Tennis

11/28/2024 |  Women's tennis pro Świątek suspended for banned substance (United Press International (UPI)) Nov. 28 (UPI) -- Poland's Iga Świątek is banned from playing professional tennis for a month after testing positive for the heart medication trimetazidine, the U.K.-based International Tennis Integrity Agency announced Thursday.
Świątek is the Women's Tennis Association's second-ranked player behind top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus. 

11/22/2024 |  Rafael Nadal retired after the Davis Cup. It’s a rare team event in tennis (Associated Press (AP)) MALAGA, Spain (AP) — Rafael Nadal wanted to play his last match before retiring in Spain, representing Spain and wearing the red uniform used by Spain’s Davis Cup squad.
“The feeling to play for your country, the feeling to play for your teammates ... when you win, everybody wins; when you lose, everybody loses, no?” Nadal, a 22-time Grand Slam champion, said a day before his career ended when his nation was eliminated by the Netherlands at the annual competition. ”To share the good and bad moments is something different than (we have on a) daily basis (in) ... a very individual sport.”

11/18/2024 |  Rafael Nadal and Spain’s captain won’t say whether he’ll play at the Davis Cup (Associated Press (AP)) FUENGIROLA, Spain (AP) — Neither Rafael Nadal nor Spanish captain David Ferrer would say Monday whether the 22-time Grand Slam champion will play at the Davis Cup Final 8, his last event before retirement.
Spain is scheduled to face the Netherlands on Tuesday in the quarterfinals on an indoor hard court at the Palacio de Deportes Jose Maria Martin Carpena in Malaga. The winner will play in the semifinals on Friday. The championship will be decided on Sunday.

11/18/2024 |  Jannik Sinner dominated so much at the ATP Finals that it was hardly a contest (Associated Press (AP)) TURIN, Italy (AP) — It’s supposed to be the tournament where the year’s top eight players battle it out for one last prestigious trophy.
Only this year it was hardly a contest at the ATP Finals.
That’s because Jannik Sinner’s game reached such a high level in Turin that his fellow competitors — all of them ranked in the top 10 — said “there’s nothing you can really do” because “he’s playing almost too good.”

11/18/2024 |  World No. 1 Jannik Sinner caps stellar year with ATP Finals victory over Taylor Fritz (CNN Sports) Jannik Sinner couldn’t have dreamed of a better ending to his remarkable 2024 season.
The world No. 1 defeated American Taylor Fritz 6-4, 6-4 to win the ATP Finals in Turin, Italy, on Sunday, claiming the trophy for the first time on home soil. The victory also avenged his defeat in last year’s final against Novak Djokovic.