Professional Tennis
USTA Player Development has announced the eight men and eight women invited to participate in the 2011 Kia Motors Australian Open Wild Card Playoff, being held for the third consecutive year at the Racquet Club of the South, a USTA Certified Regional Training Center in Atlanta, Dec. 16-18. The winners will receive main draw singles…
Austria’s Daniel Koellerer has challenged his lifetime ban for match fixing and is appearing in the Court of Arbitration for Sports. The two-day case commenced in front of the top court for international sports. A decision and outcome is to be announced at the beginning of 2012. Koellerer’s case marks the first time in the…
Rafael Nadal of Spain is still invigorated to play and lead his country in its attempt to take a fifth Davis Cup title against Argentina. Nadal created worries when he stated that he felt "less passionate for the game" after being knocked out of the ATP World Tour Finals. After a practice session for the…
Roger Federer held his own in the ATP World Tour Finals, where he defeated Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in three sets 6-3, 6-7 (3), 6-3 to take his sixth title at this event. After a year of close misses by Federer, he was able to recover from a lost second set tiebreaker to defeat the Frenchman. "I…
Great Britain’s Andy Murray has been forced to withdraw from the ATP World Tour Finals in London with a strained groin. He initially suffered the injury during a practice late last week and re-aggravated it in his straight sets loss to Spain’s Devid Ferrer on Monday. Murray will be replaced at the ATP World Tour…
Switzerland’s Roger Federer met Spain’s Rafael Nadal at the ATP World Tour Finals at the O2 Arena in London, and it took Federer a little over an hour to defeat his rival, 6-3, 6-0, to extend his current winning streak to 14 consecutive wins. “It was a great match for me basically from start to…
The U.S. wheelchair tennis team captured five medals–three gold, one silver, and one bronze–at the Parapan Am Games in Guadalajara, Mexico, Nov. 13-18. On the women’s side, the U.S. won both the singles gold and silver medals as Mackenzie Soldan of Louisville, Ky., defeated doubles partner Emmy Kaiser of Fort Mitchell, Ky., 1-6, 6-4, 6-4,…
World number one-ranked Serbian Novak Djokovic defeated Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic, 3-6, 6-3, 7-6, after saving a match point in the third to avoid becoming another upset of the day at the ATP World Tour Finals at the O2 Arena in London. Earlier in the day, Great Britain’s Andy Murray was taken down…
France’s Jo-Wilfried Tsonga has won his first match at the ATP World Tour Finals after defeating Mardy Fish of the United States in straight sets 7-6, 6-1. Fish appeared slower as a result of a left hamstring injury that interrupted the end of his season, with Tsonga struggling for consistency. Tsonga was up a break…
Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal were all presented with 2011 ATP World Tour Awards presented by Moët & Chandon, announced during the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals. Djokovic received the year-end ATP World Tour No. 1 award for the first time, following a banner year in which he won three Grand Slam titles…