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  • AFP

    USA's Blanch, 16, 'obviously nervous' ahead of Nadal match

    American teenager Darwin Blanch will play just the second ATP Tour match of his career against Rafael Nadal on Thursday at just 16 years old in the Madrid Open first round.Nadal was also 16 when he played the event in the Spanish capital for the first time, in 2003, four years before Blanch was born.

  • Ottumwa Courier, Iowa

    Girls tennis: Bulldogs fall in the wind at East

    Apr. 24—DES MOINES — The Ottumwa High School girls tennis team took a tough Iowa Alliance south division loss on Tuesday on a windy night in Des Moines. The Bulldogs fell, 10-1, to Des Moines East as the Scarlets swept through five of six singles matches dropping just one game in the process. East added five more wins in doubles play, including four sweeps in which the Scarlets dropped just ...

  • The Telegraph

    Emma Raducanu told to ‘work harder’ during defeat by world No 82

    Emma Raducanu’s unpredictable season continued to swing from lows to highs and back again as she went down by a 6-2, 6-2 scoreline in the first round of the Madrid Open to Maria Lourdes Carle, a 24-year-old Argentine with just one previous WTA Tour victory to her name.

  • BBC

    Raducanu and Dart lose in Madrid Open first round

    British pair Emma Raducanu and Harriet Dart lose in straight sets in the first round of the Madrid Open.