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AFP'Realist' Nadal begins Madrid farewell with victory over teen Blanch
Rafael Nadal breezed to a straight sets victory over 16-year-old Darwin Blanch to reach the Madrid Open second round on Thursday as he began his farewell appearance in the Spanish capital.Nadal, a 22-time Grand Slam champion, is expecting 2024 to be his final season in tennis and this his last appearance at the Madrid Open.
AFPSwiatek, Gauff through in Madrid Open as Osaka falls
World number one Iga Swiatek beat Wang Xiyu 6-1, 6-4 to reach the third round of the Madrid Open on Thursday as she bids to win the competition for the first time.Madrid is the only major European clay tournament that three-time French Open champion Swiatek has yet to win.
PA Media: SportRafael Nadal eases to victory over Darwin Blanch at Madrid Open
Nadal has won the French Open 14 times
The GuardianRafael Nadal prolongs Madrid farewell by dispatching teenager Darwin Blanch
Rafael Nadal eased to a 6-1, 6-0 win over 16-year-old Darwin Blanch to set up a second-round meeting with Alex de Minaur at the Madrid Open
Evening StandardAnyone for tenniscore? Spring fashion looks to Wimbledon for 2024
Preppy is on point this season as new A-list racket-romp Challengers drops. Joe Bromley has a guide to acing the Hurlingham look
My LondonNew padel courts to open on Wandsworth shopping centre car park rooftop
There will be six courts as well as a gym and a shop
The IndependentWho is Darwin Blanch? The 16-year-old playing Rafael Nadal at the Madrid Open today
The teenager, who has already lived in four countries and speaks four languages, plays just his second match on the professional tour against a living legend of the sport
RFIFrench Open 2024: rain will no longer stop play on Court Suzanne Lenglen
French Open chiefs unveiled on Thursday a package of innovations including a retractable roof and a wheelchair event for juniors as part of the new era at the tennis circuit's most prestigious clay court competition. "The most obvious thing will be the roof over Court Suzanne Lenglen," said tournament director Amélie Mauresmo."It will allow us to have matches when it is raining and give us a bit more flexibility with programming."The 30 million euro roof will be formally inaugurated on 26 May -
AFPBoris Becker discharged from bankruptcy: lawyer
Former German tennis star Boris Becker has been discharged from bankruptcy by a London court following a deal with his debtors, the 56-year-old's German lawyer said Thursday. "As a result of an agreement with his insolvency administrators, Boris Becker's bankruptcy, which began in 2017, was legally terminated by a decision by the High Court in London yesterday," Becker's Berlin-based lawyer said in a statement sent to AFP. "Becker is released from any further liability arising from the insolvenc
The TelegraphFrench Open 2024: When is the draw, when does it start and how to watch on TV in the UK
The build-up to the French Open is well under way with the ATP and WTA action this week taking place at the Madrid Open.
AFPFrench Open has 'fingers crossed' for Nadal appearance, say organisers
French Open organisers have their "fingers crossed" that Rafael Nadal will be able to play this year's event, tournament director Amelie Mauresmo said on Thursday.But Mauresmo is hopeful Nadal will be able to play the French Open, which starts on May 26.
CosmoWait, is Challengers based on a true story?
Challengers is coming to cinemas, but is it based on a true story? Here's everything you need to know.
Daily RecordYou have a 'high IQ' if you can solve this tennis brainteaser in under 30 seconds
As the Madrid Open kicks off this week, puzzle experts have shared a ball and racket brainteaser that challenges you to spot the broken strings in under 30 seconds.
The ConversationChallengers: new Zendaya tennis film reviewed by an expert in the psychology of competition
The Challengers fuses sex and sport to explore our competitive instincts.
The TelegraphChallengers: Zendaya’s tennis love triangle serves up racquet-twanging steaminess
All right, who’s for mixed doubles? Cinema has brought us love triangles in the world of professional tennis before – perhaps most memorably in George Cukor’s Pat and Mike and Woody Allen’s Match Point. But the sheer racquet-twanging steaminess of Luca Guadagnino’s new entry in the canon makes its forerunners look like games of back-garden swingball. Challengers must be the most purely pleasurable film of the year so far. Like a great tennis match, it’s a clash of sleekly honed bodies and minds,
The ArgusTennis and padel courts backed by Andy Murray coming to seafront
Tennis and padel courts will come to the seafront by early summer.
Evening StandardEmma Raducanu crashes out of Madrid Open after first-round defeat to qualifier Maria Lourdes Carle
Raducanu was broken six times as she fell to a heavy defeat
CityAMHas Rafael Nadal competed in his last French Open before retirement?
Rafael Nadal could miss the French Open this year in what could be his final season on the tennis circuit, the Spaniard has revealed. Nadal has said previously that 2024 would be his last year on the ATP Tour and at the majors, with many expecting the 22-time Grand Slam champion to bow out after
PA Media: Sport‘Exhausted’ Emma Raducanu blames fatigue for early exit at Madrid Open
The Briton was crushed 6-2 6-2 in one hour and 26 minutes by an opponent ranked 82 in the world.
AFPNadal will only play French Open if he can 'compete well'
Rafael Nadal said on Wednesday he will only play at the upcoming French Open if he feels "capable enough to compete well".I will only play in Paris if I feel capable enough to compete well."
The IndependentEmma Raducanu vs Maria Lourdes Carle LIVE: Madrid Open result and reaction as Brit suffers surprise defeat
Raducanu suffered a shock defeat in the first-round of the Madrid Open
The Guardian‘Exhausted’ Emma Raducanu thrashed by qualifier MarÃa Carlé at Madrid Open
The Argentinian qualifier easily won her Madrid Open first-round match 6-2, 6-2, against Emma Raducanu and Harriet Dart also lost in straight sets but Jack Draper won in three sets
AFPOsaka seals first win on clay since 2022 in Madrid
Naomi Osaka says she is "embracing the clay a lot more now" as she captured her first victory on the surface since 2022 in the Madrid Open first round on Wednesday."I've had several 'incidents' on clay but I'm embracing it a lot more now," the 26-year-old Osaka told reporters in the Spanish capital.
AFPUSA's Blanch, 16, 'obviously nervous' ahead of Nadal match
American teenager Darwin Blanch will play just the second ATP Tour match of his career against Rafael Nadal on Thursday at just 16 years old in the Madrid Open first round.Nadal was also 16 when he played the event in the Spanish capital for the first time, in 2003, four years before Blanch was born.
The TelegraphEmma Raducanu told to ‘work harder’ during defeat by world No 82
Emma Raducanu’s unpredictable season continued to swing from lows to highs and back again as she went down by a 6-2, 6-2 scoreline in the first round of the Madrid Open to Maria Lourdes Carle, a 24-year-old Argentine with just one previous WTA Tour victory to her name.
