Professional Tennis
Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray booked four of the eight quarterfinal spots at the BNP Paribas Open, all winning in straight sets on Wednesday in Indian Wells, Calif. Three-time champion Rafael Nadal rolled past France’s Gilles Simon 6-2, 6-4 in less than 80 minutes. Nadal led 5-2 in the final set…
Simona Halep dropped the opening set to 12th-seeded Carla Suarez Navarro in Wednesday’s quarterfinal, but rallied to win 12 of the next 14 games and move into the BNP Paribas Open semifinals with a 5-7, 6-1, 6-1 victory. The third-seeded Halep dropped the first four games of the match to go down 0-4. Despite rallying…
The International Tennis Federation (ITF) and the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) have announced that American Wayne Odesnik will face a 15-year ban from the sport following a second doping violation. Odesnik had previously been sanctioned back in 2010 for possessing a human growth hormone. That penalty was originally supposed to be two years, but…
At the 2013 Australian Open, Sloane Stephens, 19-years-old at the time, beat Serena Williams in a tense quarterfinals match, leading everyone to believe she had a huge opportunity ahead of her. Stephens has not lived up to those expectations so far. At this year’s Aussie Open, another American, 19-year-old Madison Keys, stepped into the spotlight…
Roger Federer exacted some revenge on Italian Andreas Seppi at the BNP Paribas Open on Tuesday, defeating him 6-3, 6-4 in a rematch of the Swiss’ defeat at the hands of Seppi in January’s Australian Open. Seppi struggled with his serve as Federer gave himself 12 break point chances throughout the match. While he was…
Serena Williams came out sluggish in her fourth round match up against fellow American Sloane Stephens, but after dropping the first set, the world number one stormed back and came out victorious 6-7(3), 6-2, 6-2 at the BNP Paribas Open on Tuesday. Stephens came out swinging and was the aggressor early on. She broke Serena…
The defending champion at the BNP Paribas Open Novak Djokovic moved into the fourth-round of the tournament on Monday, beating Spain’s Albert Ramos-Vinolas 7-5, 6-3. The world number one converted on four of his nine break point chances as he won in one hour and 25 minutes, but was not particularly pleased with his performance….
Two of the top 10 players in the world on the women’s side saw their runs at the BNP Paribas Open come to an end on Monday, as fifth-ranked Caroline Wozniacki and sixth-ranked Ana Ivanovic were eliminated in Indian Wells, Calif. Wozniacki took on 18-year-old Belinda Bencic of Switzerland, one of the WTA’s Rising Stars,…
In Serena Williams’ return to Indian Wells on Friday, the best player in the world battled through emotions and nerves to squeak out a 7-5, 7-5 victory over Monica Niculescu in the second-round. With those emotions and nerves subsided, Serena cruised in her match on Sunday, rolling past 28th seeded Zarina Diyas 6-2, 6-0. She…
While a number of Americans pulled off some surprising victories on Sunday at the BNP Paribas Open, the biggest came from a Dutchman, as the Netherlands’ Robin Haase upset seventh-seeded Swiss Stan Wawrinka 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 to move into the Indian Wells third-round. Ranked 104th in the world, Haase came into Sunday’s contest with Wawrinka…