Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray will resume their semifinals match in Paris on Saturday at the French Open, as an approaching storm halted the contest midway through the fourth set with Djokovic holding a 6-3, 6-3, 5-7, 3-3 advantage. Djokovic came into the match on a roll, rattling of 27 wins to start 2015, and…
It certainly wasn’t pretty or the best tennis eighth-seeded Swiss Stan Warinka has ever played, but it was enough to get the job done on Friday, as Wawrinka bested France’s Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-3, 6-7(1), 7-6(3), 6-4 to reach the French Open final. Wawrinka nailed down an early break point which allowed him to serve out…
Seventeen-year-old Taylor Fritz of Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. and 18-year-old Tommy Paul of Lumberton, N.J. will play each other Saturday for the French Open Boys Singles title in Paris, the first-ever all-American boys singles final at Roland Garros, dating back to 1947. Fritz, seeded second in the French Open boys draw and ranked third in the world among juniors, will also be the number…
The Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) has announced the 2015 All-America Teams for Division I men's and women's tennis. USC, UCLA and Virginia each had six different student-athletes earn the distinction to lead all schools. A combined 16 men and women were named to the All-America teams in both singles and doubles (10 men and six women). Wake Forest…
For the fourth time this tournament, Serena Williams dug herself a first set hold, but found her way back home, defeating 23rd seeded Swiss Timea Bacsinszky 4-6, 6-3, 6-0 to reach the French Open final. Serena’s slow start can be attributed to her feeling under the weather. The world number one admitted to developing the…
Lucie Safarova booked a spot in the first Grand Slam final of her career on Thursday, downing seventh-seeded Ana Ivanovic 7-5, 7-5 to reach the French Open championship. Safarova trailed big early, as Ivanovic broke in the second game and build a 4-1 advantage. Ivanovic then build a 5-2, and even served for the match…
Bob & Mike Bryan notched their 60th career victory at the French Open Thursday, downing Australian Open champions Simone Bolelli & Fabio Fognini 6-3, 6-3 to reach the Men’s Doubles Finals at Roland Garros. The top-seeds had to fight off an early break of serve to get themselves back into the opening set. The Americans…
It was probably the most anticipated match of 2015, as world number one Novak Djokovic took on the greatest player ever on clay, Rafael Nadal, in the French Open quarterfinals on Wednesday. Nadal entered the match with a 70-1 career record on the courts of Roland Garros, but ran into the man who is currently…
The United States Fed Cup Team will kick off their 2016 Fed Cup campaign by hosting Poland in the Fed Cup by BNP Paribas World Group II First Round, Feb. 6-7, 2016. The International Tennis Federation (ITF) conducted the draws for the World Group and World Group II today at the FFT Museum at Roland…
With the 2014-2015 Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) season officially over, UCLA's Robin Anderson and Oklahoma's Axel Alvarez Llamas finished the year as the nation's top players in the final Oracle/ITA National Singles Rankings. Final regional rankings for team, singles and doubles were also released. Among the top players, local North Carolina's Jamie Loeb from Ossining, N.Y. and…