Professional Tennis
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…
Victoria Azarenka from Belarus defeated Russia’ Maria Sharapova in the 2012 Australian Open Women’s singles finals in just one-hour, 22-min. Azarenka swept the three-time Grand Slam winner, 6-3, 6-0, and won 12 out of 13 games in a row to quickly capture her first Grand Slam win against the former number one-ranked Sharapova, and in…
India’s Leander Paes & Radek Stepanek of the Czech Republic defeated American brothers Bob & Mike Bryan in their attempt for a 12th Grand Slam doubles title in the finals of the 2012 Australian Open, 7-6, 6-2. The Bryan Brothers are now 33-years-old and were attempting to secure a spot with the most wins as…
World number one-ranked Novak Djokovic of Serbia defeated Spain’s Rafael Nadal in the longest Grand Slam singles final in the history of professional tennis, winning 5-7, 6-4, 6-2, 6-7 (5), 7-5 after 5-hours and 53-min. to claim his third Australian Open title. At 1:37 a.m. Monday local time in Melbourne and 9:37 a.m. ET, Djokovic…
Russia’s Maria Sharapova will take on Victoria Azarenka of Belarus in the women’s singles final of the 2012 Australian Open at 3:00 a.m. ET Saturday morning. Azarenka, who won the Sydney International title the weekend before the season’s first major, will attempt to continue her winning ways. Sharapova has won three majors in her career…
World number one-ranked Serbian Novak Djokovic will have an opportunity to defend his Australian Open this weekend after he defeated Andy Murray of Great Britain, the number four seed, 6-3, 3-6, 6-7, 6-1, 7-5, in the semifinals at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne Park. The five-plus-hour match included single point rallies of up to and…
The 2012 Australian Open women’s singles final will see Russian Maria Sharapova go up against Victoria Azarenka of Belarus. Not only are they playing for the championship; they both are in contention to gain the number one ranking. The number four-ranked Sharapova defeated second-ranked Petra Kvitova, who she lost to in the 2011 Wimbledon finals,…