Every tennis match is a story. Lately, the bouncing ball is a controversial character in the ongoing plot. MORE: PTPA Files Lawsuit Against ATP, WTA, ITF What's the most effective ...
Fans on social media said the Polish tennis player should have shown "more grace" Clive Brunskill/Getty Polish tennis star Iga ÅšwiÄ…tek was booed during her semifinal match against 17-year-old ...
Other tennis fans were even more scathing of Swiatek’s behaviour. One author posted: “Swiatek literally hitting a ball back at a ball kid. Poor sportsmanship and dangerous play. I’ve never ...
This is the Atherstone Ball Game, an 826-year-old tradition in this Warwickshire town, and one of a dwindling number of ancient football games played across Britain on Shrove Tuesday, known as Fat ...
They have fewer rules and the technique for hitting the ball does not need to be as ... not be easy for a sport so strongly linked to traditions. Tennis will survive, but it will have to learn ...
But ahead of this year’s Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships, the world No 11 took his appreciation for Arab tradition a step further by getting fitted for a custom-made kandura, the ...
The umpire was forced to step in after Zheng broke the tradition just moments before the match was due to get underway. Tennis players ... to persuade Zheng to play ball. Kostyuk’s reaction ...
Twenty-two women and 15 men were presented at the 68th annual Gastonia Debutante Ball by Hoyle Timothy Efird II, the master of ceremonies. The 2024 Debutante Presentation and Ball were held on Dec ...
Felix Auger-Aliassime and Alexander Bublik were involved in a bizarre VAR review incident at the Dubai Championships just weeks after tennis' new ... been hindered by a ball kid.
The polarising former world No. 1 was on Saturday booed by spectators before she was eliminated by rising star Mirra Andreeva in a blockbuster semi-final at Indian Wells. The clay court queen had ...
Opponents hit a tennis ball with a racket back and forth over a .914 metre (3ft) net in the middle of the court. The goal is to hit the ball into the opponent’s half of the court without them being ...