Professional Tennis
Novak Djokovic recorded his 250th career win at ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournaments on Tuesday, beating Brazilian Thomaz Bellucci 6-3, 7-6(4) in the Rogers Cup second-round. Bellucci played Djokovic tough, but was just never able to break the Serb. Djokovic broke once in the first set to take it 6-3, and then after both…
German Sabine Lisicki had to wait out a long rain delay to defeat American Venus Williams on Monday night, but did so in routine fashion, beating the American 6-0, 6-3 in a first-round matchup at the Rogers Cup in Toronto. The two didn’t take to the court until after 10:00 p.m. on Monday night, as…
Top American juniors Frances Tiafoe (17, College Park, Md.) and Sofia Kenin (16, Pembroke Pines, Fla.) won the USTA Boys and Girls 18s National Championships this past weekend, each earning wild cards into the main draw of the U.S. Open and headlining the annual USTA National Championships that took place last week. The nation’s top junior tennis…
Germany’s Angelique Kerber won her fourth title of the season on Sunday, beating Karolina Pliskova 6-3, 5-7, 6-4 to win the Bank of the West Classic trophy in Stanford. In this tightly-contested match that lasted over two hours, Kerber was just a bit more efficient than Pliskova. While Pliskova nearly doubled her up in the…
Two Americans found themselves in the Citi Open finals from Washington, D.C. on Sunday afternoon. On the women’s singles side, Sloane Stephens was seeking her first career WTA title, while John Isner looked to take down last year’s U.S. Open runner-up Kei Nishikori in the Men’s Singles Final. Stephens was playing in her first career…
American Varvara Lepchenko played lights out tennis on Thursday, defeating top-seed Caroline Wozniacki 6-4, 6-2 to reach the Bank of the West Classic quarterfinals in Stanford, Calif. Lepchenko fired 26 winners, committed just 17 unforced errors and broke four times to beat Wozniacki rather routinely. “I think I just followed my plan. I was doing…
For the first time since 2012, three Americans find themselves in the quarterfinals of the Citi Open in Washington, D.C, as eighth-seed John Isner, 15th-seeded Jack Sock and unseeded Steve Johnson all won their third round matches on Thursday. The most surprising victory of the three came from the unseeded Johnson, who upended sixth-seeded Bulgarian…
The USTA has announced the field for the 2015 U.S. Open Wheelchair Competition. The event, in its ninth year, will be held Sept. 10-13, at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing, N.Y. The 2015 U.S. Open Wheelchair Competition will feature a Men’s, Women’s and Quad Division, and will include six events: Men’s Singles,…
American Alison Riske notched the second Top 10 win of her career on Wednesday, downing 10th-ranked Carlos Suarez-Navarro 6-4, 6-4 to reach the Bank of the West Classic quarterfinals. Suarez-Navarro actually jumped out to a 3-1 lead in the opening set, but Riske snatched the break right back, and another break later in the frame…
Top-seeded Andy Murray was ousted from the Citi Open in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday night, getting upended in three sets by Teymuraz Gabashvili. The 30-year-old Russian hung on to beat Murray 6-4, 4-6, 7-6(4) in the second round matchup. After trading the first two sets, Murray seemed to finally break through late in the third…