Professional Tennis
After winning his match against Tomas Berdych on Wednesday, Novak Djokovic still has yet to drop a set at Wimbledon. Although Berdych took a 3-0 lead in the second set, he was still defeated by Djokovic, 7-6, 6-4, 6-3. The top-seeded Djokovic’s win sets up a semifinal match against the eighth-seeded Juan Martin del Potro…
The last American woman left in the draw, Sloane Stephens, was defeated in the quarterfinals of Wimbledon on Tuesday, falling to Marion Bartoli of France in straight sets, 6-4, 7-5. There was a long rain delay right before the end of the first set that halted play. When the players came back on court, Bartoli…
Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland, the 2013 Wimbledon number four seed, defeated Li Na from China to make it to the semifinals at the All-England Lawn Tennis Club. She won the match in three sets by a score of 7-6(5), 4-6, 6-2. The match took three-and-a-half hours to complete due to rain delays, an injury timeout,…
Fourth-seeded David Ferrer moved in the Wimbledon quarterfinals on Monday after winning his match against Croatia’s Ivan Dodig, 6-7(3), 7-6(6), 6-1, 6-1. Dodig is ranked 49th in the world. Ferrer failed to win a point on Dodig’s serve for four consecutive games in the second set, but broke three times in the third and twice in…
In a surprising upset, world number one Serena Williams was bumped out of the fourth round at Wimbledon on Monday after losing to world number 24 Sabine Lisicki, 6-2, 1-6, 6-4. The 23-year old German was the first woman to steal a set and defeat Williams in the past 34 matches. Throughout the first three…
David Ferrer, the highest seeded Spaniard remaining at Wimbledon, beat fellow countryman Roberto Bautista Agut to make it to the third round for the sixth consecutive year. The scrappy Ferrer had a score of 6-3, 3-6, 7-6(4), 7-5 to schedule a match in the next round with the 26th-seeded Alexandr Dolgopolov. Ferrer was the French Open finalist,…
Nick Bollettieri, along with Vic Braden and Steve Wilkinson, will be inducted into the United States Professional Tennis Association (USPTA) Hall of Fame on Sept. 27 during the USPTA’s National Awards Luncheon at the World Conference at the Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress in Orlando, Fla. The three legendary coaches will join only 13 others who have…
Serena Williams advanced to the third round of Wimbledon on Thursday after defeating 19-year-old Caroline Garcia, 6-3, 6-2. Two of Serena’s main competitors, Maria Sharapova and Victoria Azarenka, were eliminated on Wednesday. Sharapova lost to Michelle Larcher de Brtio, and Azarenka withdrew due to an injury. "I still feel like I’m trying to adjust a…
Twenty-seven-year-old Sergiy Stakhovsky shocked defending Wimbledon champion Roger Federer, marking Federer’s earliest Grand Slam exit in 10 years on Wednesday evening at Wimbledon, eliminating Federer 6-7(5), 7-6(5), 7-5, 7-6(5) in the second round. It was world number 116 Stakhovsky’s first top 10 win in 21 attempts and ended Federer’s run of reaching 36 successive Grand Slam…
Portugal’s Michelle Larcher de Brito upset number three seed Maria Sharapova in the second round of Wimbledon. Sharapova was the Wimbledon Champion in 2004, and she showed fight today by saving off four match points before finally succumbing. Larcher de Brito got the best of Sharapova by finally converting on one of those match points,…