Professional Tennis
Fourth-seeded Gael Monfils edged Mikhail Kukushkin 7-6(1), 6-4 to reach the final eight of the Gerry Weber Open on Thursday. After taking the first set in a tie-breaker, Monfils nailed down the lone break of the second set and went on to close out the match in straight sets. The Frenchman will meet Italian Andreas…
Top-seeded Simona Halep needed just 50 minutes to move into the Aegon Classic quarterfinals on Thursday, moving past Czech Klara Koukalova 6-1, 6-3. Halep dominated the match from the start, hitting 14 winners to just 12 unforced errors. On serve, she put together a 79 percent first-serve percentage and didn’t allow Koukalova any opportunity to…
Roger Federer cruised into the quarterfinals of the Gerry Weber Open in Halle, Germany on Wednesday, beating Latvia’s Ernests Gulbis 6-3, 7-5. Federer, the tournament’s top seed, improved his record to 3-2 over Gulbis by securing the lone break of the first set, and then nailed down a crucial break point at 5-5 in the…
Defending champion Ana Ivanovic was bounced from the Aegon Classic in Birmingham, falling to Michelle Larcher de Brito in the second round on Wednesday. The Portugal native beat Ivanovic 6-4, 3-6, 7-6(6) to move on. “It’s an unbelievable feeling—it was so nerve-racking towards the end of the tie-break,” said Larcher de Brito. “I felt a…
A day after top-seeded Rafael Nadal was bounced from the Aegon Championships, second-seed and French Open champion Stan Wawrinka saw his tournament run come to an end. South African Kevin Anderson beat Wawrinka 7-6(4), 7-6(11) on Wednesday to reach the quarterfinals at the Queens Club tournament. The win is the fourth straight for Anderson over…
The USTA has announced the three men and three women named to represent the United States at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, July 10-26. World number 63 Lauren Davis, world number 111 Louisa Chirico, and world number 112 Sachia Vickery were named to the women’s tennis team. The men’s tennis team will be comprised of Dennis Novikov, Jean-Yves Aubone and Gonzales Austin….
World number eight Ekaterina Makarova and American Sloane Stephens have committed to play the Connecticut Open presented by United Technologies, a WTA event that is part of the Emirates Airline U.S. Open Series to be held Aug. 21-29 at the Connecticut Tennis Center at Yale, as announced by Tournament Director Anne Worcester. The duo joins defending…
Stan Wawrinka won his first match since being crowned champ at the French Open, downing Australia’s Nick Kyrgios 6-3, 6-4 at the Queens Club in London to reach the Aegon Championships second-round. Wawrinka needed just 49 minutes to dispatch Kyrgios, who said afterwards that he has felt sick and fatigued. “I’ve been sick for the…
The finals of the USTA Eastern sectional qualifying tournament of the U.S. Open National Playoffs came to a close on Saturday, as local players battled it out for a chance to qualify for the U.S. Open in late August. The sectionals consisted of five divisions, with the winners of each moving on to play in…
It is fair to call the eight-year head-to-head rivalry between Monica Seles and Gabriela Sabatini one-sided. Seles and her powerful two-handed groundstrokes dominated, with every one of the duo’s seven Grand Slam, WTA Championship and Olympic matches going the way of the American. The last six of those meetings, excluding a classic at the 1992…