May 3, 2013
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
ATP has announced the passing of its Executive Chairman & President Brad Drewett on Friday in Sydney, Australia at the age of 54 following a battle with Motor Neurone Disease (also known as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s Disease).
March 18, 2013
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The American duo of Bob & Mike Bryan won their first BNP Paribas Open title on Saturday, rallying to defeat Treat Huey and Jerzy Janowicz 6-3, 3-6, 10-6 in just over an hour to capture their fourth title of 2013 ...
February 11, 2013
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
World number 73 Horacio Zeballos upset top-seeded Rafael Nadal in his first comeback event, defeating the 11-time Grand Slam champion 6-7(2), 7-6(6), 6-4 to capture his first ATP World Tour trophy at the VTR Open in Vina del Mar.
January 11, 2013
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Current world number four-ranked Agnieszka Radwanska defeated Dominika Cibulkova in the finals of the Apia International Sydney, 6-0, 6-0, the first double bagel WTA final since Québec City in 2006.
January 9, 2013
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Defending champions Bob & Mike Bryan advanced to the semifinals of the Apia International Sydney, defeating the French duo of Julien Benneteau & Michael Llodra 6-3, 6-2. The top-seeded American twins saved all six break points and won 73 percent of first serve points.
January 9, 2013
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
American Ryan Harrison, currently ranked 68th in the world, has upset the top seed and fellow countryman John Isner 6-4, 6-4 at the Apia International Sydney. Harrison, who had lost both his previous meetings with Isner in straight sets, saved all three break points that he faced on serve.
January 8, 2013
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Seventh-seeded and former world number one Caroline Wozniacki fell to Svetlana Kuznetsova, 7-6(4), 1-6, 6-2 in opening round action at the Apia International Sydney. Kuznetsova, a two-time Grand Slam champion and former world number two, recently came back from a six-month knee injury layoff and had to come through the qualifiers this week.
July 26, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The International Tennis Federation (ITF) has announced the seeds for the London 2012 Olympic Tennis Event, being staged at the All England Club, Wimbledon from July 28-Aug. 5. Seeds are based on the ATP and WTA world rankings as of Monday, July 23.
January 30, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Victoria Azarenka from Belarus defeated Russia' Maria Sharapova in the 2012 Australian Open Women's singles finals in just one-hour, 22-min. Azarenka swept the three-time Grand Slam winner, 6-3, 6-0, and won 12 out of 13 games in a row to quickly capture her first Grand Slam win ...
January 27, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Russia's Maria Sharapova will take on Victoria Azarenka of Belarus in the women’s singles final of the 2012 Australian Open at 3:00 a.m. ET Saturday morning. Azarenka, who won the Sydney International title the weekend before the season’s first major, will attempt to continue her winning ways.
January 17, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Day Two of the 2012 Australian Open finished with all the seeds on both the men's and women's sides of the draw advancing with the exception of hometown favorite Samantha Stosur, the number six-ranked and 2011 U.S. Open Champion. Stosur was ousted in straight sets on Tuesday, 7-6 (2), 6-3, to the 59th-ranked Sorana Cirstea of Romania.
January 12, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
China's Li Na defeated Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic in the semifinals of the Sydney International with a 1-6, 7-5, 6-2 three-set win on Thursday. Kvitova needed to be victorious at this tournament in order to knock Caroline Wozniacki out of the number one spot atop the WTA rankings prior to the Australian Open.
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 10, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Caroline Wozniacki from Denmark came back from 4-0 down in the final set to beat Slovakian Dominika Cibulkova of Slovakia, 7-5, 2-6, 6-4, to advance to the quarterfinals at the Sydney International, one of the final warmups prior to the 2012 Australian Open.
January 9, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Australia's Sam Stosur, the 2011 U.S. Open champion, lost to Italy's Francesca Schiavone, 6-2, 6-4, in the first round of the Sydney International Tournament. Schiavone has also defeated Stosur at the 2010 French Open final and had little to no trouble once again defeating her early on in this tournament.
December 23, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Venus & Serena Williams are eager to defend their Olympic Doubles Title at the Summer 2012 Olympics in London. The American duo are in pursuit of their third trip to the top of Olympic podium and a medal ceremony, after gold medal runs in both Sydney in 2000 and 2008 in Beijing.
January 11, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Top-seeded Caroline Wozniacki was upset by 32nd-ranked Dominika Cibulkova of Slovakia, 6-3, 6-3 in her opening match at the Sydney International.
December 9, 2010
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
U.S. Open winner Juan Martin Del Potro of Argentina will resume his comeback from a 12-month injury layoff as a wild card at the Sydney International in January. Del Potro fell from fourth to 259th in the world rankings after dropping out of the tour after this year’s Australian Open and having surgery on his right wrist in May.
November 30, 2010
By Brent Shearer
Among the many fascinating tidbits of tennis history, the reader can glean from The Education of a Tennis Player by Rod Laver with Bud Collins is that accusations of stinginess between top rivals didn’t start with Andre Agassi’s jokes about Pete Sampras being a lousy tipper.
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