Professional Tennis
Novak Djokovic defeated Feliciano Lopez 7-6 (4), 6-2 to win the Serbia Open for his 27th consecutive win of the 2011 season. The 27-win streak, along with capturing his fifth title of the year, makes the Serbian a tough opponent for the field entering the 2011 French Open at Roland Garros which begins May 17th….
The ATP and WTA have released their latest world rankings. Spaniard Rafael Nadal stands atop the men’s rankings, while Denmark’s Caroline Wozniacki leads the women’s rankings. Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, Andy Murray and Robin Soderling round out the top five on the ATP side, while the women’s top five behind Wozniacki includes Kim Clijsters, Vera…
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,…