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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.
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
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.
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 María 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.
RFIFrench Open legend Nadal admits desire to say goodbye on court firing final tour
Former world number one Rafael Nadal conceded on Wednesday his farewell tour was not proceeding to plan but his wish to compete one last time at cherished tournaments such as the French Open where he has claimed 14 titles was pushing him through the pain barrier. The Spaniard will continue his comeback from injury at the Madrid Masters on Thursday where he is scheduled to play the American 16-year-old Darwin Blanch who has been given an invitation to play in the main draw at one of the most pres
PA Media: SportEmma Raducanu crashes out of Madrid Open in first round
The Briton was crushed 6-2 6-2.
Daily RecordAndy Murray trolls fellow tennis star over Arsenal's 5-0 win against Chelsea
The former world number one has been a long time admirer of the Gunners, who are aiming to win their first Premier League title in 20 years this season.
The IndependentJosh O’Connor reveals which tennis star inspired ‘suggestive’ Challengers scene
Josh O'Connor has revealed which tennis star inspired a “lightly suggestive” scene in Challengers. The Crown actor stars alongside Zendaya and Mike Faist in Luca Guadagnino's new film following tennis prodigy-turned-coach Tashi Duncan whose endeavours to earn her husband (Faist) redemption take a turn when he faces his former best friend and Tashi's ex-boyfriend, Patrick (O'Connor). O'Connor told Capital Breakfast he channelled the “bad boy of tennis” Nick Kyrgios in one scene.
The IndependentChallengers review: Zendaya leads a thrilling, intoxicating and extravagantly sexy tennis psychodrama
5/5 Luca Guadagnino’s thrilling new movie posits that every conversation is a tennis match, and every tennis match is a sex scene – you will be powerless to resist it
PA Media: SportRafael Nadal casts doubt on chances of playing at French Open
The 37-year-old Spaniard continues to struggle with his body.
The GuardianTopSpin 2K25 review – game, set and match to an engrossing tennis sim
Whether you’re playing as a real-life pro or your own wacky avatar, this subtly calibrated title will have you perfecting your lobs and dropshots for hours
CityAMZendaya continues blistering form with tennis movie Challengers
Challengers has been marketed heavily off the back of Zendaya’s involvement, but those looking for a romantic drama will be in for a shock
The IndependentWhat time is Emma Raducanu playing today? How to watch Madrid Open
The 21-year-old returns to action hoping to build on a recent run of good form
The TelegraphGarbine Muguruza: ‘Woman power is great but I feel bad to say I want to have a family’
Garbiñe Muguruza is anticipating the question. She is a former world No 1, French Open and Wimbledon champion, and yet has just announced her retirement aged 30. People are inevitably going to wonder: what’s next?
The ArgusTennis great joins campaign to save Eastbourne tournament
Tennis great Martina Navratilova has backed the fight to save a tournament which brings thousands to the local economy.
AFPSinner plays down Djokovic, Alcaraz comparisons
Jannik Sinner on Tuesday dismissed the idea that he is the best player in the world right now, saying he should not be compared to his fellow top-three rivals, Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz."I still believe that you cannot compare myself with Novak with all that he has done.
