The Pole lifted the trophy in Rome for the third time in four years, having beaten Sabalenka last week in Madrid.
Iga Swiatek refused to take victory at the French Open for granted despite romping to a third Rome title when sweeping aside Aryna Sabalenka 6-2, 6-3 in Saturday's final.Swiatek took the opening set in just 36 minutes in a clinical display of tennis against Sabalenka, who has said repeatedly that Rome is her dream tournament to win.
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Emma Raducanu has claimed that female tennis players are often technically superior to their male counterparts, before going on to describe the prize money gap between the two tours as “huge” and unfair.
The Lawn Tennis Association’s decision to create a new WTA event at Queen’s will create an “unacceptable” concentration of professional tennis in London at the expense of other cities, according to the chair of the Parliamentary tennis group.
Germany's Alexander Zverev equalled compatriot Boris Becker's record by reaching an 11th Masters final on Friday when he ended the Rome Open giant-killing run of Alejandro Tabilo to set-up a title showdown against Nicolas Jarry.World number five Zverev, who lifted the Rome trophy in 2017, battled back to see off Tabilo 1-6, 7-6 (7/4), 6-2 to tie Becker's record for the most Masters finals by a German since the series began in 1990.
British No 3 Dan Evans has split from coach Sebastian Prieto for the second – and probably final – time after a form slump that has seen Evans win only three ATP Tour matches this season.
World number one Novak Djokovic has taken a wild card to play in the Geneva ATP tournament next week in a bid to rescue an alarming dip in form ahead of his French Open title defence.Djokovic will be chasing his 99th tour-level title at the Swiss tournament. bur/dj/lp
Football is introducing a cricket and tennis-style challenge system that will allow players and managers to order reviews of refereeing decisions.
Iga Swiatek swept past Coco Gauff to reach the Rome Open final on Thursday where Aryna Sabalenka will stand in her way of a third title and her bid to match a Serena Williams record.Swiatek ended with 26 winners and broke her American opponent four times and now stands one victory away from duplicating the Madrid-Rome clay trophy double achieved by Williams 11 years ago.
Chile's Nicolas Jarry powered past 2022 runner-up Stefanos Tsitsipas in three sets to reach his first Masters semi-final in Rome on Thursday.They are the first Chilean duo to reach the semi-finals of an ATP Tour event since 2006 in Vina del Mar, where Fernando Gonzalez and Nicolas Massu made the last four His victory on Thursday was his third over a top 10 player this year after defeating Carlos Alcaraz in Buenos Aires and Casper Ruud in Miami.
Andy Murray is playing with a new racket in Bordeaux this week, but a new body is what he really needs if he wants to compete at the elite level.
Andy Murray's build-up to the French Open suffered a setback on Thursday when he was dumped out of the second-tier Challenger event in Bordeaux by Gregoire Barrere.Murray, who will call time on his career later in the year, will now head to the Geneva ATP event next week before a final appearance at the French Open where he was runner-up to Novak Djokovic in 2016. dj/nf
The Scot was defeated 6-4 6-2 by world number 115 Gregoire Barrere.
Iga Swiatek won her 11th straight clay-court match on Thursday as the top seed moved closer to another record with a 6-4, 6-3 semi-final defeat of Coco Gauff at the Rome Open, after Tommy Paul earlier survived a chaotic ending to emerge victorious from his quarter-final encounter with Hubert Hurkacz.- Breaks aplenty - On the men's side, American Paul reached a clay court semi-final for the first time in his career with a 7-5, 3-6, 6-3 upset of Hurkacz.
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A women’s tournament has not been hosted at Queen’s Club for more than 50 years
An East Kilbride tennis court has reopened after a £93,000 investment.
Queen's Club will host London's first tour-level women's event in more than 50 years in 2025, British tennis chiefs announced on Thursday.The Edgbaston Priory Club in Birmingham, which has staged a WTA Tour event since 1982, will now host a combined men's and women's second-tier tournament in the second week of the French Open.
Tommy Paul reached a clay court semi-final for the first time in his career on Thursday with a 7-5, 3-6, 6-3 upset of Hubert Hurkacz at the ATP-WTA Italian Open.Hurkacz won the clay title in Estoril last month and suffered only his third loss on clay this spring. str/ea
A decision will be after next summer’s tournament on whether it is a permanent change
The iconic Queen’s Club in west London will host the world’s best female tennis players in a competitive tournament for the first time in 50 years. Home to the men’s pre-Wimbledon championships, a WTA 500 event will now be held at the club from 2025, according to the LTA. As a result of the move,
The west London venue will host a WTA 500 event to kick off the grass-court season in 2025 with the ATP tournament a week later
The women’s tournament will take place in the week preceding the men’s event.
The world’s leading female players are to return to Queen’s Club next summer for the first time in more than 50 years after a rejig of the English grass-court season.