It was a busy weekend across the ATP and WTA Tours with many big-time tournaments taking place across the world. Ukraine’s Elina Svitolina is the first player from her country to crack the top 10 of the WTA Tour, and she did so by winning the biggest title of her career on Saturday, winning the…
Still rounding himself back into form after a long layoff, Argentina’s Juan Martin del Potro showed some signs of rust in his second round match at the Delray Beach Open on Thursday, but hung on to defeat Damir Dzumhur of Bosnia-Herzegovina 7-6(5), 4-6, 6-3 and reach the quarterfinals. “It was a really tough match for…
The annual BNP Paribas Showdown has a rich history of junior matches featuring some of the world’s best young tennis talent. This year Zane Khan will take on Nathan Han in an opening match presented by HEAD Penn Racquet Sports at Madison Square Garden on March 6, it was announced today. The stars of tomorrow…
American teenager CiCi Bellis notched the biggest win of her young and promising career on Wednesday, defeating fourth-seed Agnieszka Radwanska 6-4, 2-6, 6-2 to reach the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships quarterfinals. Bellis was playing in her first main draw of 2017 after sitting out some early season tournaments with a hip injury but hasn’t…
Top-seeded Canadian Milos Raonic powered his way into the Delray Beach Open second round on Tuesday, blowing past American qualifier Tim Smyczek 6-1, 6-4. “Overall, I have to be happy. I haven’t played much tennis over the last few weeks, and I really put in as much work as I could over the last week…
Photo courtesy of ITA Tennis The University of Virginia hadn’t lost a point in its first three matches at the 2017 ITA Division I National Men’s Team Indoor Championship. In Monday’s final against No. 3 Ohio State, the top-seeded Cavaliers conceded a point, and while on paper their 4-1 victory looked routine, it was anything…
Delray Beach 2011 champion Juan Martin del Potro and 2012 champion Kevin Anderson will square off in the first round of the 2017 Delray Beach Open, giving the tournament a prime-time first-round match-up on Tuesday at 8:00 p.m. Del Potro, the 2009 US Open champion, is opening his 2017 season in Delray Beach while Anderson is hoping to return to the Top…
American Ryan Harrison captured the first ATP World Tour Title of his career by winning the Memphis Open crown on Sunday. American Ryan Harrison captured the first ATP World Tour title of his career over the weekend, downing Nikoloz Basilashvili 6-1, 6-4 to win the Memphis Open title on Sunday. Harrison stormed through the Memphis…
The Columbia men’s tennis team won all three of its weekend matches at the East Coast Athletic Conference (ECAC) Championships at Princeton University, culminating in a 4-1 victory over Cornell on Sunday to win its first ECAC Championship since 2014. The Lions entered the weekend ranked 19th in the country and played like the best…
The New York Empire presented by Citi have selected Mylan World TeamTennis veteran and ATP World Tour No. 23-ranked John Isner, top WTA Tour player Eugenie Bouchard and longtime former ATP Tour veteran Mardy Fish as its marquee players for the 2017 summer season. Isner, Bouchard and Fish were selected in Thursday’s Mylan World TeamTennis Marquee Draft….