The defending champion at the BNP Paribas Open Novak Djokovic moved into the fourth-round of the tournament on Monday, beating Spain’s Albert Ramos-Vinolas 7-5, 6-3. The world number one converted on four of his nine break point chances as he won in one hour and 25 minutes, but was not particularly pleased with his performance….
The NYIT men’s tennis team knocked off 41st-ranked Southeastern Oklahoma State 7-2 on Monday, handing the Savage Storm its first loss of the season and moving the Bears to 5-2 on the season. Despite losing the first singles match, 14th-ranked NYIT took control of the match in doubles play. Tiago Ferreira & Alberto Blesa knocked…
Two of the top 10 players in the world on the women’s side saw their runs at the BNP Paribas Open come to an end on Monday, as fifth-ranked Caroline Wozniacki and sixth-ranked Ana Ivanovic were eliminated in Indian Wells, Calif. Wozniacki took on 18-year-old Belinda Bencic of Switzerland, one of the WTA’s Rising Stars,…
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In Serena Williams’ return to Indian Wells on Friday, the best player in the world battled through emotions and nerves to squeak out a 7-5, 7-5 victory over Monica Niculescu in the second-round. With those emotions and nerves subsided, Serena cruised in her match on Sunday, rolling past 28th seeded Zarina Diyas 6-2, 6-0. She…
While a number of Americans pulled off some surprising victories on Sunday at the BNP Paribas Open, the biggest came from a Dutchman, as the Netherlands’ Robin Haase upset seventh-seeded Swiss Stan Wawrinka 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 to move into the Indian Wells third-round. Ranked 104th in the world, Haase came into Sunday’s contest with Wawrinka…
Sunday’s matches in Indian Wells, Calif. featured a number of different Americans in action on both sides of the draw, with some of the men pulling off upsets and advancing to the third round of the BNP Paribas Open. Donald Young, who has played some of the best tennis of his career thus far in…
For the first time since she sat crying in the locker room after defeating Kim Clijsters in a three-set match to win the Indian Wells Masters in 2001, world number one Serena Williams will return to the site she has boycotted for the last 14 years. “There are some who say I should never go…
The first round of the men’s draw at the BNP Paribas Masters in Indian Wells got underway on Thursday afternoon as one of the most popular players made his way back onto the court for the first time since August of 2013. Mardy Fish was ranked as high as number seven in the world before…
The second day of the BNP Paribas Masters in Indian Wells was kind to the American women, as four of the five Americans in action on Thursday won their first-round matches. In a tightly-contested all-American contest, Taylor Townsend edged Bethanie Mattek-Sands, 6-4, 5-7, 7-5. The 18-year-old fired seven aces and gave herself 20 break point…