more than a Grand Slam champion.The two-handed titan is a game-changing champion.Alcaraz: Federer's Elegance Inspires Grass GameFellow execs, together with Venus Williams, Serena Williams and Jimmy Connors have praised Seles as an inspiring and influential champion.Now, a brand new e book Facing Monica Seles chronicles precisely what opponents felt going through one of many biggest ball strikers to ever play professional tennis.Monica Seles captured eight Grand Slams championships as a young person and was on her approach to GOAT standing till April, 1993 when a madman plunged a knife into her again throughout a horrific assault in Hamburg, Germany.That vicious assault, which occurred when Seles was ranked No. 1 on the ...

By Alberto Amalfi | @Tennis_Now | Thursday, June 22, 2023The lifetime of a tennis professional is a journey.The journey is over for Alexandra Riley and Nastja Kolar.Alcaraz: Federer's Elegance Inspires Grass GameBoth Riley and Kolar have been banned from tennis for all times for match-fixing and a number of acts of corruption over a five-year interval.Independent Anti-Corruption Hearing Officer Ian Mill dominated that Kolar, from Slovenia, and Riley, from the United States, had dedicated 25 and 15 corruption offenses between 2015 and 2020, the International Tennis Integrity Agency introduced. The pair had been provisionally suspended since March 2023 pending a call on sanctions.The gamers had been  discovered responsible of "contriving aspects of matches, wagering, facilitating wager...

By Erik Gudris | @atntennis | Wednesday, June 21, 2023 The aggressive world {of professional} tennis, together with all of the behind-the-scenes intrigue, will get the silver display screen remedy within the upcoming horny dramedy “Challengers.”   Starring two-time Emmy-award winner Zendaya (“Euphoria”) and helmed by the acclaimed director of “Call Me By Your Name” Luca Guadagnino, the primary trailer of the movie dropped this week.The movie follows Zendaya as Tashi, a former tennis participant turned coach who turns her husband Art, performed by Mike Faist, right into a Grand Slam champion.   Yet when Art hits a shedding streak, she indicators him up for a Challenger-level occasion. That’s the place they run into Patrick, performed by Josh O’Connor from “The Crown”, who was Tash...