Professional Tennis
The 2012 Davis Cup by BNP Paribas World Group quarterfinals match between the United States and France will take place Friday-Sunday, April 6-8 at the Monte Carlo Country Club in Roquebrune Cap Martin, France. The U.S. will be competing for its sixth time on the road since defeating Switzerland in the 2009 first round held…
Serena Williams, Sam Stosur, and Vera Zvonareva all won their round of 16 matches at the Family Circle Cup in straight set victories in Charleston, S.C. Venus Williams also continued her comeback from illness that kept her out a majority of 2011 with a first-round victory and the number 10 seed, Anabel Medina-Garrigues was the…
American Andy Roddick will target a record fifth AEGON Championships title at The Queen’s Club, June 11-17. Roddick, who won the title in 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2007, and reached finals at The Championships, Wimbledon in 2004, 2005 and 2009, is now fully fit after a difficult year. He scored an impressive win over Roger…
Agnieszka Radwanska defeated Maria Sharapova 7-5, 6-4 to capture the 2012 Sony Ericsson Open title. Sharapova held her head high when shaking hands although slumping her shoulders in disappointment. She lost serve in the final game of each set and fell short yet again of a title from Key Biscayne. Sharapova is now the runner-up in four…
The USTA has announced that American Mardy Fish will pull out of the 2012 Davis Cup quarterfinals against France due to a health scare. Fish was seen by doctors in Key Biscayne during the Sony Ericsson Open after facing extreme fatigue and will now need to rest for two to three days. The USTA has…
Serbia’s Novak Djokovic has won his third Sony Ericsson Open title after he defeated Andy Murray 6-1, 7-6. Only Andre Agassi, a six-time Sony Ericsson Open champion, has won more. The top-ranked Djokovic lost only one service point in the second set tie-breaker, where he went ahead and double-faulted to make it just 3-2. Djokovic also took…
Novak Djokovic has set up a semifinal meeting against Juan Monaco at the 2012 Sony Ericsson Open after defeating David Ferrer of Spain in straight sets, 6-2, 7-6. Djokovic won the first set in just 32 min. and broke Ferrer in the first of the second before he would mount an unsuccessful comeback. Ferrer broke back…
World number two-ranked Maria Sharapova, a three-time runner-up at the Sony Ericsson Open, rallied to defeat Caroline Wozniacki in three sets, 4-6, 6-2, 6-4, advancing to the finals of the event where she will meet Poland’s Agnieszka Radwanska, a 6-4, 6-2 straight sets winner over France’s Marian Bartoli. Sharapova won the match in two hours and 34…
World number one-ranked Victoria Azarenka of Belarus had her 26-match win streak halted Wednesday night at the 2012 Sony Ericsson Open after a 3-6, 3-6 straight sets loss to France’s Marion Bartoli. The seventh-seeded Bartoli heads into the semifinals where she will meet the number five seed, Agnieszka Radwanska. Already headed to the finals is world number…
Belgium’s Kim Clijsters has a tear in her hip muscle and now will require four weeks of rest and withdrawal from the WTA tour. Her management company stated that she has been plagued with hip pains throughout the Sony Ericsson Open in Key Biscayne, Fla. after losing to Yanina Wickmayer on Saturday in straight sets, 6-4, 7-6(5)….