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Emma Raducanu’s turning point and the fairness of tennis wildcards

Welcome back to the Monday Tennis Briefing, where will explain the stories behind the stories from the past week on court. This week, Emma Raducanu made her plans for 2025, the off-season, well, happened and the Australian Open dealt out some not-so-wild wildcards. How will Emma Raducanu handle her rise back up the rankings? Raducanu started 2024 ranked world No. 301 after an injury-ravaged 2023. Thanks to her ‘special’ ranking — the WTA term for a protected ranking — and the occasional wildcard

Australian Open wildcards: Stan Wawrinka, Ajla Tomljanovic headline Melbourne awards

2014 Australian Open men’s champion Stan Wawrinka and home favorite Ajla Tomljanovic lead the wildcards for 2025’s first Grand Slam tournament, which begins January 12 in Melbourne. Wawrinka defeated Rafael Nadal to win the first of three Grand Slam titles in 2014. He is joined on the men’s side by three Australians. World No. 175 Li Tu, who took Carlos Alcaraz to four sets at this year’s U.S. Open and world No. 168 Tristan Schoolkate, who was a tiebreak away from reaching the third round in New

Tennis rules, OK: Reflections on a season of umpiring confusion and doping controversy

As Oscar Wilde’s axiom goes: “There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.” This does not apply to stewardship in sport, especially in tennis and especially in tennis in 2024, which went through a series of high-profile calamities on and off court. On the court, umpires made mistakes, electronic line calling (ELC) malfunctioned, video replays were less helpful than required and supervisors did very little about any of it. In less than 24 hour

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