Professional Tennis
The opening week of the 2017 tennis season wrapped up over the weekend but not before delivering us with some highly entertaining tennis to open up the new year, none more exciting than Novak Djokovic’s three-set victory over world number one Andy Murray to win the ExxonMobil Open title in Doha, Qatar. Djokovic held off…
Novak Djokovic saved five match points on Friday, fighting back from a set down to beat Spaniard Fernando Verdasco 4-6, 7-6(3), 6-3 and reach the ExxonMobil Open final in Doha, Qatar. “I would like to say tough luck for Fernando, he was clearly the better player for the bigger part of the match and he…
The good opening week of the season for American women continued on Friday, as both Lauren Davis and Alison Riske moved into the finals of their respective tournaments. Riske advanced to the Shenzhen Open final, while Davis advanced to the ASB Classic title match. Davis took on seventh-seed Latvian Jelena Ostapenko, and dropped the opening…
Top-seed Milos Raonic came back from a set down to beat fifth-seed Rafael Nadal 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 and reach the Brisbane semifinals on Friday. “I played very well and I did a lot of very good things,” said Raonic. “I obviously served well…I started creating opportunities. I was dictating, which wasn’t necessarily the case at…
American Alison Riske knocked off top-seed Agnieszka Radwanska to reach the Shenzhen Open semifinals. American Alison Riske advanced to the semifinals of the Shenzhen Open on Thursday, knocking off top-seed Agnieszka Radwanska 6-2, 3-6, 6-0 as a part of multiple upsets across the WTA spectrum on Thursday. “I was just kind of focusing on one…
American Madison Brengle notched the biggest win of her career overnight, knocking off world number two and compatriot Serena Williams 6-4, 6-7(3), 6-4 in the second-round of the ASB Classic in Auckland, New Zealand. “I just tried to concentrate on every point and run down every ball,” said Brengle. “It was difficult conditions…I tried to…
The first professional tennis event in Brooklyn since 1935 will take place this weekend, as John McEnroe, Andy Roddick, James Blake and Jim Courier will play at the Barclays Center in the PowerShares QQQ Cup this Saturday, January 7. “I’m very excited. I’ve seen the facility as a fan when I went to a Jay-Z…
Serbia’s Ana Ivanovic, 29, announced her retirement from professional tennis on Wednesday afternoon, stepping away from the game after 13 years. “After 13 years of playing tennis professionally, I have taken the extremely difficult decision to retire from competitive tennis,” Ivanovic posted in a message…
Eighth-ranked Madison Keys will miss the Australian Open to start 2017. The American announced on social media that she won’t be ready for the start of the season as she continues to recover from the wrist surgery she had after the WTA Finals in October. “I will not be ready to play the 2017 Australian…
Former U.S. Open champion Juan Martin del Potro says he has still not made a decision on whether he will play in next month’s Australian Open. “If I’m smart, I know that I have 15 days of practice left for Australia and for my first tournament, and that’s a goal I’m not going to make,”…