Pro Tennis

The duo of Jean-Julien Rojer of the Netherlands & Horia Tecau of Romania, seeded 12th, captured the 2017 U.S. Open Doubles Championship, a 6-4, 6-3 win over the 11th-seeded Spanish team of Feliciano Lopez & Marc Lopez Friday afternoon at Arthur Ashe Stadium in just under 90 minutes. The win marked Rojer & Tecau’s second…

Entering Wednesday’s men’s singles quarterfinals at the U.S. Open, tennis fans were just two wins away from one of the most anticipated and long-awaited matches in the tournament’s history, as Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer’s Flushing Meadows collision course was almost complete. The longtime rivalry between the Swiss and the Spaniard has spanned 37 matches…

Coco Vandweghe powered into the U.S. Open semifinals on Wednesday, downing current world number one and last year’s runner-up Karolina Pliskova 7-6(4), 6-3 to become the third American in the final four in Flushing Meadows. “Let’s make it four for four,” she said to ESPN’s Tom Rinaldi after her win, referencing Wednesday night’s quarterfinal to…

Entering the first half of Tuesday’s quarterfinals at the U.S. Open, there was a possibility that the four semifinalists in the women’s singles draw could all hail from the United States.  Sloane Stephens and Venus Williams delivered on their end, each winning their respective quarterfinal showdowns by the exact same score line on an exciting…

Spain’s Pablo Carreno Busta advanced to the first Grand Slam semifinal of his career on Tuesday, ending the improbable run of Argentina’s Diego Schwartzman 6-4, 6-4, 6-2 inside Arthur Ashe Stadium.  “It was a very good, very special match for me,” the Spaniard said. “I’m very excited to be in the semifinals. I think that…

New York loves Juan Martin del Potro (pictured above) and he needed them more than ever on Monday evening at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. Battling against eighth-seed Dominic Thiem of Austria for a spot in the quarterfinals of the 2017 U.S. Open, Del Potro looked lifeless, winning just three games total…

Rafael Nadal (pictured left) played his best match of the 2017 U.S. Open on Monday, rolling past Alexander Dolgopolov of the Ukraine 6-2, 6-4, 6-1 to book his spot in the U.S. Open quarterfinals. “I think I played a solid match, obviously … not many mistakes,” Nadal said post-match. “I don’t know how—I didn’t see…

World number one Karolina Pliskova (pictured above) entered Monday’s fourth-round showdown with American Jennifer Brady having lost the first set in each of her previous two matches at the U.S. Open. She made sure she wouldn’t have to play from behind again. “I would say the first match was okay. It was definitely not the…

Much of the talk throughout the first week of the U.S. Open was about the wide open bottom half of the men’s singles draw, as the absence of Andy Murray, Novak Djokovic and Stan Wawrinka, coupled with fifth-seed Marin Cilic’s early loss, created a void of stars in Flushing Meadows. That created an opportunity for…