Eugenie Bouchard followed up her solid run to the Australian Open quarterfinals last month by losing in her first match since Melbourne, falling to Mona Barthel of Germany in the BNP Paribas Fortis Diamond Games in Antwerp, Belgium. Barthel took advantage of nine Bouchard double-faults to come from a set down and win 4-6, 6-1,…
South African Kevin Anderson put his big serve on display to dispose of Australian Sam Groth 6-3, 6-2 at the Memphis Open Thursday night. The second-seeded Anderson fired six aces and won 24 of his 25 first serve points to cruise past Groth in straight-sets. Anderson also notched three break points in the process. “He…
Italian players Daniele Bracciali and Potito Starace were handed a 40 day suspension by the Italian tennis federation on Wednesday after a match-fixing inquiry was conducted on the two. The inquiry was opened after an alleged July 2007 phone conversation revealed Braccial discuss a match fixing with an account who was later arrested in 2011….
The highest-ranked American John Isner used his dominant serve to reach the Memphis Open quarterfinals, beating Croatia’s Ivan Dodig 6-4, 7-6(5) on Wednesday night. Both players exchanged holds throughout the first nine games with neither play allowing even a break point chance. Down 4-5 and on serve, however, Dodig lost the first service game of…
The Memphis Open’s first-round continued on Tuesday and all five Americans who were in action advanced in Tennessee. The 2010 champion Sam Querrey picked up a nice victory over seventh-seeded Benjamin Becker of Germany, as Querrey came back from a set down to oust Becker 4-6, 6-2, 6-1 and push through into the second-round. “Once I…
The United States will meet Italy in the World Group playoffs of the Fed Cup from April 18-19, as the ITF announced the draw for the World Group and World Group II playoffs on Tuesday. The Americans and Italians are very familiar with each other, having met in the 2009 and 2010 finals, and have…
The United States pushed past Argentina 4-1 in a Fed Cup tie on Sunday to move into the World Group Playoff later on this year. Venus Williams won the deciding match in the best-of-five tie, knocking off Maria Irigoyen 6-1, 6-4 to give the United States a 3-1 lead, rendering the fifth match obsolete. On Saturday,…
Eugenie Bouchard has herself a new coach for 2015. The 20-year old Canadian will be working with Sam Sumyk, the highly respected coach who previously worked with world number one Victoria Azarenka, according to The Toronto Star’s Stephanie Myles. Bouchard and Sumyk were seen training at the National Tennis Centre in Montreal earlier this week,…
The United States is set to face Argentina on the road in the Fed Cup by BNP Paribas World Group II First Round on an outdoor red clay court at the Pilara Tennis Club in Buenos Aires, Feb. 7-8. U.S. Fed Cup Captain Mary Joe Fernandez has a strong team heading to Argentina, with world number…
Coco Vandeweghe and Taylor Townsend will replace Madison Keys and Varvara Lepchenko on the U.S. Fed Cup Team roster for the World Group II First Round in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Keys suffered a leg injury in the Australian Open en route to her first career Grand Slam semifinal, while Lepchenko suffered an illness after competing in Australia and is still recovering. Vandeweghe,…