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31st January 2024, 11:49 PM
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Jodie Burrage made it through to the quarter-finals of the Linz Open but fellow Briton Katie Boulter was knocked out in Austria.
British number two Burrage beat Romania's Jaqueline Cristian 6-3 7-6 (7-5) to reach the last eight of a WTA 500 event for the first time. She will play Jelena Ostapenko or Clara Tauson in the next round. British number one Boulter, 27, suffered a 7-6 (7-2) 6-4 defeat by Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. |
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3rd February 2024, 01:32 AM
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British number two Jodie Burrage has been knocked out of the Linz Open after losing to Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia in the quarter-finals.
Top seed Ostapenko won 6-1 6-2 to progress to the last four in Austria. |
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18th February 2024, 06:47 PM
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Jannik Sinner will climb to a career-high third in the world ranking after beating Alex de Minaur in straight sets to win the Rotterdam Open.
The Australian Open champion will become Italy's highest-ranked male player in history after beating world number 11 De Minaur 7-5 6-4. It is a 12th career title for Sinner, who has now won 15 consecutive matches. "I'm really proud of the level I played at throughout this whole week," said the 22-year-old. "We have done a really good job some weeks ago [at the Australian Open] and now we did a very, very good job here." The Italian has not lost since a straight-set defeat to Novak Djokovic at the ATP Tour finals in November. |
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18th February 2024, 06:53 PM
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World number one Iga Swiatek claimed the Qatar Open title for the third year in a row with a straight-set victory over Elena Rybakina.
Poland's Swiatek trailed by a double break in the first set but regrouped to beat Kazakhstan's Rybakina 7-6 (10-8) 6-2 in Doha. Swiatek lost her three matches against Rybakina in 2023. It is four-time Grand Slam champion Swiatek's first WTA title of the year and her 18th overall. She is the first player to win a WTA singles title three times in a row since American Serena Williams claimed the Miami Open from 2013 to 2015 |
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19th February 2024, 08:09 PM
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Well done to her! Hopefully that will translate into a good performance in the remaining Grand Slams.
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20th February 2024, 09:10 AM
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She'll only win the French at best.
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20th February 2024, 01:32 PM
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British number one Cameron Norrie started the defence of his ATP Rio Open title with a routine 6-3 6-2 win over over Bolivian Hugo Dellien in Brazil.
Norrie, 28, made light work of an opponent who gave him a tough time at the quarter-final stage in 2023. It took Norrie, who offered up just one break point in the match, one hour and 21 minutes to seal victory. He will meet Chile's Tomas Barrios Vera for the first time in his career in the next round. |
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21st February 2024, 05:43 PM
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too bad about Alcaraz's injury :/ hope it's nto serious
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21st February 2024, 09:51 PM
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Aye, unfortunate for him as the top seed hope he's able to recover quickly.
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23rd February 2024, 08:19 PM
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Norrie is into the Quarter Finals now - the only seeded player left in his half of the draw!
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26th February 2024, 08:24 PM
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Sebastián Báez won the Rio Open in the end! Norrie lost to Mariano Navone in the semis, giving an all-Argentinial final.
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28th February 2024, 08:25 PM
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Just seen the article on Andy Murray potentially retiring after the summer but still hoping to take part in the Olympics. Good on him if he's able to make it in, even if he doesn't do as well as he's done in the past!
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29th February 2024, 10:25 AM
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I would like Andy's swan song to be either at Wimbledon or the US Open really, so I hope he would keep going until the latter if he does the Olympics this year. I know he's won gold a couple of times, but it's not exactly the pinnacle of tennis.
Katie Boulter and Jack Draper are both through to quarter-finals, of San Diego and Acapulco respectively. Hopefully at least one can make it further. |
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2nd March 2024, 10:42 AM
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They both made it to the semi-finals Draper went out to defending champion De Minaur, with Katie Boulter to play today, and she's already secured a new career high inside the top 40.
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2nd March 2024, 08:41 PM
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Congrats to both of them! All the best for Boulter against Navarro tonight.
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3rd March 2024, 03:30 PM
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Katie Boulter is into the final now. I watched her semi-final until the rain came at 6-3 1-0. I was glad to wake up this morning to see that the interruption didn't halt her momentum. I think she'll have a better chance of a title win against Kostyuk than she would have had if Pegula had made the final.
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4th March 2024, 10:47 AM
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And Katie wins her first WTA 500 title
Her and Jack Draper also get their highest rankings (27 & 37 respectively) |
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4th March 2024, 11:19 AM
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Fantastic for Katie, now the #1 in British tennis, ahead of Norrie.
How cute for her and Alex De Minaur to both win titles the same weekend. |
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4th March 2024, 05:55 PM
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That's a great win for her. I hope she can build on that for the rest of the year.
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5th March 2024, 09:27 PM
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Well done to Katie! Hopefully more will come her way as the year goes on.
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