Professional Tennis
Top-seeded Rafael Nadal reached the semifinals of the Mercedes Cup in Stuttgart, Germany on Friday, downing Australian Bernard Tomic 6-4, 6-7(3), 6-3. After struggling towards the end of the second set, Nadal turned it on in the third set. He broke in the second game and consolidated it with a hold to take a 3-0…
The USTA has announced that the final piece of steel has been placed in the superstructure that will support the retractable roof over Arthur Ashe Stadium. In all, 5,000 tons of steel were needed to complete the massive project. The roof will be fully operational for the 2016 U.S. Open. The retractable roof is the centerpiece…
Forbes has announced its list of the 100 Highest-Paid Athletes in 2015 on Wednesday, and seven professional tennis players made their way onto the list. At number five, Roger Federer is the highest-earning tennis player in the world. Forbes estimates his earnings at $67 million, with $58 million of that total coming from his endorsements….
Eugenie Bouchard’s tough 2015 continued on Tuesday, as the Canadian was bounced in the first-round of the Topshelf Open in The Netherlands to Kazakhstan’s Yaroslava Shvedova, 6-4, 1-6, 6-4. She has lost nine of her last 10 matches and dropped out of the top 10 even before Tuesday’s loss. This coming off of a season…
Coming back from a set down, the Croatian and Brazilian tandem of Ivan Dodig & Marcelo Melo won their first Grand Slam title over the weekend, downing Bob & Mike Bryan 6-7(5), 7-6(5), 7-5. “It was a great atmosphere,” Melo said on-court after the match. “We thought we could do big things when we got…
Stan Wawrinka came back from a set down to beat world number one Novak Djokovic 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 6-4 and win the French Open crown. Wawrinka used a masterful one-handed backhand to shoot winners down each line all match long, taking advantage of some possible fatigue in Djokovic’s legs. He fired 60 winners compared to…
Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray will resume their semifinals match in Paris on Saturday at the French Open, as an approaching storm halted the contest midway through the fourth set with Djokovic holding a 6-3, 6-3, 5-7, 3-3 advantage. Djokovic came into the match on a roll, rattling of 27 wins to start 2015, and…
It certainly wasn’t pretty or the best tennis eighth-seeded Swiss Stan Warinka has ever played, but it was enough to get the job done on Friday, as Wawrinka bested France’s Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-3, 6-7(1), 7-6(3), 6-4 to reach the French Open final. Wawrinka nailed down an early break point which allowed him to serve out…
For the fourth time this tournament, Serena Williams dug herself a first set hold, but found her way back home, defeating 23rd seeded Swiss Timea Bacsinszky 4-6, 6-3, 6-0 to reach the French Open final. Serena’s slow start can be attributed to her feeling under the weather. The world number one admitted to developing the…
Lucie Safarova booked a spot in the first Grand Slam final of her career on Thursday, downing seventh-seeded Ana Ivanovic 7-5, 7-5 to reach the French Open championship. Safarova trailed big early, as Ivanovic broke in the second game and build a 4-1 advantage. Ivanovic then build a 5-2, and even served for the match…