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Rainer Schüttler. Photo Wikimedia Commons

Rainer Schüttler on tennis, retirement and coaching Lithuania’s Ričardas Berankis

April 1, 2015 Aleksejus Podpruginas 0

Rainer Schüttler is one of the best German tennis players. After 17 years of intensive career, he retired in October 2012. Today, he is working with his former coach Dirk Hordorff and coaching several players, including Lithuania’s number-one Ričardas Berankis, whom Schuttler would like to see among the world’s top 50 players. […]

Ričardas Berankis qualifies for ATP Masters Series in Miami

March 18, 2015 Aleksejus Podpruginas 0

Great news for Lithuania’s best tennis player Ričardas Berankis. He has qualified for the main event in one of the biggest tennis tournaments of the season: ATP 1000 Masters Series Miami. […]

Lithuania no match for Poland in Davis Cup

March 9, 2015 Aleksejus Podpruginas 0

In their first appearance in the Europe / Africa group zone I, Lithuania played in Poland against the hosting team. In the end, Poland was too big a challenge for Lithuanian tennis players. The score after the three days of playing was 3-2. […]

Ričardas Berankis (A. Nurkiewicz/Mediasport nuotr.)

Davis cup: Lithuania to face Poland

March 4, 2015 Aleksejus Podpruginas 0

Lithuania will appear for the first time in the Europe / Africa group zone I to face Poland. The meeting will take place in Orlen Arena, Plock, Poland, and will start this Friday (March 5th – 7th). It will be the second time that the nations are meeting in tennis court. The previous occasion was 20 years ago when Poland won. […]

ATP world ranking: Hard fall for Laurynas Grigelis

February 17, 2015 Aleksejus Podpruginas 0

The new ATP rankings were published Monday, when the second-best Lithuanian tennis player, Laurynas Grigelis, is losing high. The 23-year-old lost 44 places and is now Number 411 in the world. […]

Lithuanian tennis players move up ATP rankings

February 9, 2015 Aleksejus Podpruginas 0

This Monday, the new world ranking was published. All five Lithuanian tennis players that were ranked have improved their positions. […]

Tennis: K.A elimination for Berankis

January 21, 2015 Alex Tigani 0

Ričardas Berankis was unable to match South African Kevin Anderson in today’s Australian Open, bowing out of his second round affair in straight sets 6-2 6-2 7(7)-6(3). […]

Ričardas Berankis takes on Dutchman Igor Sijsling at Australian Open. Photo by Alex Tigani

Tennis: Berankis endures the Sijsling heat

January 20, 2015 Alex Tigani 0

TENNIS star Ričardas Berankis will enter tomorrow afternoon’s Australian Open action well rested following his opening round battle with Dutchman Igor Sijsling on Monday. […]

Tennis: Ričardas Berankis back in Top 100

November 5, 2014 Aleksejus Podpruginas 0

One week before the end of the 2014 season in tennis, Lithuania’s number-one player Ričardas Berankis managed to reach the 96th place in the ATP world ranking. His coach, Dirk Hordorff, believes “that Berankis has the skills, the talent and the working attitude to reach higher ranking”. […]

Lithuania Tribune sports writer Alex Tigani pictured with Ričardas Berankis three years later in 2013. Photo courtesy of Alex Tigani.

On this day in Sport: 9 July

July 9, 2014 Alex Tigani 0

Ričardas Berankis, Laurynas Grigelis, Dovydas Šakinis and Lukas Mugevičius may never have been household names for the world tennis community however these four boys had an entire nation behind their back, on this day in 2010. […]

After Nausėda meeting with Budrys, the opposition retorts to the candidate’s “cooling off “

November 22, 2024 0

Kęstutis Budrys, the President’s Senior Adviser, who has been nominated for the post of Minister of foreign affairs, does not say whether he first discussed the possibility of taking up the post with President Gitanas […]

“No need to mince words”: an assessment of what Trump’s victory means for Lithuania

November 6, 2024 0

“We can shout very loudly, but it won’t change the position of the American people,” says Professor Tomas Janeliūnas, as the winner of the United States of America’s (USA) presidential election, which will almost certainly […]

Another year in the sovereign history of Kazakhstan

October 24, 2024 0

Republic Day has been celebrated in Kazakhstan as the main national date since 2022, giving new life to the fundamental document on state sovereignty—the Declaration of October 25, 1990. The Republic is a modern form […]

In the assessment of NATO’s readiness for war with Russia, there is also a warning about the Baltic states: what is the Kremlin’s wild card?

October 23, 2024 0

According to Lrytas.lt, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) faces a new geopolitical reality with the large-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. While the Alliance has begun responding to emerging threats, its readiness for […]

These parties will enter the Seimas for the third time in a row. How many votes did they lose, and how many did they gain?

October 15, 2024 0

As various parties emerge, disappear or reorganize themselves in the political space, the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP), the Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats (Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats – TS-LKD) and the Liberal Movement are making […]