What a treat last night was! Just amazing. 5am finish here… Only that famous 2012 Aus Open final with Nadal and Joker bests this mornings by about 20min.
Made me forget about the Bombers’ tight loss. A shame many wouldn’t have seen it, highly recommend jumping on 9Now or Stan today, hopefully news services will cover it well.
Could this be a new rivalry and a new ‘Federer and Nadal’? Perhaps the clay helped Alcaraz in the end, we await Wimbledon on grass now.
There is a 12 minute highlights package (with no commentary) on the Roland Garros YouTube channel.
What an amazing match it was.
Last week, the centre court at London’s Queens Club was officially renamed Andy Murray Arena.
Australia’s hope Alex de Minaur will be disappointed after a good chance last night against the one and only Novak Djokovic, going down in 4 sets, but after taking out the 1st impressively 6-1.
Last year we didn’t get to see this match-up, after the Demon had to pull out injured.
Think for a moment how a match between a 1 seed and an unseeded player would go down.
Got that? Good.
Now turn to Channel 9 to see the exact opposite of what you’ve come up with.
WTA powerhouse champ Iga Swiatek has taken out the Wimbledon title, in a more than 100 year first, winning 6-0, 6-0 in less than an hour, absolutely destroying American Amanda Anisimova.
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It sucks that Wimbledon has changed the finals structure this year, putting the doubles finals on first, pushing out the singles finals’ start times.
For tonight’s mouth watering men’s decider, which used to be at a decent time for Australians of 10pm est (earlier in Sa, Nt and especially Wa), now won’t begin until 1am, meaning many won’t be able to watch it, although it is school holidays so some workers and children might be able to stay up. Nine would be disappointed.
Understandably though, they wanted to give more exposure to the doubles and serves as a lead-in to the singles, where previously and like seen at other Grand Slams it often sees interest lost and much crowd go home after the more premier singles match is concluded.
I think the other reason why they’ve moved the game back 2 hours from where it used to be (at 2pm local, 11pm AEST) is for the benefit of European and American TV audiences.
A 4pm local time start is 5pm in Central Europe and 11am on the US East Coast, which will help viewership in those parts of the world.
Unfortunately those of us in the eastern states of Australia tend to be near the bottom of the food chain when it comes to the scheduling of these major global sporting events (our friends in WA at least have the benefit of being in the main Asian time zone which can be beneficial with the desire from sporting organisations to attract Asian audiences).
Jannik Sinner becomes the first Italian to win Wimbledon, defeating Alcaraz in 4 sets, coming back from one set down to take the crown.
And to think he was only a point away from four straight Majors, which would’ve meant completing a career Slam just before his 24th birthday… (this would’ve seen him complete his set of Majors at a younger age than Rafael Nadal was when he completed his set at 24y3m).
Alcaraz is 22y2m, and so has two opportunities left to become the youngest man to complete his set of Majors (he only needs to win the Australian Open, a tournament he’s not yet reached the semis at).
The new rivalry in men’s tennis is finally here,Sinner and Alcaraz.These 2 are so far ahead of the other guys currently in the ATP top 10.
Canadian tennis player Eugenie Bouchard, who reached No. 5 in the WTA rankings in a breakout 2014 season, is retiring from tennis at this year’s National Bank Open in Montreal.
https://www.cbc.ca/sports/tennis/eugenie-bouchard-retirement-tennis-national-bank-open-1.7586624
Best known for her run to the final at Wimbledon in 2014 (where she lost to Petra Kvitova) and the Australian Open earlier that year where she defeated Ana Ivanovic in the quarters.
Ivanovic got to the last eight after beating Serena Williams in the round of sixteen.
I remember the media here making quite the thing of her then, featured prominently on Seven’s Oz Open
Who lost to Maria Sharapova in the 2008 Australian Open final (the final year held during daytime on Saturday afternoon and the first year of the blue plexicushion surface).
I always saw Ivanovic as the favourite going into that final, it was just unfortunate that Maria Sharapova was in devastating form then (she won the whole tournament without dropping a set and was only once - in the first set of the final - taken beyond 6-4 in any set).
Worth remembering, she was out for redemption after losing to Serena Williams (then ranked 81st) quite heavily the previous year.
Jabeur received support from fellow player Coco Gauff, who posted three hearts under Jabeur’s statement. Jabeur replied with three hearts.
Brutal start to the 2025 National Bank Open in Canada, which… hasn’t even started.
By this point, I doubt you would recognize any player in the Rounds of 16, let alone quarterfinals. We’re really getting there.
The “Grand Slam sort-of” begins July 28 on
and the screens of .Another bad start for another tournament, this time it’s not about the players at least.
The rain delay began 7:30pm AEST (as tweet below) and it’s still going. Matches will resume around 12:30am if weather is good.
The tournament’s dedicated channel for tonight,
, is replaying older matches. If only there is another WTA tournament in progress right now. Oh wait.
https://x.com/edgeAIapp/status/1947227665389453421
Update: WTA Prague also went to rain delay at 12:29am, so for 10 minutes we have no tennis whatsoever. ATP Kitzbuhel resumed action at 12:39am, but it’s only Center Court; Kuchenmeister back at 12:46am.
Update 2: WTA Prague will not resume before 3:45am.
