Professional Tennis
Serena Williams has reached out to the family of the victim in the Steubenville, Ohio, rape case after the tennis star was quoted in a Rolling Stone magazine article saying ”she shouldn’t have put herself in that position.” Serena spoke to the victim, her mother and a family lawyer for about 30 minutes, the lawyer said….
Venus Williams has announced that she will not be taking part in Wimbledon this year due to a lower back injury. The tennis superstar has played at the grass court Grand Slam tournament for 16 consecutive years, winning the event five times in 2000, 2001, 2005, 2007 and 2008, and two other Grand Slam championships…
Rafael Nadal is seeded only number five at Wimbledon, setting up potential quarterfinal matches against Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic or Andy Murray. The All England Club released the seedings Wednesday for Wimbledon, with Djokovic as the top seed, followed by Murray, Federer, Ferrer and Nadal. After being sidelined for about seven months due to a knee injury…
Tennis Channel has extended the contract of Jim Courier to include analyst’s duties at Wimbledon and the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, Calif. The multiyear agreement expands upon Courier’s role as full-time lead men’s U.S. Open analyst, begun in 2012, and comes in time for Tennis Channel’s sixth year of coverage in London via…
French Open finalist David Ferrer lost his first-round match Tuesday at the Topshelf Open in The Netherlands, a grass court tournament held the week before Wimbledon. A single service break in the second set was enough for Xavier Malisse of Belgium to beat the defending champion and top-seeded Ferrer in straight sets, 7-6 (3), 6-3. ”I…
Steve Johnson of the U.S. has joined Frenchman Nicolas Mahut as a wild card at Wimbledon. The 100th-ranked Johnson from Orange, Calif., will play in the singles at the grass court Grand Slam tournament for the first time since becoming a full-time professional last summer. He won the ATP Challenger title at Nottingham last week to…
The U.S. Open National Playoffs is a sequence of tournaments which gives players, the chance to live out their tennis dreams and qualify for the U.S. Open Grand Slam event. Between April 1-July 4, 13 sections of the USTA run a Sectional Qualifying Tournament with men’s singles, women’s singles and mixed-doubles matches. The winners of…
After 10 months without a title, Roger Federer finally came through with a win in Halle, Germany at the 2013 Gerry Weber Open on Sunday. He overcame opponent, Mikhail Youzhny, 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-4 to win his first title since last August, when he won at Cincinnati. Gerry Weber is a warm-up grass court tournament…
Third seeds Santiago Gonzalez & Scott Lipsky captured their fifth ATP World Tour title together on Sunday as they defeated Daniele Bracciali and Jonathan Erlich 6-2, 7-6(3) in the final of the 2013 Gerry Weber Open in Halle. Gonzalez & Lipsky are currently 11th in the race to London and will add another 250 Emirates ATP…
Taylor Townsend of Chicago, the number one-ranked junior in the world for 2012, will continue junior competition at Wimbledon, June 29-July 7 at the All-England Club in Wimbledon, London. Joining Townsend at the Wimbledon main draw will be two local products, number 45-ranked Jamie Loeb of Ossining, N.Y. and 17-year-old Louisa Chirico of Harrison, N.Y. Seventeen-year-old Katrine Isabel Steffensen…