Tennis Related - Off Court Serious Issues

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Interesting choice. I didn't realize he spent a lot of his earlier years in the US.

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I guess everyone has forgotten his shenanigans around Djokovic and the Aus Open.

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The Tennis Letter‬
‪@thetennisletter.bsky.social‬
· 11h
Players who withdrew or retired in Dubai.

24 players in total… WOW.

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Reem Abulleil‬
‪@reemabulleil.bsky.social‬
· 1d
Just in from the WTA:

Jessica Pegula is set to chair a newly-established Tour Architecture Council aimed at "developing meaningful improvements to the calendar, commitments, and other core elements of the Tour framework"

More here
www.thenationalnews.com/sport/tennis...

https://www.thenationalnews.com/sport/t ... thdrawals/

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Monte Carlo organizers 'open' to returning WTA event after more than four decades
February 21, 2026 04:15 AM
by Dzevad Mesic

Monte Carlo Masters boss David Massey says the tournament organizers are open to bringing a women's event to the Principality again, possibly staging an ATP and WTA tournament simultaneously as some other 1000-category events do.

A long ago, Monte Carlo regularly hosted a WTA tournament. Also, the Principality simultaneously hosted men's and women's events during one period. In 1982, Monte Carlo hosted a 32-player draw women's tournament and former Romanian tennis star Virginia Ruzici triumphed. There hasn't been an official women's tennis tournament in Monaco ever since.

The Principaplity may not have had a WTA event for 44 years, but that could soon change. However, for that to happen, Massey underlined that certain things would first need to fall into the puzzle.

“A women’s draw? We are open to it. It’s still a project, perhaps in the future. We have not advanced anything," Massey told L'Equipe.

“It has been discussed, perhaps holding a WTA and ATP tournament simultaneously. For that, we need more days. We remain open to it, but it is not the plan for now. It depends on the calendar. We need more weeks between Miami (March 17–28) and our tournament, and adding more days. It will be a long-term project.”

Because of the Monacan Masters, ATP players have three Masters tournaments during the clay season. On the other side, the lone WTA 1000 clay events are Madrid and Rome.

Meanwhile, Massey also addressed Monte Carlo being one of the two remaining one-week Masters tournaments that have a 56-player draw.

“We are happy with the current format, with a 56-player draw. Paris and we are the only two Masters 1000 tournaments organized this way. It gives an extremely competitive first round, more than a Grand Slam or other tournaments where you can progress slowly," Massey said.

This year's clay Masters tournament in the Principality is scheduled to take place between April 5-12.


https://www.tennisworldusa.org/tennis/n ... r-decades/

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Wow. In the end, a married young woman and a single young man behaved like adults over... pretty much nothing.
I remember the comments when this came out. Basically, Holger was a stalker. And it turned out he did not much.

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Wow. In the end, a married young woman and a single young man behaved like adults over... pretty much nothing.
I remember the comments when this came out. Basically, Holger was a stalker. And it turned out he did not much.

It was Kalinskaya that he was pestering. The Kudermetova one was just funny because she has been married for a long time and it confirms Kalinskaya's suggesting he's "messaging everybody"

https://www.tennisworldusa.org/tennis/n ... te-to-her/