Professional Tennis
Garbine Muguruza continued to play spectacular tennis at the WTA Finals in Singapore on Friday, outlasting former champion and Czech Petra Kvitova 6-4, 4-6, 7-5 to book her spot in the semifinals. In her third match at the tournament, Muguruza once again took on a left-handed player in Kvitova (her first two matches were against…
Maria Sharapova powered into the semifinals of the WTA Finals on Thursday, downing U.S. Open champion Flavia Pennetta 7-5, 6-1 to win her third straight match in Sinagpore. Sharapova actually entered this match with a three-match losing streak to the Italian, and fell behind the early break and found herself down 2-4 in the opening…
Spaniard Garbine Muguruza won her second straight match at the WTA Finals in Singapore on Wednesday, defeating Germany’s Angelique Kerber 6-4, 6-4 to move closer to the semifinals. Muguruza rattled off the final three games of the opener to erase a 3-4 deficit and take the first set 6-4. In the second set, she secured…
Twenty-one-time Grand Slam Champion Serena Williams will take on close friend and former world number one Caroline Wozniacki, while Stan Wawrinka will square off with French star Gael Monfils at the 9th Annual BNP Paribas Showdown at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday, March 8. The entertaining one-night tennis event, which is being held on World…
Maria Sharapova hung on to beat Simona Halep in a back and forth affair at the WTA Finals in Singapore on Tuesday, eventually outlasting the Romanian 6-4, 6-4 to win the round-robin contest. At 4-4 in the opening set, Sharapova turned up her level. She rattled off seven of the next eight games to build…
The WTA Finals in Singapore continued on Monday with two matches, as Garbine Muguruza and Angelique Kerber both picked up straight set victories. Muguruza, the youngest player in the tournament, beat Czech Republic’s Lucie Safarova 6-3, 7-6(3) to win her first match of the finals. The 22-year old Spaniard secured a break early on in the…
The USTA has announced the launch of the Australian Open Wild Card Challenge. The Wild Card Challenge, in its second year, will utilize the USTA Pro Circuit to award wild cards into the 2016 Australian Open. In this Wild Card Challenge, the American man and American woman who earn the most ATP World Tour and…
The Colonials of William Floyd High School continued their dominant run over the last two years, downing eighth-seed Sayville 7-0 in a Suffolk County quarterfinal match on Wednesday. Brooke Fernandez anchored the victory for Floyd, downing Paige Liskiewicz 6-2, 6-0 at second singles. Floyd is now 18-0 on the season, and will take its undefeated…
The USTA has announced that the Holua Tennis Center at Holua Resort at Mauna Loa Village in Kailua Kona, Hawaii, has been selected as the site for the 2016 Fed Cup by BNP Paribas World Group II First Round between the United States and Poland, Feb. 6-7. Fed Cup is the world’s largest annual international team competition…
World number one Novak Djokovic continued his domination this year, downing 16th-seeded Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-2, 6-4 to win the Shanghai Rolex Masters for the ninth title of his season. The win comes on the heels of his victory at the China Open in Beijing. He went through both tournaments without dropping a single set,…