It had been a long time coming, but the Friends Academy Quakers Girls Tennis team finally got a win over the Great Neck South Rebels when it mattered the most. The Rebels had beaten the Quakers in both regular season matches but the third time was the charm for the Quakers who pulled off a…
Stan Wawrinka moved into the third-round of the BNP Paribas Masters on Wednesday, rolling past Austrian Dominic Thiem 6-4, 7-6(6) in his first match this week in Paris. The third-seeded Switzerland native avenged a defeat he suffered at the hands of Thiem at the Mutua Madrid Open earlier this year, and was looking to snap…
World number one Novak Djokovic was a 6-3, 6-4 second-round winner Tuesday over Philipp Kohlschreiber at the BNP Paribas Masters in Paris to advance to round three. The defending champ in Paris, it was Djokovic’s return to action after the birth of his son Stefan last week with his wife Jelena. "It feels great! It's different,…
It was a battle of two of Suffolk County’s top girl’s high school tennis teams on Monday afternoon, as the Commack Cougars faced off against the Half Hollow Hills East Thunderbirds in the Suffolk County Semifinals at Hills East. The top-seeded Thunderbirds had defeated Commack in two regular season matches, but Commack was determined to…
The Manhasset Indians came up one match short in the 2013 Nassau County Girls Tennis championship, falling to the Port Washington Vikings 4-3. This year, the girls from top-seeded Manhasset would not be denied, defeating the second-seeded Bulldogs of Roslyn 5-2 on Friday afternoon to capture the Nassau County Conference I Championship. “I am incredibly…
Roger Federer captured his sixth Swiss Indoors Basel title on Sunday, defeating David Goffin 6-2, 6-2. In doing so, the Switzerland native moves closer to Novak Djokovic for the year-end number one spot. “It would be very special to reclaim number one,” said Federer. “World number one is what it’s all about in our game….
Serena Williams exacted revenge for her embarrassing loss to Simona Halep earlier in the week by defeating the Romanian 6-3, 6-0 in Singapore to win her third straight WTA Finals. Serena suffered her worst loss in 16 years to Halep in the second round of the WTA Finals’ round-robin stage from Singapore. She won just…
Rafael Nadal was shocked in the quarterfinals of the Swiss Indoors Basel on Friday, falling 2-6, 4-6 to 17-year-old Croatian teenager Borna Coric. “It’s unbelievable for me,” said Coric. “I just want to enjoy the moment. I’m just so surprised and it’s an unbelievable feeling.” Coric broke Nadal three times early on, winning his own…
The semifinals of the WTA Finals are all set after the round-robin’s final two matches took place Friday, leaving the field with just four players left. Caroline Woznacki disposed of Petra Kvitova 6-2, 6-3, which improved her record in Singapore to 3-0 and earned her a spot in the semis. Kvitova’s loss meant that she…
Tennis legend Roger Federer will return to Madison Square Garden to face Grigor Dimitrov and headline the Annual BNP Paribas Showdown on Tuesday, March 10, 2015. Federer, currently ranked second in the world, will make his third appearance in the BNP Paribas Showdown after facing Pete Sampras in 2008 and Andy Roddick in 2012. Arguably the greatest tennis player of all-time, he holds several…