Professional Tennis
On Saturday, June 16, the U.S. Open National Playoffs came to a close at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center as the women’s singles, men’s singles, and mixed-doubles finals were all played. For the past six days, players from the USTA Eastern Region battled at the National Tennis Center to qualify for the…
If you came of age as a tennis player some time during the early days of the Open Era, eventually you came into contact with Vitas Gerulaitis. He was, on some level, the embodiment of tennis in the New York metropolitan area and why it was cool to play. There had been other great players…
France’s Jo-Wilfried Tsonga injured his finger during his third round 7-6 (3), 3-6, 7-6 (5) loss to Ivan Dodig at the Queen’s Club on Thursday, jeopardizing his chances of playing in Wimbledon which is just 10 days away. Last year, Tsonga lost to Andy Murray at Queen’s Club in the finals and later upset Roger Federer…
Defending champion Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany cut Rafael Nadal’s start to the grass court season short with a 6-3, 6-4 win over the recently-crowned French Open champion in the quarterfinals of the Gerry Weber Open in Halle, Germany. Kohlschreiber, currently ranked 28th in the world, will now face either Czech Tomas Berdych or fellow German Tommy Haas in the…
Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer kicked off their grass court season at the Gerry Weber Open in Halle, Germany on Thursday with comfortable wins. The 2012 French Open Champion Nadal defeated Lukas Lacko of Slovakia, 7-5, 6-1 in the second round. Five-time champion Federer advanced to the quarterfinals after beating Florian Mayer, 6-4, 7-5. Nadal…
Germany’s Andrea Petkovic has withdrawn from Wimbledon because she has yet to fully recover from a serious right ankle injury. Wimbledon will mark the third Grand Slam that Petkovic has been forced to miss after sitting out the French Open and the Australian Open. "Unfortunately, I will not be able to return in time for…
Four-time AEGON Championships champion Andy Roddick was defeated in the second round of the Wimbledon warm-up event on Wednesday by France’s Edouard Roger-Vasselin, 6-4, 4-6, 7-5, ranked 67th in the world. After various injuries, Roddick has fallen out of the top 30 in the ATP Tour rankings. Roddick has now lost 11 out of 18 matches he has played…
Lleyton Hewitt and David Goffin both have been given wild cards into Wimbledon 2012. Hewitt was the 2000 U.S. Open Men’s Doubles Champion, and captured the men’s singles titles at the 2001 U.S. Open and 2002 Wimbledon. Goffin, from Belgium, lost to Roger Federer but took a set off the number three-ranked Federer at the 2012…
The Spanish Tennis Federation has announced that the Davis Cup by BNP Paribas World Group Semifinal between the U.S. and Spain will be held on an outdoor red clay court at the Parque Hermanos Castro in Gijon, Spain. The semifinal tie will be held Sept. 14-16. The U.S. and Spain have met 10 times in…
The top-seeded doubles team of Max Mirnyi of Belarus & Daniel Nestor of Canada defeated Bob & Mike Bryan, 6-4, 6-4 on Saturday to win their second consecutive French Open doubles title together. If the Bryans had won, they would have set a record for most in the Open era. They were looking to win…