Long-form

Let apart by men who did not belive in themselves, women had to fight to make their own tennis tour growing.

The WTA: how women got their revenge and their rights

In the final episode of our trilogy about the roots of tennis' divided governance, Tennis Majors looks back to when the WTA Tour was formed and how the women proceeded to earn parity with the men who rejected them and lead the fight for equality in women's sport

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Paul Bonnaud
ATP Major Features

The ATP, the union which became a Tour; how players took control of world tennis

In the second episode of our trilogy about the roots of tennis' divided governance, Tennis Majors explains how players took control of the circuit with their union, after a 20-year chaos with concurrent tours. In 1988, players accomplished an authentic coup in the US Open parking lot...

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Paul Bonnaud
Open Era - Major Features

1968, Open era: The moment tennis opted to become a modern sport

With seven governing bodies and unity still seemingly impossible, tennis has never been quite so disorganised or disjointed. In the first of three special features, we look at the revolution of 1968, when tennis finally entered the modern era.

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Jérémy Baudu
Dominic Thiem, Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, for the Tennis Majors feature about player relief funds

Row over player relief funds exposes a divided Tour

Not even the Big 3 has, for now, succeeded in convincing ATP players to give money to their lower-ranked colleagues who are struggling through the Covid-19 outbreak.

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Carole Bouchard
Feature "Confinement" - Tennis Majors

How fit, or not, will the players be once out of confinement?

As the Tour still hopes to be able to resume in the coming months, the time is coming to wonder in which shape the players will be when the time to play finally comes.

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Carole Bouchard