Maria Sharapova from Russia and Caroline Wozniacki from Denmark will front the two round-robin pools for the WTA Championships to be held in Turkey this upcoming week. In the red pool, Wozniacki will be joined by Petra Kvitova, Vera Zvonareva, and Agnieszka Radwanska. In the white pool, Sharapova will be joined by Victoria Azarenka, Li Na,…
On Oct. 16, the Massapequa and South Side Girls Varsity Tennis teams dedicated their match as part of October’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The match featured all the players wearing pink shirts and playing with specially manufactured Wilson pink tennis balls (whose proceeds go towards breast cancer research). Even though Massapequa won the afternoon’s match,…
The United States women’s tennis team has won the gold medal and bronze medal in girls singles tennis at the Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico. The number two seed, New York’s Irina Falconi captured the gold medal after defeating Puerto Rico’s Monica Puig, 6-3, 6-2. The last American woman to win a tennis gold…
Top-seeded Gael Monfils of France has advanced to the quarterfinals of the Stockholm Open, with a 6-4, 6-7 (4), 6-4 win over world-44th-ranked Bernard Tomic of Australia. Monfils will face South African Kevin Anderson, the number five seed, in the quarterfinals. Unseeded David Nalbandian of Argentina upset the seventh-seeded Ivan Dodig of Croatia, 6-1, 6-1, advancing to face…
Ken Meyerson, a tennis agent who represented tennis greats, including Andy Roddick, Justin Henin and Chris Evert has passed away at the age of 48. He died on Oct. 19 at home in Florida with the cause of death not immediately known. "Ken was a very a hard worker and was always determined to do…
Robin Soderling has announced his withdrawal from next month’s Paris Masters due to illness. The sixth-ranked Swede has suffered from mononucleosis which has resulted in absence since last July. This withdrawal will ruin his chances of being able to compete in the ATP Tour Finals which will be held in London in November. Brazilian Thomaz…
Tennis Channel will once again offer complete coverage at the women’s tennis season-ending championship competition, with close to 35 hours of live, week-long match play at the TEB BNP Paribas WTA Championships in Istanbul, Turkey, October 25-30. The network will follow six-and-a-half hours of live weekday telecasts with comprehensive encore coverage each evening in prime-time,…
Victoria Azarenka of Belarus, ranked number three in the world, defeated Italy’s Alberta Brianti, 6-0, 6-1 at the BGL BNP Paribas Luxembourg Open. Azarenka advances to face the unseeded Iveta Benešová of the Czech Republic, a winner over the number seven seed, Maria Kirilenko of Russia, after Kirilenko was forced to withdraw due to injury. The upset of the tournament…
Almost all of my tennis buddies, except for a few "holdouts," are now playing golf. The athleticism and excellent hand-eye coordination they bring to the game enables them to be fairly successful right from the start. Of course, as we golf nuts know, and I represent that remark, success in golf is fleeting. You can…
U.S. Open officials are exploring the possibility of amending its schedule to switch its final day to a Monday. The three other Grand Slam events, the French Open, Australian Open and Wimbledon all wrap up their action on Sundays. USTA Tournament Director Jim Curley has told The Associated Press that the USTA has opened discussions…