"I don't know about my defeat, also due to the canteen issue. Yesterday I did a good workout and I didn't feel anything, but I didn't even feel the same sensations as before. Today, under stress, it was quite bad: not in terms of pain but of balance. I had no coordination whatsoever and I was a completely different player than I was two nights ago....

Coco Gauff described Paula Badosa as "a nice girl" and admitted she "felt compelled" to reach out to the Spaniard when she was going through a very difficult and challenging injury period. After sustaining a stress fracture in her back in Rome exactly a year ago, Badosa was able to play just one more tournament in the remainder of 2023. This year,...

Daniil Medvedev acknowledges it is "very strange" that he has 20 titles in his collection without ever winning the same tournament twice but adds that he is just looking at it as "an unlucky thing" and nothing more than that since he enters every tournament determined to win it all. Since becoming an ATP champion at an ATP 250 tournament in Sydney...

Former world No. 1 Simona Halep has learned her opening opponent at a WTA 125 tournament in France as the two-time Grand Slam champion is set to take on world No. 123 McCartney Kessler in the Trophée Clarins first round.  After playing her first tournament in a year and a half at the Miami Open in late March, Halep sustained an unfortunate knee...

Naomi Osaka seems to be playing the clay tennis of her life and she admits tennis icons such as Serena Williams, Maria Sharapova and Rafael Nadal have all played a little part in it.  Before Rome, Osaka was 1-2 on clay this spring. But since the start of Rome, Osaka has improved her clay record to 4-2 and she has also managed to accomplish something...

Iga Swiatek appeared to be left stunned and in disbelief after being asked in Rome how does she explain "not receiving attention in the presence of Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic." Swiatek, the WTA world No. 1 and a four-time Grand Slam champion, reached the Rome Open round-of-16 on Saturday after beating Yulia Putintseva 6-3 6-4. By clinching...