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Madison Keys is the 2025 Australian Open Women’s Singles champion
Keys open doors, as my old head of year used to say.
For Black History Month, the LTA did a spotlight on the Black Tennis Collective, formed from five pioneering organisations from the Black tennis community
Jessica Bouzas Maneiro knocks out reigning Wimbledon champion Marketa Vondrousova in straight sets
Spaniard wins as champion Czechs out.
Coco Gauff is the 2023 US Open Women’s Singles champion
And she hasn’t even reached her final form yet!
Cool Wimbledon data viz from Reuters looking at how it “retains a glamor born from white clothes and impeccable green courts.”
Steve Tignor on the greatest one-handed backhand of the Open Era: ‘This beautiful and bold stroke helped the Belgian win seven Grand Slam singles titles. His forehand was more effective, and his serve more clutch. But this was perhaps the classicist’s most identifiable stroke.’ Is it Roger Federer or Justine Henin? Tough call.
Tumaini Carayol on a tennis surviving its post-GOAT era
How do you solve a problem like the GOAT era?
'If you can make it in Paris, you can make it anywhere.'
Red or blue, clay is still a tough surface to excel in. But if you can, your doors open to success on the others.