Tennis Unfiltered

Laver Cup, BJK and Taylor Townsend's major U-turn

Calvin Betton, George Bellshaw, Molly McElwee and James Gray all have their say on the last week of tennis including...

  • Italy win the Billie Jean King Cup for the second year in a row, led by Jasmine Paolini and powered by "good vibes"
  • Great Britain reach another semi-final without No 1 Emma Raducanu and, despite winning the first set of both singles matches, are beaten 2-0 by the United States
  • Taylor Townsend gets in trouble over her criticism of Chinese cuisine in Shenzhen https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tennis/2025/09/17/tennis-player-involved-in-us-open-racism-row-mocks-chinese/
  • The other American Taylor - Fritz - and Alex de Minaur starred for Team World as they beat Team Europe in San Francisco to claim the Laver Cup 15-9, but did anyone notice or care?
  • Bjorn Borg has been diagnosed with an "extremely aggressive" form of prostate cancer

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