Professional Tennis
Long Island, N.Y.'s Noah Rubin defeated the sixth-seeded Stefan Kozlov in three tough sets that lasted over two hours 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 to win the Boys Junior Wimbledon Championship on Sunday. The 18-year-old Rubin came to Wimbledon having played just one other junior event this season, the Junior French Open, as he had been playing Challengers…
Playing in their first event together as a team, American Jack Sock and Canadian Vasek Pospisil took down Americans Bob and Mike Bryan 7-6(5), 6-7(3), 6-4, 3-6, 7-5 to capture the Wimbledon doubles final on Saturday. The Bryan brothers are the most dominant doubles tandem in Grand Slam history with 15 major titles under their…
While many of us Americans were doing our respective celebrating for the Fourth of July weekend, the tennis world was glued to the grass-courts at the All-England Club in London for the Wimbledon title matches. In what was the match of the year up to this point, Novak Djokovic outlasted Roger Federer in a five-set…
Rising American tennis star 18-year-old Victoria Duval has been diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Duval is currently ranked 114th in the world and leaped into the spotlight last September at the 2013 U.S. Open with a huge upset over Samantha Stosur in the opening round in just the second Grand Slam match of Duval's career. The…
Eugenie Bouchard defeated Simona Halep 7-6(5), 6-2 on Thursday to advance to her first ever Grand Slam final. The 20-year old Canadian has not lost a set in her last six matches and will take on 2011 champion Petra Kvitova in the finals. The match was delayed twice throughout the first set, with neither coming…
Petra Kvitova defeated her fellow Czech Lucie Safarova 7-6(6), 6-1 on Thursday to move into the Wimbledon final. Kvitova, the 2011 Wimbledon champion, rolled in the second set after gutting out the opening frame in a tiebreaker. The sixth-seeded Kvitova is the only player born in the 1990’s to win a Grand Slam title, and…
Trailing two sets to one, top-seeded Novak Djokovic rallied to take the final two sets and defeat Marin Cilic 6-1, 3-6, 6-7(4), 6-2, 6-2 in over three hours. The Serb rattled off 12 of the final 16 games of the match to escape the upset bid from Cilic and move into the semifinals at Wimbledon….
Andy Murray’s bid for a second-straight Wimbledon title came to a screeching halt on Wednesday as the Scot was eliminated from the grass-court tournament in straight sets by Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov. The 11th-seeded Dimitrov moves into his first ever Grand Slam semifinal and has now won nine straight matches dating back to his title at…
The final four in the women’s draw at Wimbledon is all set after the last two quarterfinal matches wrapped up Wednesday as Simona Halep and Eugenie Bouchard pushed their way into the semifinals at the All-England Club. Bouchard knocked off German Angelique Kerber 6-3, 6-4, a day after Kerber took down Maria Sharapova. The key…
Australian and Wimbledon wild card Nick Kyrgios, currently ranked 144th in the world, has scored one of the greatest upsets in Grand Slam history after his Tuesday afternoon 7-6(7/5), 5-7, 7-6(7/5), 6-3 win over world number one Rafael Nadal. With the win, the 19-year-old Kyrgios becomes the first wild card at Wimbledon to advance to…