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On tap today: The PTPA amends its lawsuit against “the cartel,” an unexpected emotional win for Emma Raducanu, Bernard Tomic gambles and wins, Dan Evans takes on Tommy Paul, plus more tennis news today.

Let’s tennis!

Three Points

🎾 Rethinking: The Professional Tennis Players Association has amended its antitrust lawsuit against the governing bodies of tennis. Per The Athletic, the PTPA removed the International Tennis Federation and the International Tennis Integrity Agency from the filing in New York City, leaving the ATP and the WTA as the two defendants in the lawsuit. And public criticisms about tour scheduling by players such as Coco Gauff and Carlos Alcaraz that were in the original complaint were removed after the two players said they were unaware of the lawsuit and did not support it.

  • Noteworthy: None of the sport’s top stars are among the 14 named plaintiffs in the case, including Novak Djokovic, who co-founded the PTPA.
  • What he said: “To be quite frank with you, there are things that I agree with in the lawsuit and there are also things that I don’t agree with,” Djokovic said in March, shortly after the lawsuit was filed. “I found that maybe some wording was quite strong in there.”

🎾 The support she needed: After her three-set win over Ann Li, Emma Raducanu was perhaps a bit more emotional than you might expect from a first-round win. But it wasn’t from the win. “I received some pretty bad news, so I would like to keep it personal, but it was difficult and very emotional at the end, and probably just a release of different emotions,” she said after the match.

  • A helping hand: “It’s nice whenever the schedule works,” Raducanu said when asked about the presence of the British number five, Fran Jones. “We like to be there for each other, and today, obviously she’s a close friend of mine, so she knew what was going on behind the scenes, and to have her support there on a day like today means so much to me.”

🎾 There’s a first (in four years) for everything: Bernard Tomic logged his first tour-level win in more than four years on Tuesday. The 32-year-old Australian moved past countryman Rinky Hijikata for a first-round win in Mallorca.

  • Noteworthy: Tomic made a tough call in entering Mallorca. It was either the guaranteed entry into the qualifying there or take a chance on getting into the qualifying at Wimbledon, where he was on the bubble of gaining entry.
  • Next: Tomic faces Roberto Bautista Agut on Wednesday. Tomic won their only grass meeting at Wimbledon, but that was nearly a decade ago.

And, that’s game.

Watch This!

🔥 Dan Evans vs. Tommy Paul (2nd round - ATP 500 - Eastbourne): Watch this one for a player who knows how to play all-court, classic grass court tennis against a player who has reached the top 10 by learning to win on all surfaces. Expect Evans to come in every chance he gets and force Paul to come up with the goods. Since Paul didn’t defend his title at Queen’s Club and nobody has seen him since Paris, it’s hard to know what kind of form he’s in.

  • The record: Tommy Paul and Dan Evans are tied at 1-1. Both of their matches came in 2022 and they have never faced off on grass.
  • On the line: Tommy Paul hasn’t played since Roland-Garros, so this is his only chance at preparing for Wimbledon in a competition situation. A first-match loss wouldn’t exactly build confidence in defending his quarterfinal points in the upcoming two weeks. For Evans, this is all about pride in front of a home crowd.

On The Radar

More tennis matches we’re monitoring today:

Bad Homburg - WTA 500 (Grass)

  • Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Maria Sakkari (2nd round)
  • Elina Svitolina vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia (2nd round)
  • Linda Noskova vs. Donna Vekic (2nd round)
  • Mirra Andreeva vs. Clara Tauson (2nd round)

Eastbourne - WTA 250 (Grass)

  • Jodie Burrage vs. Barbora Krejcikova (2nd round)
  • Maya Joint vs. Emma Raducanu (2nd round)
  • Alexandra Eala vs. Jelena Ostapenko (2nd round)
  • Kamilla Rakhimova vs. Peyton Stearns (2nd round)

Eastbourne - ATP 250 (Grass)

  • Taylor Fritz vs. Joao Fonseca (2nd round)
  • Jakub Mensik vs. Reilly Opelka (2nd round)
  • Marcos Giron vs. Jacob Fearnley (2nd round)
  • Nuno Borges vs. Jenson Brooksby (2nd round)

Mallorca - ATP 250 (Grass)

  • Ben Shelton vs. Learner Tien (2nd round)
  • Bernard Tomic vs. Roberto Bautista Agut (2nd round)
  • Alex Michelsen vs. Brandon Holt (2nd round)

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