Let’s be real for a second: exhibition matches are usually just fluff. They’re fun, they’re lighthearted, and usually, nobody actually cares who wins. But when you slap the label “Battle of the Sexes” on a tennis match in the 2020s, things get a little spicy.
With the 2026 season officially kicking off in a couple of days, it is still not too late (or early) to have a feel for what might go down in the nine ATP Tour Masters 1000 events next year.
Day 2 at the United Cup marks the start of the group stage play in Sydney. The fans will be in for a treat as Team Australia will be in action against Casper Ruud’s Team Norway in the evening session.
Venus Williams, 45, is set to play at the Australian Open for the first time in five years after receiving the final women's wildcard for the tournament.
Seven-time Grand Slam champion Venus Williams received a wild-card entry into the main draw of this month's Australian Open, event organizers announced Friday in Australia (Thursday night U.S.).
Being an individual sport, one of the truly remarkable aspects of tennis is the extreme highs and lows players experience over the course of a career, shaped by weekly results that can shift momentum in an instant.
The United Cup group stage matches continue at the RAC Arena in Perth as the defending champion, Team USA, takes on Team Argentina in the night session.
The back issues Stefanos Tsitsipas fought in the second half of the 2025 season were so serious that the Greek tennis star wondered about the future of his playing career.
11-time Grand Slam champion Bjorn Borg has provided additional details about his drug issues after retiring from tennis. The Swedish ATP legend stunned fans and fellow players when he announced his retirement at 26 in 1983.
Munar – Baez: 02.01.2026 03:00 CEST H2H: 1-1 Jaume Munar has lost four of his last five matches. The last match he played was in last season’s Davis Cup, where he lost to Cobolli in three sets.
Emma Raducanu’s arrival in Australia ahead of the United Cup and the Australian Open was always going to draw attention, but the early conversation around her return has centered more on speculation than on her tennis.
Let’s be honest for a second: the tennis world loves a good hype train. We build players up to god-tier status before they can even legally rent a car, and then act surprised when they stumble.
The tennis off-season is one of the shortest in professional sports. Tennis players and fans can start counting days as the new season begins this week.
Coco Gauff and Aryna Sabalenka enjoyed strong seasons in 2025, adding to their Grand Slam tallies… The American number one picked up her second Grand Slam title at the French Open, defeating Sabalenka in the final.
The 2026 ATP and WTA seasons begin with the opening day of the United Cup. Naomi Osaka’s Team Japan will face Stefanos Tsitsipas’s Team Greece in Perth, after Team Spain’s tie with Team Argentina.
Victoria Mboko and Felix Auger-Aliassime have both committed to the 2026 United Cup, where they will represent Canada. Both Mboko and Auger-Aliassime enjoyed fantastic 2025 seasons, with the former having risen to 18th in the WTA Tour rankings.
In tennis, being the world’s best player doesn’t automatically guarantee a clean sweep at the title in every tournament. Aryna Sabalenka epitomized this point in 2025.
Let’s be real for a second: we all want the Nick Kyrgios comeback story to be good. The tennis world is just infinitely more entertaining when he’s on the court, smashing rackets, arguing with umpires, and occasionally pulling off the most insane shots you’ve ever seen.
The 2026 season will start next week, and predictions for the same have already started. This year, only two players dominated on the men’s tour- Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner.
Danielle Collins ended Iga Swiatek‘s title defense at the Italian Open. And this was a wake-up call for the Pole, as the disappointing straight-set defeat motivated her to work harder.
The start of the new tennis season is less than two weeks away, and the first Grand Slam begins shortly after. One of the easiest ways to tell it is almost time for the Australian Open is players' on-court kits appeaing online.
Holger Rune will be missing the Australian Open as he is rehabilitating following his Achilles tendon injury. Rune had torn his Achilles tendon during the semifinal match against Ugo Humbert in the Stockholm Open, and he left the court in tears.