Petra Kvitova defeated Angelique Kerber 6-2, 0-6, 6-3 on Sunday for her second WTA title of the year at the Toray Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo, Japan. With the win, Kvitova rises in the WTA Women’s Singles Rankings, from 11th to number seven. Kvitova now has 11 WTA titles in her career and is now 11-4 lifetime in…
Canada’s Milos Raonic defeated the top-seeded Tomas Berdych 7-6(4), 6-3 at the Thailand Open on Sunday. Raonic hit 18 aces to beat Berdych in the finals en route to his fifth career title. Raonic upped his lifetime record over Berdych to 2-0 after also beating him in the Cincinnati Masters last year. Raonic is now just 180 points…
The players, spectators and fans are about to embark on a two-week journey known as the U.S. Open Championships at Flushing Meadows, N.Y., the final Grand Slam event of the year. If you are an American tennis fan, you are likely going to watch a lot of tennis on television or perhaps you will scramble…
Since school is right around the corner, I thought it would be good to get back into the flow with a Mythbusters Quiz. One factoid was taken from the last articles and formed into a question. This shouldn’t be so hard for the Mythbuster die-hards out there. Even if you haven’t been reading…
Angelique Kerber and Petra Kvitova will meet in the finals of the 2013 Toray Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo, after Kvitova defeated Venus Williams 3-6, 6-3, 7-6(2) and Kerber was a 6-4, 7-6(5) winner over the fourth-seeded Caroline Wozniacki. The number seven-seeded Kvitova ended a nice run by Venus, as the two put on a serving display, each…
It’s a good thing the editors at Long Island Tennis Magazine asked me to review John McEnroe’s book, You Cannot be Serious, because I discovered a big, fat lie on page 260. Describing a February 1991 match against his brother, Patrick, John McEnroe says he was serving at match point when a phone rang. The older…
Venus Williams reached the semifinals of the Toray Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo, Japan on Thursday after her 6-3, 6-7(4), 6-3 win in three-plus hours over Canadian Eugenie Bouchard. Venus and Bouchard had comparable unforced errors in the match, 35 for Williams and 34 for Bouchard, but their winners told the story—Venus had 43 in the match, Bouchard…
As soon as we begin to play for points, we immediately move from the realm of practice into the realm of competition. And that simple addition of risking winning or losing a point, set, or match requires a totally new skill: Performing under pressure. Believe it or not, our ability to perform under pressure frequently…
ATP Men’s Singles number one Novak Djokovic announced his engagement to long-time girlfriend Jelena Ristic on Wednesday via Facebook. Djokovic posted, "Getting used to introducing Jelena as my fiancé and future wife 🙂 So happy!” along with a photo of Ristic kissing him on the cheek. He then took to Twitter, posting, “Meet my fiancé and…
Eugenie Bouchard continued her run at the Toray Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo, Japan on Wednesday, defeating Jelena Jankovic to reach the quarterfinals 7-5, 6-2. In opening round action, Bouchard came back from 7-5, 5-3 down to beat the ninth-seeded American Sloane Stephens in the second round. Bouchard’s win over the 10th-ranked Jankovic is her…