Professional Tennis
Four legendary tennis stars played to a raucous crowd on New York’s biggest stage, but in the end it was Pat Rafter who claimed his second PowerShares Series title in four days by defeating fan favorite John McEnroe, 8-3 in the championship match of the NASDAQ Indexes Cup Monday night at Madison Square Garden. The…
Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer and the number one duo of Bob & Mike Bryan each take home a pair of honors in the 2012 ATP World Tour Awards presented by Moet & Chandon. Djokovic, who receives the ATP World Tour number one award for a second straight year, has also been selected as the Arthur Ashe…
Ana Ivanovic will play Lucie Safarova in the opening rubber match of the 2012 Fed Cup by BNP Paribas Final between Czech Republic and Serbia. The draw also pitted Petra Kvitova and Jelena Jankovic against one another in the second singles rubber on Saturday. Czech captain Petr Pala has nominated the established doubles duo of Lucie Hradecka…
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Janko Tipsarevic will complete the singles field at the 2012 Barclays ATP World Tour Finals, to be held at The O2 in London from Nov. 5-12. The Frenchman and the Serb’s places at the season-ending showdown were confirmed following results at the BNP Paribas Masters in Paris on Thursday, where they both…
Top-seeded Bob & Mike Bryan were upset on Thursday by Paul Hanley & Jonathan Marray in Paris at the 2012 BNP Paribas Masters The Australian/British duo fired 17 aces and converted one of their four break points to edge the Bryans 6-4, 6-7(2), 10-5 to advance to the quarterfinals. Marray teamed with Denmark’s Frederik Nielsen to win…
Olympic Gold medalist and 2012 U.S. Open winner Andy Murray defeated wild card Paul-Henri Mathieu 7-5, 6-3 in the second round of the BNP Paribas Masters in Paris on Wednesday. Murray fired 12 aces to win his opening match, his first event since falling to Novak Djokovic in the Shanghai Rolex Masters final. He is…
Caroline Wozniacki has advanced to the semifinals of the Qatar Airways Tournaments of Champions in Sofia, Bulgaria after her 6-3, 6-1 win over Italy’s Roberta Vinci at the Quatar Airways Tournament of Champions. Wozniacki will play her final round-robin match of the week on Thursday against seventh-seeded Slovakian veteran Daniela Hantuchova. The Tournament of Champions is…
Janko Tipsarevic kept alive his bid to qualify for the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals on Wednesday when he advanced to the BNP Paribas Masters third round. Eighth seed Tipsarevic defeated Dutch qualifier Igor Sijsling 6-4, 7-6(0) for his 30th hard-court match win of the season (56-24 overall record). Fellow London hopeful Nicolas Almagro also remained…
American Sam Querrey recorded the biggest match win of his career on Wednesday when he defeated world number two-ranked Novak Djokovic 0-6, 7-6(5), 6-4 at the BNP Paribas Masters. Having won just 10 points in the 20-minute first set, Querrey bounced back to record his first win over a Top 10 player in 12 months and…
On Friday, both Maria Sharapova and Agnieszka Radwanska survived tough matches in Istanbul to both remain alive at the 2012 TEB BNP Paribas WTA Championships in Istanbul, Turkey. Sharapova outlasted Sam Stosur in straight sets, 6-0, 6-3, to not only remain undefeated in her group, but also keep her hopes alive of capturing the year-end world number one spot atop…