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: Jessica Pegula charges into Washington quarterfinals
Top-seeded Jessica Pegula overcame a slow start and produced a 3-6, 6-3, 6-0 win over Poland's Magdalena Frech on Thursday in the second round of the Mubadala DC Open in Washington.,Pegula came through in the match's key moments, converting five break opportunities and saving 5 of 7 break points on ...
WTA roundup: Alexandra Eala ousts defending champ Leylah Fernandez in DC
Alexandra Eala ousted the defending Mubadala DC Open champion, No. 7 seed Leylah Fernandez, with a 6-2, 7-6 (1) victory to advance to the quarterfinals in Washington.,The Filipina competitor dropped five straight games to fall into a 5-1 second-set hole before responding with five straight game wins...
WTA roundup: Venus Williams makes first-round exit in DC
Venus Williams was ousted in the first round of the Mubadala DC Open on Tuesday, taking a 6-3, 6-3 loss against Austria's Anastasia Potapova in Washington.,Williams, the 46-year-old star whose last singles win came at this event last year, won 78.4% of her first-serve points but just 24.1% of her se...
WTA roundup: Former DC champ Liudmila Samsonova wins opener
Liudmila Samsonova, the 2022 Mubadala DC Open champion, enjoyed her return to Washington on Monday, beating sixth-seeded Madison Keys 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 in the first round.,The Russian withstood 10 aces from Keys by winning 80% of her first-serve points (35 of 44).,It was a less stressful day for other s...
WTA roundup: Tamara Korpatsch wins Hamburg, first German champ in 34 years
Tamara Korpatsch broke the German curse at the MSC Hamburg Ladies Open by claiming the title in a 6-3, 6-3 win over Hungary's Anna Bondar on Sunday in Germany.,Korpatsch, born in Hamburg, is the first German since Steffi Graf in 1992 to win the Hamburg Open. Since Graf's last title, Germans were 0-4...
WTA roundup: Anna Bondar goes overtime, reaches Hamburg final
No. 4 seed Anna Bondar of Hungary outlasted Elina Avanesyan of Armenia 7-6 (3), 4-6, 7-6 (2) in a three-hour, 29-minute match on Saturday to advance to the final of the MSC Hamburg Ladies Open in Germany.,Bondar will face fifth-seeded Tamara Korpatsch of Germany, who advanced in her semifinal match ...
WTA roundup: Mayar Sherif beats Paula Badosa in Hamburg
Mayar Sherif continued her recent strong play by saving 11 of 18 break points (61.1%) and posting a 7-6 (4), 6-7 (2), 6-4 victory over Spain's Paula Badosa on Friday to reach the semifinals of the MSC Hamburg Ladies Open in Germany.,Sherif defeated Badosa on Monday in the title match of the Iasi Ope...
WTA roundup: Barbora Krejcikova cruises to quarterfinals in Prague
Second-seeded Barbora Krejcikova scored an easy straight set victory over Lucie Havlickova 6-4, 6-2 to cruise to the quarterfinals at the Prague Open in the Czech Republic on Thursday.,Krejcikova won the tournament in 2021 but has yet to return to the semifinals. On Thursday, she was able to put the...