American tennis teen Kaylan Bigun has more worldly matters on his mind than winning his first professional tournament this week.
Olympic tennis champion Belinda Bencic has become a mom for the first time, she announced Wednesday. The 27-year-old Bencic and her partner Martin Hromkovič, who is also her fitness coach, posted a photograph on their Instagram accounts with the message “Bella, our love” and Tuesday's date that she was born. The replies included congratulations from top-ranked Iga Swiatek and Viktorija Golubic, who played doubles with Bencic when they won silver for Switzerland at the Tokyo Olympics placed in 2021.
Raducanu suffered a shock defeat in the first-round of the Madrid Open
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.