A week after scoring the biggest win of his career, a straight set win over 17th-seeded Benoit Paire in the first round of the Australian Open, Long Island’s Noah Rubin defeated Thibaud Berland 6-4, 2-6, 6-4 on Monday to reach the second round of the SportMaster Tennis Championships of Maui. Rubin secured one break point…
A week after scoring the biggest win of his career, a straight set win over 17th-seeded Benoit Paire in the first round of the Australian Open, Long Island’s Noah Rubin defeated Thibaud Berland 6-4, 2-6, 6-4 on Monday to reach the second round of the SportMaster Tennis Championships of Maui. Rubin secured one break point…
Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer both won their respective quarterfinal matchups in straight sets on Tuesday to reach the Australian Open semifinals, setting up the 45th meeting between these two all-time greats. Federer was up first and he took on the sixth-seeded Czech Tomas Berdych, and it was Berdych, the two-time semifinalist in Melbourne, who…
It wasn’t the best start for world number one Serena Williams, but the end result was just the same on Tuesday, as the American defeated fifth-seeded Russian Maria Sharapova for the 18th consecutive time with a 6-4, 6-1 victory to reach the Australian Open semifinals. Sharapova looked sharp early on, opening up a 2-0 advantage…
For the second straight year, the Columbia men’s tennis team will play at the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Division I National Indoor Championships after the Lions came from behind to beat Stanford 4-3 at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on Monday afternoon. Stanford won two of the three doubles matches to claim the doubles…
The ninth day of the Australian Open gets underway tonight as the first round of quarterfinals in the men’s and women’s singles draw will be played. There a lot of former champions vying for spots in the semifinals: Serena Williams, Maria Sharapova, Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic, making for great tennis on day nine in…
The PowerShares Series, the tennis circuit for champion players over the age of 30, released its schedule for its 12-city circuit for 2016 that starts in April. The players in the field this year are Andre Agassi, John McEnroe, Andy Roddick, Jim Courier, Mark Phillippoussis, James Blake and Mardy Fish. The final event of the…
Andre Agassi, John McEnroe, James Blake and Mardy Fish will compete in a PowerShares Series event—the circuit for champion tennis players over the age of 30—at the Connecticut Open presented by United Technologies, a WTA Premier event to be held Aug. 19-27, at the Connecticut Tennis Center at Yale, it was announced today by Tournament…
The Columbia Men’s tennis team defeated 22nd ranked Minnesota 4-0 on Sunday to advance to the ITA Kickoff Weekend championship match on Monday afternoon. The 16th ranked Lions earned the match’s doubles point by winning two of the three doubles contests. In singles, Victor Pham defeated Felix Corwin 6-3, 6-2 at second singles, Mike Vermeer…
Two-time Australian Open champion Victoria Azarenka pushed her way into the Australian Open quarterfinals on Monday, moving past the Czech Republic’s Barbora Strycova, 6-2, 6-4. While Strycova hit 23 winners to Azarenka’s 15, she also committed 33 unforced errors, and failed to capitalize on either of her two break point chances. On the other side,…