Italian Andreas Seppi entered Friday’s third-round match with Roger Federer with an 0-10 record against the world number two from Switzerland. He changed that and caused the biggest upset of the 2015 Australian Open so far, ousting Federer 6-4, 7-6(5), 4-6, 7-6(5) to move into the fourth-round. “To beat Roger first time, especially in a…
In one of the most intriguing second-round matches in recent Grand Slam history, it was the unseeded Victoria Azarenka who came out on top, defeating the eighth-seeded Caroline Wozniacki 6-4, 6-2 to advance to the Australian Open’s third round. The two-time Australian Open champion broke Wozniacki in the match’s opening game and broke again in…
Taylor Fritz and Michael Mmoh, two of the Top 10 juniors in the world, will headline the Americans playing in the Australian Open Junior Championships, set to begin this weekend, Jan. 24-31, in Melbourne. While many American teens will be playing events on the USTA Pro Circuit, the fifth-ranked Fritz (17, Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., coached by Guy Fritz) and seventh-ranked Mmoh (16,…
John Isner fired 28 aces and was nearly automatic (91 percent) on his first serve points to move past Austria’s Andreas Haider-Maurer 6-4, 7-6(4), 4-6, 6-4 and advance into the third round of the Australian Open on Thursday. In a match that did not see many return points won, Isner was just a bit better…
The 2015 spring season shifts into high gear on Jan. 23-25 for the Seventh Annual ITA Kick-Off Weekend. One-hundred-twenty teams—60 men's and 60 women's—will compete across the country for berths in the ITA National Team Indoor Championships in February. The ITA Division I National Women's Team Indoor Championships will be hosted by the University of Virginia at…
World number one Novak Djokovic won the first nine games of his second-round match on Thursday on his way to a clean 6-0, 6-1, 6-4 victory over Russian Andrey Kuznetsov to advance at the Australian Open in Melbourne. The only slip up in the match for the Serbian was falling behind 0-2 to begin the…
Rafael Nadal won the final two sets to narrowly escape a second-round contest with Tim Smyczek, beating the American qualifier 6-2, 3-6, 6-7(2), 6-3, 7-5 to advance into the third round of the Australian Open. Nadal got off to a quick start as he broke Smyczek in the fourth and eighth games to win the…
After opening the 2015 spring season atop the ITA Division I National Team Rankings, the UCLA women and USC men remained as the number one teams in the nation. The Trojan men rolled to a 6-1 win in their season-opening match against UC Riverside on Monday. In individual action, senior Roberto Quiroz captured the singles title at…
In one of the best matches of the tournament in either draw thus far, second-seeded Russian Maria Sharapova saved three match points to escape with a 6-1, 4-6, 7-5 victory over fellow Russian Alexandra Panova at the Australian Open. Sharapova got all she could handle from the 25-year-old qualifier, and seemed to be on the…
Rarely do you see two former world number ones play each other so early in a Grand Slam tournament, but Caroline Wozniacki and Victoria Azarenka each took care of their first-round tests at the Australian Open to set up a fantastic second-round matchup between the two. Wozniacki took on young American Taylor Townsend in her…