Spaniard Garbine Muguruza won her second straight match at the WTA Finals in Singapore on Wednesday, defeating Germany’s Angelique Kerber 6-4, 6-4 to move closer to the semifinals. Muguruza rattled off the final three games of the opener to erase a 3-4 deficit and take the first set 6-4. In the second set, she secured…
Twenty-one-time Grand Slam Champion Serena Williams will take on close friend and former world number one Caroline Wozniacki, while Stan Wawrinka will square off with French star Gael Monfils at the 9th Annual BNP Paribas Showdown at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday, March 8. The entertaining one-night tennis event, which is being held on World…
The Engineers of Brooklyn Tech upset Cardozo in the PSAL quarterfinals on Monday afternoon, downing the Lady Judges 3-2 to move into the “A” Division final four in New York City. As she has done all year, sophomore Nicole Semenov helped lead the way for Brooklyn Tech. She defeated Katherine Kachkarov of Cardozo 10-3 at…
Maria Sharapova hung on to beat Simona Halep in a back and forth affair at the WTA Finals in Singapore on Tuesday, eventually outlasting the Romanian 6-4, 6-4 to win the round-robin contest. At 4-4 in the opening set, Sharapova turned up her level. She rattled off seven of the next eight games to build…
The WTA Finals in Singapore continued on Monday with two matches, as Garbine Muguruza and Angelique Kerber both picked up straight set victories. Muguruza, the youngest player in the tournament, beat Czech Republic’s Lucie Safarova 6-3, 7-6(3) to win her first match of the finals. The 22-year old Spaniard secured a break early on in the…
The Brooklyn Tech Engineers moved into the quarterfinals of the “A” Division of the PSAL playoffs on Thursday afternoon, defeating 14th-seeded James Madison 4-1 at Fort Greene Park in Brooklyn, N.Y. Sophomore Nicole Semenov continued her outstanding play this season, remaining undefeated in singles action with a 10-0 win over Madison’s Rosa Aksanov. Chelsea Williams…
The USTA has announced the launch of the Australian Open Wild Card Challenge. The Wild Card Challenge, in its second year, will utilize the USTA Pro Circuit to award wild cards into the 2016 Australian Open. In this Wild Card Challenge, the American man and American woman who earn the most ATP World Tour and…
The first round of the PSAL team playoffs got underway in New York City on Wednesday, and ninth-seeded McKee/Staten Island Tech led the way in the “A” Division, downing the 16 seed, Eleanor Roosevelt, 5-0 to reach the second round. Top singles player Anastasiya Malinouskaya led the way for the Seagulls, moving past Kathryn Choodnovskiy…
The USTA has announced that the Holua Tennis Center at Holua Resort at Mauna Loa Village in Kailua Kona, Hawaii, has been selected as the site for the 2016 Fed Cup by BNP Paribas World Group II First Round between the United States and Poland, Feb. 6-7. Fed Cup is the world’s largest annual international team competition…
With much of the professional tennis world's attention turned toward Asia, Taylor Fritz, Jennifer Brady and Michael Mmoh swept the singles titles available on home soil this past weekend, continuing young Americans' ascent of the pro ranks. Fritz (17, Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.), the world's top-ranked junior and 2015 U.S. Open Boys Singles Champion, won his second USTA Pro Circuit Challenger…