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  Rafael Nadal 2016 clay court season outfit

  Here’s the outfit Rafa Nadal will be wearing in Monte-Carlo, Barcelona, Madrid and Rome: Rafa’s shoe of choice, the NikeCourt Lunar Ballistec 1.5: Nadal’s outfit is available online on nike.com

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  Miami Open 2016: Novak Djokovic defeats Kei Nishikori

  Unstoppable. After his 6-2 6-0 win over Milos Raonic in the Indian Wells last week, Novak Djokovic dispatched Kei Nishikori 6-3 6-3 to win his third consecutive Miami Open title, his 28th Masters 100 tournament overall. Novak will now head back to Europe for the clay court season. Do you think he will win Roland […]

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  Miami Open 2016: Vika Azarenka defeats Svetlana Kuznetsova

  Victoria Azarenka dispatched Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-3 6-2 to win her third tournament of the year after Brisbane and Indian Wells. She’s the first woman to win the Indian Wells and Miami tournaments back-to-back since Kim Clijsters in 2005. The former number one, who only lost one match so far – her quarterfinal against Angelique Kerber […]

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  Roland Garros 2016: Angelique Kerber adidas outfit

  adidas and Y-3 have once again joined forces to create another standout collaboration ahead of Roland Garros 2016. The eye-catching collection is inspired by dazzle camouflage from the 40s and 50s. Here’s the dress Australian champion Angelique Kerber will don on the parisian clay courts: Also read: Stay tuned for more Roland Garros 2016 coverage.

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  Roland Garros 2016: Ana Ivanovic adidas outfit

  For the second year, adidas teams up with Y-3 to launch a highly distinctive collection for Roland Garros. Ana Ivanovic, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Angelique Kerber, Simona Halep and Tomas Berdych (check out his outfit here) among others will sport the 2016 adidas Roland Garros collection by Y-3, and so will the ball boys and girls. Here’s […]

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  Miami Open 2016: Novak Djokovic at practice

  Novak Djokovic qualified for the Miami Open final by beating David Goffin 7-6 6-4. Here are a few pictures of Djokovic practicing earlier this week.

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  Roland Garros 2016: Tomas Berdych adidas outfit

  Tomas Berdych, who switched from H&M to adidas earlier this year, unveiled his black and white zebra outfit for Roland Garros on instagram. He will wear these new designs by Yohji Yamamoto for adidas Y-3: Stay tuned for more Roland Garros 2016 coverage on Tennis Buzz.

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  Rio 2016: Australian Olympic team opening ceremony uniform

  The Australian Olympic Committee and Sportscraft, official outfitter of the Australian Olympic team, unveiled the opening ceremony uniforms for the Australian athletes in Rio. Sticking to the iconic green and gold, the athletes will don a green and white striped blazer with prominent national coat of arms on the upper pocket. The names of every […]

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Althea Gibson breaks the color barrier

From Tennis Confidential by Paul Fein (published in 1999): “Given the same chance as others have had, blacks would dominate our sport as they have in other sports”, asserted Arthur Ashe, tennis first black men’s champion, in 1968. For the first half of the twentieth century, blacks had no chance to compete at, let alone […]

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Arthur Ashe, the pioneer

From Love Thirty, three decades of champions by Rex Bellamy The achievements of Arthur Robert Ashe – known as ‘Bones’ when he was a skinny boy and as ‘The Shadow’ when he became a skinny celebrity – are remarkable not least because of the social and racial context in which he achieved them. His blood […]

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Around the grounds at Wimbledon in 1971

I stumbled upon those pictures a few months ago, and with Wimbledon kicking off tomorrow, I guess it’s more than time that I share them to you. Those pictures were taken by photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt who covered the 1971 tournament for Life Magazine. Enjoy: The Queue:

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