Professional Tennis
The coaching carosuel in professional tennis continues to spin, as Wim Fissette has once again found himself involved in a hiring or firing. Fissette, who helped coach Romanian Simona Halep to a world number two ranking and WTA Finals runner up in 2014, has been hired by American teenager Taylor Townsend for the 2015 season,…
While much has been made of the recent decline in success of American men on the tennis court, the women’s game has not missed a beat in its development of impact players on the WTA Tour. The last official WTA rankings of 2014 came out Dec. 22, and it featured 18 Americans in the top…
Australia native Jordan Thompson earned a wild card berth into the Australian Open with a thrilling 6-1, 6-3, 1-6, 6-7(2), 9-7 over his compatriot John-Patrick Smith in Sunday’s Australian Open Wild Card playoff final. The win puts him into the main draw of the first Grand Slam of the year for the second consecutive season….
The International Tennis Federation (ITF) has announced its annual awards, naming Novak Djokovic the Men’s World Champion for the fourth time, while Serena Williams was named the Women’s World Champion for the fifth time in her career. The Bryan Brothers, Bob and Mike, were named the Men’s Doubles World Champions for the 11th time in 12…
The USTA Pro Circuit, the largest developmental tennis circuit in the world, celebrated its 35th anniversary in 2014 by featuring 87 events, awarding nearly $3 million in total prize money and seeing several American players produce notable results. This year, the USTA Pro Circuit included a record 36 tournaments held on clay. In conjunction with…
Lincoln, Neb. native Jack Sock will miss the Australian Open after undergoing hip surgery, he said in a tweet Thursday. The 22-year-old is the fourth-highest ranked American, and concluded 2014 ranked 42nd in the world. He will also miss the rest of the Australian summer circuit which includes the Hopman Cup where he was due…
ESPNW has released the Impact 25 this week, a list of exceptional athletes and influencers who made the largest impact on women’s sports this year. The list is broken up into 12 athletes, 12 influencers and one Woman of the Year. Serena Williams and Li Na made the list as athletes while Billie Jean King…
The seventh ranked player in the world Tomas Berdych has announced who is coach will be for the 2015 season. The Czech, who reached the ATP Finals semifinals in November, has hired Andy Murray’s former coach Dani Vallverdu. Vallverdu split from Murray last month in a decision each part called mutual. It didn’t take long…
The 2015 Australian Open will feature the “deepest and strongest” field in the tournament’s history, as all of the top 100 ranked players on the men’s side and 99 of the top 100 on the women’s side will be in Melbourne, Australia for the season’s first Grand Slam, according to the official Australian Open Web…
The ATP has announced that there will be significant prize-money increases on the World Tour over the next four years, and will surpass $100 million for the first time ever in 2015. It says that prize money could reach $135 million by 2018. The biggest hike will come at the top-tier Masters 1000 tournaments where…