Professional Tennis
Andy Murray rolled into the third-round of the Western and Southern Open on Wednesday as he defeated Portugal’s Joao Sousa 6-3, 6-3. Murray notched three of four break points and didn’t allow a single break on his way to the straight-set victory. A two-time champion at the Cincinnati event, Murray is seeking a return to…
The International Tennis Federation (ITF) ruled Tuesday that two World Group playoff matches as part of the Davis Cup will have to be moved to different venues due to ongoing conflicts in the respective regions. The Sept. 12-14 contest between Israel and Argentina, set to take place in Tel Aviv, will have to be played…
The USTA has announced that former world number one junior Taylor Townsend, 2011 U.S. Open Junior Champion Grace Min, two-time NCAA singles champion Nicole Gibbs, 2014 NCAA singles champion Danielle Collins, former Wimbledon and Australian Open junior finalist Madison Brengle and USTA Girls 18s National Champion CiCi Bellis have been awarded women’s main draw wild card entries into the 2014 U.S. Open. Australia’s Jarmila Gajdosova and France’s Amandine…
Ana Ivanovic battled back after trailing in the second set to knock off Sorana Cristea of Romania 6-1, 7-5 to advance at the Western and Southern Open. The Serb trailed 4-1 in the second set before rallying for the straight set victory. “I was happy. I was a little bit doubtful going on the court…
American John Isner rolled into the second round of the Western and Southern Open on Monday, taking down South African Kevin Anderson 6-3, 6-4 to move on in Cincinnati. It was a good bounce back match for Isner who had lost his opening match in the last two tournaments since winning the Atlanta Open title….
The USTA has announced a series of physical improvements and new fan enhancements for the 2014 U.S. Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, N.Y. The two-week tournament begins Monday, Aug. 25, and concludes with the Men’s Singles Final on Monday, Sept. 8. In the first phase of a five-year transformation of the…
Poland’s Agnieszka Radwanska upended Venus Williams 6-4, 6-2 on Sunday in Montreal to become the first Polish player to win a Rogers Cup crown. The win was the first tournament victory of the season for Radwanska and she used an outstanding return game to dominate the 34-year old Williams from the start. Venus had just…
France’s Jo-Wilfried Tsonga captured the Rogers Cup trophy on Sunday, defeating Roger Federer 7-5, 7-6(3) in Toronto to win his first ATP Tour title of the season. The win over Federer marks the fourth straight over a higher-seeded opponent for Tsonga, who had previously ousted Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray and Grigor Dimitrov before toppling the…
Eighteen-year old Noah Rubin of Rockville Centre, N.Y. has won the USTA Boys 18s National Championship singles title to earn a main draw wild card into the U.S. Open, defeating Sacramento’s Collin Altamirano, the defending champion, 6-4, 6-4, 6-3, at Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, Mich. Rubin, who won the Wimbledon Boys Singles Title in July, also earned a wild card…
Fifteen-year old CiCi Bellis of Atherton, Calif. won the USTA Girls 18s National Championship to earn a main draw wild card into the U.S. Open, defeating 16-year old Tornado Alicia Black of Boca Raton, Fla., 6-3, 6-1, at the Barnes Tennis Center in San Diego. Bellis, the number two-ranked junior in the world, is the youngest USTA Girls 18s national champion since Lindsay Davenport also…