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Algerian player calls out Dominic Thiem in powerful video

WTA 620th-ranked player Inès Ibbou published a moving open letter on YouTube to respond to Dominic Thiem’s recent statement, as the Austrian didn’t see why he should donate money for a relief fund for players outside of the Top 100. The Algerian player explains how her reality is so different from his.

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Geoffrey Steines
Tennis players are enjoying themselves on Instagram Live

How Instagram Live is meeting players’ need for exposure

Tennis players fundamentally need to engage with fans, as they are used to all the year on the tour. Instagram Live is a way for them to meet this need during the lockdown. Fans and sponsors love it.

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Paul Bonnaud

Australian Open 2021: Four possible scenarios for a “significantly different” Open

With the Covid-19 pandemic stretching across the world, the prospect of any international tennis before the end of 2020 looks slim. The Australian Open is the only one of the four Grand Slam events to have taken place this year but now it seems that even the 2021 tournament is in serious doubt.

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Simon Cambers
Dominic Thiem, Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, for the Tennis Majors feature about player relief funds

Row over player relief funds exposes a divided Tour

Not even the Big 3 has, for now, succeeded in convincing ATP players to give money to their lower-ranked colleagues who are struggling through the Covid-19 outbreak.

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Carole Bouchard
ITF anti-doping programme

Anti-doping chief: Out-of-competition drug tests ongoing despite Covid-19

Stuart Miller is the anti-doping manager of the tennis anti-doping programme and he explains here how the ITF is keeping its testing program going on despite Covid-19.

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Carole Bouchard
5 years ago

Coronavirus: Becker believes US Open should be called off

Wimbledon has already been cancelled and Boris Becker believes it would be unwise...
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Tennis Majors
5 years ago

Kvitova says it’s ace to be back on court

Limits on the movement of Czech citizens are being gradually lifted and Petra...
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Tennis Majors
Sam Sumyk
5 years ago

Coaches, facing the weakness of their status, call for a union

Coaches are coming to terms with how weak their safety net is, and...
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Carole Bouchard
5 years ago

“99% of us are not getting paid” : Tennis coaches plead for a better job security amid Covid-19 crisis

Many coaches on the ATP and WTA Tours are now stranded with zero...
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Carole Bouchard
Long form about the commissionner by Tennis Majors
5 years ago

The good old commissioner idea is back, but this time it stands a chance

As the tennis world is put to a stop by the sanitary crisis,...
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Carole Bouchard
Andrea Gaudenzi, ATP president © ATP
5 years ago

After Federer’s merger appeal, ATP chief Gaudenzi says tours can work together

Roger Federer wants the ATP and WTA to merge, but ATP chairman Andrea...
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Tennis Majors
5 years ago

Federer merger talk was bid to boost Twitter numbers, claims high-ranking German tennis official

Roger Federer proposed the men's and women's tennis tours come together, but a...
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Tennis Majors
Stefanos Tsitsipas, his father and Patrick Mouratoglou
5 years ago

A collection for the U100 players by Tsitsipas and Mouratoglou

Stefanos Tsitsipas and Patrick Mouratoglou launched a platform called Beyond 100 Support to...
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Tennis Majors
Roger Federer and Belinda Bencic during the 2018 Hopman Cup
5 years ago

Federer calls for ATP-WTA merger, King, Nadal and others support the idea

Roger Federer wondered on Twitter this Wednesday if it would be possible to...
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Geoffrey Steines
ATP
5 years ago

ATP and WTA to administer a Player Relief Programme

ATP and WTA published on Tuesday a statement to announce, with the support...
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Tennis Majors
Cori Gauff with her parents after her win at 2019 Linz WTA tournament
5 years ago

Gauff’s parents clarify teenager’s ‘depression’ comments

Teenager Coco Gauff has felt the pressure of living up to high expectations,...
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Tennis Majors
coco gauff
5 years ago

Coco Gauff battled depression due to ‘hype that I didn’t want’

A tennis trailblazer from a very young age, Coco Gauff says the scrutiny...
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Tennis Majors
5 years ago

Coronavirus : WTA star unveils racket love affair

Daria Kasatkina entertained her Instagram followers during the coronavirus lockdown, showing how she...
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Tennis Majors
Bianca Andreescu Rogers Cup 2019
5 years ago

Rogers Cup : Tennis suffers new blow with big WTA tournament cancelled

The hard-hit WTA Tour suffered a fresh setback with the loss of a...
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Tennis Majors
5 years ago

Martic prepared for hectic schedule but fears season could be over

World number 15 Petra Martic knows she may not play again this year,...
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Tennis Majors