Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan have become the most successful doubles team of all-time after capturing their 13th major title at the Australian Open, defeating The Bryans share 84 titles since the Open Era began, followed by the team of Todd Woodbridge & Mark Woodforde with 61 titles. "It feels real good to have that record,"…
The top-seeded Women’s Doubles team of Sara Errani & Roberta Vinci of Italy won the first Australian Open title of 2013, beating the unseeded Australian duo of 16-year-old Ashleigh Barty & Casey Dellacqua 6-2, 3-6, 6-2 for the women’s doubles title. Barty & Dellacqua broke the Italian pair in the eighth game of the second set, then…
Andy Murray defeated Roger Federer 6-4, 6-7(5), 6-3, 6-7(2), 6-2 to advance to the finals of the 2013 Australian Open. It was Murray’s first-ever win over Federer, a 17-time Grand Slam champion, at a Grand Slam event. Awaiting Murray in the finals is Novak Djokovic, a 6-2, 6-2, 6-1 winner over the fourth-seeded David Ferrer on Thursday….
From the moment you meet Jennifer Bright, it is obvious that she is not like most others her age. She knows her skills, sets her goals high, and does what it takes to achieve them. Whether it’s spending an extra 10 minutes at the end of a tennis practice working on her down the line…
World number one-ranked Victoria Azarenka was able to hold off American teenager Sloane Stephens to reach the 2013 Australian Open finals, 6-1, 6-4. The top-seeded Azarenka asked for a medical timeout after wasting five match points with a sequence of forehand errors, but returned to quickly finish off her win on her sixth match point. After dropping…
China’s Li Na overpowered second-seeded Maria Sharapova 6-2, 6-2 to advance to the 2013 Australian Open women’s singles finals and a chance for her second Grand Slam title. Li, who won the 2011 French Open and was the losing finalist here to Kim Clijsters the same year, broke Sharapova’s serve in the fifth and seventh games…
Two-time defending Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic advanced to his third consecutive final Down Under with a 6-2, 6-2, 6-1 win over the fourth-seeded David Ferrer. Djokovic was in dominating form, hitting 30 crisp winners in the one-hour and 29-minute match. He is aiming to be the first man in the Open era to win three…
Davis Cup champions the Czech Republic will not have to worry about facing Roger Federer in the opening round of their defense after he was left out of Switzerland’s team for the Geneva tie. The 17-time Grand Slam champion, who is into the semifinals of the 2013 Australian Open, played twice for his country last year,…
Roger Federer defeated a very tough Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 7-6(4), 4-6, 7-6(4), 3-6, 6-3 to reach the Australian Open semifinals for a 10th consecutive year. The 17-time Grand Slam champion will next play U.S. Open winner Andy Murray, who advanced in straight sets over the unseeded Jeremy Chardy of France. Federer hadn’t dropped a service game…
The USTA and U.S. Davis Cup Captain Jim Courier has announced that world No. 13 John Isner, No. 22 Sam Querrey and 2012 Olympic doubles gold medalists Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan will represent the United States in the 2013 Davis Cup by BNP Paribas First Round tie against Brazil, Feb. 1-3. The tie will…