Photo courtesy of Flickr Creative Commons/Carine06 Daria Kasatkina scored the biggest win of her young career on Tuesday, downing world number one Angelique Kerber 7-6(5), 6-2 to reach the Apia International Sydney quarterfinals. While she enjoyed a fantastic season in 2016, Kasatkina was just 2-10 against top 10 players, and that trend continued early on…
Professional tennis returned to Brooklyn on Saturday night, as John McEnroe, Andy Roddick, James Blake and Jim Courier squared off in the PowerShares Series QQQ Cup at the Barclays Center, the final stop of the season for the North American tennis circuit for champion tennis players…
The opening week of the 2017 tennis season wrapped up over the weekend but not before delivering us with some highly entertaining tennis to open up the new year, none more exciting than Novak Djokovic’s three-set victory over world number one Andy Murray to win the ExxonMobil Open title in Doha, Qatar. Djokovic held off…
Novak Djokovic saved five match points on Friday, fighting back from a set down to beat Spaniard Fernando Verdasco 4-6, 7-6(3), 6-3 and reach the ExxonMobil Open final in Doha, Qatar. “I would like to say tough luck for Fernando, he was clearly the better player for the bigger part of the match and he…
The good opening week of the season for American women continued on Friday, as both Lauren Davis and Alison Riske moved into the finals of their respective tournaments. Riske advanced to the Shenzhen Open final, while Davis advanced to the ASB Classic title match. Davis took on seventh-seed Latvian Jelena Ostapenko, and dropped the opening…
Top-seed Milos Raonic came back from a set down to beat fifth-seed Rafael Nadal 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 and reach the Brisbane semifinals on Friday. “I played very well and I did a lot of very good things,” said Raonic. “I obviously served well…I started creating opportunities. I was dictating, which wasn’t necessarily the case at…
Credit photo to USTA The United States Tennis Association (USTA) today held the ceremonial “First Serve” at the USTA National Campus, the new “Home of American Tennis” located at Lake Nona in Orlando, Fla. Tennis icons, local dignitaries, partners and tennis enthusiasts were on hand to mark the occasion. The USTA National Campus officially opened…
American Alison Riske knocked off top-seed Agnieszka Radwanska to reach the Shenzhen Open semifinals. American Alison Riske advanced to the semifinals of the Shenzhen Open on Thursday, knocking off top-seed Agnieszka Radwanska 6-2, 3-6, 6-0 as a part of multiple upsets across the WTA spectrum on Thursday. “I was just kind of focusing on one…
American Madison Brengle notched the biggest win of her career overnight, knocking off world number two and compatriot Serena Williams 6-4, 6-7(3), 6-4 in the second-round of the ASB Classic in Auckland, New Zealand. “I just tried to concentrate on every point and run down every ball,” said Brengle. “It was difficult conditions…I tried to…
The first professional tennis event in Brooklyn since 1935 will take place this weekend, as John McEnroe, Andy Roddick, James Blake and Jim Courier will play at the Barclays Center in the PowerShares QQQ Cup this Saturday, January 7. “I’m very excited. I’ve seen the facility as a fan when I went to a Jay-Z…