The team of Martina Hingis & Sania Mirza continued their dominant women’s doubles play Sunday afternoon, defeating the number four seeds, Casey Dellacqua & Yaroslava Shvedova, 6-3, 6-3 to win the U.S. Open Women’s Doubles Title and their second straight Grand Slam title. The top-seeded duo of Hingis & Mirza hit 26 winners to just…
In the 2015 U.S. Open Girls Singles final, American Sofia Kenin fell to second-seeded Dalma Galfi of Hungary, 7-5, 6-4. Kenin began her fortnight earlier than Galfi, as her win in Kalamazoo, Mich. earned her a main draw wildcard, where she lost to Mariana Duque-Mariño in straight sets. In juniors, the 16-year-old American breezed through the draw,…
World number one-ranked junior Taylor Fritz of Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. captured the U.S. Open Boys Singles title on Sunday, defeating fellow countryman and number five seed Tommy Paul, 6-2, 6-7(4), 6-2, at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. Fritz joins Paul, who beat Fritz in the French Open Boys Final in June, and Reilly Opelka (Wimbledon) as Americans…
In another chapter of the Novak Djokovic-Roger Federer rivalry, it was Djokovic once again who came out on top. The world number one from Serbia captured the 10th Grand Slam title of his career and his third in 2015, beating Federer 6-3, 5-7, 6-4, 6-2 in nearly three and a half hours on Sunday evening…
The 2015 U.S. Open comes to an end Sunday as champions will be crowned in Men’s Singles, Women’s Doubles, and Juniors Boys and Girls. The marquee match of the day will be played on Louis Armstrong Stadium, as for the 42nd time in their careers, world number one Novak Djokovic will face world number two…
The UCLA pair of Mackenzie McDonald and Robin Anderson swept the second annual American Collegiate Invitational titles Saturday. The 20-year-old McDonald of Piedmont, Calif. beat Vanderbilt 22-year-old graduate Gonzales Austin of Miami, 6-2, 7-5, in the men's final. Anderson, a 22-year-old from Matawan, N.J. who was a senior in 2015, beat fellow UCLA grad, 21-year-old…
Paul and Fritz to Play in All-American Boys’ Final Two American boys will battle it out for a junior Grand Slam singles title for the second time this year at a major, and once again it’s Taylor Fritz and Tommy Paul left standing. The pair each won their respective semifinals Saturday at the U.S. Open…
On day two of the 2015 American Collegiate Invitational, UCLA owned the courts at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing, N.Y. It'll be an all-Bruins final in the women's draw, as teammates and long-time friends Robin Anderson and Chanelle Van Nguyen will face off after each advanced past their semifinal opponents on Friday in…
Italian Flavia Pennetta captured the first Grand Slam title of her career Saturday, beating her compatriot Roberta Vinci 7-6(4), 6-2 on an overcast day in Flushing Meadows. While Pennetta needed just an hour to beat her semifinal opponent, second-seed Simona Halep, on Friday, Vinci spent a lot of physical and emotional energy to shock Serena…
While many people, including ESPN and the U.S. Open, are disappointed that Serena Williams will not be participating in the women’s singles final on Saturday, the matchup between Italians Flavia Pennetta and Roberta Vinci is an intriguing one, and the two will both be seeking their first career Grand Slam title when they face off…