News about Donna Vekic

Andy Murray has slammed the scheduling of the US Open and called for changes after the latest finish to a women's match was recorded. Zheng Qinwen's  7-6(2) 4-6 6-2 win over Donna Vekic lasted two hours, 50 minutes and ended at 2.15am local time on Monday.  It beat the previous record for a women's match at the year's final Grand Slam by two minutes. 

Iga Swiatek was inconsolable after her dream of winning Olympic gold at Paris 2024 came to an end on Thursday. The 23-year-old from Poland had been a strong favourite to win the women's singles event. Not only is Swiatek ranked first in the WTA rankings, she has won the French Open at Roland Garros in four of the past five years. But her 25-match winning streak on the famous Paris clay was ended on Thursday when she lost 6-2 7-5 to China's Qinwen Zheng.

Gauff, the reigning US Open champion, lost 7-6 (7), 6-2 to Donna Vekic of Croatia in a third-round match in Paris on Tuesday as her single's ambitions came to a miserable end.

American tennis star Coco Gauff was left in tears after getting into a heated argument with an umpire before being dumped out of the women's singles at the Olympic Games. Gauff, the reigning US Open champion, lost 7-6 (7), 6-2 to Donna Vekic of Croatia in a third-round singles match in Paris on Tuesday. She was already trailing by a lot when the episode happened two games from the end of the match, after the 20-year-old hit a serve and Vekic's return landed near the baseline.

The top female players continue to struggle at the All England Club - Barbora Krejcikova was the seventh first-time winner in a row - but the absence of superstar names did not detract from a thrilling climax to the women's event. For the first time in the Open Era, both semi-finals and the final all went to a deciding set. Jasmine Paolini's semi-final against Donna Vekic was the longest Wimbledon semi-final ever and the match of the tournament, a draining, 2hr 51min epic. And Krejcikova's emotional victory in the final, under the star of her mentor Jana Novotna, was a poetic finale.

NATHAN SALT AT WIMBLEDON: Back home in the Tuscan commune of Bagni di Luca, Jasmine Paolini's grandma watched with tears in her eyes. In a region famed for its hot springs and its tight-knit community of just over 6,000 people, Queen Jasmine, as she was dubbed on the front page of Tuttosport on Friday morning, is the talk of town after reaching the final at Wimbledon. Despite dropping the opening set to Donna Vekic, Paolini's never-say-die attitude kicked in and she clawed her way back into the match before holding her nerve in a deciding set tie-break to edge it.

IAN HERBERT AND RIATH AL-SAMARRAI ON CENTRE COURT: Mrs Paolini wasn't the only one. It's a mere two weeks since the Italian seventh seed, who stands 5ft 3in with a 75mph second serve, secured her first tour-level win on grass, at Eastbourne. But she competed on Thursday in the longest, and one of the greatest, women's semi-finals these Championships have known - emerging with a place in a Wimbledon final, to go with the one she reached at last month's French Open in Paris.

Emma Raducanu enjoyed some down time from Wimbledon as she went for lunch with fellow tennis pro Fran Jones in London on Wednesday. The tennis star, 21, and her pal, 23, looked in good spirits as they caught up while dining al fresco. Emma cut a casual figure for the day as she sported a bright red T-shirt which she paired with matching trainers and dark blue jeans.

Annabel Croft returned to Wimbledon 's Centre Court on Thursday, only this time as a spectator as Jasmine Paolini played Donna Vekic for a place in the final. The former tennis player - now a regular contributor to TV and radio coverage of the annual championship - caught the eye in a seasonal floral print summer dress as she took her seat at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club. Croft, 57, is co-hosting this year's tournament for the BBC little more than a year after losing her husband Mel Coleman to stomach cancer .

NATHAN SALT AT WIMBLEDON: Emma Raducanu 's Wimbledon dream was crushed on Centre Court by New Zealand qualifier Lulu Sun - who is in only her second ever Grand Slam. A worrying medical time-out at the start of the third set, where Raducanu received treatment on her back and her right ankle, caused concern from a partisan home crowd and their support was not enough to will her over the line as Sun, who was reduced to tears at the end, won 6-2, 5-7, 6-2. Sun, who faces Donna Vekic in the last eight, is looking to emulate Raducanu and become only the second qualifier ever to go on and win a Grand Slam.

The Australian Open comes a day early in 2024, with tennis fans taking a day off on Sunday to see how many Australians have won a spot in the Australian Open main draw, who are opponents, and how likely they will progress beyond the first rounds.

MIKE DICKSON IN MELBOURNE: With Emma Raducanu's physical condition, the week begins, a new year brings with renewed concern about her second withdrawal of the week ahead of the Australian Open. Following her cancellation of a planned exhibition match against Donna Vekic that was supposed to be played on Tuesday night, the 21-year-old from Kent has postponed her scheduled match against Russian teenager Mirra Andreeva on Thursday at the Kooyong Classic. On Wednesday lunchtime, her representatives informed the organisers at Kooyong, the former Open venue in Melbourne's suburbs, that she would not be able to fulfill her commitment.

Marta Kostyuk, a Ukrainian tennis player, was disqualified from her finals match against Russian actress Mirra Andreeva at the 2023 Negometal Open de Bourg-de-Peage tournament on Sunday. The two were supposed to compete in the women's final of the exhibition competition, but the world No. 39 pulled out just hours before the match was set to begin. Kostyuk had stepped in as a replacement for Donna Vekic, who had been forced to leave the event due to shoulder pain.

Amarissa Toth (right), a Hungarian player whose 'disgusting' performance against Zhang Shuai stunned the tennis world, has denied that her behavior was inappropriate. After the 20-year-old erased a ball marker after a contested line call, Zhang, a former world No. 22, was released from the clay court match in floods of tears. The 34-year-old had struck a crosscourt forehand that appeared to land on the line, but only for the umpire to call the shot out.

With 87 matches on the order of play, a relatively dry weather forecast, and household names on the outer courts, the £27 ground pass was a contender for this year's best value ticket in sport. Bearing that in mind, and with just eight matches completed on Tuesday, this reporter decided against taking action in one of the All England Club's 18 courts in one day.

On Wednesday, Sloane Stephens started the ball rolling for the American Wimbledon hopefuls, who secured a 6-2, 6-3 victory over Rebecca Peterson in the second round. The 2017 US Open champion had to wait a day to start her SW19 campaign, but she wasn't concerned about her appearance in the next round. Stephens, a Florida native, advanced to a second-round match with No. 2 pending. Donna Vekic, a 20 seed, was born on Thursday.

Lesia Tsurenko of Ukraine has reported that she withdrew from the Indian Wells Masters after being in the midst of a debate with WTA chief executive Steve Simon. In the third round of the Australian Open Championships, World No. 95 Tsurenko had intended to face Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, but the Australian Open champion was given a walkover. Tsurenko said it came after Simon's answers in their discussion about tennis's reaction to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which left her 'completely shocked.'

A tennis official has shed light on what really transpired behind the scenes when Nick Kyrgios made a vulgar on-court remark to Stan Wawrinka about his then-girlfriend Donna Vekic at the Canadian Open in 2015, fearing that the situation would deteriorate into a real contest in the change rooms.