Professional Tennis
Venus Williams was an upset winner over the top-seeded Victoria Azarenka in her opening match at the Toray Pan Pacific Open on Tuesday, 6-2, 6-4. Venus had won two of the pair’s previous meetings, those were both before her illness and injury struggles of the last few years. On Tuesday, Venus won 75 percent of…
The pro season is winding down for the year as this past weekend, Agnieszka Radwanska won the Korea Open title on the WTA Tour and France’s Gilles Simon was the winner of the Open de Moselle final for his first title of the year. The top-seeded Radwanska rallied from a set down on Sunday to beat Anastasia…
Novak Djokovic has been ranked number one atop the ATP Men’s Singles Rankings for 100 weeks, becoming the ninth player to reach the milestone, joining Andre Agassi (101 weeks), Rafael Nadal (102), Bjorn Borg (109), John McEnroe (170), Jimmy Connors (268), Ivan Lendl (270), Pete Sampras (286) and Roger Federer (302). Djokovic reached number one in July…
ATP World Men’s Singles number three Andy Murray has announced that he will have surgery on his back on Monday, forcing him out of a few year-end ATP events, including the Thailand Open, China Open, Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships and Shanghai Rolex Masters. Murray’s appearance at the end-of-season ATP World Tour Finals in London in November is…
Kimiko Date-Krumm upset the second-seeded Maria Kirilenko in the second round of the 2013 KDB Korea Open on Thursday, 6-3, 6-1. Date-Krumm, who had rallied from a set and a break down to beat Heather Watson in the first round, was sharp against Kirilenko, winning six games in a row at one point—taking her from 4-3 in…
The draw for the 2014 Davis Cup World Group was held in London on Wednesday, and the 32-time titlist United States will host nine-time winner Great Britain, led by Andy Murray. The two nations met in the inaugural Davis Cup tie in August 1900. Serbia, the 2010 Davis Cup champion, was drawn to meet Switzerland, which…
As we enter the season of the U.S. Open, a question that hangs over American tennis is why have we not produced male champions in tennis over the past 10 years? It’s a problem that I have spent months seriously considering. Like most issues, the answer is complicated, but I feel confident that I have…
The International Tennis Federation (ITF) has announced that Marin Cilic has been found to have committed an Anti-Doping Rule Violation under Article 2.1 of the Tennis Anti-Doping Program (presence of a Prohibited Substance in a Player’s Sample). Cilic from Croatia provided a urine sample in association with his participation in the BMW Open event in Munich,…
Andy Murray will look to maintain his unbeaten record on home soil this year with victory at the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals, as he became the third player to qualify for the season finale, to be held at The O2 in London from Nov. 4-11. Murray, who reached the quarter-finals at the U.S. Open,…
The USTA has announced a number of new milestones for the just-concluded 2013 U.S. Open. Overall attendance surpassed 700,000 for the sixth time, with the final tally of 713,026 ranking fourth-highest U.S. Open attendance in history. The all-time combined session attendance of 62,794 was set on Sunday, Sept. 1. In a rematch of last year’s women’s…