Professional Tennis
World number one and top-seeded Novak Djokovic advanced to the 2013 U.S. Open quarterfinals on Tuesday night after a 6-3, 6-0, 6-0 win over Spain’s Marcel Granollers. Djokovic has yet to drop a set during the tournament, and needed only 79 minutes Tuesday night to eliminate Granollers from contention. Djokovic advances to his 18th straight…
World number one and top-seeded Serena Williams put on a display Tuesday night at the U.S. Open, after a 6-0, 6-0 win over Spain’s Carla Suarez Navarro at Arthur Ashe Stadium. The 31-year-old Serena will be playing in her 24th career major semifinal and is now 244-36 in Grand Slam matches, fourth on the all-time…
Lleyton Hewitt is out of the U.S. Open after suffering a tough five-set fourth-round loss to Russian 21st-seeded Mikhail Youzhny, 6-3, 3-6, 6-7(3-7), 6-4, 7-5 in a tension-filled, four-hour cliffhanger at Flushing Meadows, N.Y. on Tuesday. Hewitt certainly had his chances, as he squandered a two-sets-to-one advantage and 4-1 and 5-2 leads in the fourth and…
On Day Nine action of the 2013 U.S. Open, it was the second-seeded Victoria Azarenka of Belarus rounding out the list quarterfinalists with a 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 win over the number 13 seed, Serbian Ana Ivanovic, a match re-scheduled after being washed out on Monday. Ivanovic yielded 42 unforced errors and bashed her racket on the…
Fourth round action in the top half of the men’ draw on Day Nine on the 2012 U.S. Open on Tuesday is headlined by three former U.S. Open winners, the reigning champion Andy Murray, the 2011 champ Novak Djokovic and the 2001 winner, Lleyton Hewitt. Tuesday’s forecast calls for temperatures in the upper-70s to low…
It appears 30 is the new 20 in the women’s draw at this year’s U.S. Open, as victories on Monday by Roberta Vinci, Flavia Pennetta and Daniela Hantuchova meant that five of the eight U.S. Open quarterfinalists will be over 30 years of age (Serena Williams and Na Li are the others). Vinci, the 10th seed,…
Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal have never played at the U.S. Open … and that won’t change this year either as dreams of the much-anticipated dream quarterfinal matchup were dashed Monday evening as Tommy Robredo of Spain, the number 19 seed, defeated Federer in straight sets, 7-6, 6-3, 6-4. Federer lost in the round of 16…
As a courtesy to the fans who came out to the U.S. Open on Monday, Sept. 2, the USTA has opted to activate its inclement weather ticket policy despite the fact that a match was played to completion in Arthur Ashe Stadium. As a result, the Monday, Sept. 2 Day Session was officially cancelled. In…
Fourth round action in the bottom half of the men’s draw on Monday on Day Eight of the 2013 U.S. Open will feature five of the top 10 seeds, led by former world number ones and the two winningest active Grand Slam singles champions, number two Rafael Nadal and number seven Roger Federer. So far,…
Sunday night under the lights at Arthur Ashe Stadium, it was world number one and 2013 U.S. Open top seed Novak Djokovic of Serbia with an impressive 6-0, 6-2, 6-2 win over Joao Sousa of Portugal to vault the defending champ into the U.S. Open Round of 16 for the seventh consecutive year. Djokovic will…