Tennis

The Saudi Royal Family is preparing to launch a multibillion-dollar agency to invest in U.S. sports franchises, according to reports.

Tennis legend Martina Navratilova blasted bicycle racer Austin Killips, the man who won last week’s women’s cycling race in North Carolina.

The shock announcement on Tuesday that golf’s elite PGA Tour would merge with its Saudi rival LIV Golf prompted a wave of outrage and concern that Saudi Arabia, one of the world’s most prolific human rights abusers, was succeeding in a quest to use sports to polish its public image.

French Open officials disqualified a women’s doubles team on Sunday after one of the women lobbed a ball that accidentally pelted a ball girl, causing her to burst into tears.

Ukrainian tennis player Marta Kostyuk was met with loud boos at a match in France for refusing to shake the hand of opponent from Belarus.

Tennis player Nick Kyrgios will miss the 2023 French Open, also known as the Roland-Garros tournament, due to a foot injury he received in May when a man reportedly held his mother at gunpoint in order to steal the athlete’s Tesla, Kyrgios’s agent Daniel Horsfall announced Thursday.

Tennis icon Novak Djokovic will finally be allowed to return to the U.S. Open this year after being banned over the vaccine mandate. 

The Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) announced on Thursday it would end its boycott of business in China, initially taken to protest the disappearance of Wimbledon champion Peng Shuai, despite the fact that the player has not been seen in public in over a year.

Novak Djokovic, the world’s #1 tennis player, has been refused entry into the United States for a second time because he is not vaccinated against the coronavirus.

Tennis champion Novak Djokovic confirmed on Wednesday that he had applied for an exemption to far-left President Joe Biden’s ban on allowing foreigners into America who have not ingested coronavirus vaccine products, an attempt to participate in multiple high-profile tennis tournaments from which he has been banned under Biden.

Serena Williams spoke publicly about Will Smith slapping Chris Rock for the first time on Thursday, but what she said is quite confusing.

The Ukrainian ambassador to Australia lodged a stern complaint on Friday against Srdjan Djokovic, father of Serbian tennis champion Novak Djokovic, stating it would be “a very good idea” for the Australian Open to ban him from attending the tournament.

Srdjan Djokovic, father of Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic, triggered a global uproar on Wednesday night for meeting with fans of his son’s at the ongoing Australian Open, some of whom were waving Russian flags and wearing the “Z” insignia associated with support for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Tennis pro Camila Giorgi’s Australian Open press conference turned testy when reporters began asking her about her vax status.

Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic received raucous applause on Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena court Friday night, his first time back to the top Australian tennis stage since the government imprisoned him in a migrant detention facility and deported him for not ingesting a Chinese coronavirus vaccine last year.

Wimbledon tennis great Martina Navratilova announced that she is suffering from throat and breast cancer, but is vowing to fight it.

The world’s most prestigious sporting institutions dove headfirst into a return to normal following two years of pandemic rules in 2022 – with the help of some of the planet’s most egregious human rights abusers.

Former Wimbledon champion Boris Becker was released from a UK prison early Thursday morning and now faces immediate deportation after serving eight months of his sentence for hiding assets and loans to avoid paying debts.

Multiple media outlets reported on Tuesday, citing Australian government officials, that tennis champion Novak Djokovic’s visa ban would be revoked in time for him to play the Australian Open in January.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) – Novak Djokovic is set to be granted a visa to play in next year’s Australian Open despite his high-profile deportation in January.

Video of a tennis coach in Serbia is going viral and shocking the tennis world as he is seen slapping and kicking a young female student.

Zhang Gaoli, the former head of the Beijing Winter Olympics steering group who missing tennis star Peng Shuai accused of raping her, received a front-row seat and a coveted Party “elder” position at this week’s Chinese Communist Party Congress, his first public appearance since Peng’s public accusations last year.

A protester ran onto the court at the Laver Cup in London on Friday and lit his arm on fire hours before tennis legend Roger Federer was due to compete in his final match.

Roger Federer is retiring from professional tennis at age 41 after a series of knee operations, closing a career in which he won 20 Grand Slam titles, finished five seasons ranked No. 1 and helped create a golden era of men’s tennis with rivals Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic.

CINCINNATI (AP) – Novak Djokovic pulled out of next week’s hard-court tournament in Cincinnati on Friday because he has not gotten any COVID-19 vaccine shots and so is not allowed to travel to the United States.

Serena Williams lamented that she would not be retiring from tennis to give more time to building a family if she “were a guy.” 

The U.S. Open, one of the tennis world’s four most prestigious tournaments, included Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic on its official men’s singles entry list on Wednesday – with a disclaimer that, should he not participate, it is due to Chinese coronavirus vaccination policies under leftist President Joe Biden.

Outspoken tennis great John McEnroe is blasting autocratic politicians for denying unvaxed tennis star Novak Djokovic’s entry into the USA.

Wimbledon has reportedly told supporters of Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai that they are not welcome to wear t-shirts, hold signs, or talk to the media about the player who vanished from sight after accusing a high Chinese official of rape.

Australian tennis sensation Nick Kyrgios admits that he spit in the direction of a fan at Wimbledon on Tuesday, but he says the fan was taunting him.

The Championships at Wimbledon, one of the four most prestigious tennis tournaments in the world, began on Monday without the top-ranked men’s player in the world, who the tournament banned for being Russian.

Russian doubles tennis player Natela Dzalamidze found a simple solution to widespread bans against Russian players in international sports after the invasion of Ukraine: she changed her nationality to Georgian and will therefore be allowed to play at Wimbledon with her Serbian doubles partner, Aleksandra Krunic.

French Open tournament director Amelie Mauresmo apologized Thursday for saying that men’s tennis had more “appeal” than women’s tennis.

Wimbledon announced that it has dropped the “Miss” or “Mrs” that used to appear ahead of a champion’s name on its women’s honor board.

Venus Williams has a new crusade for equal pay with male players. But her sudden concern for equal pay conflicts with her own past experienes.

Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) CEO Steve Simon said on Sunday that tournaments will remain suspended in China until 2023. The WTA canceled all tournaments in China in December 2021 to protest China’s treatment of women’s tennis champion Peng Shuai after she accused former Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli of sexual assault.