Milos Raonic makes long-awaited comeback at tournament van Rosmalen, Djokovic quarter-finalist in Rome | Tennis
The Rosmalen grass tournament will be the place of the Canadian Milos Raonic’s long-awaited return to tennis next month. The 32-year-old former number 3 in the world played his last game almost two years ago. The 2016 Wimbledon finalist struggled with injuries for a long time and, according to the organization of the Libéma Open, is now using his ‘protected ranking’ to participate at the…
I love being a tennis fan, but you know what I hate? The subtle and absolute misogyny in tennis spaces.
When I look up who has the most slam titles, my immediate answer is Rafael Nadal. Now, that much is true. Rafael Nadal does have the most men's singles grand slams. MEN'S singles grand slams.
The actual answer is Margaret Court, who has 24 grand slams. When I ask who has the most, I'm asking who has the most overall. Not men's or women's singles, but the default was immediately men as an answer. Serena Williams has 23 grand slam titles in women's singles.
The most iconic men's players such as Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic are respectively 2 slams away and 3 slams away from the most iconic women's players.
That's not the only thing. Obviously it's not just tennis that has an issue with paying attention the women's half of its sport. But a lot of the first posts that pop up when you search up on tennis on tumblr are all about men's tennis. When you scroll down and there are posts about women's tennis, very few of them are about women tennis players actually on the court.
The type of criticism between men's players and women's players isn't too different and I can't say it happens more to women's players, because I have no definitive proof. But when I looked up Naomi Osaka a few weeks ago, the very first thing that came up was how time may be running out for her. Milos Raonic practically disappeared from tennis completely and the only recent articles about him are what he said about the Davis Cup.
Now, the difference in the amount of prize money between the highest paid women's tennis players of all time (Serena Williams) and the highest career prize earnings of men's tennis players as of July 2022 (Novak Djokovic) is roughly 60 million dollars.
As we've seen earlier, this isn't due to a lack of talent. Serena Williams has MORE grand slam titles than Novak Djokovic. Two more, specifically.
Women's tennis doesn't get enough credit and I am sick of the default being men.
Just like the first set, the second set's flow turned out to be in Mackie's racquet. These all started from Raonic's erratic service game to start the second set, where a double fault blew one of his leads before his forehand rush resulted in Mackie's break point. Eventually, Raonic double-faulted, which resulted in Mackie's break of serve to 2-0 before the latter held to 3-0.
The match then followed with several service game holds, while the crowd tried to lift Raonic up after his service game hold to 3-1. Two games later, it became another tug-of-war moment where Raonic foiled one of Mackie's game points with a cross-court forehand pass, but it was insufficient due to Mackie's hold to 5-2 thanks to an unreturned serve.
Two holds later, Mackie had the opportunity to serve for the first set. Without further ado, his effective serves sealed the match, including an ace to take the second set 6-3, securing his maiden Masters 1000 quarterfinals right after. For Raonic, this might be added to another part of his last dance before Cincinnati and the US Open.