Andrey Rublev has been well known in the past year and a half from suffering with outbursts on the tennis court and this has continued into the new season at Indian Wells. Rublev has in particular ...

In St. Petersburg, Russian teenager Andrey Rublev faltered against Joao Sousa despite pushing the match to three sets. The 18-year-old attempted a Stan Wawrinka-esque over-the-knee racquet break ...

Rublev, 27 and the men’s world No. 9, is prone to fits of self-flagellation — often hammering at his body with his racket. On this occasion though, it was a line judge who felt the full force ...

Martinez's racquet smash is art and possibly even the greatest smash of all time. The GIF belongs in Newport's International Tennis Hall of Fame. Former Deadspin writerGiri Nathan summed it up ...

Rublev also found solace in speaking to Safin, who reached out following his tough first-round defeat at Wimbledon last year, where he smashed his knee with his racket multiple times.

‘That’s a racket smash and a half ... British veteran Andy Murray, meanwhile, faces fifth-seed Andrey Rublev in the second round after his opening victory over David Goffin.

Rublev, who'd earlier been in racquet-chucking mood while attempting to cope with de Minaur's never-say-die qualities, could only laugh wearily afterwards when quizzed about what it was like to ...