Coming back from a set down, the Croatian and Brazilian tandem of Ivan Dodig & Marcelo Melo won their first Grand Slam title over the weekend, downing Bob & Mike Bryan 6-7(5), 7-6(5), 7-5. “It was a great atmosphere,” Melo said on-court after the match. “We thought we could do big things when we got…
Stan Wawrinka came back from a set down to beat world number one Novak Djokovic 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 6-4 and win the French Open crown. Wawrinka used a masterful one-handed backhand to shoot winners down each line all match long, taking advantage of some possible fatigue in Djokovic’s legs. He fired 60 winners compared to…
Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray will resume their semifinals match in Paris on Saturday at the French Open, as an approaching storm halted the contest midway through the fourth set with Djokovic holding a 6-3, 6-3, 5-7, 3-3 advantage. Djokovic came into the match on a roll, rattling of 27 wins to start 2015, and…
It certainly wasn’t pretty or the best tennis eighth-seeded Swiss Stan Warinka has ever played, but it was enough to get the job done on Friday, as Wawrinka bested France’s Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-3, 6-7(1), 7-6(3), 6-4 to reach the French Open final. Wawrinka nailed down an early break point which allowed him to serve out…
For the fourth time this tournament, Serena Williams dug herself a first set hold, but found her way back home, defeating 23rd seeded Swiss Timea Bacsinszky 4-6, 6-3, 6-0 to reach the French Open final. Serena’s slow start can be attributed to her feeling under the weather. The world number one admitted to developing the…
Lucie Safarova booked a spot in the first Grand Slam final of her career on Thursday, downing seventh-seeded Ana Ivanovic 7-5, 7-5 to reach the French Open championship. Safarova trailed big early, as Ivanovic broke in the second game and build a 4-1 advantage. Ivanovic then build a 5-2, and even served for the match…
Bob & Mike Bryan notched their 60th career victory at the French Open Thursday, downing Australian Open champions Simone Bolelli & Fabio Fognini 6-3, 6-3 to reach the Men’s Doubles Finals at Roland Garros. The top-seeds had to fight off an early break of serve to get themselves back into the opening set. The Americans…
It was probably the most anticipated match of 2015, as world number one Novak Djokovic took on the greatest player ever on clay, Rafael Nadal, in the French Open quarterfinals on Wednesday. Nadal entered the match with a 70-1 career record on the courts of Roland Garros, but ran into the man who is currently…
The United States Fed Cup Team will kick off their 2016 Fed Cup campaign by hosting Poland in the Fed Cup by BNP Paribas World Group II First Round, Feb. 6-7, 2016. The International Tennis Federation (ITF) conducted the draws for the World Group and World Group II today at the FFT Museum at Roland…
After being forced to come back from a set down in her previous three matches at Roland Garros, world number one Serena Williams did not want to go down that path again. She came out firing early and often against Italy’s Sara Errani, beating the 17th-seed 6-1, 6-3 to move into the French Open’s final…