Top-seeded Sachia Vickery beat second-seeded Alexandra Kiick 4-6, 6-2, 6-0 to win the USTA Girls 18s National Championship at Barnes Tennis Center in San Diego, Calif. With the win, Vickery earned a wild card entry into the women’s singles main draw at the 2013 U.S. Open. The 18-year-old Vickery, from Miramar, Fla., is currently ranked 230th…
Serena Williams won her third Rogers Cup trophy by defeating Sorana Cirstea 6-2, 6-0. She didn’t lose a set the whole tournament, and her biggest test was against Agnieszka Radwanska in the semifinals. This is Serena’s eighth title of the year and 54th of her career. Many top players, including Maria Sharapova and Victoria Azarenka, missed…
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Agnieszka Radwanska defeated Sara Errani 7-6 (1), 7-5 to reach the semifinals of the 2013 Rogers Cup in Toronto. Radwanska, seeded third, will play the winner of the late match between top-seeded Serena Williams and Magdalena Rybarikova of Slovakia. Errani eliminated Radwanska in the quarterfinals of this year’s French Open. In other quarterfinal matches, fourth-seeded Li Na…
Del Potro Meets the Pope Juan Martin del Potro took in a Mass at the Vatican and also shared a meet-and-greet with the recently elected leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis, during the Internazionali BNL d’Italia. Del Potro presented the Pope, a fellow Argentine, with one of the racquets he used to defeat Roger…
Serena Williams won her opening match at the Rogers Cup in Toronto on Wednesday night, defeating Italian Francesca Schiavone, 6-3, 6-2. She will play a third-round match against 13th-seeded Kirsten Flipkens on Thursday night. Flipkens won her match against Kiki Bertens 7-5, 3-6, 6-2. "I felt good. I felt solid," said Serena. "Obviously I made…
Rafael Nadal defeated Jerzy Janowicz in straight sets 7-6(6), 6-4 at the Rogers Cup in Montreal Thursday afternoon. Nadal broke Janowicz at 5-6 in the first set and then took the tie-breaker to win the first set. Nadal had the first set on his racquet at 6-5 and led by an early break in the…
The USTA has announced that Monica Seles, a two-time U.S. Open Champion, has been named the 2013 inductee into the U.S. Open Court of Champions, a U.S. Open and USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center attraction honoring the greatest singles champions in the history of the U.S. Championships/U.S. Open. Seles will be inducted during…
Long Island native Noah Rubin took one step closer to a automatic wild card into the main draw at the 2013 U.S. Open with a thrilling 3-6, 7-5, 7-5 victory in a match at the USTA Boys 18s National Championships in Kalamazoo, Mich. that started yesterday and ended today due to a weather delay. In this Round…
Twenty-three juniors from the John McEnroe Tennis Academy (JMTA) have made their way across country to compete in the August 2013 USTA Nationals. The country’s best juniors are competing in the following cities: Kalamazoo, Mich. (Boys 16-18); San Diego, Calif. (Girls 16-18); San Antonio, Texas (Boys 14); Peachtree City, Ga. (Girls 14); Little Rock, Ark….