Top male tennis star Novak Djokovic has been sent away from Australia before the Australian Open tournament.
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Teen Titans of Tennis
It was a battle between two extremely talented tennis teenagers: Canada’s Leylah Fernandez, who had just turned 19 and Britain’s Emma Raducanu, 18. The last time two teens faced off at the US Open tournament, one of the biggest tennis […]
US Women’s Open Memorable For Two Very Different Reasons
Twenty-year-old Naomi Osaka won the US Open tennis tournament (Women’s Singles) on Saturday.
Osaka, who is Japanese-American, is the first Japanese person to win a major tennis tournament.
However, her win isn’t the only thing that made the tournament memorable. Something happened to her opponent, 36-year-old tennis star Serena Williams.
She was accused of being “coached,” which is not allowed during a match. Williams’s coach, who was sitting in the crowd, had made a motion with his hands to tell Williams how to hit a shot. However, Williams said she was not looking at the coach at the time and so did not cheat.
Genie (And Her “Army”) Marching Towards Tennis Stardom
Eugenie “Genie” Bouchard from Montreal, Quebec, recently made tennis history for her country.
She made it to the semi-final round of a tournament called the Australian Open.
Bouchard is the 30th ranked female tennis player in the world.
On Monday she played against Ana Ivanovic, the 14th ranked female tennis player in the world.
Ivanovic had just recently beaten the world-number-one ranked female tennis player, Serena Williams. With that huge win, Ivanovic seemed poised to beat Bouchard.
However, Bouchard had other plans.
Heatwave In Australia Affects Major Tennis Tournament
How hot was it?
It was so hot, you could fry an egg on the tennis court at the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne.
And in fact, someone did.
Tennis player Novak Djokovic sent around a picture of an actual egg on a tennis court, frying in the heat. The picture quickly went viral, meaning that many people saw it.
If it was that hot for an egg, imagine people playing top-level tennis in that heat.
Some of the players took baths in ice water to offset the effects of the heat, as the temperature climbed to 43-degrees Celsius.
Canadian tennis player Eugenie Bouchard is emerging as a rising star, advancing to the fourth round of the tournament.
She is the first Canadian in 22 years to reach the quarter-finals in a major tennis tournament.
Andy Murray’s Golden Year
Andy Murray is having a good year—a very good year.
All of his career, the 25-year-old tennis player has been plagued by the fact that he has never won a major tennis tournament.
On the weekend, he put that doubt to rest by winning the US Open.
The US Open is one of the big four, “Grand Slam” tennis tournaments.
The others are the Australian Open, the French Open and Wimbledon.
Britain has been waiting 76 years for a male player to win a Grand Slam singles event.
Murray had been waiting all his life.
