February 21, 2013
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
With the news of both world number one and number two-ranked Serena Williams and Victoria Azarenka bowing out of the 2013 Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships, round one action wrapped up as Sara Errani and Petra Kvitova were among the winners moving on to round two.
October 31, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Caroline Wozniacki has advanced to the semifinals of the Qatar Airways Tournaments of Champions in Sofia, Bulgaria after her 6-3, 6-1 win over Italy's Roberta Vinci at the Quatar Airways Tournament of Champions.
September 20, 2012
By Emilie Katz
In celebration of the Olympic Games in London 2012, the names of 361 tube stations will be changed to carry the names of Olympic athletes. Roger will have his own stop near the city centre.
May 22, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Tenth-ranked Mardy Fish and women's 16th-ranked Andrea Petkovic are among several players who pulled out of the upcoming French Open. Fish, the top-seeded American, has not played a match for more than a month due to an injury. He will be replaced by Canada's Frank Dancevic.
January 20, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The defending Australian Open champion, Kim Clijsters of Belgium, has moved on to the fourth round of the 2012 Australian Open with a commanding 6-3, 6-2 victory over Daniela Hantuchova.
January 11, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Top-ranked Caroline Wozniacki from Denmark has lost her quarterfinal match at the Sydney International to Poland's Agnieszka Radwanska 3-6, 7-5, 6-2. Wozniacki's loss clears the path for Petra Kvitova to take over the top spot atop the WTA rankings prior to the beginning of next week's Australian Open.
January 6, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Australian Open champion Kim Clijsters became the second top contender for the year’s first major to suffer an injury setback when she retired on Friday from her Brisbane International semifinal match against Daniela Hantuchova.
August 19, 2011
By David Drucker
This week at the Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati, we’ve seen what happened to the men in Montreal last week. Top players losing early and other top players withdrawing due to injury during and before the tournament had even started.
July 28, 2011
By David Drucker
Maria Sharapova continues to roll this summer with her consistent play, which was on display yesterday when she defeated Daniela Hantuchova in three sets 6-2, 2-6, 6-4 at the Bank of the West Classic at the Taube Family Tennis Stadium on the campus of Stanford University.
June 22, 2011
By Monica Gorny
On day three of Wimbledon 2011, the opening match on Centre Court was one for the books, as six- time Wimbledon champion, Venus Williams faced 40- year old, Kimiko Date- Krumm, a former world number four player from Japan. Based solely on statistics, Williams should have won this encounter with ease.
May 27, 2011
By David Drucker
Before we could even catch our breath after Kim Clijsters’ early exit yesterday, top seed and number one-ranked Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark succumbed to defeat at the hands of the number 28 seed, Daniela Hantuchova of Slovakia.
June 23, 2010
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Day two action continued at Wimbledon, with most of the sport's top starts advancing, starting with defending Wimbledon Champion and top-seeded Serena Williams dominating in her match against Michelle Larcher De Brito of Portugal.
June 1, 2010
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Top-seeded Serena Williams defeated the 18th seed Shahar Peer by a score of 6-2, 6-2 to move into the women's quarterfinals of the 2010 French Open. Serena took only 67 min. to take out Peer, and Serena is the only American singles player, on the men's or women's side, still alive at Roland Garros. In other action, Samantha Stosur ended Justine Henin's 24-match winning streak at the French Open by a score of 2-6, 6-1, 6-4. Stosur was a semifinalist at the 2009 French Open.
