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By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_Now | Thursday, May 11, 2023Roland Garros runner-up Coco Gauff is expert within the sliding arts and believes you are tripping in the event you underestimate Rafael Nadal at Roland Garros.Asked to evaluate the Roland Garros males's subject in her Rome presser in the present day, Gauff summed up her view merely.More: Madrid Mutes Women's DoublesThe world No. 4 says King of Clay Rafael Nadal is the French Open favourite any day—no matter his latest lack of match play."I mean, if [Rafa] goes, I'm going to take him in Paris any day," Gauff mentioned. "I don't think he needs match experience. I'm sure he probably would have preferred to play some matches before. I think that him and Roland Garros is something special."There's been occasions, I bear in mind fi...

By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_Now | Friday, May 12, 2023Carlos Alcaraz made his mark because the youngest year-end world No. 1 in ATP historical past.Alcaraz will surpass Novak Djokovic and regain the highest spot when the brand new ATP rankings are launched after Rome.Gauff: GOAT Nadal RG Favorite Any DayMeeting the media in Rome as we speak, Alcaraz mirrored on his hardest rival: the person within the mirror."I said before that your biggest rival is yourself," Alcaraz informed the media in Rome. "It's not only for me, it's for everyone. You have to control yourself, your emotions first, then playing against the opponent."You have to decide on the right issues in each second. That is de facto powerful 'trigger now we have simply seconds earlier than hitting the ball. It's powerful."...

By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_Now | Friday, May 12, 2023There's no place like house.Gliding throughout the pink clay with yard burst, Fabio Fognini continues to have fun his Rome return enjoying his most dynamic tennis of the season.Gauff: GOAT Nadal RG Favorite Any DayWild card Fognini received 15 of 20 journeys to internet carving up Miomir Kecmanovic 6-3, 7-6(6) to achieve the Rome spherical of 32 with some excellent shotmaking.Cheered on by a packed and roaring house crowd that included his spouse, 2015 US Open champion Flavia Pennetta, and the couple's son, Federico, Fognini backed up his opening-round win over nemesis Andy Murray with assured tennis immediately.It marks the primary time since April of 2022 Fognini has scored successive Tour-level singles victories. Fabio Fever...

ROME — Barbora Strycova gained her first singles match since getting back from maternity depart, beating Maryna Zanevska 6-1, 3-6, 6-3 within the opening spherical of the Italian Open on Tuesday. The 37-year-old Strycova returned to the tour two weeks in the past on the Madrid Open after greater than two y...

By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Friday May 12, 2023Prize cash is on the rise at Roland-Garros.The match introduced on Friday that first-round losers, qualifiers, wheelchair and quad contributors will take residence a larger proportion of the pie. Prize cash for this yr’s Roland-Garros will whole EUR 49.6m, up 12.3 per cent on 2022. With the purpose of guaranteeing a extra even distribution between gamers, the match organisers have considerably elevated the prize cash for first-round losers within the girls’s and males’s… pic.twitter.com/3HC75KlnIP — Roland-Garros (@rolandgarros) May 12, 2023 Overall prize cash will rise 12.3 p.c, with singles contributors seeing an general enhance of 9.1 p.c, doubles will rise 4 p.c and wheelchair and quad will bounce a booming 40 p.c.See extra parti...

ROME — Fresh off a doubles title in Madrid, Victoria Azarenka stepped up her singles sport on the pink clay courts on the Italian Open by defeating Sloane Stephens 6-4, 6-3 in her opening match on Thursday. Stephens was coming off a singles title at a smaller clay-court occasion in Saint Malo, France, wher...

Alexander Bublik and Ben Shelton introduced the circus to Rome at this time.In one of many wildest exchanges of the event, Bublik slid an underarm serve to begin this rally that noticed Shelton reply with a tweener. Underarm serve ✅Tweener ✅Standard stuff when Bublik is on courtroom! 😅#IBI23 pic.twitter.com/cELdQ4lrDe — Tennis TV (@TennisTV) May 12, 2023 Bublik gained the purpose and the match 6-4, 1-6, 6-2 to succeed in the Rome spherical of 32. !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function()n.callMethod? n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments);if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n; n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0; t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)(window, document,'script','https:...

BARCELONA, Spain — The Madrid Open apologized on Thursday for not permitting the ladies’s doubles gamers to handle the group throughout the awards ceremony after final weekend’s ultimate. While the finalists of the lads’s doubles and males’s and ladies’s singles got the prospect to speak to spectators foll...

By Erik Gudris | @atntennis | Friday, May 12, 2023In the newest version of Paper Magazine, Venus Williams mentioned her partnership with artist Adam Pendleton and their efforts to boost cash by way of an artwork public sale to revive the late singer Nina Simone’s childhood residence in Tryon, North Carolina.The seven-time Grand Slam champion is working with the assistance of fellow artists together with Cecily Brown, Julie Mehretu, Rashid Johnson, and Ellen Gallagher on the iniative.Gauff: GOAT Nadal RG Favorite Any Day“History is so important to me. My mom and dad were so adamant that you must know your history so that you know yourself. Because of that I knew about Nina Simone and her legacy growing up,” Williams mentioned within the interview. “This moment is so important because ...

ROME — Novak Djokovic is correct the place he desires to be after a gradual begin to his clay-court season. Back on the Italian Open - the clay occasion the place he’s had his most success. ...