"It’s a bronze medal, but for me it’s like a gold. I haven’t won the tournament, but it’s the best title of my career"
An
#Olympics
medal means the world for
@pablocarreno91
🇪🇸🙌
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📚 HISTORY-MAKERS 📚
Class of 2020's Mayar Sherif and Sumit Nagal are shining examples of the importance of the Grand Slam Development Fund...
👇 R E A D M O R E 👇
"Push the boundaries! It's time to step up when it might be the uncomfortable thing"
The Level The Playing Field Global Forum challenges YOU to do more around gender equality.
Highlights 👇
The first player - male or female - to reach three
#Olympics
singles semi-finals 🇷🇸
@DjokerNole
races past Kei Nishikori 6-2 6-0 and will get a third shot at making the gold medal match after Beijing 2008 and London 2012
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Seven-time
#Wimbledon
champion
@serenawilliams
progresses to the round of 16 👏
This isn’t the last we’ll see of Williams today, however. She joins
@andy_murray
in the mixed doubles competition later this afternoon 🔜
History for
#SUI
@BelindaBencic
, who becomes the fifth player to reach both singles and doubles finals since tennis’s return to the
#Olympics
in 1988:
Sydney 2000 - Venus Williams
Athens 2004 - Nicolas Massu
London 2012 - Serena Williams, Andy Murray
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However old you are, whatever the circumstances, wherever you are in the world, tennis is a sport for everyone...
Just ask these 5-year-old Ugandan primary school students 😊
🎥
@10martinrocca
“It's an amazing feeling, knowing that you're going to bring a medal back to your house.”
@alexzverev
reflects on causing one of the biggest upsets of the men’s draw at
#Tokyo2020
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Leonid Stanislavskyi 🤝
@RafaelNadal
At 97 years old, Leonid is recognised as the oldest competitive tennis player in the world. Recently, his dreams came true when he met his hero at the
@rnadalacademy
😍
A shocker in Tokyo…
#CZE
Marketa Vondrousova stuns home favourite Naomi Osaka 6-1 6-4 in 68 minutes to reach the
#Olympics
quarter-finals
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Rewriting the history books 📚
All-time world No.1, three Grand Slams titles and tying the men’s total record of 20 in 2021 💯
Congratulations to
@DjokerNole
for his Laureus World Sportsman of the Year Award nomination
#Laureus22
Spain's
@GarbiMuguruza
has been named ITF World Champion for the first time along with three-time winner
@RafaelNadal
.
It's the first time since 1998 that the men's and women's ITF World Champions are from the same country.
Read:
Super Swiss 🥇 🥇
12 years ago today,
@rogerfederer
and
@stanwawrinka
beat Simon Aspelin and Thomas Johansson to win gold in the men's doubles at Beijing 2008!
Two Kings at Queen’s 👑
Let’s throwback to on this day in 2008 and
@RafaelNadal
clinched his first grass court title at
@QueensTennis
Remember what happened after at
@Wimbledon
?
History has been made 🇰🇪!
Angella Okutoyi 🇰🇪 and Rose Marie Nijkamp 🇳🇱 win the Girls's Doubles final making Angella the FIRST Kenyan player to win a Grand Slam!
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Congratulations
@sabatinigabyok
👏
Gabriela Sabatini has been awarded the ITF's highest honour, the Philippe Chatrier Award, following a significant contribution to tennis both on and off the court
Full story➡️
The KING of clay 👑
In a tough battle, the 13-time champion
@RafaelNadal
defeats Djokovic 6-2 4-6 6-2 7-6(4) to reach the semi-finals at
#RolandGarros
📸: Julien Crosnier / FFT
Swiss dreams are made of gold 🥇
@BelindaBencic
defeats Marketa Vondrousova 7-5 2-6 6-3 to earn
#SUI
a third gold medal in tennis after Marc Rosset at Barcelona 1992 and Federer/Wawrinka at Beijing 2008!
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The first wild card team to win the
#AusOpen
men’s doubles title in the Open Era 🤯
The Special K’s
@NickKyrgios
and
@TKokkinakis
are Grand Slam CHAMPIONS! 🇦🇺
▫️Six-time Grand Slam doubles champion
▫️Former world No. 1
▫️Two-time
@WTAFinals
champion
🇮🇳
@MirzaSania
has announced that 2022 will be her final season on tour
Swiatek's last 9 Grand Slam results:
6-1 6-2
6-1 6-4
6-3 6-2
6-1 6-2
6-3 6-1
6-2 6-1
6-4 6-1
6-1 6-3
6-2 6-4
Just a reminder that she is still only 19...
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@iga_swiatek
'When I started, everyone in Iran was saying it was impossible and that I couldn’t play Grand Slams'
Defying all odds, Iran's Meshkatolzahra Safi, as well as Kenya's Angella Okutoyi, became today the first girls from their countries to record a Junior Grand Slam match-win 👇
UNIQLO Global Brand Ambassador
@KeiNishikori
and 42-time Grand Slam champion Shingo Kunieda know how to deal with the hardest on-court challenges.
Here is an insight into the mental preparation of a champion 🏆
Married on Friday 💍🇨🇭
Off to the Olympic Games on Sunday 🥇🇯🇵
Honeymoon on hold,
@ElinaSvitolina
admitted her delight at sandwiching two monumental life experiences so close together
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