Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships
First, Madison Keys, and now Stefanos Tsitsipas makes a bold racquet and string change that pays off with a big win. Tsitsipas defeated Felix Auger Aliassime 6-3, 6-3 to win the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships title. With the win, Tsitsipas returns to the Top Ten. Armed with a new racquet and strings, Tsitsipas’s game […]
In the era of “Watch More Doubles” as French tennis player Alexandre Muller wrote on the camera in Rio after defeating Joao Fonseca, the Tennis Channel made an interesting programming decision. Alexandre Muller did this after his R16 singles win in Rio…#WatchMoreDOUBLES h/t @84chaki pic.twitter.com/EsxyBBB08G — Will Boucek (@WillBoucek) February 21, 2025 It chose to […]
Did anyone have the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships finalists picked at the beginning of the tournament? Mirra Andreeva and Clara Tauson are playing great tennis this year so it is only somewhat surprising that both plowed through difficult draws to reach the final. Mirra Andreeva is the higher-ranked player at World No. 14. At […]
Tennis fans need to get their coffee ready and wake up early for a 7:30 AM EST thrilling Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships women’s doubles final with Taylor Townsend and Katerina Siniakova taking on Jelena Ostapenko and Su-Wei Hsieh on Saturday, February 22, 2025. Their second Grand Slam title together, the no.1 seeds proved to […]
Upsets have been the theme at this year’s WTA 1000 Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships, and Mirra Andreeva is the latest to be the spoiler. Andreeva defeated World No. 2 Iga Swiatek in straight sets (6-3, 6-3) to reach her first career WTA 1000 semifinal. MESMERIZING MIRRA! ✨ The 17-year-old Mirra Andreeva upsets World No. […]
World No. 2 Iga Swiatek is the only Top 5 player let in the Dubai Duty Free Championships draw after a wild day of upsets ensued, and the day is not even over yet. Sabalenka, Paolini, Pegula, Zheng, And Badosa Are Out Aryna Sabalenka, the world no. 1, was ousted by World No. 38 Clara […]
Emma Raducanu exhibited odd behavior during her WTA Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships match against Karolina Muchova. She was visibly upset and sought refuge behind the umpire’s chair. Muchova walked behind the chair to comfort her, and the umpire also got down and spoke with her. Raducanu eventually went to her chair and used the […]
The Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships are underway. Proof that the WTA season is grueling is that last week’s Doha stars, Amanda Anisimova, Jelena Ostapenko, and Ekaterina Alexandrova lost in their early-round matches. It is nearly impossible to sustain high levels of tennis week after week with minimal recovery and downtime between WTA tournaments. However, […]
