Professional Tennis
Venus Williams was a 6-2, 6-3 winner over Monica Niculescu of Romania to win the 2012 Luxembourg Open title on Sunday. Unseeded at the event, Venus had to defeat ninth-seeded Mona Barthel in the second round and top-seeded Roberta Vinci in the quarterfinals, both in straight sets, and faced a tough semifinals match against Andrea Petkovic,…
World number 11 Caroline Wozniacki defeated Samantha Stosur of Australia 6-2, 4-6, 7-5 in the finals of the 2012 Kremlin Cup to win her 20th career WTA title. Wozniacki dominated early against Stosur, but then looked to be in trouble after Stosur leveled the match and then broke to love in the first game of the third set….
U.S. Open champion and 2012 Olympic Gold Medalist Andy Murray will face the recently-retired American Andy Roddick on a white court at the 2012 Miami Cup. The event is the first of its kind to launch in the U.S. and will feature six of the top-ranked ATP professionals, including Murray, Roddick, Juan Carlos Ferrero, Nicolás Almagro,…
Germany’s Tommy Haas has become the fourth active tennis player to win 500 matches on the ATP Tour, joining Roger Federer with 871 wins, Rafael Nadal with 583 and Lleyton Hewitt with 566. The 34-year-old Haas, who turned pro in 1996 and has won 13 career titles, reached the mark with a 6-4, 6-2 victory over…
Barclays ATP World Tour Finals hopeful Tomas Berdych defeated Estonia’s Jurgen Zopp 6-1, 6-4 in opening round action at the 2012 If Stockholm Open. The second-seeded Czech, who also recorded a straight-sets win over Zopp in the second round of the U.S. Open, broke serve three times en route to win over Zopp. Berdych has now reached…
Tennis Channel will be in Istanbul, Turkey, Oct. 23-28 as the world of women’s tennis gathers to crown its annual season-ending singles and doubles champions at the 2012 Annual TEB BNP Paribas WTA Championships. Nearly 40 hours of live coverage is planned as Wimbledon, U.S. Open and Olympic Gold Medal winner Serena Williams; French Open…
At its recent meetings in New York, the ATP Board of Directors approved a rule change and a trial for the 2013 season, both proposed by the new ATP Competition Committee. From 2013, on both the ATP World Tour and ATP Challenger Tour, a time violation between points (25 seconds) will be penalized in the first…
The USTA and U.S. Davis Cup Captain Jim Courier have announced that Jacksonville, Fla. has been selected as the site for the 2013 Davis Cup by BNP Paribas first-round match between the United States and Brazil, set for Feb. 1-3 at the Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena, which will have an expected capacity of approximately 13,000. The event is being organized,…
Venus Williams returned to action in the first round of the 2012 BGL BNP Paribas Luxembourg Open, defeating Belinda Bencic, 6-3, 6-1 in just over an hour, Venus’ first match since the 2012 U.S. Open. Venus was broken once, but apart from that was barely challenged on her serve, maybe a sign the back issues that…
World number one-ranked Victoria Azarenka won her second WTA title in as many weeks at the Generali Ladies Linz, not dropping a set the entire way, defeating the fifth-seeded Julia Goerges 6-3, 6-4. Azarenka is now 13-0 since the U.S. Open where she fell to American Serena Williams in the finals, and is 26-0 in sets, collecting her…