On Monday night at the Rogers Cup in Montreal, Florian Mayer of Germany defeated Bernard Tomic, 5-7, 6-3, 6-3. He will play defending champion and top seed Novak Djokovic in the second round. Janko Tipsarevic was also booted out of the first round, losing to Uzbekistan’s Denis Istomin, 6-4, 6-3. The 16th-seeded Tipsarevic has advanced to…
Serena Williams became the first player to qualify to compete in the TEB BNP Paribas WTA Championships—Istanbul 2013 at the Sinan Erdem Dome from Oct. 22-27, after the Grand Slams. The top four doubles teams and the top eight singles players will be competing for $6 million, a record prize for the event. Serena has…
The number one seed at the 2013 Citi Open, Juan Martin del Potro defeated John Isner 3-6, 6-1, 6-2 to make it his third title in D.C. and his 14th consecutive win. When del Potro is healthy, there is not much that can stop him. "His forehand is widely regarded as maybe the best in…
World number 11 Sam Stosur won the Carlsbad Open on Sunday by earning her first career win against Victoria Azarenka, 6-3, 6-2, Stosur’s first title win in almost two years. Stosur came out strong by not allowing Azarenka to convert on the break points. "She had a lot of opportunities and all of them except…
Roger Federer has announced that he has withdrawn from next week’s Rogers Cup presented by National Bank in Montreal. He has recently talked about his back trouble, but did not give a specific reason as to why he is pulling out of the tournament. “I am disappointed not to be playing in Montreal next week….
Russian Olga Puchkova was defaulted by the WTA supervisor after she hit a line judge with a ball between points, forcing her to forfeit, although she claimed it was an accident. Puchkova was trailing 3-6, 6-3, 4-1 in her second-round match against Paula Ormaechea of Argentina at the 2013 Citi Open in Washington, D.C. She claimed that…
Juan Martin del Potro advanced to the 2013 Citi Open quarterfinals in Washington, D.C. on Thursday after winning twice over the course of seven-and-a-half-hours. He first defeated 107th-ranked Ryan Harrison 6-1, 7-5, and then beat 14th-seeded Bernard Tomic 6-3, 6-3. They played for about 70 minutes in each match. Harrison was trailing 4-0 after only…
American John Isner, who had a tournament win last weekend at the BB&T Open in Atlanta, beat Alex Kuznetsov in two tie-breaker sets 7-6(2), 7-6(4) at the 2013 Citi Open in Washington, D.C. Isner had an excellent record with tie-breakers, winning 16 of his last 17 tiebreakers, with six of those coming in Atlanta. ”I don’t…
Martina Hingis, former number one in the world and newest inductee to the International Tennis Hall of Fame, returned to the WTA Tour in doubles with partner Daniela Hantuchova in successful fashion, as the duo won their first match on Wednesday in the Southern California Open against Julia Goerges & Darija Jurak 6-1, 6-1. The…
The USTA has announced the round-by-round prize money distribution for its record $34.3 million purse at the 2013 U.S. Open. Prize money for each round of the singles competitions will increase by at least 37 percent. Both the men’s and women’s singles champions will earn $2.6 million, the largest payout in tennis history….