Tennis player articles
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Zendaya Reacts to That Spider-Man to Tennis Player Movie Prophecy
Zendaya is your latest friendly neighborhood tennis player. And with that role in Challengers, she's fulfilling a coincidental prophecy: All Spider-Man love interests—including Kirsten Dunst and
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Oh, Zendaya knows all about that 'Spider-Man' female lead-to-tennis player 'prophecy'
Just like Zendaya did with the trend of every pair of "Spider-Man" co-stars dating, the actor has fulfilled another franchise prophecy. The "Challengers" actress is well aware of the alleged "pipeline" through which female "Spider-Man" leads later star in tennis movies. She reacted to the trend earlier this week on "Good Morning America," where she was appearing to promote "Challengers" with co-stars Mike Faist and Josh O'Connor. Host Robin Roberts showed Zendaya a meme with six photos, two each...
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Iga Swiatek has become the first tennis player born in the 2000s to win 20 career titles
There aren’t a lot of firsts left for Iga Swiatek to achieve, but she ticked yet another box at the Mutua Madrid Open on Saturday. With a nail-biting 7-5, 4-6, 7-6 (7) championship victory over Aryna Sabalenka, in which she fought off three match points, Swiatek won the WTA 1000 event for the first time in her career. Madrid was the only big clay-court event missing from her resume—she’s already won Roland Garros three times, the WTA 1000 in Rome twice and the WTA 500 in Stuttgart twice. But...