Billie Jean King Cup Explained: Format, Rules and How It Works
For most of the tennis season, the world’s best women compete for themselves. Their ranking. Their prize money. Their titles. Then comes the Billie Jean King Cup, where the equation changes. Players compete for their countries, teammates watch from courtside and individual matches combine to decide something much bigger: whichContinue Reading
Grand Slams Explained: The Four Biggest Tournaments in Tennis
There are thousands of professional tennis tournaments played around the world, but four stand above everything else. The Australian Open, Roland Garros, Wimbledon and US Open are tennis’s Grand Slam tournaments — commonly called the majors. Winning any one of them can define a career. Winning all four puts aContinue Reading
ATP Challenger Tour Results – Week of 14th September 2026
As always on the Challenger Tour, it seems there are first time winners, and players reaching career highs. Nikolas Sanchez Izquierdo won his second Challenger title of his career, and second this year, in an epic fight at the Szczecin event. He moves up to #154, which is the highestContinue Reading
ITF Tour Results – Week of 14/9/2026
On the women’s ITF tour last week, Anna Siskova won the biggest event, taking out the W75 in Le Neubourg. This was her third title of the year, and the biggest of her career. She moves to a career high of #196 now. The first time winners last week wereContinue Reading
Predicting the ATP Finals Participants
It has been a weird year for tennis. Injuries to both Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz have opened opportunities for the rest of the tour at various points this season. Alexander Zverev has won two Grand Slams, Flavio Cobolli reached his first Grand Slam final and broke into the topContinue Reading
Five Questions Before Your First Trip to Asia
A tournament date is a useful starting point for a trip, but it is not an itinerary. Before booking flights or a hotel, you need to connect the event calendar with the session you can attend, the ticket you need, and the journey back afterwards. I work on Tennis Calendar,Continue Reading
Iva Jovic Defends Guadalajara Crown as Remarkable Rise Continues
A year after Guadalajara provided the breakthrough moment of her young career, Iva Jovic returned to Mexico and proved that her first title was only the beginning. The 18-year-old American successfully defended her Guadalajara Open crown with a commanding 6-4, 6-2 victory over compatriot Peyton Stearns, completing a flawless weekContinue Reading
Davis Cup Explained: Format, Rules and How It Works
Most of professional tennis is built around individuals. Players travel the world under their own names, accumulate their own ranking points and compete for their own titles. The Davis Cup is different. Players represent their countries. Singles specialists become teammates. Doubles can suddenly decide everything. Matches can be played inContinue Reading
Laver Cup Explained: Format, Scoring and How It Works
For almost the entire tennis season, the world’s leading players are rivals. Then, for three days, some of those rivalries are temporarily put aside. The Laver Cup divides six leading men’s players from Europe and six from the rest of the world into two teams: Team Europe and Team World.Continue Reading
Tennis Prize Money Explained: How Professional Players Get Paid
Professional tennis can make its biggest stars extraordinarily wealthy. Win a Grand Slam and the prize cheque can run into millions. Reach the later stages of the biggest ATP and WTA tournaments and a player can earn substantial sums in a single week. But that is only one end ofContinue Reading