The finals of the USTA Eastern sectional qualifying tournament of the U.S. Open National Playoffs came to a close on Saturday, as local players battled it out for a chance to qualify for the U.S. Open in late August. The sectionals consisted of five divisions, with the winners of each moving on to play in…
It is fair to call the eight-year head-to-head rivalry between Monica Seles and Gabriela Sabatini one-sided. Seles and her powerful two-handed groundstrokes dominated, with every one of the duo’s seven Grand Slam, WTA Championship and Olympic matches going the way of the American. The last six of those meetings, excluding a classic at the 1992…
Top-seeded Rafael Nadal reached the semifinals of the Mercedes Cup in Stuttgart, Germany on Friday, downing Australian Bernard Tomic 6-4, 6-7(3), 6-3. After struggling towards the end of the second set, Nadal turned it on in the third set. He broke in the second game and consolidated it with a hold to take a 3-0…
The USTA has announced that the final piece of steel has been placed in the superstructure that will support the retractable roof over Arthur Ashe Stadium. In all, 5,000 tons of steel were needed to complete the massive project. The roof will be fully operational for the 2016 U.S. Open. The retractable roof is the centerpiece…
Forbes has announced its list of the 100 Highest-Paid Athletes in 2015 on Wednesday, and seven professional tennis players made their way onto the list. At number five, Roger Federer is the highest-earning tennis player in the world. Forbes estimates his earnings at $67 million, with $58 million of that total coming from his endorsements….
Eugenie Bouchard’s tough 2015 continued on Tuesday, as the Canadian was bounced in the first-round of the Topshelf Open in The Netherlands to Kazakhstan’s Yaroslava Shvedova, 6-4, 1-6, 6-4. She has lost nine of her last 10 matches and dropped out of the top 10 even before Tuesday’s loss. This coming off of a season…
Coming back from a set down, the Croatian and Brazilian tandem of Ivan Dodig & Marcelo Melo won their first Grand Slam title over the weekend, downing Bob & Mike Bryan 6-7(5), 7-6(5), 7-5. “It was a great atmosphere,” Melo said on-court after the match. “We thought we could do big things when we got…
Stan Wawrinka came back from a set down to beat world number one Novak Djokovic 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 6-4 and win the French Open crown. Wawrinka used a masterful one-handed backhand to shoot winners down each line all match long, taking advantage of some possible fatigue in Djokovic’s legs. He fired 60 winners compared to…
Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray will resume their semifinals match in Paris on Saturday at the French Open, as an approaching storm halted the contest midway through the fourth set with Djokovic holding a 6-3, 6-3, 5-7, 3-3 advantage. Djokovic came into the match on a roll, rattling of 27 wins to start 2015, and…
It certainly wasn’t pretty or the best tennis eighth-seeded Swiss Stan Warinka has ever played, but it was enough to get the job done on Friday, as Wawrinka bested France’s Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-3, 6-7(1), 7-6(3), 6-4 to reach the French Open final. Wawrinka nailed down an early break point which allowed him to serve out…