Belarus' Victoria Azarenka plays a backhand to USA's Sofia Kenin on day four of the Women's Italian Open at Foro Italico on September 17, 2020 in Rome, Italy. (Photo by Clive Brunskill / POOL / AFP) ROME (AFP) -- Victoria Azarenka switched with ease from her impressive form on the hard court in the...
Italy's Lorenzo Musetti plays a forehand to Italy's Giulio Zeppieri on day one of the Internazionali BNL D'Italia ATP tour at Foro Italico on September 14, 2020 in Rome, Italy. (Photo by Riccardo ANTIMIANI / POOL / AFP) ROME (AFP) -- Switzerland's Stan Wawrinka crashed out of the Italian Open in...
Kei Nishikori of Japan plays a backhand to Albert Ramos-Vinolas of Spain on day one of the Internazionali BNL D'Italia ATP tour at Foro Italico on September 14, 2020 in Rome, Italy. (Photo by Clive Brunskill / POOL / AFP) ROME (AFP) -- Japan's Kei Nishikori got his first win in a year at the...
Dominic Thiem of Austria lays down in celebration after winning championship point after a tie-break during his Men's Singles final match against and Alexander Zverev of Germany on Day Fourteen of the 2020 US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on September 13, 2020 in the...
Rafael Nadal (AFP) ROME, ITALY -- Rafael Nadal, absent from the US Open, is preparing for his return to competition after a six-month break at the Foro Italico in Rome, the organizers of the Italian Open tweeted on Thursday. "Rafa Nadal is already here, doing his first training sessions," said the...
Former champion Stan Wawrinka (Photo from Stan Wawrinka's website) Former US Open champion Stan Wawrinka on Saturday won the second-tier Challenger tournament in Prague, on his return to action after a six-month break because of the coronavirus pandemic but admitted: "I'm not at my best yet."...
Novak Djokovic of Serbia (Photo by KARIM SAHIB / AFP) Novak Djokovic boosted the US Open by saying Thursday he will play in the Grand Slam tennis event while reigning women's champion Bianca Andreescu joined a host of notable no-shows. Top-ranked Djokovic, a 17-time Slam singles champion, ended...
Former champion Stan Wawrinka (Photo from Stan Wawrinka's website) Former champion Stan Wawrinka confirmed Friday that he will not play the US Open citing "the health situation in New York" as the Grand Slam event took another hit. Wawrinka, the US Open winner in 2016, was already missing from the...
Evanna Chan and Andrei Stan create a passion project to promote traditional and digital arts online Now more than ever, independent artists need help in promoting their arts as Covid-19 pandemic makes it impossible to hold physical shows and exhibits. Fortunately, the digital world has been a great...