Tennis Channel will be live at the prestigious women’s year-end championships in Istanbul, Turkey, throughout next week, as tennis’ top-eight singles players and best-four doubles teams of the year compete for 2013 crowns. With daylong coverage Oct. 22-27, the network will offer close to 40 hours of round-robin and knockout-stage matches at the TEB BNP…
The Girls High School playoffs got underway yesterday in Nassau County. In Conference 1, Manhasset and Port Washington both won their semifinal matches, setting up a final between the top two seeds. Manhasset knocked off defending Long Island Champion Syosset 6-1 and Port Washington defeated Roslyn 5-2. The Conference I Final will be this Friday…
Andy Murray was on his way to receiving his nation’s highest honor, the Officer of Order of British Empire (OBE) on Thursday, but had a slight setback en route to Buckingham Palace. Tennis officials decided today was the day to randomly drug test Murray. In July, Murray became the first British male in 77 years…
After a first round bye, Ana Ivanovic defeated Klara Zakopalova in the second round of the Kremlin Cup in Moscow on Thursday, 6-3, 6-1. Up next for Ivanovic is the seventh-seeded Sam Stosur, who won nine of 10 games from 3-4 in the first set to beat Alizé Cornet, 6-4, 6-1. Stosur leads Ivanovic in…
Former champion Janko Tipsarevic was upset on Wednesday in the Kremlin Cup by Bank of Moscow by 17-year-old Karen Khachanov, 6-4, 6-4 in 77 minutes to become the youngest quarterfinalist of the season. In July, he won the European Junior Championships in Switzerland. Qualifier Andrey Golubev also booked a spot in the quarterfinals after he…
The Wheatley girl’s tennis team defeated Oceanside 4-2 on Tuesday in what was the final matchup in Conference B-II play before the playoffs begin. The seventh and final doubles match of the day was called a draw due to darkness. In the first singles match, Ashley Lessin of Wheatley defeated Mara Stewart of Oceanside in…
Sabrina Ferretti of Ward Melville and Aimee Manfredo of Shoreham Wading River won the Conference III and the Conference IV individual singles titles yesterday. Ferretti defeated second-seeded Victoria Makulik of Patchogue-Medford in three tough sets 6-4, 5-7, 6-2 to claim the Conference III title, while Manfredo had an easier time winning the Conference IV championship…
Samantha Stosur has advanced to the second round of the Kremlin Cup, defeating Kaia Kanepi 6-3, 6-1 on Wednesday. Stosur will next play Alize Cornet. Also in Moscow, two-time Grand Slam champion Svetlana Kuznetsova advanced to the quarterfinals of the Kremlin Cup by beating Sofia Arvidsson 6-2, 7-5. Kuznetsova, currently ranked 23rd in the world,…
The number one seed will face the number three seed in today’s Suffolk County Division 1 Individual Girls Tennis Championship. Having two top players square off for the title would normally not be a unique situation, but in this case the top players are sisters. Top-seeded Ester Chikvashvilli and third-seeded Stephanie Chikvashvilli, both of Half…
Jack Sock was victorious in his debut at the Stockholm Open on Tuesday. He defeated Bernard Tomic in straight sets 6-4, 6-2 in just 59 minutes. The 21-year-old Sock converted five of his nine break point opportunities. Sock will have to play even better in the next round as he will next play top-seeded David…