A day after top-seeded Rafael Nadal was bounced from the Aegon Championships, second-seed and French Open champion Stan Wawrinka saw his tournament run come to an end. South African Kevin Anderson beat Wawrinka 7-6(4), 7-6(11) on Wednesday to reach the quarterfinals at the Queens Club tournament. The win is the fourth straight for Anderson over…
The USTA has announced the three men and three women named to represent the United States at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, July 10-26. World number 63 Lauren Davis, world number 111 Louisa Chirico, and world number 112 Sachia Vickery were named to the women’s tennis team. The men’s tennis team will be comprised of Dennis Novikov, Jean-Yves Aubone and Gonzales Austin….
World number eight Ekaterina Makarova and American Sloane Stephens have committed to play the Connecticut Open presented by United Technologies, a WTA event that is part of the Emirates Airline U.S. Open Series to be held Aug. 21-29 at the Connecticut Tennis Center at Yale, as announced by Tournament Director Anne Worcester. The duo joins defending…
Stan Wawrinka won his first match since being crowned champ at the French Open, downing Australia’s Nick Kyrgios 6-3, 6-4 at the Queens Club in London to reach the Aegon Championships second-round. Wawrinka needed just 49 minutes to dispatch Kyrgios, who said afterwards that he has felt sick and fatigued. “I’ve been sick for the…
The finals of the USTA Eastern sectional qualifying tournament of the U.S. Open National Playoffs came to a close on Saturday, as local players battled it out for a chance to qualify for the U.S. Open in late August. The sectionals consisted of five divisions, with the winners of each moving on to play in…
Rafael Nadal won his first title on a grass-court since 2010 on Sunday, defeating Serbia’s Viktor Troicki 7-6(3), 6-3 to win the Mercedes Cup in Stuttgart, Germany. After taking the first set in a tie-breaker, Nadal notched his first break point of the match to go up 3-1 in the second set. From there, the…
Top-seeded Rafael Nadal reached the semifinals of the Mercedes Cup in Stuttgart, Germany on Friday, downing Australian Bernard Tomic 6-4, 6-7(3), 6-3. After struggling towards the end of the second set, Nadal turned it on in the third set. He broke in the second game and consolidated it with a hold to take a 3-0…
The USTA has announced that the final piece of steel has been placed in the superstructure that will support the retractable roof over Arthur Ashe Stadium. In all, 5,000 tons of steel were needed to complete the massive project. The roof will be fully operational for the 2016 U.S. Open. The retractable roof is the centerpiece…
Forbes has announced its list of the 100 Highest-Paid Athletes in 2015 on Wednesday, and seven professional tennis players made their way onto the list. At number five, Roger Federer is the highest-earning tennis player in the world. Forbes estimates his earnings at $67 million, with $58 million of that total coming from his endorsements….
Eugenie Bouchard’s tough 2015 continued on Tuesday, as the Canadian was bounced in the first-round of the Topshelf Open in The Netherlands to Kazakhstan’s Yaroslava Shvedova, 6-4, 1-6, 6-4. She has lost nine of her last 10 matches and dropped out of the top 10 even before Tuesday’s loss. This coming off of a season…