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Tennis New Normal : Majors Analysis (Eugenie Bouchard, Prague 2020)

How to succeed in tennis’ new normal? Go with the flow

What will it take to thrive on the tennis court during the age of Covid-19? At Lexington this week players got their first taste of Tour tennis during a global pandemic.

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Chris Oddo
Top 20 post-confinement (Part 1)

Top 20 post-confinement matches: tears of Djokovic, Paire’s heatstroke

Since the middle of May, tennis exhibitions have been popping up around the globe as a means to keep the players employed and the fans satiated. Now that the tours are restarting, Tennis Majors takes a look back at the top 20 matches of quarantine.

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TENNIS MAJORS (IN ASSOCIATION WITH SCRINE)

The power of the Grand Slams is virtually limitless

Of the many things to emerge from the Covid-19 crisis in tennis, one thing has become clearer than ever; the four Grand Slam events rule the sport.

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Carole Bouchard
Alizé Cornet - WTA

Getting back on court, sure, but how and for what?

As many players have spent two months or more without being able to train, it's not that easy for them to get back intensively on the court. They all had to adjust. And some more adjustments are going to be needed to get back to competing.

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Carole Bouchard
Let apart by men who did not belive in themselves, women had to fight to make their own tennis tour growing.

The WTA: how women got their revenge and their rights

In the final episode of our trilogy about the roots of tennis' divided governance, Tennis Majors looks back to when the WTA Tour was formed and how the women proceeded to earn parity with the men who rejected them and lead the fight for equality in women's sport

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Paul Bonnaud
Open Era - Major Features
5 years ago

1968, Open era: The moment tennis opted to become a modern sport

With seven governing bodies and unity still seemingly impossible, tennis has never been...
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Jérémy Baudu
Dominic Thiem, Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, for the Tennis Majors feature about player relief funds
5 years ago

Row over player relief funds exposes a divided Tour

Not even the Big 3 has, for now, succeeded in convincing ATP players...
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Carole Bouchard
Feature "Confinement" - Tennis Majors
5 years ago

How fit, or not, will the players be once out of confinement?

As the Tour still hopes to be able to resume in the coming...
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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
5 years ago

Djokovic, The Wizard Of Oz

The Serbian is the undisputed master of the Australian Open, with a record...
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Carole Bouchard
5 years ago

The coming of age of Pavlyuchenkova

The Russian, former teenage wonder and steady presence on Tour since a decade,...
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Carole Bouchard
5 years ago

Zverev, the unexpected process

The German’s first tournament of the year was horrific, getting us all back...
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Carole Bouchard
5 years ago

Serena Williams training for history

She Sang. She Danced. She Boxed. In Pursuit of Her Elusive 24th Grand...
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Bastien Fachan
5 years ago

How Coco Gauff Prepared at Home To Conquer the World

Off the court too, Coco Gauff displays a sense of space and time...
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Bastien Fachan
5 years ago

No pain, no gain they say…

All the players you see starting 2020 are coming out of several weeks...
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Carole Bouchard
5 years ago

Has Federer taken too big a risk for the Australian Open? 

Exhibitions at the end of November in South America, exhibition at the end...
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Carole Bouchard