Professional Tennis
For the first time in four decades of ATP rankings, there will be no player from the U.S. that will be in the top 20. Currently ranked number 20, American John Isner lost to Vasek Pospisil 5-7, 7-6(5), 7-6(4) in the first round of the Rogers Cup, a tournament in which last year he made…
Andy Murray played and won his first match since winning Wimbledon at the Rogers Cup in Montreal by defeating Marcel Granollers. With the win, Murray extended his win streak to 13 matches, and also gets him one step closer to a third title at the Rogers Cup. Granollers was up 5-2 in the second set,…
On Monday night at the Rogers Cup in Montreal, Florian Mayer of Germany defeated Bernard Tomic, 5-7, 6-3, 6-3. He will play defending champion and top seed Novak Djokovic in the second round. Janko Tipsarevic was also booted out of the first round, losing to Uzbekistan’s Denis Istomin, 6-4, 6-3. The 16th-seeded Tipsarevic has advanced to…
Serena Williams became the first player to qualify to compete in the TEB BNP Paribas WTA Championships—Istanbul 2013 at the Sinan Erdem Dome from Oct. 22-27, after the Grand Slams. The top four doubles teams and the top eight singles players will be competing for $6 million, a record prize for the event. Serena has…
The number one seed at the 2013 Citi Open, Juan Martin del Potro defeated John Isner 3-6, 6-1, 6-2 to make it his third title in D.C. and his 14th consecutive win. When del Potro is healthy, there is not much that can stop him. "His forehand is widely regarded as maybe the best in…
World number 11 Sam Stosur won the Carlsbad Open on Sunday by earning her first career win against Victoria Azarenka, 6-3, 6-2, Stosur’s first title win in almost two years. Stosur came out strong by not allowing Azarenka to convert on the break points. "She had a lot of opportunities and all of them except…
Roger Federer has announced that he has withdrawn from next week’s Rogers Cup presented by National Bank in Montreal. He has recently talked about his back trouble, but did not give a specific reason as to why he is pulling out of the tournament. “I am disappointed not to be playing in Montreal next week….
Russian Olga Puchkova was defaulted by the WTA supervisor after she hit a line judge with a ball between points, forcing her to forfeit, although she claimed it was an accident. Puchkova was trailing 3-6, 6-3, 4-1 in her second-round match against Paula Ormaechea of Argentina at the 2013 Citi Open in Washington, D.C. She claimed that…
Juan Martin del Potro advanced to the 2013 Citi Open quarterfinals in Washington, D.C. on Thursday after winning twice over the course of seven-and-a-half-hours. He first defeated 107th-ranked Ryan Harrison 6-1, 7-5, and then beat 14th-seeded Bernard Tomic 6-3, 6-3. They played for about 70 minutes in each match. Harrison was trailing 4-0 after only…
American John Isner, who had a tournament win last weekend at the BB&T Open in Atlanta, beat Alex Kuznetsov in two tie-breaker sets 7-6(2), 7-6(4) at the 2013 Citi Open in Washington, D.C. Isner had an excellent record with tie-breakers, winning 16 of his last 17 tiebreakers, with six of those coming in Atlanta. ”I don’t…