Professional Tennis
Novak Djokovic won his 25th consecutive match in 2011, a 6-2, 6-3 win over Romanian Adrian Ungur in the second round of the 2011 Serbia Open. Djokovic, playing in his homeland of Serbia, has won 61 of 67 sets and four tournament titles to date in 2011, and has moved up in the ATP rankings to unseat Roger…
In a Tuesday interview with The Associated Press, Donald Young issued an apology to the USTA and its Director of Player Development Patrick McEnroe for his recent anti-USTA outbursts on the popular social networking Web site Twitter. After a recent 6-7 (4), 6-4, 6-3, 6-2 loss to 176th-ranked Tim Smyczek that would have qualified him for the French…
American Donald Young took to the popular social networking Web site Twitter last week to vent when he was eliminated from contention by Tim Smyczek, 6-7 (4), 6-4, 6-3, 6-2, as a USTA wild-card entry into the 2011 French Open. His profanity-laced tweet read: “(Expletive) USTA! Their full of (expletive)! They have (expletive) me for the last time!”…
Julia Goerges of Germany has upset top-ranked Caroline Wozniacki, 7-6 (3), 6-3, in the finals of the Porsche Grand Prix in Stuttgart, Germany. With the win, Georges becomes the first German to win the Porsche Grand Prix since Anke Huber took home the crown in 1996 and jumps to number 27 in the WTA rankings. “Julia played…
Spaniard Rafael Nadal defeated his fellow countryman, David Ferrer, 6-2, 6-4 to win his sixth Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell Championship on Sunday. The top-ranked Nadal won his 29th consecutive match at the clay court event, when the fourth-seeded Ferrer hit his backhand wide to end the match. It was Nadal’s 45th career ATP title and his second consecutive…
The team of Scott Lipsky & Santiago Gonzalez, playing together for the first time, has ended the 10-match winning streak of Bob & Mike Bryan on Sunday as Lipsky & Gonzalez captured the Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell Doubles Championship with a 5-7, 6-2, 12-10. En route to their championship, Lipsky & Gonzalez knocked off the number three seeds Jurgen…
Irina Falconi, a native of Ecuador who moved to New York City at the age of four and now resides in Atlanta, along with Tim Smyczek of Milwaukee won the 2011 USTA French Open Wild Card Playoffs on Friday at the Boca West Country Club in Boca Raton, Fla., to earn main draw wild cards…
Two local Long Islanders won the U.S. Open National Playoffs/Mixed-Doubles Sectional Qualifying Tournament, played at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. The team of Darrin Cohen & Bea Bielik was rarely tested throughout the tournament and did not drop a set in five wins. In the finals, they defeated Magda Okruashvili & Tsimafey Senkevich,…
In men’s action at the 59th Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell at the Real Club de Tenis Barcelona in Spain, hometown favorite Rafael Nadal defeated Columbian Santiago Giraldo, 6-3, 6-1 to set up a quarterfinals match against Frenchman Gael Monfils who defetade his fellow countryman Richard Gasquet, 6-4, 7-6 (7). Nadal has an overall record of 28-1 at the…
Top-ranked Caroline Wozniacki has advanced past the Porsche Grand Prix in Germany second round for the first time, beating Zuzana Kucova of Slovakia, 6-1, 6-2, to reach the quarterfinals of the event. She advances to face hometown favorite Andrea Petkovic of Germany, who rallied to defeat Jelena Jankovic, 3-6, 6-1, 6-3. This year alone, Petkovic beat both…