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Iga Świątek advanced to the third round (1/8 final) of the WTA 1000 tennis tournament on clay courts in Rome. Today she beat American Madison Keys 7: 5, 6: 1. Her next rival will be Czech Barbora Krejcikova, who won against the fourth racket of the world, Sofia Kenin.more

The reigning French Open winner Iga Swiatek had big problems in her encounter against Alison Riske at the beginning and was quickly confronted with a 1: 4 deficit. The Polish woman was able to make up for both breaks and then benefited from an injury-related task (left foot) by the American with a score of 5: 4 and 40:40.more

Another reshuffle took place in the rankings of the best tennis players in the world. The leaders, however, remain the same: Ashleigh Barty and Novak Djokovic.more

Tennis players Rafael Nadal and Naomi Osaka picked up the Laureus Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year awards on Thursday with football star Mo Salah and Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton also recognized.more

Ash Barty has claimed her incredible 15th straight win on red clay dating back to the start of the 2019 French Open, beating Czech World No. 12 Petra Kvitova in the Madrid Open quarterfinals.more

Seeded with number 12, Hubert Hurkacz lost to Australian John Millman 7: 5, 6: 7 (7-9), 3: 6 in the first round of the ATP Masters 1000 tournament on clay courts in Madrid. In the second set, the Polish tennis player had three match balls.more

Iga Swiatek lost to the leader of the world ranking, Australian Ashleigh Barty 5: 7, 4: 6 in the match of the 1/8 finals of the WTA 1000 tennis tournament in Madrid.more

Iga Swiatek won with the German Laura Siegemund 6: 3, 6: 3 in the second round of the WTA 1000 tennis tournament in Madrid. The Polish woman triumphed after the 11th match ball. Her next rival will be the leader of the world ranking, Australian Ashleigh Barty.more

The famous Swiss tennis player Roger Federer will put up for charity auctions valuable souvenirs related to, among others, with all 20 Grand Slam tournament victories.more

Seeded with number 14. Iga Swiatek will start today her participation in a highly staffed tennis tournament of the WTA 1000 rank in Madrid. The winner of last year's French Open will play on clay courts for the first time this year. Magda Linette will also perform at the event.more

Novak Djokovic will be skipping the 2021 edition of the Madrid Open, if recent reports are to be believed. According to Marca, Djokovic will not join Rafael Nadal and the rest of the stars at Madrid; the Serb will instead take a short break, and get back to competitive play a couple of weeks before Roland Garros.more

Wimbledon will abandon its traditional rest day on the middle Sunday of the tournament from 2022. The Grand Slam will instead be played over 14 consecutive days, with All England Lawn Tennis Club chairman Ian Hewitt saying this was possible because of better grass-court maintenance.more

Hubert Hurkacz retained the 16th place in his career, the highest in the world ranking of tennis players. The leader is Serb Novak Djokovic, and the Spaniard Rafael Nadal, the winner of the ATP tournament in Barcelona, advanced to the second position. In the WTA ranking, Iga Świątek fell from 16th to 17th place, and the Australian Ashleigh Barty is still in the lead.more

The famous Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic hopes that the vaccination of players against COVID-19 will not be compulsory. However, the leader of the world ranking has not revealed whether he will vaccinate himself.more

Rafael Nadal stayed on course for his 12th Barcelona Open title with a 6-1 6-4 win over British number two Cameron Norrie in the quarter-finals. The 34-year-old had far too much skill and guile on his favoured clay surface.more

Roger Federer will kickstart his claycourt campaign at next month's Geneva Open as he steps up his preparations for the French Open, the 39-year-old Swiss wrote on Twitter on Sunday.more

Seeded third, Rafael Nadal unexpectedly was eliminated in the quarter-finals of the ATP Masters 1000 tournament at Monte Carlo clay courts (prize pool of EUR 2.082 million). The Spaniard, the 11-time winner of this event, lost to Russian Andrei Rublev 2: 6, 6: 4, 2: 6.more

Amazon Studios have announced 23-time Grand Slam tennis champion Serena Williams will be the subject of their latest sports docuseries. The deal signed will see Williams work closely alongside Amazon to produce both scripted and unscripted television projects.more

Iga Świątek kept the 16th place in the latest ranking of the world ranking of tennis players. Hubert Hurkacz maintained the same position in the ATP ranking.more

World No. 1 Ashleigh Barty was knocked out of the Charleston WTA quarter-finals after she lost to Spaniard Paula Badosa 6-4, 6-3.more

This year's French Open at Roland Garros has been postponed by one week and will now run from May 30 to June 13, with Wimbledon starting two weeks later.more

Hubert Hurkacz, starting on Sunday with the ATP Masters 1000 tournament in Monte Carlo, will start this year's clay court starts. The Polish tennis player is planning to perform in four events on this surface in preparation for the Grand Slam French Open.more

The French Open at Roland Garros was postponed from May until September last year and the same could happen in 2021 with the country entering a third nationwide lockdown.more

With the Big Three absent at the Miami Open, and tennis' next generation scrambling to fill the void, it was Hubert Hurkacz of Poland who made a breakthrough. The 24-year-old Hurkacz won the biggest title of his career by beating 19-year-old Jannik Sinner of Italy 7-6 (4), 6-4 on Sunday.more

Iga Swiatek and American Bethanie Mattek-Sands were eliminated in the doubles semi-final in the WTA 1000 hard court tournament in Miami. Yesterday they lost to the fifth seeded Japanese tennis players Shuko Aoyama and Ena Shibahara 6: 3, 6: 7 (4-7), 2-10.more