Professional Tennis
The USTA has announced that top 18-year-old Jared Donaldson, 2011 French Open Boys Champion Bjorn Fratangelo, 2012 Olympian Ryan Harrison, former Texas A&M All-American Austin Krajicek, 2015 NCAA champion Ryan Shane and 2015 USTA Boys 18s National Champion Frances Tiafoe have been awarded men’s singles main draw wild card entries into the 2015 U.S. Open,…
Playing in the second-to-last tournament of his career, American Mardy Fish turned in an outstanding performance in the Western & Southern Open first-round on Monday, beating 20th ranked Viktor Troicki 6-2, 6-2. “I was a little surprised at my level,” said Fish. “I hadn’t practiced a ton or particularly well for a little while. I…
Four-time Champion Caroline Wozniacki, Wimbledon finalist Garbine Muguruza and French Open finalist Lucie Safarova have all been awarded wild cards into the Connecticut Open, presented by United Technologies, it was announced by Tournament Director Anne Worcester. The WTA event, which is part of the Emirates Airline U.S. Open Series, will be held Aug. 21-29 at…
Andy Murray snapped an eight-match losing streak to world number one Novak Djokovic on Sunday, beating the Serb 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 to win the Rogers Cup title in Montreal. “To win this one was nice, especially the way the match went as well,” said Murray. “It would have been easy for me to let that…
The U.S. wheelchair tennis team won four medals this week at the Parapan American Games in Toronto. Kaitlyn Verfuerth of Port Washington, Wis., earned the women’s singles silver medal, while Jon Rydberg of Saint Paul, Minn., earned silver in men’s singles. Emmy Kaiser of Fort Mitchell, Ky., took home the women’s singles bronze medal with a win over Chile’s…
Simona Halep battled past Angelique Kerber on Thursday, getting past the 13th seeded German 6-3, 5-7, 6-4 to reach the Rogers Cup quarterfinals. Halep ended the seven-match winning streak of Kerber in a tough three-set affair. After Kerber edged out the second set 7-5, the German took a 3-2 lead in the deciding frame. Halep…
It was business as usual for the top seeds at the Rogers Cup in Montreal on Thursday, as the number one, two and four seeds all rolled to victories to reach the quarterfinals of the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournament. World number one and top-seeded Serb Novak Djokovic was one of the first matches…
Victoria Azarenka rolled past third-seeded Czech Petra Kvitova 6-2, 6-3 on Wednesday, notching her first win over a top four player since 2013. Azarenka came out firing against Kvitova, building a hefty 6-2, 4-1 lead. After Kvitova trimmed that lead to 3-4, Azarenka rattled off the next two games to close out the fourth-ranked player…
Rafael Nadal got his Rogers Cup tournament off to a winning start on Wednesday, downing Ukrainian Sergiy Stakhovsky 7-6(4), 6-3 to reach the third-round in Montreal. The seventh-seed Nadal had a chance to serve out the first set, but was broken by Stakhovsky to send the opening set into a tiebreak. Nadal outdueled him in…
World number one Serena Williams came out of the gate slow on Tuesday afternoon at the Rogers Cup in Toronto, but in typical Serena fashion, rallied back for a 2-6, 6-3, 6-0 victory over Italy’s Flavia Pennetta to move into the tournament’s third-round. After dropping the first set, Serena found herself down a break early…