Tennis

7/23/2024 |  Table Tennis-GoFundMe helps American Jha fulfill Olympic dream (Reuters Sports) Paris, July 23 (Reuters) - Kanak Jha is no stranger to the Olympics, having represented the United States in table tennis at both the Rio and Tokyo Games, but the path to Paris has been his most challenging.
The 24-year-old, the only male table tennis player representing the U.S. in Paris, was banned for a year by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) and used a GoFundMe campaign to help support his journey to the Paris Games.

7/18/2024 |  2024 BNP Paribas Open Creates $852 Million in Gross Economic Impact (SportsTravel) The 2024 BNP Paribas Open, a combined ATP and WTA Tours event at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden held each March, claims that it generated an estimated total gross economic impact of more than $852 million on the Coachella Valley economy.
The study’s total, conducted by George Washington University, is a 51 percent increase over the last economic impact study conducted following the 2022 BNP Paribas Open.

7/17/2024 |  Billie Jean King Cup finals will switch location this year (Associated Press (AP)) MALAGA, Spain (AP) — The Billie Jean King Cup will switch venue from Sevilla to Malaga for this year’s finals, organizers said Wednesday.
The tournament - formerly known as the Fed Cup - will be played alongside the men’s Davis Cup Final 8 at the Palacio de Deportes Jose Maria Martin Carpena Arena in November. The scheduled dates for both tournaments have not been altered. 

7/17/2024 |  Rafael Nadal on entry list for 2024 U.S. Open tennis tournament (United Press International (UPI)) July 17 (UPI) -- Spaniard Rafael Nadal, who missed five of the last six Grand Slams events, is on the entry list for the 2024 U.S. Open tennis tournament in August.
Placement on the entry list, which was released Tuesday, does not ensure he will remain in the field. Nadal, 38, skipped Wimbledon earlier this month so that he could focus on the 2024 Summer Games. His other Grand Slam absences were tied to injuries. 

7/16/2024 |  Olympic tennis players return to the red clay of Paris’ Roland Garros after Wimbledon’s grass (Associated Press (AP)) PARIS (AP) — The competition surface doesn’t change for most Olympic sports. A pool’s a pool. A track’s a track. A wrestling mat’s a mat. And so on. Tennis? That’s a whole other story, with tournaments contested on clay, hard or grass courts — and now there’s a shift for the Paris Games.