At 42 points, the final-set tiebreak between Anna Blinkova and Elena Rybakina (won 22-20 by Blinkova) is the longest tiebreak in a singles match in Grand Slam history.
In the interests of player health and welfare and following extensive consultation, Tokyo 2020 Olympic Tennis Event matches will begin at 3pm JST from Thursday 29 July
#Tokyo2020
#tennis
With Elena Rybakina defeating No. 1 seed Iga Swiatek today, this year's
#AusOpen
will be the first Grand Slam tournament in the Open Era where the Top 2 seeds in both the men's and women's singles draws have lost prior to the quarterfinals.
At 38 points, the final-set tiebreak between Lesia Tsurenko and Ana Bogdan (won by Tsurenko 20-18) is the longest tiebreak in a Grand Slam women's singles match in history.
#Wimbledon
With Ons Jabeur, Nick Kyrgios, Tatjana Maria, Cameron Norrie and Elena Rybakina all set to contest the semifinals at
#Wimbledon
this year, this is the most first-time semifinalists at a Grand Slam since the 1997 US Open.
Last year,
@RafaelNadal
defeated Dominic Thiem in the
@rolandgarros
final to win his 12th title in Paris.
He become the first player, man or woman, to win 12 titles at the same Grand Slam event - surpassing Margaret Court's mark of 11 Australian Open titles.
Another milestone for
@rogerfederer
today at
@rolandgarros
: the 20-time major winner is playing his 400th Grand Slam match, the first player in history - man or woman - to play 400 singles matches at the Grand Slams (344-55 w/l record)
#RG19
Defeats for Feliciano Lopez and Andreas Seppi in
@rolandgarros
qualifying this week end their respective streaks of 79 and 66 Grand Slam main draw apps
Lopez had contested the main draw at every GS since 2002 Roland Garros, while Seppi had played at every GS since 2005 Wimbledon
Novak Djokovic withdraws from the mixed doubles bronze medal match due to a left shoulder injury.
Ashleigh Barty and John Peers receive a walkover against Djokovic and Nina Stojanovic and win the bronze medal for Australia.
@rolandgarros
The player with the longest active streak of Grand Slam men's singles main draw appearances is now
@GrigorDimitrov
, who will contest his 45th consecutive Grand Slam event
@rolandgarros
Of those four, Krejcikova is the only player to have won a Grand Slams singles, doubles and mixed doubles title in a single season. In addition to her singles and doubles titles at
#RolandGarros
she also won the mixed doubles title at the
#AusOpen
this year.
Japan's
@shingokunieda
defeats Alfie Hewett in the
#Wimbledon
final to become the first player to complete a career Grand Slam in men's wheelchair singles... and become the first player to hold the men's wheelchair singles title at all 4 Grand Slams simultaneously.
"Due to heightened security concerns, the ITF has postponed the ITF World Tennis Tour M15 event due to take place in Ukraine this April and has cancelled all ITF events taking place in Russia indefinitely. 2/3
Van Rijthoven is also the 7th man to reach the round of 16 on his Grand Slam debut since 2000, after...
Lee (2000 US Open)
Goffin (2012 Roland Garros)
Londero (2019 Roland Garros)
Altmaier (2020 Roland Garros)
Karatsev (2021 Australian Open)
Musetti (2021 Roland Garros)
World No. 114 Aslan Karatsev defeats Felix Auger-Aliassime in 5 sets to become the 7th man in the Open Era to reach the quarterfinals on his Grand Slam debut - and the first since Alex Radulescu at 1996 Wimbledon.
At 18 years 26 days,
@alcarazcarlos03
becomes the youngest man to win a match at
#RolandGarros
since
@DjokerNole
(18 years 2 days) in 2005.
He is also the youngest Spanish man to win a match at Roland Garros in the Open Era.
Andy Murray's victory against Kokkinakis at the
#AusOpen
is his 11th successful comeback from 0-2 down - which sees him claim sole ownership of the all-time record for most comebacks from 0-2 down (ahead of Boris Becker, Roger Federer, Aaron Krickstein and Francois Jauffret).
More history made for
@alcarazcarlos03
, who becomes the youngest man to reach the 3rd round at
#RolandGarros
since 17-year-old Andrei Medvedev in 1992
He also becomes the youngest man to reach the 3rd round at a Grand Slam since 17-year-old
@RafaelNadal
at the 2004
#AusOpen
The 36-point tiebreak in the third set of the match between Lorenzo Sonego and Taylor Fritz, won by Sonego, is the longest tiebreak in a men's singles match in
@rolandgarros
history.
Men's and women's singles and doubles 1st round matches will take place on Saturday and Sunday, with mixed doubles 1st round beginning on Monday. The order of play for day one of the
#Paris2024
#tennis
event will be published on Friday.
Zverev becomes the 2nd player to win
#Olympic
gold in
#tennis
for Germany, after 1988 women's singles champion Steffi Graf. It is Germany's 3rd gold medal in tennis overall, alongside Graf at Seoul 1988 and Boris Becker/Michael Stich in men's doubles at Barcelona 1992.
The previous record was 38 points, which happened on two occasions:
2007 Australian Open, 1st set tiebreak, Tsonga d. Roddick 20-18 (Roddick lost the tiebreak but won the match)
2023 Wimbledon, final set tiebreak, Tsurenko d. Bogdan 20-18
Victory for
@DjokerNole
over Jan-Lennard Struff today would see him advance to the last 8 here for the 10th straight year and set the all-time record for most consecutive
#RolandGarros
quarterfinal appearances.
Full day 9 men's match notes:
History will be made on Court 6 today when 40-year-old
@ivokarlovic
faces 37-year-old
@feliciano_lopez
in the oldest men's match-up (in terms of combined age)
@rolandgarros
in the Open Era.
It is the 7th oldest match-up in terms of combined age at a Grand Slam in the Open Era.
#DavisCupFinals
player selections for 🇺🇸 USA v Great Britain 🇬🇧 in Glasgow:
🇺🇸 Tommy Paul v Daniel Evans 🇬🇧
🇺🇸 Taylor Fritz v Cameron Norrie 🇬🇧
🇺🇸 Rajeev Ram/Jack Sock v Andy Murray/Joe Salisbury 🇬🇧
The ITF has announced the 2022 ITF World Champions with
@RafaelNadal
and
@iga_swiatek
named as Men's and Women's World Champions, respectively, today. Both Nadal and Swiatek won 2 Grand Slam singles titles this season.
More information:
In 1983, Yannick Noah won the
@rolandgarros
men's singles title, defeating Mats Wilander in the final to become the first French champion since Marcel Bernard in 1946.
Noah remains the only Frenchman to have won a Grand Slam singles title in the Open Era.
We are deeply saddened to learn that tennis reporter and our esteemed colleague Mike Dickson has died in Melbourne. Mike has been at the heart of the tennis media landscape for decades and will be greatly missed.
Our thoughts are with his family. RIP Mike Dickson.
@DavisCup
Doubles changes for 🇮🇹 Italy v Serbia 🇷🇸
🇮🇹 Jannik Sinner replaces Simone Bolelli and will play alongside Lorenzo Sonego for Italy 🇮🇹
🇷🇸 Miomir Kecmanovic replaces Dusan Lajovic and will play alongside Novak Djokovic for Serbia 🇷🇸
The ITF has approved the revised date of the world rankings used to determine direct entries for the Tokyo Olympic Tennis Event.
The ATP and WTA rankings of Monday 14 June will be used to select players eligible for direct acceptance into men’s and women’s singles and doubles.
With
@cam_norrie
winning today and joining Dan Evans and Andy Murray in the 3rd round, it is the first time that 3 British men have reached the 3rd round at
#Wimbledon
since 1999, when Tim Henman, Greg Rusedski and Danny Sapsford all reached the 3rd round.
#DavisCupFinals
player selections for 🇭🇷 Croatia v Italy 🇮🇹 in Bologna:
🇭🇷 Borna Gojo v Lorenzo Musetti 🇮🇹 (first meeting)
🇭🇷 Borna Coric v Matteo Berrettini 🇮🇹 (first meeting)
🇭🇷 Nikola Mektic/Mate Pavic v Simone Bolelli/Fabio Fognini 🇮🇹
ITF statement regarding the Russian invasion of Ukraine:
“Our first and highest priority is to protect the safety of tennis players and all those travelling to and participating at ITF events. 1/3
Grigor Dimitrov's victory against Shang Juncheng at
#Wimbledon
today is the 9th successful comeback from 0-2 down this week.
After less than 4 days' play, this equals the Open Era record for most comebacks from 0-2 down in a year at Wimbledon - alongside 1974, 1990 and 1997.
Linda Fruhvirtova 🇨🇿 will play against Harriet Dart 🇬🇧 in the 4th match of the
@BJKCup
Qualifier tie in Prague.
Aged 16 years 350 days, Fruhvirtova becomes the youngest Czech player to compete in Billie Jean King Cup since Nicole Vaidisova (16 years 78 days) in 2005.
#Tokyo2020
#Tennis
event withdrawals:
Andy Murray (right quad) - replaced by Max Purcell in singles, still competing in doubles.
Martin Fucsovics (right shoulder) - replaced by Luke Saville.
ITF statement regarding comments made by Simona Halep:
"The ITF has had no involvement in the management of this case, as the Tennis Anti-Doping Programme is managed and enforced by the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) on behalf of the ATP, WTA, ITF and Grand Slams.”
Today at the
#AusOpen
world No. 1
@DjokerNole
bids to record his 300th Grand Slam match-win and become the 2nd player in history to record 300 men's singles wins at the Grand Slams, after Roger Federer.
Full match notes:
17-year-old
@alcarazcarlos03
defeats Botic van de Zandschulp to become the youngest man to win a Grand Slam match since Thanasi Kokkinakis (who was one day younger than Alcaraz is now) defeated Igor Sijsling at the 2014
#AusOpen
Ahead of today's
#DavisCup
final, ITF President
@HaggertyTennis
and Kosmos President
@3gerardpique
presented the Davis Cup media award in recognition of committment to covering the competition.
This year's recipient is Doris Henkel 🇩🇪
@henner37
- congratulations!
Order of play for 🇷🇸 Serbia v Great Britain 🇬🇧
🇷🇸 Miomir Kecmanovic v Jack Draper 🇬🇧 (Draper leads 1-0 in previous Tour-level meetings)
🇷🇸 Novak Djokovic v Cameron Norrie 🇬🇧 (Djokovic leads 3-0 in previous Tour-level meetings)
🇷🇸 Djokovic/Lajovic v Salisbury/Skupski 🇬🇧
The ITF is in the process of finalising a range of additional measures to support stakeholders impacted by COVID-19, including a relief fund to help tour players ranked 501-700 not covered under other relief programmes
📰➡
#DavisCupFinals
player selections for 🇫🇷 France v Germany 🇩🇪 in Hamburg:
🇫🇷 Benjamin Bonzi v Jan-Lennard Struff 🇩🇪 (first meeting)
🇫🇷 Adrian Mannarino v Oscar Otte 🇩🇪 (first meeting)
🇫🇷 Nicolas Mahut/Arthur Rinderknech v Kevin Krawietz/Tim Puetz 🇩🇪
In 2000,
@_MaryPierce
became the first French player to win the women's singles title
@rolandgarros
since Francoise Durr in 1967, defeating Spain's Conchita Martinez in the Final.
She remains the only home women's singles champion at Roland Garros in the Open Era.
A 5-set victory for
@andy_murray
over Matteo Berrettini sees him become the 5th man in the Open Era to record 50 match-wins at the
#AusOpen
:
Federer - 102-15
Djokovic - 82-8 (prior to this evening's match)
Nadal - 77-15
Edberg - 56-10
Murray - 50-14
#DavisCupFinals
player selections for the final between Russian Tennis Federation and Croatia:
Andrey Rublev v Borna Gojo (Rublev leads 1-0 in previous meetings)
Daniil Medvedev v Marin Cilic (Medvedev leads 2-0)
Aslan Karatsev/Andrey Rublev v Nikola Mektic/Mate Pavic
Aged 35 years 49 days,
@DjokerNole
is the 2nd man aged 35 or over to win the
#Wimbledon
title in the Open Era - after Federer won the title in 2017 aged 35 years 342 days.
Djokovic also claims sole ownership of the Open Era record for most Grand Slam men's titles won aged 30+.
The Tennis Anti-Doping Programme can confirm that Robert Farah provided an Out-of-Competition sample on 17 October 2019, which returned a positive finding for Boldenone. This case will follow the procedures set out in Article 8 of the TADP.
Nadal takes the opening set against Shapovalov in the first singles match between two lefthanders in a
#DavisCup
final since 1982, when John McEnroe defeated Henri Leconte.
Players with 300+ Grand Slam singles match-wins, following day four
@rolandgarros
this year:
Roger Federer (369-60)
Serena Williams (365-54)
Novak Djokovic (325-46)
Martina Navratilova (306-49)
Rafael Nadal (300-41)
Three former
@rolandgarros
boys' singles champions made it through qualifying in Paris on Friday - Bjorn Fratangelo (2011), Geoffrey Blancaneaux (2016) and Tseng Chun-Hsin (2018) will all compete in the men's main draw.
Of the 18
#DavisCup
captains in Madrid, 16 played Davis Cup for their nations.
The only two who didn't (Leon Smith 🇬🇧 and Shamil Tarpischev 🇷🇺) are also the only two of the 18 who have captained Davis Cup title-winning teams.
#DavisCupFinals
#StatoftheDay
#DavisCupFinals
player selections for 🇨🇦 Canada v Korea, Republic 🇰🇷 in Valencia:
🇨🇦 Vasek Pospisil v Hong Seong Chan 🇰🇷 (first meeting)
🇨🇦 Felix Auger-Aliassime v Soonwoo Kwon 🇰🇷 (first meeting)
🇨🇦 Felix Auger-Aliassime/Vasek Pospisil v Nam Jisung/Song Min-Kyu 🇰🇷
STATEMENT: ITF suspends Russian Tennis Federation and Belarus Tennis Federation from ITF membership and international team competition
More information:
#DavisCupFinals
player selections for 🇪🇸 Spain v Korea, Republic 🇰🇷 in Valencia:
🇪🇸 Roberto Bautista Agut v Hong Seong Chan 🇰🇷 (first meeting)
🇪🇸 Carlos Alcaraz v Soonwoo Kwon 🇰🇷 (Alcaraz leads head-to-head 1-0)
🇪🇸 Marcel Granollers/Pedro Martinez v Nam Ji Sung/Song Min-kyu 🇰🇷
A decision has been issued under the 2021 Tennis Anti-Doping Programme that Varvara Lepchenko has committed an Anti-Doping Rule Violation under Programme Article 2.1
More information:
Jannik Sinner becomes the 11th Italian player to win his first 3
#DavisCup
singles matches - and the first since Potito Starace won his first 3 Davis Cup singles matches in 2004. He is also just the 3rd Italian player to achieve the feat exclusively in live singles matches.
The
@DavisCup
by Rakuten Qualifier between Japan and Ecuador at the Bourbon Beans Dome in Miki, Japan on 6-7 March will be played without spectators (1/3)
At the age of 17 years 86 days,
@CocoGauff
is the youngest player to reach the quarterfinals of the women's singles at a Grand Slam since Nicole Vaidisova - who reached the quarterfinals at
#RolandGarros
in 2006 aged 17 years 44 days.
Men's doubles medals at the
#Tokyo2020
#Olympic
#Tennis
Event:
Gold: Nikola Mektic/Mate Pavic (Croatia)
Silver: Marin Cilic/Ivan Dodig (Croatia)
Bronze: Marcus Daniell/Michael Venus (New Zeland)
The ITF has published a first set of ‘Return to Tennis’ guidelines to assist national tennis associations in restarting competitive tennis in their country once government restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic have been lifted.
Full story:
With Mackenzie McDonald defeating No. 1 seed Rafael Nadal yesterday and Jenson Brooksby defeating No. 2 seed Casper Ruud today, this year's
#AusOpen
is the first Grand Slam men's singles event where the Top 2 seeds have lost prior to the 3rd round since the 2002 Aus Open.
Linda Noskova's successful passage through qualifying
@rolandgarros
will see her become the youngest Czech player to compete at a Grand Slam since Nicole Vaidisova (17 years 127 days) at the 2006 US Open.
Noskova will be 17 years 186 days on the first day of the tournament.
"We will continue to monitor this situation closely and review on an ongoing basis. Any further course of action will be decided based on a thorough risk assessment and the advice we receive from security experts and the relevant authorities." 3/3
Having served 36 aces in his victory over Andy Murray at
#Wimbledon
today,
@JohnIsner
has now served 13,724 aces in Tour-level matches. He now trails Ivo Karlovic's record for most career aces (since ATP Tour records began in 1991) by just 4.
At No. 114 Karatsev is the lowest-ranked man to reach the quarterfinals at the
#AusOpen
since Patrick McEnroe (also ranked No. 114) in 1991.
(NB world No. 192 Mackenzie McDonald could reach the quarterfinals if he defeats Daniil Medvedev on Monday)
The WTA in consultation with the ITF have agreed to increase the WTA ranking points awarded at ITF World Tennis Tour women’s events for the remainder of the 2021 calendar.
More details ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Today at the
#Tokyo2020
#Tennis
event:
@Liambroady
records his first victory against a Top 20 player, defeating world No. 12 Hubert Hurkacz to reach the 3rd round at the
#Olympics
- his previous career-best win was defeating No. 31 Adrian Mannarino at 2017 St Petersburg.
The Tennis Anti-Doping Programme (TADP) has provisionally suspended Beatriz Haddad Maia under Article 8.3.1(c) of the 2019 TADP.
Further information here:
@Riske4rewards
@D_Yastremska
@BJKCup
The longest tiebreak in the competition's history is the 40-point tiebreak between Manisha Malhotra/Sania Mirza 🇮🇳 and Vlada Ekshibarova/Ivanna Israilova 🇺🇿 (won 21-19 by the Indian team) in the 2004 Asia/Oceania Group I event.
#DavisCupFinals
stat of the day:
Soonwoo Kwon 🇰🇷 recorded his first victory against a Top 20 player on his 18th attempt, defeating world No. 13 Felix Auger Aliassime 🇨🇦
Kwon's previous career-best wins came against No. 24 Lucas Pouille in 2019 and No. 24 Dusan Lajovic in 2020.
🗳️
@ITF_Tennis
Presidential Election 2019 results:
David Haggerty: 259 votes (60.5%)
Anil Khanna: 93 (21.7%)
David Miley: 46 (10.8%)
Ivo Kaderka: 30 (7%)
David Haggerty re-elected ITF President for 2019-2023
Story ➡
#ITFAGM
#DavisCupFinals
player selections for 🇪🇸 Spain v Serbia 🇷🇸 in Valencia:
🇪🇸 Albert Ramos-Vinolas v Laslo Djere 🇷🇸
🇪🇸 Roberto Bautista Agut v Miomir Kecmanovic 🇷🇸
🇪🇸 Marcel Granollers/Pedro Martinez v Nikola Cacic/Miomir Kecmanovic 🇷🇸
#DavisCupFinals
player selections for the quarterfinal between Russian Tennis Federation and Sweden in Madrid:
Andrey Rublev v Elias Ymer (first meeting)
Daniil Medvedev v Mikael Ymer (first meeting)
Aslan Karatsev/Andrey Rublev v Andre Goransson/Robert Lindstedt
The International Tennis Federation has today announced plans for the resumption of play on the ITF World Tennis Tour Juniors, the ITF Seniors Tour, the UNIQLO Wheelchair Tennis Tour and the ITF Beach Tennis World Tour.
Full story:
#BJKCupFinals
doubles nomination changes for 🇺🇸 USA v Poland 🇵🇱
🇺🇸 Coco Gauff and Caty McNally will play for USA 🇺🇸
🇵🇱 Magda Linette and Alicja Rosolska will play for Poland 🇵🇱
Karatsev becomes the 3rd qualifier to reach the men's quarterfinals at the
#AusOpen
in the Open Era - after Bob Giltinan (December 1977) and Goran Ivanisevic (1989).
He is the first qualifier to reach the men's quarterfinals at a Grand Slam since Bernard Tomic at 2011 Wimbledon.