Professional Tennis
This article first appeared on the cover of the May/June 2021 issue of Long Island Tennis Magazine. Click Here to read the full digital edition. Tennis fans were given a present in the early part of the 2021 season as Roger Federer made his long-awaited comeback to the ATP Tour. For the first time…
The French Tennis Federation (FTT) has announced that the 2021 French Open will be delayed by one week, pushing the main draw start date back from May 23 to May 30. The event’s qualifying tournament will begin on May 24. “In agreement with the French public authorities and the governing bodies of international tennis,…
“Don’t wait for opportunity. Create it.” When you open up the official website of Stefanos Tsitsipas, that is the motto that greets you right away, and it has become the embodiment of the 22-year-old Greek star. He has done just that, creating his own opportunities, as he is already the greatest tennis player ever…
This story first appeared in the January/February 2021 issue of Long Island Tennis Magazine. Click Here to read the full digital edition. The 2020 World TeamTennis season was a model for success after hosting a month-long bubble at the Greenbrier Resort in West Virginia last summer. Featuring nine teams and hundreds of league personnel…
A Ninth for Novak Serbia’s Novak Djokovic delivered a masterful display of tennis to win the 2021 Australian Open, defeating Russia’s Daniil Medvedev 7-5, 6-2, 6-2 to claim his ninth title at the event and earn his 18th career Grand Slam. “I would like to thank this court, I would like to thank Rod…
The story of Day Nine Down Under is the contrast in career resumes of the four players who booked semifinal spots, as Naomi Osaka, Serena Williams, Novak Djokovic and Aslan Karatsev advanced on Tuesday. Between the first three players, there are 43 Grand Slam singles titles, while Karatsev is competing in the first Grand…
The 2021 Australian Open quarterfinals get underway tonight with some appetizing matchups as players seek entry into the event’s final four: Men’s Singles (18) Grigor Dimitrov vs. (Q) Aslan Karatsev Grigor Dimitrov pulled off one of the biggest upsets of the tournament with his win over third-seed and last year’s finalist Dominic Thiem in…
It was a wild Day Five Down Under with some thrilling tennis played, but there were a couple of matches that stood out above the rest on Friday. First, defending champion and top-seed Novak Djokovic needed five sets to move past American Taylor Fritz 7-6(1), 6-4, 3-6, 4-6, 6-2. Djokovic had a leg injury…
Seven-time Australian Open champion Serena Williams rolled into the third round of this year’s event with a 6-3, 6-0 victory over Serbia’s Nina Stojanovic on Wednesday. Awaiting Serena in the third round is Anastasia Potapova. The Russian ousted Hungary’s Timea Babos 6-2, 6-4 in her second round match. “I couldn’t feel better than now,”…
The Australian Open first round came to a close on Tuesday with the second half of the singles draws being played, and many of the top seeds in action on Day Two advanced to the second-round of the year’s first major. Defending champion and fourth-seeded American Sofia Kenin defeated Australian wild card Maddison Inglis…