Tuesday May 28 Best Sports Betting Picks & Predictions For NBA Playoffs, French Open, & More
Here's our top betting picks and predictions for May 28, 2024 including picks for the NBA Playoffs and French Open....
The ATP tour and Saudi Arabia agree to another round of woke pandering
We need a more menacing term than sports washing because it’s not working. Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and the ATP tour agreed to a five-year sponsorship Wednesday, with courtside ads slated for the season-ending ATP Finals, Indian Wells (of course), Miami, Madrid, and Beijing....
Saudi Arabia doesn't grant women equal rights, but plans to host WTA Finals
Saudi Arabia has already invested heavily in several sports. Now, the nation plans to make headway into women’s tennis and host the 2024 WTA Finals — if a deal can be reached....
Novak Djokovic had a bad day at the office, for once
If beating Rafael Nadal at Roland Garros is sport’s toughest assignment, beating Novak Djokovic in Melbourne can’t be too far behind it. He hadn’t lost there in some 3,000 days (a COVID deportation playing some role in that), he’s won the tournament 10 times and he was still coming off a previous se...
Coco Gauff-Aryna Sabalenka is tennis' best rivalry
Women’s tennis hasn’t had a great rivalry in some time. The tour was dominated by Serena Williams for so long and no one could have managed to look her in the eye for very long. The closest was her sister Venus, yet matches between the two regularly and mostly were hard on the eyes, because both see...
Taking the Daniil Medvedev ride at the Australian Open
Most of my life, I have found tennis very easy and yet very hard to watch. It’s easy in that it’s a beautiful sport to gaze upon, the players’ ballet-like movements and the steady rhythm of the sound of the ball hitting the racket and then the court over and over can lull one into a lovely state of ...
Novak Djokovic was the boulder, Taylor Fritz was Sisyphus
It has to be hard enough to work through the mental gymnastics it takes to take the court against Novak Djokovic, convinced you can win. That’s what professional athletes do, of course, it’s part of the job. But they’re also still human, and it gets hard to shut out the list that makes Djokovic the ...
The Coco Gauff era is fully underway
Coco Gauff was brought to tears at the 2023 Australian Open following a fourth-round loss to Jeļena Ostapenko. A year later she was in danger of another early exit in the first Grand Slam tournament of the year. Unforced errors were piling up and Gauff was forced to rally to pull out a win by tiebre...
WTA roundup: Venus Williams falls in Hong Kong opener
Venus Williams lost her 17th consecutive singles match Monday at the Hong Kong Tennis Open, falling 6-2, 6-3 in the first round to fellow American Mary Stoiana in 77 minutes.,The winless run dates back to July 2025 for Williams, 46, a seven-time Grand Slam singles champion who said after the match t...
WTA roundup: Diana Shnaider wins first '26 event; Harriet Dart gains career first
No. 3 seed Diana Shnaider held off a challenge from Canada's Leylah Fernandez en route to a 6-4, 5-7, 6-2 victory and the title at the Toray Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo on Sunday.,Shnaider, of Russia, had a 4-0 lead in the second set before Fernandez won seven of the final eight games to send the matc...
WTA roundup: Finals set in Tokyo, Guangzhou
No. 3 seed Diana Shnaider of Russia and Canada's Leylah Fernandez will meet Sunday in the final at the Toray Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo.,Both players won big points down the stretch in Saturday's semifinals, with Shnaider beating Slovakian teenager Mia Pohankova 6-4, 7-6 (7) and Fernandez taking down...
WTA roundup: Diana Shnaider stages Tokyo comeback
No. 3 seed Diana Shnaider of Russia rallied to reach the semifinals in Tokyo with a 2-6, 7-6 (5), 6-4 comeback win Friday against No. 8 Alexandra Eala of the Philippines at the Toray Pan Pacific Open.,The pair combined for 88 winners and saved a combined 16 of 19 break points in a thrilling quarterf...
World No. 1 Elena Rybakina (neck) withdraws in Tokyo
World No. 1 Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan withdrew from the quarterfinals of the Toray Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo on Friday due to a neck injury.,The No. 1 seed's departure gave Canada's Leylah Fernandez a walkover into the semifinals of the WTA 500 tournament.,"Dear fans, I'm very sorry to announce t...
WTA roundup: Teen topples Naomi Osaka in Tokyo
Slovakian teenager Mia Pohankova knocked out former champion Naomi Osaka in straight sets Thursday to advance to the quarterfinals of the Toray Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo.,The 18-year-old upstart defeated the seventh-seeded Japanese star 6-3, 7-5 in 95 minutes for the biggest win of her career. Ranke...
WTA roundup: Harriet Dart pulls upset in Guangzhou
Britain's Harriet Dart outlasted No. 2 seed Janice Tjen 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 Wednesday to advance to the quarterfinals of the Guangzhou Open in China.,Dart raced to a 3-0 lead in the deciding set and held on to win in 2 hours and 28 minutes. She served seven aces and saved six of nine break points to set u...
WTA roundup: Naomi Osaka survives opener in Tokyo
Home favorite Naomi Osaka held off Italy's Jasmine Paolini for a 6-3, 7-6 (4) first-round win on Tuesday at the Toray Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo.,The seventh-seeded Osaka, who won the WTA 500 tournament in 2019 and was runner-up in 2016 and 2018, saved seven of nine break points and struck 30 winners...