Professional Tennis
Italians Sara Errani & Flavia Pennetta beat Americans Serena Williams & Alison Riske 6-0, 6-3 on Sunday afternoon to give Italy a 3-2 victory over the United States in the Fed Cup playoff matchup. The United States actually held a 2-1 advantage heading into the final two matches on Sunday, but dropped the last singles…
World number one Novak Djokovic won his third consecutive ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournament on Sunday, beating Czech Tomas Berdych 7-5, 4-6, 6-3 to win the Monte Carlo Rolex Masters Championship. With the victory, Djokovic becomes the first player ever to win the first three Masters 1000 tournaments in a season. “The fact that…
Gael Monfils continued his deep run at the Monte Carlo Rolex Masters with a 6-1, 6-3 victory over ninth-seeded Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov on Friday. The 14th-seeded Frenchman breezed through the opening set in just 22 minutes, jumping on a bevy of unforced errors from Dimitrov. Monfils broke him three times thanks to 22 unforced…
The United States women will be in Brindisi, Italy this weekend to battle Italy in a Fed Cup World Playoff match. The two are very familiar opponents as this will be the fifth meeting between the two counties in the last seven years. Italy has taken the last four of those matches but the U.S….
Gael Monfils pulled off the biggest upset of the day in Monte Carlo on Thursday, beating second-seeded Swiss Roger Federer 6-4, 7-6(5) to push his way into the Monte Carlo Rolex Masters quarterfinals. The 14th-seeded Frenchman fell behind Federer early 1-3, but rallied to capture the first set 6-4 thanks to a couple of break…
Rafael Nadal got off to a good start in the clay season on Wednesday, defeating France’s Lucas Pouille 6-2, 6-1 to reach the Monte Carlo Rolex Masters third-round. The “King of Clay” dispatched Pouille in just 69 minutes using a dominating serve, winning 75 percent of service points, and notching four break points to move…
World number one Novak Djokovic began his run at the Monte Carlo Rolex Masters with a 6-1, 6-4 victory over Spain’s Albert Ramos-Vinolas on Tuesday in a second-round contest. Djokovic fired 24 winners past the Spaniard in his first match on clay this season. Although his unforced errors began to pile up in the second…
The Bayside Commodores notched a big win over league opponent Cardozo on Monday afternoon, knocking off the Judges 4-1 in League 1A. Cardozo’s Marcus Smith opened the match up by defeating Bayside’s Michael Lopez 10-1. From there, though, Bayside won the final four matches, with the clinching one coming from Byeong Jun So and Kyle…
Venus Williams has announced her withdrawal from the United States Fed Cup playoff against Italy this weekend due to a personal matter. The USTA has named 21-year-old Lauren Davis as Venus’ replacement this weekend. Davis is currently ranked 57th in the world and recently defeated world number seven Eugenie Bouchard on her way to the…
The USTA has announced the tournaments for the Har-Tru Wild Card Challenge, which utilizes the USTA Pro Circuit to award wild cards into the French Open. The three women’s events will be hosted in Dothan, Ala.; Charlottesville, Va.; and Indian Harbour Beach, Fla., and the three men’s events will take place in Sarasota, Fla.; Savannah,…