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October 01, 2024Sinner doping case comes back to life, doubles gossip and the "Mount Rushmore" of tennis Calvin Betton is still in China, George Bellshaw is still in London and James Gray is still complaining.
They discuss...
- WADA has announced it is to appeal the decision to absolve Jannik Sinner of blame for his two positive tests for banned substance clostebol earlier this year. The case will be heard before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) and the World Anti-Doping Agency will seek a ban of between one and two years
- Joe Salisbury and Rajeev Ram have broken up their long-standing, multiple grand slam-winning partnership. Salisbury will play with fellow Brit Neal Skupski in 2025
- Naomi Osaka has won a match from a set down for the first time in 22 attempts, and now faces Coco Gauff in a blockbuster clash in Beijing
- British No 3 Jacob Fearnley has cracked the top 100 for the first time after winning his fourth Challenger title of the year
- Jack Draper is still struggling with the rigours of top-level tennis, injured again in Tokyo this week
- Marin Cilic has become the lowest ranked player ever - No 777 - to win an ATP title in Hangzhou
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...more September 25, 2024Gauff splits with Gilbert, Raducanu's latest injury setback and Laver Cup fallout Calvin Betton tunes in from Beijing and George Bellshaw from north London to tell James Gray exactly what's wrong with the tennis world.
- Emma Raducanu told a reporter she was prioritising the Asian swing after a stripped-back schedule in the first half of the year, but after two wins in Seoul she suffered yet another injury, pulling out of the quarter-final with a foot injury and then withdraws from Beijing too.
- Coco Gauff has ended her partnership with coach Brad Gilbert just two weeks after her "disappointing" US Open title defence. Gilbert said: ”Coco, at just 20 years young, your future is incredibly bright, and I wish you nothing but continued success ahead. I’m excited for the next chapter in my coaching career.”
- Carlos Alcaraz has complained about tennis scheduling: ”Probably they are going to kill us in some way. Right now a lot of good players are going to miss a lot of tournaments because of that [injury].”
- Team Europe win the Laver Cup with Alcaraz winning the most points any player ever has - but did any of it mean anything?
- Beatriz Haddad Maia wins her fourth career title in South Korea
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...more September 17, 2024Osaka hires Mouratoglou, Djokovic shrugs off ATP Finals and GB's Davis Cup flop James Gray is joined by George Bellshaw and Calvin Betton to discuss all the latest tennis news (and an injury update from our resident coach).
- Naomi Osaka splits with Wim Fisette and hires Patrick Mouratoglou as her new coach
- Novak Djokovic is on course to miss out on ATP World Tour Finals but says he isn't bothered by it
- Jack Draper jumps off a plane and into the Great Britain Davis Cup team, but to no great effect as they are drummed out by Canada and Argentina
- Dan Evans hints this could be his last appearance in GB shirt
- Rafael Nadal pulls out of the Laver Cup
- Sonay Kartal wins her first WTA title in Monastir and enters the top 100 for the first time
- Emma Raducanu has been picked for the BJK Cup
- Olivia Gadecki reaches the Guadalajara final from qualifying
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...more September 10, 2024US Open review: Why Sinner won it, if Sabalenka can be stopped and more James Gray, Calvin Betton and George Bellshaw waited for the dust to settle... and then promptly started kicking it up again.
- Jannik Sinner wins the title in New York to become the king of hard courts
- Aryna Sabalenka is the queen too, or is she?
- Jack Draper gives a fine account of himself but hasn't impressed Martin Keown
- Have Jessica Pegula and Taylor Fritz both hit their ceiling
PLUS
- Nick Kyrgios shows his true colours
- Vasek Pospisil defends the PTPA
- Calvin ducks the Davis Cup
- The final results of FTU: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AB0u6pxiTiaY3kZMfjZZI60lSZ7g3GpJawK5bWxtsoI/
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...more September 06, 2024US Open, Day 10+11: Predicted the finals as fate awaits Jack Draper Calvin Betton wakes up from jet lag to predict the men's and women's final with James Gray ahead of Draper vs Sinner and Tiafoe vs Fritz in the semi-finals.
They also looked back at Emma Navarro's defeat to Aryna Sabalenka and Jessica Pegula's win over Karolina Muchova, as well as a few thoughts on Iga Swiatek's absence from the latter stages.
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...more September 04, 2024US Open, Day 8+9 w/Calvin back from New York City Calvin Betton is fresh off a flight from New York and talks to James Gray about...
- Third-round defeat for Henry Patten and Harri Heliovaara
- Why Beatriz Haddad Maia vs Caroline Wozniacki was a great example of how styles make fights…
- The secrets to Jack Draper's run at the US Open
- Why there have been so many double-faults at this year's tournament
- Is this the real reason everyone seems to hate Zheng Qinwen?
- What got Alexander Zverev's goat?
- Grigor Dimitrov limps out of perhaps *his* best chance to finally win a slam but allows Frances Tiafoe to guarantee an American man in the final for the first time since 2006
- Also, Donald Young is in the mixed doubles final?!
- And Harri produces one of the all-time great racket smashes: https://x.com/BenRothenberg/status/1830757928166461726
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...more September 02, 2024US Open, Day 6+7: Gauff is latest champion to fall as the men's draw goes all WTA George Bellshaw and James Gray catch up on a busy weekend of US Open action, including...
- Sky Sports apologise for problems with US Open coverage, raised by Tennis Unfiltered listeners: https://inews.co.uk/sport/tennis/us-open-viewers-frustrated-sky-tennis-coverage-3256452
- Video review goes so badly wrong as Beatriz Haddad Maia gets away with one against Anna Kalinskaya: https://x.com/LoveGame_Tennis/status/1830181747281055879
- Dan Evans is finally beaten in the US Open, handed two bagels by Alex De Minaur
- Yulia Putintseva is beaten but more importantly apologises for this behaviour towards a ball girl: https://x.com/MerThomp/status/1829999912399818965
- Coco Gauff is knocked out by Olympic team-mate Emma Navarro. Gauff served at 46 per cent and hit 60 unforced errors, but perhaps worst of all hit 19 double-faults and says she will consider a biomechanics expert to break down her service issues. "I definitely want to get other opinions because, you know -- and also I think it's sometimes more of an emotional, mental thing because if I go out on the practice court right now, I would make, like, 30 serves in a row."
- Who on earth will win the bottom half of the men's draw now? Alexander Zverev and Taylor Fritz are surely favourites with either Grigor Dimitrov or Frances Tiafoe waiting in the semi-final.
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...more August 31, 2024US Open, Day 5: Now Djokovic is out too! George Bellshaw looks back on a day of US Open action where there really was only one place to start as Novak Djokovic was stunned by Alexei Popyrin as the men's draw continues to disintegrate
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...more August 30, 2024US Open, Day 4: Alcaraz is OUT - but how?! - Carlos Alcaraz is handed a shock US Open defeat by Botic van de Zandschulp
- Alcaraz said afterwards he is "not strong enough mentally" and has taken steps back in that regard.
- Van de Zandschulp meanwhile was proud of his "emotionally stable" approach to the match, impressive for a man who nearly decided to retire just a few months ago at the age of 28.
- The Dutchman came to the net 35 times in the match, winning all bar seven points when he did so, perhaps revealing a blueprint for beating Alcaraz in the future.
- It leaves a wide open section of the draw where one of Jack Draper, Dan Evans, Alex de Minaur or five others who have never made a USO semi-final is guaranteed to make the last four
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...more August 29, 2024US Open, Day 3: Emma Raducanu admits she got it wrong, Djokovic through in the heat - Emma Raducanu says she will manage her schedule differently going forward after "learning a lesson" in defeat to Sofia Kenin
- Raducanu had played just one tournament since Wimbledon and flew back to the UK instead of playing qualifying in Canada or Cincinnati, traditional warm-ups for the US Open.
- She said: "I know when I have a lot of matches, just like every player, you feel really good, you feel like everything's automatic. So yeah, I think I can learn from it and manage my schedule slightly differently."
- Here is something James wrote about Emma Raducanu in the wake of her defeat to Kenin: https://inews.co.uk/sport/tennis/emma-raducanu-us-open-comments-reveal-sadder-truth-3248144
- UK viewers complain about the "mess" that is Sky Sports+ is a mess for lots of users
- Temperatures hit 34 degrees Celsius in New York City with the heat rule in place, but there is nothing against Tomas Martin Etcheverry throwing up on himself mid-match, and still winning!
- Wimbledon champion Barbora Krejcikova is out
- Defending champion Novak Djokovic is through after a Laslo Djere retirement
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