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World No. 1 Novak Djokovic continues to be unstoppable powering into the final four at the Dubai Duty Free Championships. For a second night running the Serbian was in a class of his own, brushing aside gutsy 25-year-old Monaco-based Polish opponent Hubert Hurkacz with scores of 6-3 and 7-5. The six-and-half-foot tall Hurkacz, and one of the best servers in the men’s game, won the very first point of the match with a screaming ace but was soon cut down to size some 30 minutes later in losing ...

Rory McIlroy reckons major changes proposed for the hosting of PGA Tour tournaments will make for a more ‘compelling product’. In a continuing shake-up of the PGA Tour, and again clearly in a reaction to the impact of LIV Golf, the PGA Tour has announced the following to be in play from the start of the 2023/24 wraparound season. The PGA Tour board, and with McIlroy a member, annoucned they have ratified a number of significant changes to next season’s  schedule, including reduced ...

World No. 1 Novak Djokovic hardly worked-up a sweat breezing into the quarter-finals of the Dubai Tennis Championship with an effortless straight two sets win over Dutchman Tallon Griekspoor. After being seriously tested in Tuesday’s opening match, Djokovic was near his best, crushing the World No. 39 ranked Griekspoor 6-2, 6-and much to the delight of a packed open-air stadium located in the heart of the Irish Village in Dubai. Djokovic, wearing the same green-and-yellow coloured attire as ...

… Reporting from Dubai Tennis Centre, Dubai  Record-setting World No. 1 Novak Djokovic had to go into extra gear to defeat Czech Tomas Macac in a three-set thriller and qualifier for the last eight at the Dubai Duty Free Championship. Djokovic arrived in Dubai following his 10th Australian Open triumph and earlier this week set both a new men’s and women’s record reign of 387 weeks atop of the world rankings. However he clearly was not expecting the World No. 130 ranked Machac to take ...

Shane Lowry has moved back among the top-20 on the World Rankings for a first occasion in nearly six-months but it’s little comfort after a second straight Honda Classic disappointment. Lowry is the new World No. 19 following his share of fifth place in Sunday’s concluding PGA Tour at Palm Beach Gardens in Florida. The Offaly golfer was desperate to make amends a year after being ‘robbed’ of success in the 2022 event but an opening hole bogey to kick-start Sunday’s round heralded what was ...

Scot Euan Walker grabbed his best DP World Tour finish at the Hero Indian Open but looks forward to getting back onto the secondary Challenge Tour. The 27-year-old Dundonald Links attached pro posted a closing two-under 70 for a share of 13th place at four-under-par on the ultra-tough DLF course in New Delhi. Germany’s Marcel Siem, wearing an ultra colourful Hawaiian-like shirt, showed his delight in ending an eight-year Tour winless drought ripping off his visor and throwing it onto the green ...

Germany’s affable Marcel Siem has ended an eight-year DP Tour World winless drought with his Hero Indian Open victory take-away in New Delhi. Siem, 42, held off the ‘shrivers’, as he said would be the scenario if he won, in posting a closing round of 68 to capture what is a fifth DP World Tour success and win by a shot on the host DGF host course in the Indian capital. Wearing the most colourful of shirts, Siem only just managed to clear the water guarding the green with his third ...