Svetlana Kuznetsova and Karolina Pliskova won their respective round-robin matches on Monday, wrapping up the second day of play at the WTA Finals in Singapore. Kuznetsova scored a huge win over last year’s champion Agnieszka Radwanska, fighting back from a match point down to upend the Pole 7-5, 1-6, 7-5. The Russian, who only qualified…
American Serena Williams has withdrawn from the BNP Paribas WTA Finals in Singapore on the medial advice of her doctors, who say the world number two needs more time to recover from the shoulder injury which forced her to pull out of the Asian swing. “I was looking forward to competing in Singapore this year…
Following the completion of its investigation into Nick Kyrgios’ second round match last week at the Shanghai Rolex Masters, the ATP has announced that Kyrgios has been found to have committed the player major offense ‘Conduct Contrary to the Integrity of the Game.’ The offense means that Kyrgios receives an additional fine of $25,000, and…
The ATP has fined Australia’s Nick Kyrgios $16,500 for his actions during his second-round match at the Shanghai Rolex Masters against Mischa Zverev on Wednesday. The fine was broken into three parts: $10,000 for showing a “lack of best efforts”, $5,000 for verbal abuse of a spectator and $1,500 for unsportsmanlike conduct. Zverev defeated Kyrgios…
Serbia’s Viktor Troicki upset Rafael Nadal 6-3, 7-6(3) in the second round of the Shanghai Rolex Masters, beating the Spaniard for the first time in his career to reach the third round. “I played really well. I was aggressive, I served well and I hit the ball nice,” said Troicki. “It was a great feeling…
Andy Murray became the forth active player with 40 career titles on Sunday, knocking off Grigor Dimitrov 6-4, 7-6(2) to capture the China Open title in Beijing. Murray came out firing as he broke Dimitrov in the match’s opening game, and would go on to serve out the rest of the set, helped out by…
American Madison Keys won a dramatic match in Beijing on Friday, edging Petra Kvitova 6-3, 6-7(2), 7-6(5) to reach the China Open semifinals. “I think I played a pretty solid first set today, then she raised her level. I just think at the end it became a couple of points here or there,” said Keys….
John McEnroe, Andy Roddick, James Blake and Jim Courier will play in the first-ever tennis event at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., the PowerShares QQQ Cup, set for Saturday, Jan. 7 at 7:00 p.m. McEnroe will replace Andre Agassi, who withdrew due to a back injury. In a pair of one-set semifinal matches, Roddick…
The Court of Arbitration for Sport has reduced Maria Sharapova's suspension after testing positive for Meldonium to 15 months. Sharapova appealed the initial two-year suspension handed out by the Tennis Anti-Doping Programme in July, and will now be able to return to the court on April 26, 2017. “The TADP has a comprehensive and fair…
American Venus Williams was eliminated in the first round of the China Open on Monday, as Chinese wild card Peng Shuai cruised to a 7-5, 6-1 victory over the sixth-seed. Shuai produced a late break in the opening set, and would then break Venus twice in the second set while saving the only break point…