Professional Tennis
Poland’s Agnieszka Radwanska upended Venus Williams 6-4, 6-2 on Sunday in Montreal to become the first Polish player to win a Rogers Cup crown. The win was the first tournament victory of the season for Radwanska and she used an outstanding return game to dominate the 34-year old Williams from the start. Venus had just…
France’s Jo-Wilfried Tsonga captured the Rogers Cup trophy on Sunday, defeating Roger Federer 7-5, 7-6(3) in Toronto to win his first ATP Tour title of the season. The win over Federer marks the fourth straight over a higher-seeded opponent for Tsonga, who had previously ousted Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray and Grigor Dimitrov before toppling the…
Eighteen-year old Noah Rubin of Rockville Centre, N.Y. has won the USTA Boys 18s National Championship singles title to earn a main draw wild card into the U.S. Open, defeating Sacramento’s Collin Altamirano, the defending champion, 6-4, 6-4, 6-3, at Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, Mich. Rubin, who won the Wimbledon Boys Singles Title in July, also earned a wild card…
Fifteen-year old CiCi Bellis of Atherton, Calif. won the USTA Girls 18s National Championship to earn a main draw wild card into the U.S. Open, defeating 16-year old Tornado Alicia Black of Boca Raton, Fla., 6-3, 6-1, at the Barnes Tennis Center in San Diego. Bellis, the number two-ranked junior in the world, is the youngest USTA Girls 18s national champion since Lindsay Davenport also…
Twenty-eight-year-old Wayne Odesnik, a former top 100 player from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., will return to the U.S. Open main draw for the first time since 2009 after earning a wild card on Saturday by winning the 2014 USTA Pro Circuit U.S. Open Wild Card Challenge. Odesnik clinched the wild card when Rhyne Williams, the only player who…
The USTA has announced that Tony Trabert, a two-time U.S. National Championships singles winner and long-time voice of the U.S. Open on CBS Sports, has been named the 2014 inductee into the U.S. Open Court of Champions, a U.S. Open and USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center attraction honoring the greatest singles champions in the history…
American qualifier Coco Vandeweghe, the niece of former NBA star Kiki Vandeweghe, followed up her upset victory over Ana Ivanovic on Wednesday by knocking off another former world number one, Jelena Jankovic, to move into the Rogers Cup quarterfinals in Montreal. Vandeweghe battled out a tough 7-6(8), 2-6, 7-5 victory over the seventh-seeded Serb a…
Novak Djokovic was eliminated from the Rogers Cup on Thursday as he fell to 13th-seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the third-round from Toronto. The world number one and top seeded Djokovic was defeated fairly easily by Tsonga, who cruised to a 6-2, 6-2 victory in just over an hour. Tsonga was the more efficient player all…
World number one Novak Djokovic showed some rust in his Rogers Cup opener as he edged France’s Gael Monfils 6-2, 6-7(4), 7-6(2) to move into the third-round in Toronto. Playing in his first match since winning the Wimbledon crown, Djokovic needed 2 hours and 41 minutes to get past the 22nd ranked Monfils. The Serb…
Two-time Rogers Cup champion Roger Federer rolled into the second-round in Toronto on Tuesday as he defeated wild card Peter Polansky 6-2, 6-0. The match took just 52 minutes and the Swiss played a near perfect match to get past the 129th-ranked Polansky. “I started well and that’s always helpful to play more freely,” said…