World number one-ranked Victoria Azarenka was able to hold off American teenager Sloane Stephens to reach the 2013 Australian Open finals, 6-1, 6-4. The top-seeded Azarenka asked for a medical timeout after wasting five match points with a sequence of forehand errors, but returned to quickly finish off her win on her sixth match point. After dropping…
China’s Li Na overpowered second-seeded Maria Sharapova 6-2, 6-2 to advance to the 2013 Australian Open women’s singles finals and a chance for her second Grand Slam title. Li, who won the 2011 French Open and was the losing finalist here to Kim Clijsters the same year, broke Sharapova’s serve in the fifth and seventh games…
Two-time defending Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic advanced to his third consecutive final Down Under with a 6-2, 6-2, 6-1 win over the fourth-seeded David Ferrer. Djokovic was in dominating form, hitting 30 crisp winners in the one-hour and 29-minute match. He is aiming to be the first man in the Open era to win three…
Davis Cup champions the Czech Republic will not have to worry about facing Roger Federer in the opening round of their defense after he was left out of Switzerland’s team for the Geneva tie. The 17-time Grand Slam champion, who is into the semifinals of the 2013 Australian Open, played twice for his country last year,…
Roger Federer defeated a very tough Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 7-6(4), 4-6, 7-6(4), 3-6, 6-3 to reach the Australian Open semifinals for a 10th consecutive year. The 17-time Grand Slam champion will next play U.S. Open winner Andy Murray, who advanced in straight sets over the unseeded Jeremy Chardy of France. Federer hadn’t dropped a service game…
The USTA and U.S. Davis Cup Captain Jim Courier has announced that world No. 13 John Isner, No. 22 Sam Querrey and 2012 Olympic doubles gold medalists Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan will represent the United States in the 2013 Davis Cup by BNP Paribas First Round tie against Brazil, Feb. 1-3. The tie will…
Nineteen-year-old American Sloane Stephens shocked world number three-ranked and fellow American Serena Williams on Wednesday at the 2013 Australian Open, 3-6, 7-5, 6-4. The 29th-seeded Stephens advances to her first-ever Grand Slam semifinal with the win where she will face defending Australian Open Champion, top-ranked Victoria Azarenka, who overcame some early jitters to beat Svetlana Kuznetsova…
(2) Roger Federer vs. (7) Jo-Wilfried Tsonga The premier match of today’s schedule as two of world’s top seven men’s singles players will square off. Roger Federer is looking for his 18th Grand Slam title and leads their head to head meetings 8-3 lifetime. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga is coming off a fourth round win against Richard Gasquet…
Even after top-seeded Novak Djokovic’s five-plus-hour marathon match against Stanislas Wawrinka, the world number one showed no signs of any lasting fatigue to overcome Czech fifth seed Tomas Berdych 6-1, 4-6, 6-1, 6-4 on Tuesday and advance to the Australian Open semifinals. Djokovic, bidding to become the first man to win three successive Australian Open…
As Tennis Channel’s analysts Lindsay Davenport and Justin Gimelstob fulfill their current on-air duties during the network’s extensive coverage of the Australian Open, they will also debut their acting chops in a tennis-themed episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation on CBS on Wednesday, Jan. 23, at 10:00 p.m. ET. Davenport, a three-time Grand Slam champion, and…