Professional Tennis
Twenty-one-time Grand Slam Champion Serena Williams will take on close friend and former world number one Caroline Wozniacki, while Stan Wawrinka will square off with French star Gael Monfils at the 9th Annual BNP Paribas Showdown at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday, March 8. The entertaining one-night tennis event, which is being held on World…
Maria Sharapova hung on to beat Simona Halep in a back and forth affair at the WTA Finals in Singapore on Tuesday, eventually outlasting the Romanian 6-4, 6-4 to win the round-robin contest. At 4-4 in the opening set, Sharapova turned up her level. She rattled off seven of the next eight games to build…
The WTA Finals in Singapore continued on Monday with two matches, as Garbine Muguruza and Angelique Kerber both picked up straight set victories. Muguruza, the youngest player in the tournament, beat Czech Republic’s Lucie Safarova 6-3, 7-6(3) to win her first match of the finals. The 22-year old Spaniard secured a break early on in the…
The USTA has announced the launch of the Australian Open Wild Card Challenge. The Wild Card Challenge, in its second year, will utilize the USTA Pro Circuit to award wild cards into the 2016 Australian Open. In this Wild Card Challenge, the American man and American woman who earn the most ATP World Tour and…
The USTA has announced that the Holua Tennis Center at Holua Resort at Mauna Loa Village in Kailua Kona, Hawaii, has been selected as the site for the 2016 Fed Cup by BNP Paribas World Group II First Round between the United States and Poland, Feb. 6-7. Fed Cup is the world’s largest annual international team competition…
With much of the professional tennis world's attention turned toward Asia, Taylor Fritz, Jennifer Brady and Michael Mmoh swept the singles titles available on home soil this past weekend, continuing young Americans' ascent of the pro ranks. Fritz (17, Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.), the world's top-ranked junior and 2015 U.S. Open Boys Singles Champion, won his second USTA Pro Circuit Challenger…
World number one Novak Djokovic continued his domination this year, downing 16th-seeded Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-2, 6-4 to win the Shanghai Rolex Masters for the ninth title of his season. The win comes on the heels of his victory at the China Open in Beijing. He went through both tournaments without dropping a single set,…
Venus Williams dominated Alize Cornet on Friday, rolling past the eighth-seed from France 6-1, 6-1 to reach the Hong Kong Tennis Open semifinals. The third-seeded American converted on all six of her break point chances and never gave Cornet any hope of getting into the match. “It’s never easy,” said Venus. “We had some tough…
Novak Djokovic made his way into the Shanghai Rolex Masters semifinals on Friday, defeating Australian Bernard Tomic 7-6(6), 6-1 to set up a matchup with familiar Andy Murray in the final four. Tomic was up for the Djokovic challenge early, rallying back from a 2-4 deficit to force a tie-breaker in the opening set. He…
Venus Williams cruised into the quarterfinals of the Hong Kong Tennis Open on Thursday, steamrolling Yafan Wang 6-0, 6-2 in a little over an hour. The third-seeded American came out swinging and made sure she would not be on the court long. She won the first seven games of the match, and despite Wang getting…