Switzerland’s Roger Federer defeated hometown favorite Andy Murray, 4-6, 7-5, 6-3, 6-4, on Sunday to capture the 2012 Wimbledon Men’s Singles Championship in three hours and 24 minutes. The win marks Federer’s seventh Wimbledon crown, having won in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009 and now in 2012. Federer joins only William Renshaw and Pete Sampras as…
Serena Williams defeated Poland’s Agnieszka Radwanska, 6-1, 5-7, 6-2 on Saturday to capture the 2012 Wimbledon Women’s Singles Championship. The win marked Serena’s fifth women’s singles title on the grass courts of the All England Lawn Tennis Club and the 14th Grand Slam title of her career. Serena is now tied with sister Venus Williams…
Wild card entrants Jonathan Marray & Frederik Nielsen defeated the second-seeded and defending Wimbledon champions, Bob & Mike Bryan, 6-4, 7-6(9), 6-7(4), 7-6(5) to become the first men’s wild card pair to reach the doubles final in the history of the event. “They’ve won all these tournaments many times over. To actually beat them in our…
Roger Federer secured his place in a record eighth Wimbledon final as he dethroned reigning champion Novak Djokovic on Friday in four sets, 6-3, 3-6, 6-4, 6-3. Federer, a six-time Wimbledon champ, will face Great Britain’s Andy Murray on Sunday in the men’s singles finals. "It’s always nice beating someone like Novak, who has done so…
A team of volunteers from USTA Eastern’s Metro Region didn’t just walk the walk on June 23. They talked the talk, as they worked to promote tennis to more than 1,400 people at the at the New York City Arthritis Walk in Battery Park. The volunteers handed out USTA Eastern pedometers, sunscreens and pens, and…
Andy Murray defeated France’s Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, 6-3, 6-4, 3-6, 7-5 to advance to the finals of Wimbledon 2012. Murray becomes the first British man in 74 years to reach the finals of the All England Lawn Tennis Club where he will face Switzerland’s Roger Federer on Sunday. Murray is attempting to win his first Grand…
USTA Player Development has announced that it will award wild cards into the 2012 U.S. Open to the American woman and the American man who earn the most ranking points at select USTA Pro Circuit events this summer. The USTA first used this format for its 2012 French Open wild cards, won by Melanie Oudin…
The third-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland reached her first ever Grand Slam women’s singles finals on Thursday after a 6-3, 6-4 win over Germany’s Angelique Kerber in the semifinals of Wimbledon 2012. Radwanska will face American Serena Williams in Saturday’s finals. Radwanska is the first Polish woman to reach a major final since 1939, when Jadwiga Jedrzejowska lost in the French Championships….
Six-time Wimbledon champ Roger Federer of Switzerland and last year’s winner Novak Djokovic of Serbia will meet each other in the semifinals on grass for the first time in their 27th head-to-head meeting. Federer is seeking a record-tying seventh Wimbledon title after losing in the quarterfinals the past two years. "It is interesting that this is…
Long Island native Scott Lipsky and his doubles partner, Rajeev Ram, came just short of shocking the second-seeded team of Mark and Bob Bryan in the men’s doubles quarterfinals at Wimbledon this morning, but fell 7-5, 3-6, 7-5, 4-6, 4-6. Lipsky & Ram put the heat on the Bryans early in the match and took…