Professional Tennis
Estonia’s Anett Kontaveit won her 20th straight match indoors on Sunday, outlasting Greece’s Maria Sakkari 5-7, 7-6(4), 7-5 to win the St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy. “It was such a tough battle. I was behind in the score so many times that I couldn’t quite believe that I managed to pull that off,” Kontaveit told…
World No. 25 Grigor Dimitrov and 2022 Australian Open junior champion Bruno Kuzuhara have been given wild cards for the Delray Beach Open by VITACOST.com’s 30th anniversary tournament that begins Friday. Dimitrov, an eight-time winner on the ATP Tour, receives entry into the main draw while the World No. 1 junior Kuzuhara (17) will play qualifying. In honor of the 30th…
The Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), the governing body of men’s professional tennis, is pleased to announce the return of the Arizona Tennis Classic now called the “Carvana Arizona Tennis Classic” after a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19. Running from March 14 through March 20, the tournament, which is part of the ATP Challenger Tour, takes place at Phoenix Country Club,…
Prior to the start of the 2022 Australian Open, the general consensus was that a player on the men’s side would be in line to win his record-setting 21st Slam title. While the consensus was it would be nine-time Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic, but instead on Sunday, it was Spain’s Rafael Nadal who…
Let the Barty Party begin. Australia’s Ashleigh Barty completed her dominant two-week run in Melbourne and captured the Australian Open title, defeating American Danielle Collins 6-3, 7-6(2) on Saturday. The win gives Barty her third career Slam title, and she becomes the first Australian woman to win the title in her home country since…
On Sunday, Rafael Nadal and Daniil Medvedev will square off for the 2022 Australian Open men’s singles title. It will be the fifth meeting between two, and the second time they will play one another for a major title. The two met in the 2019 U.S. Open final, an epic, five-set thriller that saw…
The women’s singles final is set at the 2022 Australian Open, and it will feature top-seeded Australian Ashleigh Barty facing off against 27th seeded American Danielle Collins. The American was up first and powered her way into the first major final of her career with a 6-4, 6-1 victory over seventh-seed Iga Swiatek of…
Both Daniil Medvedev and Stefanos Tsitsipas booked their spot in the semifinals of the 2022 Australian Open on Wednesday, but each did so in a different manner. The fourth-seeded Tsitsipas faced no issues in a 6-3, 6-4, 6-2 rout of Jannik Sinner of Italy, reaching the Melbourne semifinals for the second straight year and…
The final four in both men’s singles and women’s singles at the 2022 Australian Open is now official, with the last remaining quarterfinal matches played on Wednesday. On the women’s side, American Danielle Collins continued her run in Melbourne with a 7-5, 6-1 triumph over France’s Alize Cornet. “It feels incredible. I think especially…
The first men’s singles semifinal of the 2022 Australian Open was finalized on Tuesday, as Italy’s Matteo Berrettini and Spain’s Rafael Nadal won their respective quarterfinal matches. Nadal knocked out 14th seeded Canadian Denis Shapovalov 6-3, 6-4, 4-6, 3-6, 6-3 in the first men’s quarterfinal on Tuesday. Nadal needed four hours and seven minutes…