Maria took two maternity breaks from the WTA Tour and reached the Wimbledon semi-finals in 2022, just one year after the birth of her youngest daughter. Her message after shocking former Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina in the quarter-finals was to “never give up”. She delivered that same motto again on Saturday after making relatively light...
The Englishman, born to a Albanian father and a British-Yemeni mother, became hooked on the sport when his mum brought him to a boxing gym aged five. “I was doing loads of sports at the time. But when I started sparring at about nine I just fell in love with it,” he says. “The first...
Gauff has fared well on clay so far this year, reaching back-to-back finals in Madrid and Rome where she missed out on the titles to Aryna Sabalenka and Jasmine Paolini respectively. A nervy start saw Gauff and Keys trade early breaks but Keys settled quickly as her rival continued to flounder, opening up a 4-1...