The USTA and Intercollegiate Tennis Association has announced the fields for the 2011 USTA/ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships, which will take place at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center’s Indoor Building Nov. 3-6. The men’s field will feature reigning ITA All-American champion Mitchell Frank and the ITA’s top-ranked player Alex Domijan, both of…
Several of the biggest names in tennis came together at the 19th annual WTT Smash Hits presented by GEICO at Cleveland Public Hall, raising more than $500,000 for the Elton John AIDS Foundation and the AIDS Taskforce of Greater Cleveland. Team Elton rallied to win the match over Team Billie Jean 19-18 in front of…
Russian Maria Sharapova’s withdrawal from the season-ending WTA Championships, has ensured that Caroline Wozniacki would end the year as world number one. Wozniacki lost her match yesterday at the WTA Championships in three sets 6-2, 4-6, 6-3 to Russian Vera Zvonareva. But with world number two Sharapova out of the tournament, the loss in her second round-robin…
After losing her second straight match, Maria Sharapova of Russia has pulled out of the WTA Championships with a sore ankle Wednesday. Sharapova entered the tournament after sitting out since withdrawing in the quarterfinals in Tokyo last month due to an ankle injury. After losing 7-6(4), 6-4 to Li Na of China in her second…
At the end of the outdoor season, Prospect Park Tennis Center holds an end of the year tournament open to the public. The tournament features a men’s and women’s singles bracket, a men’s and women’s doubles bracket, and a mixed-doubles bracket. Now celebrating its fifth year, the Prospect Park Championships has grown from a modest…
Tennis Channel and the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA), the governing body of women’s professional tennis, have extended their programming agreement through 2016, ensuring the network’s place as the year-round home of such stars as Maria Sharapova, Kim Clijsters, and sisters Venus and Serena Williams. The six-year deal keeps at least a dozen Premier-level tournaments on…
World number two-ranked Maria Sharapova, who played her first match since pulling out of the quarterfinals in Tokyo with an ankle injury last month, was thoroughly outplayed by U.S. Open winner Samantha Stosur in their opening match in the White Group of the 2011 WTA Championships in Istanbul, Turkey, falling to the Australian, 6-1, 7-5. Stosur breezed through…
The top-seed Frenchman Gilles Simon, along with the number three seed, Alexandr Dolgopolov from the Ukraine, have been knocked out in the first round of the St. Petersburg Open. Simon was defeated by Adrian Mannarino from France in three sets, 2-6, 6-4, 6-4. On the other side, Dolgopolov was taken down by the Israeli wild-card…
John McEnroe has taken down Todd Martin in a 8-5 victory to win the HSBC Tennis Cup for his first title since 2009. "Wow! To finally get a win on the series this year feels amazing. I thought I had a chance tonight, and got off to a great start in the finals against Todd….
Maria Sharapova from Russia and Caroline Wozniacki from Denmark will front the two round-robin pools for the WTA Championships to be held in Turkey this upcoming week. In the red pool, Wozniacki will be joined by Petra Kvitova, Vera Zvonareva, and Agnieszka Radwanska. In the white pool, Sharapova will be joined by Victoria Azarenka, Li…