The USTA has announced that the total purse for the 2014 U.S. Open will increase by $4 million, bringing the total purse for the tournament to a record $38.3 million, an 11.7 percent increase over the 2013 U.S. Open. Both the men’s and women’s singles champions will earn $3 million, the largest payout in U.S. Open history. Each round of…
Words don’t do the match between Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer in the 2014 Men’s Singles Wimbledon Finals justice. If one had to be used it would be “Unreal.” From the seemingly miraculous fourth set comeback by Federer, to his unfathomable half-volley on a perfect return by Djokovic on break point in the fifth, everything…
The Champiosnhips at Wimbledon left the tennis world buzzing in 2014. Two new two-time champions, one of the best matches in the history of the sport, a rising nation, a rising star and much more made for an exciting two weeks of tennis at SW19. When the dust settled, Novak Djokovic won his seventh career…
Long Island, N.Y.'s Noah Rubin defeated the sixth-seeded Stefan Kozlov in three tough sets that lasted over two hours 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 to win the Boys Junior Wimbledon Championship on Sunday. The 18-year-old Rubin came to Wimbledon having played just one other junior event this season, the Junior French Open, as he had been playing Challengers…
Playing in their first event together as a team, American Jack Sock and Canadian Vasek Pospisil took down Americans Bob and Mike Bryan 7-6(5), 6-7(3), 6-4, 3-6, 7-5 to capture the Wimbledon doubles final on Saturday. The Bryan brothers are the most dominant doubles tandem in Grand Slam history with 15 major titles under their…
While many of us Americans were doing our respective celebrating for the Fourth of July weekend, the tennis world was glued to the grass-courts at the All-England Club in London for the Wimbledon title matches. In what was the match of the year up to this point, Novak Djokovic outlasted Roger Federer in a five-set…
Rising American tennis star 18-year-old Victoria Duval has been diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Duval is currently ranked 114th in the world and leaped into the spotlight last September at the 2013 U.S. Open with a huge upset over Samantha Stosur in the opening round in just the second Grand Slam match of Duval's career. The…
Eugenie Bouchard defeated Simona Halep 7-6(5), 6-2 on Thursday to advance to her first ever Grand Slam final. The 20-year old Canadian has not lost a set in her last six matches and will take on 2011 champion Petra Kvitova in the finals. The match was delayed twice throughout the first set, with neither coming…
Petra Kvitova defeated her fellow Czech Lucie Safarova 7-6(6), 6-1 on Thursday to move into the Wimbledon final. Kvitova, the 2011 Wimbledon champion, rolled in the second set after gutting out the opening frame in a tiebreaker. The sixth-seeded Kvitova is the only player born in the 1990’s to win a Grand Slam title, and…
Trailing two sets to one, top-seeded Novak Djokovic rallied to take the final two sets and defeat Marin Cilic 6-1, 3-6, 6-7(4), 6-2, 6-2 in over three hours. The Serb rattled off 12 of the final 16 games of the match to escape the upset bid from Cilic and move into the semifinals at Wimbledon….