Professional Tennis
Ranked 772nd in the world, Marcus Willis came into his first-round match at Wimbledon on Monday with low expectations to say the least. Willis shocked everyone when he upended 54th ranked Ricardas Berankis in straight sets 6-3, 6-3, 6-4 to reach the second round and snag the biggest win of his career. Willis nearly quit tennis…
The 130th edition of the Wimbledon Championships gets underway on Monday as the top tennis players in the world will battle for the sport's most prestigious trophy. Serena Williams is the defending champion and without players like former number one Victoria Azarenka and former champion Maria Sharapova out of the tournament, the biggest question is…
The 130th edition of the Wimbledon Championships gets underway on Monday as the top tennis players in the world will battle for the sport's most prestigious trophy. While the men's tour currently consists of Novak Djokovic and then everybody else, we broke down some of the contenders, pretenders and sleepers for this year's tournament at…
The USTA has announced that U.S. Fed Cup Captain Mary Joe Fernandez and USTA Player Development Head of Men’s Tennis Jay Berger, have been named, respectively, as the Women’s and Men’s Coaches of the 2016 U.S. Olympic Tennis Team. In addition, Dan James, head U.S. National Wheelchair Team Coach, has been named coach of the…
Former world number one Victoria Azarenka withdrew from Wimbledon on Thursday due to a knee injury that she suffered back in the French Open first round. Azarenka trailed Karin Knapp 0-4 in the third set of her Roland Garros opener before retiring with the knee injury and she hasn’t played since. Azarenka was scheduled to…
Ninth-seeded Marcos Baghdatis reached his fifth ATP World Tour quarterfinal of 2016 on Wednesday at the Aegon Open Nottingham, defeating American Sam Querrey 1-6, 7-6(8), 6-4 in just under two hours. Baghdatis will next face second-seeded Pablo Cuevas, who rallied to beat Daniel Evans 6-7(4), 7-6(5), 6-4. Also moving on was the top seeded Kevin…
It was a day of upsets at the Aegon International Eastbourne, as some of the WTA’s top stars failed to advance to the quarterfinals, as Caroline Wozniacki, Eugenie Bouchard and Petra Kvitova all fell Wednesday in a final tuneup before Wimbledon. It was Monica Puig who continued her stellar season with a 4-6, 6-3, 6-4…
Television network EPIX will debut the EPIX Original Documentary “Serena,” a portrait of four-time Olympic Gold Medalist and International sports icon Serena Williams, Wednesday, June 22 at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT, 7C. The feature-length documentary provides viewers with access inside the world of the athlete-designer-businesswoman, including day-in-the-life interactions with her family and friends, plus her most…
American Madison Keys won the second title of her career on Sunday, downing Barbora Strycova 6-4, 6-3 to capture the Aegon Classic championship. Despite playing a number of three-set matches throughout the week while Strycova had lost just one set in her week, Keys was the one who came out with more energy in Sunday’s…
Americans Coco Vandeweghe and Christina McHale both made their way into the Aegon Classis second round on Wednesday. Vandeweghe took out top seed Agnieszka Radwanska for the biggest win of her career, ousting the third ranked player in the world 7-5, 4-6, 6-3. Resuming a match that began on Tuesday, Vandeweghe notched the lone break…