Professional Tennis
The USTA has announced that 2012 Olympic Men’s Doubles Gold Medal winners and 12-time Grand Slam doubles champions Bob & Mike Bryan will play a unique exhibition to help kick off the USTA Australian Open Wild Card Playoffs, held Dec.14-16 at Life Time Athletic & Tennis at Peachtree Corners in Norcross, Ga. Five select doubles teams…
Top-seeded Roger Federer will face the number three-seeded and two-time defending champion Andy Murray in the semifinals of the 2012 Shanghai Rolex Masters. Murray leads 9-8 in their FedEx ATP Head2Head series. Federer hit 27 winners and eight aces past 10th-seeded Marin Cilic of Croatia in his quarterfinal match for a 6-3, 6-4 victory in 82…
Victoria Azarenka defeated Arantxa Rus in straight sets, 6-0, 6-2, in her opening round match at the 2012 Generali Ladies Linz event in Germany. Azarenka won the first eight games of the match, defeating Rus in a little over an hour and claiming her WTA-leading 63rd match win of the year. "Linz has been an incredible tournament…
World number three-ranked Andy Murray, seeking his third consecutive Shanghai Rolex Masters title, defeated Ukrainian Alexandr Dolgopolov 6-2, 6-2 in the third round of the event to advance to the quarterfinals. Murray advanced to the semifinals of the recent the Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships and improved to a 51-12 match record on the season. Murray had a bye…
After dropping the first set, Roger Federer defeated his Swiss compatriot Stanislas Wawrinka at the 2012 Shanghai Rolex Masters 4-6, 7-6(4), 6-0 to advance to the quarterfinals, and in the process, guaranteed himself a spot at the top of the ATP Men’s Singles Rankings for a 300th week. Wawrinka got off to a strong start to win just…
After dropping the first set, Samantha Stosur defeated Virginie Razzano 1-6, 6-2, 6-4 to advance to the quarterfinals of the 2012 HP Open in Japan. Stosur capitalized on a slight dip from her opponent to break serve at the start of the second set to secure the remainder of the match. Next up for Stosur is American…
Roger Federer returned to action for the first time in three and a half weeks as he overcame Chinese Taipei’s Yen-Hsun Lu and was a 6-3, 7-5 winner at the 2012 Shanghai Rolex Masters. Federer was playing his first match since guiding Switzerland through the Davis Cup World Group Playoffs against the Netherlands last month and…
New York area tennis fans are in for another great night of tennis with some of the world’s top players scheduled to appear for the Sixth Annual BNP Paribas Showdown at Madison Square Garden on Monday, March 4. Victoria Azarenka, the reigning Australian Open champion and Olympic Bronze Medalist, will get the night started against…
Eighth-seeded John Isner saved three match points against Kevin Anderson at the 2012 Shanghai Rolex Masters to defeat the South African 7-6(3), 6-7(8), 7-6(7) in just under three hours to advance to the third round. Isner, who is ranked 14th in the South African Airways ATP Rankings Race To London, struck 24 aces and won 79 percent…
Victoria Azarenka defeated Maria Sharapova in the finals of the 2012 China Open in Beijing, 6-3 6-1 in just under 90 minutes. Azarenka had won the last five hard court meetings and four of their last five finals against Sharapova coming into Sunday’s final in Beijing. "I was doing the right things, making sure I didn’t…