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5 days ago | 
forbes.com | Tim Ellis |Timothy Donal Ellis
AHMEDABAD, INDIA - JUNE 2: Rajat Patidar of Royal Challengers Bengaluru (L) and Shreyas Iyer of ... More Punjab Kings (R) during the 2025 IPL Final match Captain's Photocall at Narendra Modi Stadium on June 2, 2025, in Ahmedabad, India. (Photo by Surjeet Yadav/MB Media/Getty Images)Getty ImagesIndia cricket’s Test team has taken the idiom “out with the old and in with the new” seriously after the recent retirements of Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli.
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6 days ago | 
forbes.com | Tim Ellis |Timothy Donal Ellis
When Jose Mourinho won the Premier League with Chelsea FC in 2015, he spoke about his admiration for tennis stars. "I have a special respect for the players because I think it’s not enough that they are physical or technical, it’s maybe the most important thing the mental point of view. ” At the French Open, Carlos Alcaraz appears to be reading from the Mourinho book of tennis truths after beating Ben Shelton 7-6 (8), 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 in the fourth round on Sunday.
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1 week ago | 
forbes.com | Tim Ellis |Timothy Donal Ellis
"She gets really fired up when she plays me - I don’t know why that is but she’s always played really well," Emma Raducanu told BBC Sport before her second-round match against Iga Swiatek on Wednesday. The Briton knew what was coming. Swiatek won 6-1, 6-2 on Philippe-Chatrier as she made short work of Raducanu yet again to make it 23 matches unbeaten at the French Open. The truth hurts in sport. Results speak louder than moments of hope.
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1 week ago | 
forbes.com | Tim Ellis |Timothy Donal Ellis
Emma Raducanu made positive strides at the Italian Open to reach the last 16, and her French Open dreams are still alive after the round of 128 on Monday. The 22-year-old beat China’s Wang Xinyu 7-5, 4-6, 6-3 after two and three-quarter hours of true grit. “Character and heart really came through today and I am really proud of that," Raducanu told TNT Sports afterwards. Raducanu’s day could easily have unraveled at 6-5 in the first set.
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2 weeks ago | 
forbes.com | Tim Ellis |Timothy Donal Ellis
England kick off a huge six months in their Test match calendar this Thursday when they welcome Zimbabwe to Trent Bridge for a four-day red-ball game. The last time the Chevrons came to play the long format in the United Kingdom, Jimmy Anderson took five wickets on debut as a callow 20-year-old with peroxide streaks. Twenty-two years later, Anderson is still plugging away for Lancashire.
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2 weeks ago | 
forbes.com | Tim Ellis |Timothy Donal Ellis
Carlos Alcaraz won his maiden Italian Open after defeating Jannik Sinner 7-6 (5), 6-1 in Rome on Sunday. The match was widely anticipated as a good barometer for the French Open at Roland Garros which starts on May 25. The Italian Open is a Mini Slam that has designs on becoming the fifth major. A retractable roof costing $67 million is slated for the 2028 tournament with increased capacity on Stadio Centrale.
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3 weeks ago | 
forbes.com | Tim Ellis |Timothy Donal Ellis
Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz are making their way towards the Roman amphitheater at the Campo Centrale on Sunday. Tommy Paul and Lorenzo Musetti tried their utmost to change the script at the Italian Open, but this was always a two-horse chariot race. A Sinner-Alcaraz final is the perfect denouement before another fortnight of combat begins at Roland Garros on May 25. Rome is one of the extended Masters 1000 events, one of seven ‘Mini Grand Slams’ in the calendar.
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3 weeks ago | 
forbes.com | Tim Ellis |Timothy Donal Ellis
Test matches often provide some of the greatest and dramatic memories in cricket. However, the last five days have been more traumatic for Indian fans of the global game. Skipper Rohit Sharma announced he was retiring from Tests on Wednesday, the IPL was suspended due to India-Pakistan tensions on Friday, and after a weekend of reports that he’s going, he’s going, Virat Kohli banged the gong on the red-ball game with immediate effect on Monday.
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4 weeks ago | 
forbes.com | Tim Ellis |Timothy Donal Ellis
New balls are called after the first seven games of a tennis set. When home favorite Fabio Fognini trailed 5-2 in his swansong at the Italian Open on Thursday, there was an announcement of far more global proportions. The big screen at the Campo Centrale court boomed out the news that Robert Prevost had become the new Pope to cheers from the crowd. Prevost, the first American to be elected to the papacy, took the name Leo XIV.
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1 month ago | 
forbes.com | Tim Ellis |Timothy Donal Ellis
Jannik Sinner’s much-anticipated return to the ATP Tour happens this week at the Italian Open in Rome after serving a three-month suspension for doping. There are worse ways to make a comeback to the circuit than in the country of your birth. Matteo Berrettini was a Wimbledon finalist and Lorenzo Musetti is a fabulous athlete. But Sinner makes hitting a ball look as easy as promoting a brand of Espresso on billboards. Forza, Lavazza.
