The 2021 champion Daniil Medvedev kicked off his run in New York this year with a 6-1, 6-1, 6-0 win over Hungary’s Attila Balazs on Tuesday. Medvedev was clinical in his one hour 16 minute victory, never facing a break point throughout and hitting 41 winners to 13 unforced errors. “It is always good to…
American Jessica Pegula kicked off her 2023 U.S. Open campaign in routine fashion as she breezed past Italy’s Camila Giorgi 6-2, 6-2 on Tuesday afternoon. Playing the powerful Italian for an 11th time, Pegula needed one hour and 22 minutes to beat her for the ninth time to secure her spot in the second round….
Top Americans Taylor Fritz and Frances Tiafoe both advanced to the second round of the 2023 U.S. Open on Monday as each won their respective first-round matches in New York City on Monday. Tiafoe defeated American wild card Learner Tien, the two-time Kalamazoo champion, 6-2, 7-5, 6-1 to move through. The 10th seeded Tiafoe set…
The main draw of the 2023 U.S. Open got underway on Monday, and for sixth-seeded American Coco Gauff, she was presented with a challenge from the start. Playing in the opening match of the first day’s Night Session inside Arthur Ashe Stadium, Gauff took on German veteran Laura Siegemund in her first round matchup. Siegemund…
Two-time finalist Caroline Wozniacki made a winning return to New York on Monday night as she won 6-3, 6-2 over qualifier Tatiana Prozorova inside Louis Armstrong Stadium. Wozniacki made her return to the professional tour this summer, competing in events in Montreal and Cincinnati before arriving at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center….
US Open Fan Week welcomed 157,985 fans to the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center over the last six days, a record for Fan Week and an increase of 41 percent over 2022. Among the highlights of the six-day, free tennis and entertainment festival on the US Open grounds: More than 12,000 Wilson youth tennis…
On a beautiful Sunday afternoon in London, Carlos Alcaraz arrived at the famed All-England Lawn Club faced with the unenviable task of trying to dethrone Novak Djokovic. Djokovic, the 23-time Grand Slam Champion, had not lost at Wimbledon since 2017, and did not show any signs of ending that streak with the eyes of the…
It’s that time of the year again, when the stars of the tennis world arrive in New York to compete on the world’s biggest tennis stage. The USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, Queens hosts the world’s greatest tennis players here in New York to compete under the bright lights of…
The USTA today announced that seven-time Grand Slam singles champion Venus Williams, former world No. 1 and two-time US Open finalist Caroline Wozniacki, and Americans Ashlyn Krueger, Robin Montgomery, Kayla Day and Clervie Ngounoue will receive singles main draw wild cards into the 2023 US Open, as will France’s Fiona Ferro and Australian Storm Hunter, as part of reciprocal agreements. The 2023 US Open will…
The ATP and WTA Tours headed north of the border this past week as the men competed in Toronto and the women competed in Montreal, with both draws featuring some of the highest-ranked players in the world. On Sunday, both events finished up with the two singles finals, as Italy’s Jannik Sinner captured the National…