#World No. 4

Australian tennis champion Sam Stosur reached the pinnacle of her career in 2011 when she dethroned former Serena Williams to take the US Open crown - and she has revealed she was almost certain she'd win the night before the match. On Saturday, Stosur announced via Instagram that this year's Australian Open will be her last professional…

Fixture: (4) Caroline Garcia vs (Q) Katherine Sebov Date: 17 January 2023. Tournament: Australian Open 2023. Round: First round (Round of 128). Venue: Melbourne Park, Melbourne, Australia. Surface: Hard. Prize Money: A$76500000. Fourth seed Caroline Garcia will face Canadian qualifier Katherine Sebov in the first round of the Australian Open on…

India's biggest badminton tournament, Yonex-Sunrise India Open 2023 is all set to take off and get bigger than ever at the Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium in New Delhi from January 17 to 22. As the world's greatest shuttlers will be engaged in high-voltage action at the Yonex-Sunrise India Open-organised by the Badminton Association of India, here are…

After a year's absence, Novak Djokovic is back Down Under to compete in the Australian Open - the Grand Slam he's reigned supreme over and won nine times between 2008 and 2021. The consensus at sportsbooks is that Djokovic is the player to beat in his bid for a record-tenth Aussie Open title and a record-tying 22nd Grand Slam title. But does this…

Fixture: (8) Belinda Bencic vs (5) Daria Kasatkina Date: January 14, 2023 Tournament: Adelaide International 2 Round: Finals Venue: Memorial Drive Tennis Centre, Adelaide, Australia Surface: Outdoor Hardcourt Prize money: $826837 Live telecast: USA - Tennis Channel | UK - Amazon Prime Video Belinda Bencic and Daria Kasatkina are set for a final…

Hockey World Cup LIVE: After a great start to the Hockey World Cup, quadruple-header action is set to continue on Day 2… By Hockey World Cup LIVE: After a great start to the Hockey World Cup, quadruple-header action is set to continue on Day 2 of the tournament. On 14th January, Defending champions Belgium will headline the action. They will face…

Fixture: (4) Caroline Garcia vs (8) Belinda Bencic Date: January 12, 2023 Round: Quarterfinals Venue: Memorial Drive Tennis Center, Adelaide, Australia Surface: Outdoor Hardcourt Prize money: $826837 Live telecast: USA - Tennis Channel | UK - Amazon Prime Video Fourth seed Caroline Garcia will take on eighth seed Belinda Bencic in the quarterfinals…

Stefanos Tsitsipas has nine career titles but has yet to win a coveted Grand Slam tournament. The 24-year-old has been knocking on the door at the Australian Open, reaching the semi-final in three of the last four years (2019, 2021, 2022). With Carlos Alcaraz withdrawing from this year's Aussie, the door has cracked open a little wider for the…

THE Tournament of Champions in Hawaii promises a spectacular start to the new golfing year, with the stunning setting matched by an all-star cast. Rory McIlroy is the only player among the forty who qualified for this event to give it a miss - hardly surprising as he has played there just once in his career.

Coco Gauff will face Sofia Kenin in the second round of the 2023 ASB Classic in Auckland on January 13. The pair have met only once before, in the fourth round of the 2020 Australian Open, with Kenin winning 6-7(5), 6-3, 6-0. Gauff will enter the match as the heavy favorite to win given her current run of form and the fact that Kenin is still…

World no. 4 Stefanos Tsitsipas will face World no. 53 David Goffin as Team Greece meet Team Belgium in a Group a tie in Perth on the fifth day of the 2023 United Cup to be played on Monday, January 2. Get the live streaming options of this Stefanos Tsitsipas v David Goffin match along with its preview, head to head, and tips here. Looking to watch…

Australia's Jason Kubler has ranked his come-from-behind defeat of world No.27 Dan Evans at the United Cup among the most memorable moments of his tennis career. Australia's sixth-best male player on ranking and a 2022 Davis Cup representative, Kubler was selected in the United Cup team after Jordan Thompson, Chris O'Connell and Thanasi Kokkinakis…

April will be here before you know it, and coming along for the ride with it will be the start of golf's 2023 major championship season. Beginning at Augusta National for the Masters, as it typically does, the majors will go a long way to defining the game's best next year. While eyes around Augusta will be drawn to Tiger Woods and the return of…

Fixture: (BEL) David Goffin vs (BUL) Grigor Dimitrov Date: 31 December 2022 Tournament:United Cup 2023 Round: Group stage Venue: RAC Arena, Perth, Australia Surface: Outdoor hardcourt Prize money: $15000000 Match timing: (Dec 31) Approx 12 pm local time, 4 am GMT, 9:30 am IST, (Dec 30) 11 pm EST Live telecast David Goffin and Grigor Dimitrov are…

The fifteenth edition of the Grand Slam of Darts goes down in Wolverhampton, England, beginning on Saturday. Over the course of eight days, 32 of the world's best darts professionals will compete for a share of the £550000, with the winner taking home a cool £125000. We're down to the bracket stage and I've updated the article below with plays for…

Top seed Daniil Medvedev of Russia will meet Georgia's Nikoloz Basilashvili in the first round of the 2022 Vienna Open on Wednesday, October 26. Get the live streaming options of this Daniil Medvedev v Nikoloz Basilashvili match along with its preview, head to head, and tips here. Looking to watch the 2022 Vienna Open live streaming online? For…

Third seed Casper Ruud will meet eighth seed Felix Auger-Aliassime in the round robin stage of the 2022 ATP Finals on Tuesday, November 15. Get the live streaming options of this Casper Ruud v Taylor Fritz match along with its preview, head to head, and tips here. Looking to watch the 2022 ATP Finals live streaming online? For tennis fans in…

Fixture: (FRA) Caroline Garcia vs (ARG) Nadia Podoroska. Date: December 30, 2022. Tournament:United Cup 2023. Round: Group stage. Venue: RAC Arena, Perth, Australia. Surface: Outdoor hardcourt. Prize money: $15000000. Match timing: Not before 5:30 pm local time, 3:00 pm IST, 4:30 am EST and 9:30 am GMT. Live telecast: USA - ESPN | Australia - Stan…

The 2023 Australian Open gets underway in Melbourne on Jan. 16, and wraps up with the men's final on Jan. 29. Iga Swiatek is the heavy favorite on the women's side, with odds more than six times shorter than her closest competition. That means there's plenty of value on a crowd of top contenders. After a dominant 2022 tennis season, Iga Swiatek…

A lot of talents are rising in the Women's Tennis Association. This is good for WTA because talents are needed to help maintain the game's position as the most popular female sport in the world. If you think the Williams sisters are still the stars of female tennis, then you need to start looking out for the rising stars in female tennis. Just like…

THE FedEx Cup play-offs start this week in Memphis, and with only three events standing between them and an $18million payday, all the big guns are there - apart from the LIV rebels, of course. Rory McIlroy is the clear favourite at a best priced 11-1, but that looks way too short in such a competitive field. McIlroy has had a three week break…

Another relatively new PGA Tour event is on tap this week as the tour heads east to Detroit for the 2022 Rocket Mortgage Classic. Last week's 3M Open was its fourth edition at TPC Twin Cities, and this week will mark the fourth Rocket Mortgage Classic at Detroit Golf Club. Tony Finau, who won last week in Minneapolis, headlines the field along with…

Save for the highly anticipated reappearance of Tiger Woods in the coming few weeks in a trio of events, the truly notable, compelling and consequential golf is over for 2022. How time flies when you're having … well, a total upheaval in the sport. No, we're not going to venture into those weeds. Expending further keyboard energy on the battle…

Plus money on a player we think can go all the way? We're on it. World No. 7 Andrey Rublev made it out of a group that included Novak Djokovic, Stefanos Tsitsipas and Daniil Medvedev to advance to the semifinals of the Nitto ATP Finals in Turin. The Russian's reward? World No. 4 Casper Ruud. The winner of this one will take on the winner of a…

Thousand have already subscribedy After beating Felix Auger-Aliassime in straight sets, world No 4 Casper Ruud will take on Rafael Nadal in his next match on Tuesday After a fantastic season which saw him reach his first Grand Slam final and then his second as well as win three ATP titles, Norway's Casper Ruud came into the season-ending ATP…

The first international rugby league in almost three years saw some emphatic performances over the weekend ahead of the World Cup in October. New Zealand threw down a marker to World Cup favourites Australia after thrashing Tonga, as Joey Manu played the Test of his life. Anthony Milford delivered for Samoa against the Cook Islands, while Fiji fell…

Several big names are making the trip to Detroit this week for the 2022 Rocket Mortgage Classic, and according to the Rocket Mortgage Classic betting odds via BetMGM, World No. 4 Patrick Cantlay is the outright favorite. Here's what you need to know. Despite his big win last week at the 3M Open, the third victory of his career, Tony Finau is not…

Tennis fans have hailed Andy Murray for the bold prediction he made about Caroline Garcia more than a decade ago. 29-year-old Garcia emerged victorious in the 2022 WTA Finals that concluded on Monday. She defeated Belarus' Aryna Sabalenka to cap off her most successful season yet, having won four titles in the four finals she contested - the WTA…

Fixture: (2) Paula Badosa vs (Q) Louisa Chirico. Date: October 12, 2022. Tournament: San Diego Open 2022. Round: Second round (Round of 16). Venue: Barnes Tennis Center, San Diego, California, United States. Surface: Hardcourt. Prize money: $757900. Live telecast: USA - Tennis Channel | UK - Amazon Prime Video. Following a first-round bye, World…

Fixture: (1) Iga Swiatek vs (4) Coco Gauff. Date: November 5, 2022. Tournament: WTA Finals 2022. Round: Round robin. Venue: Dickies Arena, Fort Worth, United States. Surface: Hardcourt. Prize money: $5000000. Match timing: Not before 7 pm local time, 8 pm ET, 12 am GMT and 5:30 am IST. Live telecast: USA - Tennis Channel | UK - Amazon Prime…

Coco Gauff will play against Daria Kasatkina at the Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas. This matchup will be valid for the 2022 WTA Finals. Both women have one more chane to pick up their first win of the tournament.Find out how to watch or live stream free the game in the US, the match information, storylines, predictions, and odds. If you are in…

We don't often suggest parlays, but there's one we just felt the need to take on. If you like parlays, today is your lucky day. We like world No. 23 Lorenzo Musetti to win a set off world No. 4 Casper Ruud, and world No. 21 Frances Tiafoe to do the same against world No. 25 Alex De Minaur on Thursday at the Rolex Paris Masters. If you were to jump…

Coco Gauff will play against Caroline Garcia today at the Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas. This matchup will be valid for the 2022 WTA Finals. Gauff and Jessica Pegula, who plays against Ons Jabeur on Wednesday, are the only two American players among the best of the women's tennis season. Find out how to watch or live stream free the game in…

The WTA 250-level event in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia is down to the semifinal round as a stacked field of 32 has been dwindled down to four. #1 seed Anett Kontaveit and #2 seed Belinda Bencic still remain in the field, but can they advance through their tough respective semifinal matches? We at LWOT have the preview and prediction for both…

The Rocket Mortgage Classic is entering its fourth year on the PGA Tour calendar, with tournament directors landing a decent field in 2022 all things considered. Five of the top 20 players in the world will be in action at Detroit Golf Club, where Cam Davis will look to defend his title having outlasted Troy Merritt and Joaquin Niemann in a…

The draw for the San Diego Open has been made with the first round starting on Monday. There have been several WTA events held in the city in the past and we have some exciting matches to look forward to in the opening round of the 2022 edition. In the top half, Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina will face Garbine Muguruza in the opening round…

The 2022 Shriners Children's Open kicks off this week at TPC Summerlin in Las Vegas, Nev. Here's everything you need to know to watch the tournament. The new PGA Tour season is still in its very early stages, but American star Max Homa can already count himself as a winner. Homa put together an epic comeback on Sunday to win the Fortinet…

It's the third event of the new season and the sponsors can boast what is comfortably the best field so far. World No. 4 Patrick Cantlay heads the entries and he is joined by his Presidents Cup team-mate Max Homa plus eight of the defeated International team. In all, 12 of the world's top 50 tee it up in Las Vegas at an event which has a history…

TennisSection previews the 2022 Astana Open as Daniil Medvedev takes on Albert Ramos Vinolas in the first round on Tuesday, October 4th, 2022. Second seed Daniil Medvedev is eyeing a second ATP title of the season. The Russian baseliner has endured a frustrating year in 2022, but could still put a positive spin to his season if he can end the year…

The strongest field of the new season is on tap this week as the PGA Tour heads west for the 2022 Shriners Children's Open at TPC Summerlin in Las Vegas. World No. 4 Patrick Cantlay highlights a Shriners Children's Open 2022 field that features 12 of the top 50 players in the Official World Golf Ranking. Cantlay is playing his first event of the…

Fixture: (2) Daniil Medvedev vs Albert Ramos Vinolas Date: October 4, 2022 Tournament:Astana Open 2022. Round: First round (Round of 32). Venue: Astana, Kazakhstan. Surface: Hard. Prize money: $1900000. Second seed Daniil Medvedev will face Albert Ramos Vinolas in the opening round of the Astana Open on Tuesday. The Russian has won just one title…

TennisSection previews the 2022 Astana Open as Stan Wawrinka takes on Adrian Mannarino in the first round on Monday, October 3rd, 2022. Stan Wawrinka should be fully refreshed following a rollercoaster week at the Metz Open. The Swiss one hander picked his first top 10 win in two years when he defeated World No. 4 Daniil Medvedev. Will he build on…

Number six seed Belinda Bencic will play the Canadian qualifier, Eugenie Bouchard, in the first round of the 2022 Ostrava Open on Tuesday, October 4. Get the live streaming options of this Belinda Bencic v Eugenie Bouchard match along with its preview, head-to-head, and tips here. Looking to watch the 2022 Ostrava Open live streaming online? For…

Andy Murray had been one of the most promising youngsters at the beginning of the new millennium. Andy made his professional debut at 16 in 2003, reached the Challenger quarter-final and won his first Futures title at home in Glasgow in September. He finished the season in the top-600, with more to come in 2004. Murray won four Futures titles in…

The quarterfinals at the WTA Tallinn Open are set. Some of the world's best remain in what is a loaded 250-level field with five seeded players in action on Friday looking to punch a ticket into the semifinals. All four quarterfinal matches provide intrigue, with the pick of the matches third seed Beatriz Haddad Maia vs seventh eed Barbora…

Top seed Anett Kontaveit will play Tereza Martincova in the second round of the 2022 Tallinn Open on Thursday, September 29. Get the live streaming options of this Anett Kontaveit v Tereza Martincova match along with its preview, head-to-head, and tips here. Looking to watch the 2022 Tallinn Open live streaming online? For tennis fans in…

It's set to be a busy week of tennis as five tournaments are scheduled across the ATP and WTA tours. 21-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic is the most high-profile name in action this week. He'll be participating in the Tel Aviv Open, which marks the return of tennis to Israel after two decades. World No. 2 Casper Ruud leads the field in Seoul…

After a stunning battle between Stan Wawrinka and Daniil Medvedev, the ATP Metz 250 is down to its final eight players competing for the title. As always, we here at LWOT will preview and predict every match. Who do you think will go to the semifinals? Head-to-head: Sonego 2-1 Korda Sonego is in his first ATP quarterfinal since Stuttgart,…

The WTA Tour returns to Japan in what is a very solid field for a 250-level event in Tokyo. Naomi Osaka leads the names of Day 2 competitors as the Japanese native takes on Daria Saville on her home soil. As always, we at LWOT have the predictions for that match as well as the other four matches around the grounds of Tokyo. But who will…