Professional Tennis
Americans Coco Vandeweghe and Madison Brengle won their respective first round matchups on Monday to advance to the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships second round. Vandeweghe pulled the day’s biggest upset with a 7-6(5), 6-1 victory over sixth-seeded Czech Karolina Pliskova. In a matchup between two big hitters, it was Vandeweghe who held her nerve…
American Venus Williams won the 49th title of her career on Sunday, defeating Japan’s Misaki Doi 6-4, 6-2 to win the Taiwan Open championship. “I’ve had so much success in Asia,” said Williams after the match. “I feel like it’s very lucky to play here. My opponent was incredible today. It’s fun to win a…
Kei Nishikori made history on Valentine’s Day in Memphis by defeating Taylor Fritz to win his fourth consecutive Memphis Open championship title. Jimmy Connors is the only other player to have won a Memphis title four times, but Connors’ titles were not consecutive. “I had a slow start, but after that I served really well…
Rafael Nadal felt right at home playing once again on the Buenos Aires clay on Thursday. In a rematch of last year’s Argentina Open final, top-seed Nadal moved past Argentinean Juan Monaco 6-4, 6-4 to reach the tournament’s quarterfinals. Despite Nadal dropping serve three times, but displayed an excellent return game, breaking Monaco five times…
In an all-American battle, No. 2 seed Steve Johnson faced off against 18-year old phenom Taylor Fritz for a spot in the Memphis Open quarterfinals on Thursday. Much buzz was surrounding this match-up of practice partners out of California. Both players were seeking their first quarterfinal of the year. Johnson was seeking his first quarterfinal…
Maria Sharapova announced on Wednesday that she has withdrawn from the Qatar Total Open in Doha with a left arm injury. “Unfortunately, I will not be able to play the Qatar Total Open because of left forearm injury,” Sharapova said in a statement. “I would like to wish the tournament and all the great fans…
American John Isner was ousted from the Argentina Open on Wednesday as Serbia’s Dusan Lajovic took him out 7-6(10), 4-6, 7-6(6) in the tournament’s second round in Buenos Aires. Isner didn’t have his serve broke once, and didn’t even face a break point in the three-set match, but was outdone by Lajovic in first and…
Continuing the tradition of featuring top junior players, the BNP Paribas Showdown will once again present two of the world’s best players on the junior circuit when Tyra Hurricane Black squares off against Carson Branstine in an opening match presented by HEAD Penn Racquet Sports as part of World Tennis Day at Madison Square Garden…
Three-time defending champion Kei Nishikori extended his match-win streak in Memphis to 14, defeating American Ryan Harrison, 6-2, 7-5 in a second-round matchup on Wednesday. The quest for a fourth straight Memphis Open title for Kei Nishikori began with a rematch of last year’s second round encounter in which Nishikori edged out Harrison in three…
The U.S. Fed Cup Team will travel to Australia for the 2016 Fed Cup by BNP Paribas World Group Playoffs, April 16-17 at a site to be determined. The International Tennis Federation (ITF) announced the draw for the 2016 World Group Playoffs. Australia is seeded eighth, while the United States was unseeded. The seeds were…