Professional Tennis
American Venus Williams served in her first match in five months alongside Liezel Huber in the United States Fed Cup match against Belarus. Williams was off to a good start that improved as the match went on with the duo defeating Anastasiya Yakimova & Liezel Huber in straight sets 6-1, 6-2. "It was perfect conditions,"…
According to Ricardo Sanchez, former coach of world number one-ranked Caroline Wozniacki’s, she must be ‘more aggressive.’ “Caroline can recover her number one ranking, but she must be more aggressive,” Ricardo Sanchez told Spanish sports daily Marca. “I tried (to help her) but they wouldn’t let me. Wozniacki should be a race horse, not a…
Tennis Channel will provide exclusive coverage of the U.S. Fed Cup team’s first-round competition against Belarus in Worcester, Mass., this weekend, with live telecasts Saturday, Feb. 4, and Sunday, Feb. 5. Because the Americans lost in their first-round competition last April, they must defeat Belarus for a chance to compete for the Fed Cup in…
The 2012 Australian Open champion, world number one-ranked Novak Djokovic, will not participate in Serbia’s Davis Cup match against Sweden in March. He will be given rest after his long series of matches during the Australia Open, including his finals match with Spain’s Rafael Nadal which clocked in just under six hours. Serbian Captain Bogdan…
Former number one ranked Caroline Wozniacki has fired her coach, Ricardo Sanchez of Spain, just two months into his tenure. According to her father, Piotr Wozniacki, she did not get any "new impulses" from working alongside Sanchez. Sanchez was hired in December of 2011 and only saw her fall to Kim Clijsters in the quarterfinals…
Status: Former ATP pro from 1986-1998. Member of Israel’s Davis Cup team from 1986-1995. Winner of four ATP doubles titles. Reached a career-high singles ranking of 61st in 1990. Holds career wins over Petr Korda, Brad Gilbert, Carlos Costa, Jacob Hlasek, Marcelo Rios and Martin Jaite. Currently coaches at the John McEnroe Tennis Academy at…
Great Britain’s Andy Murray will sit out of the Davis Cup next month against Slovakia. The reasoning behind his absence is due to "a few injuries" that he sustained in his quest during the Australian Open which has just concluded. Murray is fourth-ranked in the world, and lost to eventual winner Novak Djokovic in a…
Bob & Mike Bryan, the world’s top-ranked doubles team, have committed to compete in the Campbell’s Hall of Fame Tennis Championships, set for July 9-15, 2012 at the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, R.I. Among the most popular players in pro tennis today, the identical twins have finished the season ranked world number…
Taylor Townsend, a 15-year-old from Stockbridge, Ga., defeated 17-year-old Russian Yulia Putintseva, 6-1, 3-6, 6-3 to win the 2012 Australian Open Girls Singles Title. Earlier, Townsend partnered with 15-year-old Gabrielle Andrews of Pomona, Calif., to win the 2012 Australian Open Girls Doubles title. Townsend became the first American to sweep the junior singles and doubles…
American Bethanie Mattek-Sands, along with her partner, Romanian Horia Tecau, won the 2012 Australian Mixed-Doubles championship, defeating Russian Elena Vesnina & India’s Leander Paes, 6-3, 5-7, 10-3. This marked the first Grand Slam victory for the 26-year-old Mattek-Sands, originally from Minneapolis, Minn. who now makes her home in Phoenix, Ariz.. This would also be Tecau’s…