Nineteen-year-old American Sloane Stephens shocked world number three-ranked and fellow American Serena Williams on Wednesday at the 2013 Australian Open, 3-6, 7-5, 6-4. The 29th-seeded Stephens advances to her first-ever Grand Slam semifinal with the win where she will face defending Australian Open Champion, top-ranked Victoria Azarenka, who overcame some early jitters to beat Svetlana Kuznetsova…
(2) Roger Federer vs. (7) Jo-Wilfried Tsonga The premier match of today’s schedule as two of world’s top seven men’s singles players will square off. Roger Federer is looking for his 18th Grand Slam title and leads their head to head meetings 8-3 lifetime. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga is coming off a fourth round win against Richard Gasquet…
Even after top-seeded Novak Djokovic’s five-plus-hour marathon match against Stanislas Wawrinka, the world number one showed no signs of any lasting fatigue to overcome Czech fifth seed Tomas Berdych 6-1, 4-6, 6-1, 6-4 on Tuesday and advance to the Australian Open semifinals. Djokovic, bidding to become the first man to win three successive Australian Open…
As Tennis Channel’s analysts Lindsay Davenport and Justin Gimelstob fulfill their current on-air duties during the network’s extensive coverage of the Australian Open, they will also debut their acting chops in a tennis-themed episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation on CBS on Wednesday, Jan. 23, at 10:00 p.m. ET. Davenport, a three-time Grand Slam champion, and…
Maria Sharapova continued her strong performance at the 2013 Australian Open with a straight-set win over Ekatrina Makarova en route to a semifinal matchup against Li Na. The number two-ranked Sharapova had a 6-2, 6-2 quarterfinal win over fellow Russian Makarova on Rod Laver Arena and has spent just five hours and15 minutes on court…
Today will begin the Quarterfinal round of both the mens and womens tournaments. On the mens side the big question is how Novak Djokovic will bounce back mentally when he faces 5th seeded Tomas Berdych. Djokovic, who is coming off a 5 hour epic win against Stanilas Wawrinka in the 4th round will need to be…
Serena Williams continued her run toward a third consecutive major title, beating Maria Kirilenko 6-2, 6-0 on Monday to reach the quarterfinals at the Australian Open. Her 57-minute win over Kirilenko extended her current winning streak to 20 matches. Williams has lost only one match since her first-round exit at the French Open last year. Since…
Roger Federer advanced to reach a 35th straight Grand Slam quarterfinal, knocking off Milos Raonic in straight sets 6-4, 7-6, 6-2 in a little under two hours. Raonic had success against Federer in previous meetings, but this time around, Federer took control and kept it throughout of their fourth round clash in Rod Laver Arena….
Maria Sharapova defeated Venus Williams 6-1, 6-3 in a lopsided match-up between Grand Slam champions on Friday night to reach the fourth round of the 2013 Australian Open. Sharapova and Venus have 11 majors combined—four for Sharapova, and seven for Venus. The 32-year-old Williams broke Sharapova as the Russian was serving for the victory at 6-1,…
Top-seeded Novak Djokovic defeated Radek Stepanek in straight sets 6-4, 6-3, 7-5 on Friday, extending his winning streak to 17 matches at the Australian Open. At Djokovic’s post-match news conference, the questions quickly turned from tennis to Lance Armstrong’s confessions about doping in cycling during his television interview with Oprah Winfrey in the U.S. Thursday night….