Professional Tennis
In what was the best match of the day session on Monday, Americans John Isner and Frances Tiafoe squared off in what seemed more like a boxing match than a tennis match. Isner, who is known as one of the biggest hitters on the tour, was met by an aggressive Tiafoe, whose devastating forehand and…
American teenager CiCi Bellis continued to blow past opponents in the first round of the U.S. Open on Monday, rolling past Switzerland’s Viktorija Golubic 6-2, 6-3 to win her fourth consecutive match in Flushing Meadows. Bellis became the U.S. Open darling two years ago when she shocked Dominika Cibulkova in the opening round at the…
Caroline Wozniacki comes into this year’s U.S. Open finally healthy, after a year of battling injuries, but she is also in unfamiliar territory being unseeded. In her first match of the 2016 U.S. Open, she drew young American Taylor Townsend, playing the first ever match on the new 8,000-seat revamped Grandstand. Fans seeing this court…
Great Britain’s Kyle Edmund upset 13th-seeded Frenchman Richard Gasquet Monday morning at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, delivering the first major upset of the 2016 U.S. Open with a blistering 6-2, 6-2, 6-3 victory. Edmund came out firing from the onset, ripping five aces and converting on both of his break points…
Top-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska defeated the number 10 seed Elina Svitolina to win her first Connecticut Open title in New Haven, Conn., 6-1, 7-6(2). "First of all, I'd like to congratulate Elina for such a great week," Radwanska said. "You have a great team, especially with Justine [Henin] on your side. I remember one time only…
The 2016 U.S. Open begins Monday morning and the year’s final Grand Slam is wasting no time in getting the stars on court as four former champions plus a number of Americans get their campaigns underway on Day One. On Arthur Ashe Stadium, the Cinderella of last year’s U.S. Open, Roberta Vinci, kicks things off…
Long Island’s Noah Rubin had his U.S. Open qualifying round come to an end on Friday afternoon in front of a capacity crowd on Court 11 of the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, as third-seeded Russian Karen Khachanov outlasted Rubin 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 to qualify for the 2016 U.S. Open main draw. Rubin…
The stars of the sport get set to take over the New York area for the final Grand Slam of the year as we take a closer look at the men’s and women’s field vying for glory in Flushing Meadows, August 29-September 11, 2016 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, N.Y….
In a complete juxtaposition to his first-round qualifying match on Wednesday, Long Island’s Noah Rubin had to go the distance on Thursday, staving off Germany’s Michael Berrer and a rain delay to advance to the final round of U.S. Open qualifying with a 6-2, 4-6, 6-4 victory. Rubin broke to open up the match and…
For the second time this week, American Kristie Ahn won just one game in the opening set. And for the second time this week, she completed the comeback, this time taking out fifth-seeded Kai-Lin Zhang of China 1-6, 6-4, 6-3 at the 2016 U.S. Open Qualifiers at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center….