The Women’s Amateur Division draw at the third installment of the 2015 Long Island Tennis Challenge, held in early August at Engineer’s Country Club, was one of the strongest fields the tournament has seen. It made for a highly competitive and well-balanced tournament. After a morning of intense matches in the Women’s Amateur Division, the…
Andy Murray snapped an eight-match losing streak to world number one Novak Djokovic on Sunday, beating the Serb 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 to win the Rogers Cup title in Montreal. “To win this one was nice, especially the way the match went as well,” said Murray. “It would have been easy for me to let that…
Bob Litwin’s tennis journey was the road less traveled. He didn’t start playing at a very young age and didn’t fall in love with the sport when he was a youngster, but the Great Neck native carved his own path into the tennis world that took him to places even he never imagined. “I started…
Simona Halep battled past Angelique Kerber on Thursday, getting past the 13th seeded German 6-3, 5-7, 6-4 to reach the Rogers Cup quarterfinals. Halep ended the seven-match winning streak of Kerber in a tough three-set affair. After Kerber edged out the second set 7-5, the German took a 3-2 lead in the deciding frame. Halep…
It was business as usual for the top seeds at the Rogers Cup in Montreal on Thursday, as the number one, two and four seeds all rolled to victories to reach the quarterfinals of the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournament. World number one and top-seeded Serb Novak Djokovic was one of the first matches…
USTA Eastern will hold the 2015 Junior Awards Gala on Monday, Aug. 31 at 10:30 a.m. at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, Indoor Hospitality Pavilion to recognize the top juniors in the Eastern Section. Alexa Noel of Summit, N.J. will be honored in two divisions, as she is number two in the Girls 12s and number…
Victoria Azarenka rolled past third-seeded Czech Petra Kvitova 6-2, 6-3 on Wednesday, notching her first win over a top four player since 2013. Azarenka came out firing against Kvitova, building a hefty 6-2, 4-1 lead. After Kvitova trimmed that lead to 3-4, Azarenka rattled off the next two games to close out the fourth-ranked player…
Rafael Nadal got his Rogers Cup tournament off to a winning start on Wednesday, downing Ukrainian Sergiy Stakhovsky 7-6(4), 6-3 to reach the third-round in Montreal. The seventh-seed Nadal had a chance to serve out the first set, but was broken by Stakhovsky to send the opening set into a tiebreak. Nadal outdueled him in…
Novak Djokovic recorded his 250th career win at ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournaments on Tuesday, beating Brazilian Thomaz Bellucci 6-3, 7-6(4) in the Rogers Cup second-round. Bellucci played Djokovic tough, but was just never able to break the Serb. Djokovic broke once in the first set to take it 6-3, and then after both…
World number one Serena Williams came out of the gate slow on Tuesday afternoon at the Rogers Cup in Toronto, but in typical Serena fashion, rallied back for a 2-6, 6-3, 6-0 victory over Italy’s Flavia Pennetta to move into the tournament’s third-round. After dropping the first set, Serena found herself down a break early…