The USTA has announced that U.S. Fed Cup Captain Mary Joe Fernandez and USTA Player Development Head of Men’s Tennis Jay Berger, have been named, respectively, as the Women’s and Men’s Coaches of the 2016 U.S. Olympic Tennis Team. In addition, Dan James, head U.S. National Wheelchair Team Coach, has been named coach of the…
Former world number one Victoria Azarenka withdrew from Wimbledon on Thursday due to a knee injury that she suffered back in the French Open first round. Azarenka trailed Karin Knapp 0-4 in the third set of her Roland Garros opener before retiring with the knee injury and she hasn’t played since. Azarenka was scheduled to…
Ninth-seeded Marcos Baghdatis reached his fifth ATP World Tour quarterfinal of 2016 on Wednesday at the Aegon Open Nottingham, defeating American Sam Querrey 1-6, 7-6(8), 6-4 in just under two hours. Baghdatis will next face second-seeded Pablo Cuevas, who rallied to beat Daniel Evans 6-7(4), 7-6(5), 6-4. Also moving on was the top seeded Kevin…
It was a day of upsets at the Aegon International Eastbourne, as some of the WTA’s top stars failed to advance to the quarterfinals, as Caroline Wozniacki, Eugenie Bouchard and Petra Kvitova all fell Wednesday in a final tuneup before Wimbledon. It was Monica Puig who continued her stellar season with a 4-6, 6-3, 6-4…
Television network EPIX will debut the EPIX Original Documentary “Serena,” a portrait of four-time Olympic Gold Medalist and International sports icon Serena Williams, Wednesday, June 22 at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT, 7C. The feature-length documentary provides viewers with access inside the world of the athlete-designer-businesswoman, including day-in-the-life interactions with her family and friends, plus her most…
American Madison Keys won the second title of her career on Sunday, downing Barbora Strycova 6-4, 6-3 to capture the Aegon Classic championship. Despite playing a number of three-set matches throughout the week while Strycova had lost just one set in her week, Keys was the one who came out with more energy in Sunday’s…
Americans Coco Vandeweghe and Christina McHale both made their way into the Aegon Classis second round on Wednesday. Vandeweghe took out top seed Agnieszka Radwanska for the biggest win of her career, ousting the third ranked player in the world 7-5, 4-6, 6-3. Resuming a match that began on Tuesday, Vandeweghe notched the lone break…
Playing in her first match since winning her maiden Grand Slam title at Roland Garros, Spain’s Garbine Muguruza lost in the first round of the Mallorca Open on Tuesday as Belgium’s Kirsten Flipkens upended her 6-3, 6-4. The first set was on serve at 3-3 when Muguruza set herself up with a couple of break…
Photo courtesy of AndyMurray.com World number two Andy Murray announced over the weekend that he and Ivan Lendl will rejoin forces, beginning at the Queen’s Club in London this week. “I had two very successful years working with Ivan, he’s single minded and knows what it takes to win the big events,” said Murray. “I’m looking…
The International Tennis Federation (ITF) handed five-time Grand Slam champion Maria Sharapova a two-year ban on Wednesday resulting from her positive drug test during the Australian Open. An Independent Tribunal hired by the ITF under the Tennis Anti-Doping Program stated that Sharapova did not indicate her use of Mildronate between 2014-2016 in her forms before the…