Category: Sport

It is 50 years since Stan Smith edged out Rod Laver and the other great players of his day to win the game’s first season-ending tournament in a totally unsuitable hall in Tokyo but this farewell 12th edition in London is struggling to create the atmosphere of a bad school-sports day. Certainly records are still […]

The paradox of greatness in sport is champions are judged as much by their random shortcomings as their serial triumphs. Yet, when Rafael Nadal – the owner of 20 majors, most recently at his beloved Roland Garros for the 13th time – lost to Dominic Thiem in straight sets under the London lights, it was […]

Tennis authorities have encountered “challenges” over the arrival dates of players in Australia ahead of the new 2021 season, the ATP Tour said on Tuesday, throwing the ATP Cup and other Australian Open lead-up events into doubt. Tennis Australia had planned for players to arrive in the southern state of Victoria by mid-December to give […]

Just over a decade ago, Stefanos Tsitsipas was a simple child in Greece bursting with hopes and dreams as he tried to build his tennis career. But as he embraced the seriousness of his pursuit, the obstacles became apparent. Greece does not have a tennis culture and he was offered no financial support. It was […]

Daniil Medvedev, saving his best tennis for the last stretch of the season, thrashed the world No 1 Novak Djokovic 6-3, 6-3 on the fourth evening of the ATP Tour Finals to reach the semi-finals of the 12th and final London edition of the event. On this form, the lanky Russian might be the defending […]

Dylan Groenewegen has been handed a nine-month suspension by cycling’s governing body, the UCI, after his collision with Fabio Jakobsen during the Tour of Poland in August. Jakobsen was placed in a medically induced coma for two days after the crash at the finish line in Katowice, while Groenewegen was disqualified from the race. In […]

British Cycling has sacked the coach entrusted with helping Jason Kenny become Britain’s most successful Olympian in Tokyo next year for gross misconduct after “repeated warnings that his behaviours fell short of the standards expected”. Kevin Stewart, who raced as a sprinter for Scotland at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, had been part of the coaching […]