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By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Wednesday May 24, 2023Stefanos Tsitsipas and Mark Philippoussis have parted methods after a productive partnership that noticed the Greek attain his first main ultimate on the Australian Open in January.“Thank for the opportunity of being a part of your team,” The Aussie wrote in Instagram. “It was a great ride and experience, I’m proud of what we achieved together in the short amount of time we had. I wish you health, happiness and success for your future, on and off the court!” Philippoussis, a former Wimbledon and US Open finalist, joined Tsitsipas’ teaching entourage in 2022 and was regarded as an enormous affect, serving to Tsitsipas sharpen his internet sport in addition to his backhand slice and return, as he closed the hole on longtime nemesis...

By Richard Pagliaro | Tuesday, May 24, 2023Problem-solving prowess offers Novak Djokovic the sting going the space in Paris.Pointing to Djokovic's phenomenal five-set report, Hall of Famer and Tennis Channel analyst Jim Courier locations Djokovic as Roland Garros co-favorite alongside world No. 1 Carlos Alcaraz. More: Rune Dethrones Defending Champion Djokovic in Rome"I thought Novak's health, to get to him, looked pretty good in Rome," Courier advised Tennis Now immediately in a convention name to advertise Tennis Channel's Roland Garros protection beginning Sunday, May twenty eighth at 5 a.m. Eastern time. "He didn't seem to have the sleeve on as much. He seemed to be fine with his serve numbers, his forehand numbers, backhand numbers. All looked normal."Didn't appear to be any enh...

James Blake is urgent pause on retirement.Former world No. 4 Blake, a 10-time ATP World Tour singles champion and seven-time ATP doubles champion, is placing his retirement from taking part in skilled tennis on maintain for one week as he competes in doubles with Rancho Santa Fe teenager Hudson Rivera on the Rancho Santa Fe Pro Open – the primary of seven consecutive tennis tournaments on USTA Southern California’s SoCal Pro Series.TN Q&A: James Blake on ATP and Miami OpenMain-draw singles and doubles competitors for the Rancho Santa Fe Pro Open, hosted by Rancho Santa Fe Tennis Club, begins May 30. The event concludes with singles and doubles finals on June 4. Daily admission and parking is free to the general public.“It’s going to be fun,” stated Blake, on receiving a wild card...

By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Tuesday May 23, 2023Daniil Medvedev’s return to No.2 within the ATP rankings can have important implications on Thursday’s males’s singles draw at Roland-Garros.The Russian, who rose to his first clay-court title on Sunday in Rome, leapfrogs Novak Djokovic on this week’s rankings. That means he can doubtlessly keep away from going through Alcaraz or Djokovic previous to the ultimate, if Djokovic is drawn into the Spaniard’s half.It might not play out that manner, however Medvedev has given himself a bigger probability at a better draw by rising to No.2, and the other for Djokovic.Meanwhile, Carlos Alcaraz’s return to No.1 implies that the Spaniard would be the prime seed at Roland-Garros for the primary time. The 20-year-old begins his twenty third week ...

By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Tuesday May 23, 2023Welcome – lastly! – to the Top 4, Elena Rybakina.Kazakhstan’s best ladies’s singles participant rises as much as No.4 on this planet for the primary time after claiming the title at Rome, which suggests she’ll be the No.4 seed in Thursday’s Roland-Garros draw.Rybakina, now simply 115 factors behind No.3 Jessica Pegula, slides forward of No.5 Caroline Garcia and No. 6 Coco Gauff, who every drop a spot on this week’s rankings.Now 28-7 on the season with titles at 1000-level occasions at Indian Wells and Rome, 23-year-old Rybakina enters RG with a 7-4 lifetime document that features a journey to the quarterfinals in 2021, when she defeated Serena Williams.The remainder of the Top 10 stays comparatively steady, as Iga Swiatek begins her s...

By Erik Gudris | @atntennis | Monday, May 22, 2023 It’s not been the very best couple of weeks for the WTA.   While the WTA 1000 occasions in Madrid and Rome concluded with Aryna Sabalenka (Madrid) and Elena Rybakina (Rome) profitable their respective singles titles, a number of points created lower than ideally suited public relations for each match organizers and the WTA. These points proceed to generate dialogue on social media and within the sports press about how the ladies's tour is handled in another way than the boys's tour.   First, in Madrid, there was “cakegate” when Sabalenka was offered with a smaller birthday cake the day after hometown hero Carlos Alcaraz was given a a lot bigger cake for his on-court birthday celebration by organizers.  Couldn’t be extra correct o...

By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Tuesday May 22, 2023France’s Hugo Gaston has been hit with a large advantageous by the ATP for an unsportsmanlike conduct violation that occurred in Madrid lower than a month in the past.The 108th-ranked Frenchman took a ball out of his pocket and rolled it throughout the court docket within the useless hope that he might get a let in opposition to Borna Coric, who closed out the opening set of his 6-3 6-3 second-round victory over Gaston in Madrid with a smash.Gaston obtained a advantageous of 144,000 euros, which is larger than the $121,712 he has earned in prize cash this season.The advantageous can be decreased to 72,000 euros of Gaston doesn’t commit any comparable offenses within the subsequent 12 months.Video of the offending second could be seen ...

LONDON — French tennis participant Hugo Gaston was fined 144,000 euros (about $155,000) by the ATP Tour - greater than he’s collected in prize cash thus far in 2023 - for pulling a ball out of his pocket and throwing it on the courtroom throughout a degree in an try and get a do-over, his fourth unsportsmanlike conduct violation this season. ...

When Mansour Bahrami is not busy entertaining crowds on the tennis courtroom, he is inspiring a collective trigger on the streets of Paris.These days, tennis' prime trick shot artist Bahrami is taking to the streets as a loud and proud chief of the “free Iran” protest motion in Paris.More: Rune Dethrones Defending Champion Djokovic in RomeHBO's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel returns tomorrow, Tuesday, May twenty third, at 10 p.m. Eastern time placing the highlight on Bahrami's fascinating story, which started together with his escape from Iran and the place he discovered to play tennis fashioning a mud pan as a raquet, to his rise as a global tennis star.Real Sports first chronicled Mansour Bahrami’s unlikely journey to skilled tennis in 2018, detailing how one of many sport’s most b...

Carlos Alcaraz changed Novak Djokovic at No. 1 within the ATP rankings on Monday, incomes the highest seeding on the French Open, and Daniil Medvedev’s Italian Open title moved him as much as No. 2 forward of the 12 months’s second Grand Slam match. ...