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While Carlos Alcaraz continues to dominate as the “Prince of Clay” with back-to-back French Open titles in the post-Rafael Nadal era, another young Spanish star has started turning heads at French Open. Away from Court Philippe Chatrier, where Nadal built his legendary legacy, 19-year-old Rafael Jodar made an impressive Roland Garros main draw debut with a dominant 6-1, 6-0, 6-4 victory over Aleksandar Kovacevic. Key Highlights from Jodar’s French Open Debut Jodar looked confident and aggressive throughout the match, showing the same fearless

Jannik Sinner cruised through into the Italian Open last 16 on Monday with a straight-sets win over Alexei Popyrin to maintain his first title hopes in Rome, 6-2, 6-0. The reigning world number one, also needed a little over an hour to win his 25th consecutive match as the Greek rolled past Australia's Popyrin and set up an all-Italian derby in the next Round with Andrea Pellegrino. Another qualifier, Pellegrino, 29, ranked just 155 in the world but who had never previously competed

The world number six became the first American to take home a clay title higher than ATP 250 level in more than two decades, igniting excitement for the French Open. For tennis fans, it was one of those moments that seemed totally lost on the whole world but for years they will quietly look back and say — anyway. Sunday in Munich felt like that moment, even if it wasn’t yet time to say it out loud. Ben Shelton, an impressive 23 years

Carlos Alcaraz said he would welcome the chance to soil his socks on clay again as the world number one re-acquainted himself with his favoured surface in Monaco this week to try and generate some momentum for his French Open title defence. Alcaraz secured his fifth Grand Slam title by defeating Jannik Sinner in an epic final at Roland Garros last June, with victories on the clay courts of Monte Carlo and Rome and a second-place finish in Barcelona to bring his 2025

An hour after his first disastrous attempt at extinguishing the best player in the world, Sebastian Korda walked back up to the baseline to serve for his fourth-round roller coaster against Carlos Alcaraz again. The American might have been expected to feel his tension all the more intensely, to collapse even more spectacularly, but his will prevailed. Korda maintained his head and retained his nerve in front of his home crowd, in his home state, no less to deliver the biggest upset on

In a first round clash of title-holders from the previous two editions of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships, Ugo Humbert beat Greece's Stefanos Tsitsipas in straight sets 6-4 7-5. Humbert, the left-handed Frenchman, won the Dubai title last year but was going in as defending champion after winning it here on Centre Court in 2019. Tsitsipas continued to make unforced errors, and on Tuesday Humbert was rewarded for the better consistency. “It’s nice to return where I won a tournament, but today

Just over a day after Stan Wawrinka spoke candidly about his friendship with Roger Federer in a press conference, the legendary Swiss turned out at the Dubai Tennis Stadium to support his friend. Federer’s eyes trained on the action from the Royal Box, Wawrinka, who is retiring after Wimbledon this year, rolled back the years with a 7-5, 6-3 victory over Lebanese wild card Benjamin Hassan in Monday’s opening round of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships. Hassan, who was born in Germany,

REUTERS MUMBAI, Sept 16 - Inordinately long toilets breaks or medical timeouts at critical moments could soon be a thing of the past in men's tennis with the ATP Tour planning to impose stricter rules, a source at the men's governing body told. The practice has long been a bugbear of players, most recently at the U.S. Open where Stefanos Tsitsipas was accused of gamesmanship by Andy Murray for taking a lengthy trip to the bathroom at a critical point in their first-round