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
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
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
Why can a player win a tournament and barely move in the rankings, while another jumps 30 places after one exceptional week? Why can someone lose in the first round and still move higher? And why does a player sometimes fall dramatically in the rankings exactly one year after producingContinue Reading
A serious injury can keep a professional tennis player away from competition for months — sometimes more than a year. During that time, their world ranking can fall dramatically. A player who was ranked inside the Top 20 before an injury might return to find themselves outside the Top 100,Continue Reading
Follow a major tennis tournament and you will regularly hear that a player has moved into the Top 10, reached a career-high ranking or dropped several places — even though the official rankings haven’t been updated. That’s because commentators and fans increasingly follow live tennis rankings. Live rankings calculate howContinue Reading
The ATP Tour is the highest level of professional men’s tennis. It brings together the world’s best players to compete in tournaments across every continent, with ranking points, prize money and prestige on the line. Whether you’re watching the World No. 1, No. 50, or No. 100, every ATP eventContinue Reading
The WTA Tour is the highest level of women’s professional tennis, taking the world’s leading players to tournaments across the globe throughout the season. But the structure behind it can initially seem complicated. What is the difference between a WTA 1000 and WTA 500? Are the Grand Slams part ofContinue Reading
With the US Open obviously taking centre stage, it’s easy to lose track of what’s happening on the ITF Tours. We have all the results from last week here. On the women’s side, the only Venezuelan player on the WTA Tour, Sofia Elena Cabezas Dominguez, won her first ever ITFContinue Reading
The Grand Slam season will finish as it began, with Aryna Sabalenka and Elena Rybakina facing each other across a hard court with one of tennis’s biggest prizes between them. Seven months after Rybakina recovered to defeat Sabalenka in the Australian Open final, the two leading players in the women’sContinue Reading
