In the opening event of the 2015 PowerShares Series circuit, Australian Mark Philippoussis beat American Andre Agassi 7-6(4) in last night’s final from the Huntsman Center at the University of Utah. The event was groundbreaking in that it was the first pro event to only use Hawk-Eye technology for line calls. Players had to make…
The women’s draw of the Miami Open got underway on Tuesday afternoon, with a few Americans taking to the courts of Crandon Park in Miami. American teen CiCi Bellis captured her second career victory in a WTA main draw, cruising past the Netherlands’ Indy De Vroome 6-2, 6-2 to advance to the second-round. Bellis displayed…
The 2015 PowerShares Series champions tennis circuit gets underway on Tuesday night, as Andre Agassi, Jim Courier, Mark Philippoussis and James Blake will partake in the first-ever pro tennis event where line calls are made solely by the Hawk-Eye system. The PowerShares series is a North American pro tennis tour for champion tennis players north…
Simona Halep fought off a tough first set defeat and rallied to beat former champion Jelena Jankovic 2-6, 7-5, 6-4 and win the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells on Sunday. The title is the 11th of Halep’s career and the biggest up to this point. “First of all I want to congratulate Jelena—you were…
World number one Novak Djokovic captured his fourth BNP Paribas Open title on Sunday, tying Roger Federer for most all-time titles in Indian Wells by defeating Federer 6-3, 6-7(5), 6-2. It is the second consecutive season Djokovic has won the Indian Wells tournament, taking advantage of 43 unforced errors by Federer to edge the Swiss…
Andy Murray moved into first-place on Britain’s Open Era match win record on Thursday, defeating 12th-ranked Feliciano Lopez 6-3, 6-4 for his 497th career victory, eclipsing Tim Henman’s 496 wins. The straight-set victory also pushes Murray into the BNP Paribas Open semifinals. “I thought I played a good match,” said Murray. “Every time he came…
Sabine Lisicki saved three match points to edge defending champion Flavia Pennetta 6-4, 6-7(3), 7-6(4) and reach the BNP Paribas Open semifinals. The 24th seeded German needed two hours and 40 minutes to move past Pennetta and reach her first semifinal of the season. “It’s unbelievable. It’s such a great feeling to be part of…
Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray booked four of the eight quarterfinal spots at the BNP Paribas Open, all winning in straight sets on Wednesday in Indian Wells, Calif. Three-time champion Rafael Nadal rolled past France’s Gilles Simon 6-2, 6-4 in less than 80 minutes. Nadal led 5-2 in the final set…
Simona Halep dropped the opening set to 12th-seeded Carla Suarez Navarro in Wednesday’s quarterfinal, but rallied to win 12 of the next 14 games and move into the BNP Paribas Open semifinals with a 5-7, 6-1, 6-1 victory. The third-seeded Halep dropped the first four games of the match to go down 0-4. Despite rallying…
The International Tennis Federation (ITF) and the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) have announced that American Wayne Odesnik will face a 15-year ban from the sport following a second doping violation. Odesnik had previously been sanctioned back in 2010 for possessing a human growth hormone. That penalty was originally supposed to be two years, but…