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Novak Djokovic was making all the right noises ahead of his opening match at the Indian Wells ATP Masters tournament, but he didn’t have any of the answers he needed on court as he slumped to a shock defeat against Botic van de Zandschulp. The Dutchman who stunned Carlos Alcaraz with a straight sets win…

Carlos Alcaraz got his Indian Wells title defence off to a flying start with a 6-4, 6-2 win against France’s Quentin Halys. Alcaraz has won the last two editions of the Indian Wells tournament, but he expressed his surprise that a new surface had been laid for this year’s event. Despite those doubts, Alcaraz showed…

As the 1980s dawned, the notoriously intrusive British media were getting very excited about a bright young star who captured plenty of headlines. Teenager Annabel Croft was the darling of the tabloid press as she emerged through the junior ranks impressively and started a rapid rise up the WTA Rankings. The hype machine started to…

Patrick McEnroe has hailed Carlos Alcaraz as the shining star of men’s tennis, but he believes he has a wild side to his game that may need to be tamed. McEnroe, who reached a career high ranking of No 28 and is the younger brother of Grand Slam legend John McEnroe, believes four-time Grand Slam…

Former world No 12 and Madrid Open tournament director Feliciano Lopez has questioned why “innocent” Jannik Sinner is serving a three-month doping ban. World No 1 Sinner is currently serving a three-month suspension after twice testing positive for banned steroid clostebol in March 2024. The three-time Grand Slam champion settled with the World Anti-Doping Agency…

Novak Djokovic has been warned that he cannot “cheat time” and avoid his “tennis death” by former ATP Tour star Dmitry Tursunov. Djokovic has so far faced a mixed 2025 season, beating Carlos Alcaraz in a memorable Australian Open quarter-final victory before retiring injured against Alexander Zverev in the last four. That was the fifth…

Before August 2021, the name Emma Raducanu was only known by those in tennis circles. The Canadian-born Briton turned professional in 2018, winning her first tournament in May, but a surprise call-up to Britain’s Fed Cup team saw her dubbed as “the British player with the most potential of her generation” by British newspaper the…

Novak Djokovic might only be the best tennis player of all-time, but he could be edging himself towards the title of the greatest athlete of the modern era, according to Patrick McEnroe. Speaking exclusively to Tennis365 at Indian Wells in his capacity as International Tennis Hall of Fame (ITHF) President, McEnroe suggested the time has…

Emma Raducanu’s latest defeat has sent her to the bottom of an alarming statistic concerning Grand Slam winners at WTA-1000 events. Raducanu, whose only title to date came at the 2021 US Open, now has a win percentage of just 42.3% in the WTA Tour events, making her the worst-performing Grand Slam winner since the…