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Sinner and Alcaraz tie for world number one
“Well, to be to be honest, I'm gonna lose the number one of the world. I don't know if he's gonna be in this, in this tournament or in the next one. So I just I defend, you know, a bunch of points that, that is gonna be really difficult to to defend all.”
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Teenage stars debut at Billie Jean King Cup
“Starting with team USA heading to Belgium captained by Lindsay Davenport, the Americans are sending 18 year old Eva Jovic to make her BJK cup debut. She reached a career high of world number 16 last month and is currently the youngest player in the WTA top 20.”
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NCAA faces crisis as tennis programs are dropped
“The challenge is actually that programs have been dropped. So no one's getting the opportunity because the money is going towards NIL. So I actually think it's a bit of a crisis. I think that we gotta, like, lean in big time and, and find a way to stop those programs from being dropped because those are the opportunities.”
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Holger Rune targets clay return after Achilles injury
“I've just really been maximizing every single day, putting all my effort on recovery, on doing the right things. And, obviously, we have a very, very strict guideline that we follow. It's not it's not just by, oh, I think it's fun to be on the tennis court. I I'm gonna go on the tennis court. It's because I'm allowed to.”
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Gael Monfils sets French record for Masters wins
“On Sunday, ranked 200 in the world and playing with a wild card, the 39 year old came back from a set down to beat world number 32 Tallon Griesbauer. That made him the oldest match winner in Monte Carlo since 1973 and gave him a 145 masters one thousand match wins, the most by any French player in history.”