Nick Kyrgios has stunned the tennis world by his barnstorming run to a first Grand Slam singles final at Wimbledon where he will face Novak Djokovic for the title.
This article originally appeared in the January 1986 issue of SPIN. Ion Tiriac, tennis' Transylvanian terror, who claims to be related to Count Dracula,
A new Grand Slam and Wimbledon champion will be crowned on Centre Court on Saturday, but not too many would have predicted an Ons Jabeur vs Elena Rybakina Championship match at SW19.
Boris Becker, in full Boris Franz Becker, (born November 22, 1967, Leimen, near Heidelberg, West Germany [now in Germany]), German tennis player who, on July 7, 1985, at age 17, became the youngest champion in the history of the men’s singles at Wimbledon. At the same time, he became the only unseeded player and the only German ever to win the title as well as the youngest person ever to win any Grand Slam title in men’s singles (a mark lowered by four months when Michael Chang won the French Open in 1989). Becker’s father, an architect, built the hometown
PARIS: At just 19, Carlos Alcaraz is bidding to become only the eighth teenager to win a Grand Slam men’s singles title at the French Open which gets underway at Roland Garros on Sunday. AFP Sport looks at the seven men to have won majors while still in their teens: • In 1974, Sweden’s reluctant superstar Borg won the first of his six French Opens having just passed his 18th