Radu tennis

A Tennis Integrity Unit (why does that make me laugh every time?) banned Alexandru-Daniel Carpen for life. Good ole Romania! I guess there’s bad apples even in the best of the apple trees. One should not be surprised, however. Says the TSU (had to abbreviate and am still laughing)

Whaaa? Tommy Haas got a wildcard at the 2017 Australian open. I do like Haas and remember seeing and meeting him at the Memphis open a LONG time ago. But, really? He is 38 years old and didn’t play a single pro match in 2016. But it doesn’t

Petrova decided to retire after almost 20 years of playing on the tour. The 34-year-old Russian had not played on the WTA Tour since 2014 after failing to shake off a torn muscle in her shoulder and a number of other injuries. “Every time I tried to step it up

This kid, Oliver Anderson, who obviously has potential, was charged with match-fixing. I read the BBC article and it seems this should have been called “set-fixing.” He threw the first set by getting broken at 4-4 in the first set and losing that set. There is video showing Anderson missing

Ana Ivanovic won Roland Garros in 2008 plus 14 other WTA titles. She blames repeated injuries for her play level declining. Last year she married German football stud World Cup winner Bastian Schweinsteiger. She says she’s done with playing tennis and doesn’t plan to even come back as

Andrew Murray Barron has been knighted “for services to Tennis and charity” in the New Year Honours list. Really! You can see the entire list here. The tennis star rounds off a landmark year in which he won a second Wimbledon title, retained Olympic gold and finished the year as

Whether or not you think hacking a server and then making information public is cool or not: The leaked documents indicated tennis legends Williams sisters, Rio 2016 gymnastics superstar Biles and US basketball player Elena Delle Donne were granted medical exemptions – known as Therapeutic Use Exemptions – over several years to

Who knows how long the video below will be up, so watch it while you still can. In this world of copyright infringment, it may be gone any day now. It shows hard-to-believe behavior from a “professional,” Nick Kyrgios. The “tanking” vs Zverev is in the first minute of the