Professional Tennis
Victoria Azarenka defeated Sara Errani in a tight two-setter in the first match of the TEB BNP Paribas WTA Championships in Istanbul on Tuesday, 7-6(4), 6-2. After reaching the finals of the 2013 U.S. Open, Azarenka went on to lose her opening matches at her only two fall tournaments, in Tokyo to Venus Williams and…
Roger Federer opened his campaign for a sixth Swiss Indoors Basel title on Monday with a 6-4, 6-2 win over Adrian Mannarino. Federer improved to a 48-8 record overall at the event where he once served as a ballboy. Federer has two tournaments remaining with which to secure his place at the season-ending Barclays ATP…
Tommy Haas kept alive his chances of qualifying for next month’s ATP World Tour Finals, defeating Robin Haase 6-3 4-6 6-4 on Sunday to lift his 15th career title at the Vienna Open. It was Haas’ second trophy of the season after winning in Munich in May. "This victory is really something special," said Haas….
Rafael Nadal says he won’t play at next week’s Swiss Indoors due to exhaustion. Nadal posted on his Facebook Page that he’s "sorry to announce" that he won’t be playing. He added that he’s spent some "very exhausting weeks" and he has to ”regroup my fitness and my body.” He says he’ll try to play…
Tennis Channel will be live at the prestigious women’s year-end championships in Istanbul, Turkey, throughout next week, as tennis’ top-eight singles players and best-four doubles teams of the year compete for 2013 crowns. With daylong coverage Oct. 22-27, the network will offer close to 40 hours of round-robin and knockout-stage matches at the TEB BNP…
Andy Murray was on his way to receiving his nation’s highest honor, the Officer of Order of British Empire (OBE) on Thursday, but had a slight setback en route to Buckingham Palace. Tennis officials decided today was the day to randomly drug test Murray. In July, Murray became the first British male in 77 years…
After a first round bye, Ana Ivanovic defeated Klara Zakopalova in the second round of the Kremlin Cup in Moscow on Thursday, 6-3, 6-1. Up next for Ivanovic is the seventh-seeded Sam Stosur, who won nine of 10 games from 3-4 in the first set to beat Alizé Cornet, 6-4, 6-1. Stosur leads Ivanovic in…
Former champion Janko Tipsarevic was upset on Wednesday in the Kremlin Cup by Bank of Moscow by 17-year-old Karen Khachanov, 6-4, 6-4 in 77 minutes to become the youngest quarterfinalist of the season. In July, he won the European Junior Championships in Switzerland. Qualifier Andrey Golubev also booked a spot in the quarterfinals after he…
Samantha Stosur has advanced to the second round of the Kremlin Cup, defeating Kaia Kanepi 6-3, 6-1 on Wednesday. Stosur will next play Alize Cornet. Also in Moscow, two-time Grand Slam champion Svetlana Kuznetsova advanced to the quarterfinals of the Kremlin Cup by beating Sofia Arvidsson 6-2, 7-5. Kuznetsova, currently ranked 23rd in the world,…
Jack Sock was victorious in his debut at the Stockholm Open on Tuesday. He defeated Bernard Tomic in straight sets 6-4, 6-2 in just 59 minutes. The 21-year-old Sock converted five of his nine break point opportunities. Sock will have to play even better in the next round as he will next play top-seeded David…