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Halfway Through the Clay: 2024
Two luxury cars, one driver’s license, several gratifying wins, and lots of home cooking have defined the first half of tennis’s clay season.
Two luxury cars, one driver’s license, several gratifying wins, and lots of home cooking have defined the first half of tennis’s clay season.
The sun shined on Danielle Collins as she captured the biggest win of her career, Jannik Sinner returned to his winning ways, and Simona Halep returned to play.
Bees in Paradise? Yep. Plus the Alcaraz/Sinner rivalry revs up, Iga Swiatek steamrolls the competition, and some top players go undercover.
Jannik Sinner permanently reordered the tennis landscape in four short months of supernova tennis.
Jannik Sinner is here to stay, Aryna Sabalenka dances through to her second Slam, and professional tennis isn’t all about youth, after all.
(3) Daniil Medvedev vs. (4) Jannik Sinner
The blokes down under delivered a doozy for the semifinals this year, as (1) Novak Djokovic continues his recent rivalry with (4) Jannik Sinner, and (3) Daniil Medvedev looks to entertain against resurgent (6) Alexander Zverev.
After one week Down Under, the ladies’ draw has been decimated and Jannik Sinner is quietly destroying everyone in sight. Plus, those easy early rounds are no longer quite so easy.
The main event is yet again Novak Djokovic’s quest for history. Jannik Sinner hopes to stand in his way, and homecourt advantage belongs to newly minted top-10er Alex de Minaur.
Novak marches on, Coco comes through, Kobe shows up, and the youngsters are about to crash the party.