Professional Tennis
It was a wild Day Five Down Under with some thrilling tennis played, but there were a couple of matches that stood out above the rest on Friday. First, defending champion and top-seed Novak Djokovic needed five sets to move past American Taylor Fritz 7-6(1), 6-4, 3-6, 4-6, 6-2. Djokovic had a leg injury…
Seven-time Australian Open champion Serena Williams rolled into the third round of this year’s event with a 6-3, 6-0 victory over Serbia’s Nina Stojanovic on Wednesday. Awaiting Serena in the third round is Anastasia Potapova. The Russian ousted Hungary’s Timea Babos 6-2, 6-4 in her second round match. “I couldn’t feel better than now,”…
The Australian Open first round came to a close on Tuesday with the second half of the singles draws being played, and many of the top seeds in action on Day Two advanced to the second-round of the year’s first major. Defending champion and fourth-seeded American Sofia Kenin defeated Australian wild card Maddison Inglis 7-5, 6-4…
It was the final match of the first day of action at the 2021 Australian Open, and the much-anticipated showdown between two young talents did not disappoint. In the end, it was Denis Shapovalov who came out victorious as the 11th seeded Canadian defeated Italy’s Jannik Sinner 3-6, 6-3, 6-2, 4-6, 6-4. Shapovalov blasted 62…
This article first appeared in the January/February 2021 issue of New York Tennis Magazine. Click Here to read the full digital edition. The 2021 Grand Slam season in professional tennis will begin, as it normally does each year, in Melbourne with the Australian Open, but this edition of the tournament Down Under will present a far…
The Australian Open announced on Friday that all 507 of the tournament’s players and staff who were staying at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, where a worker contracted COVID-19 earlier in the week, had been cleared of the virus and were eligible to participate in next week’s major tournament. “Everyone that tested, tested negative,” said…
For the first eight months of 2020, Novak Djokovic was perfect on the tennis court, albeit under a reduced amount of match play due to the global pandemic. The 33-year-old Serb won his first 26 matches of the year, and to make the run even more impressive, he only lost nine sets during that…
Fourth-seed Hubert Hurkacz of Poland captured the second ATP Tour title of his career on Wednesday, dowining American Sebastian Korda 6-3, 6-3 to win the Delray Beach Open. “I was trying to focus on things that I should do and to stay aggressive, because Sebastian is never going to hand me the match,” said…
The Delray Beach Open singles field was narrowed down to four players after Monday’s quarterfinal matches, which featured two upsets as second-seed John Isner and eighth-seed Frances Tiafoe were both ousted. American Sebastian Korda took out Isner 6-3, 4-6, 6-3, hanging on as he saved three match points in the final game before closing…
The Delray Beach Open continued this weekend in sunny Florida as the second-round of singles play and quarterfinal action in doubles were played on Sunday. Below are the results from Sunday: Cameron Norrie def. Adrian Mannarino 6-2, 7-5 “I managed to win a lot of the long rallies at the start and set the…