Top-ranked Serena Williams came back from a first-set deficit to defeat Ana Ivanovic 6-4, 6-1 on Sunday, capturing her first career Western and Southern Open title. The ninth-seeded Serb raced out to a 3-1 first-set lead after breaking in the opening game. Ivanovic has a number of excellent forehand winners through the first four games…
Roger Federer won the 80th title of his career on Sunday, defeating Spaniard David Ferrer 6-3, 1-6, 6-2 to capture the Western and Southern Open in Cincinnati. “I’m very happy about the week,” said Federer. “Just overall it went from good to great. Just really pleased that I was able to back up a tough…
The USTA has announced the 16 men and 16 women who will compete in the U.S. Open National Playoffs – Men’s and Women’s Singles Championships held Aug. 15-18 at the Connecticut Tennis Center at Yale in New Haven, Conn. The tournament is held in conjunction with the Connecticut Open presented by United Technologies, the final Emirates Airline U.S. Open…
Novak Djokovic was ousted from the Western and Southern Open on Thursday, losing to Spaniard Tommy Robredo 7-6(6), 7-5 in the third round from Cincinnati. The number one ranked Serb was seeking a run at a Career Golden Masters, which would mean winning all nine of the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Tournaments in his…
Wimbledon's 2014 Junior Champion Noah Rubin, a freshman on the Wake Forest men’s tennis team and native of Rockville Centre, N.Y., will make his ATP World Tour debut at the Winston-Salem Open after he accepted a wild card into the main draw of the tournament, which starts this Saturday at the Wake Forest Tennis Complex at…
Stan Wawrinka became the first player to enter the quarterfinals of the Western and Southern Open on Thursday, battling back from a set down to oust Marin Cilic 3-6, 6-0, 6-1 in Cincinatti. The Australian Open champion reeled off 12 of the final 13 games to storm into the quarterfinals. Cilic looked to be in…
For the second time in as many tournaments, Eugenie Bouchard’s run came to an end in the early rounds as she fell to Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-4, 3-6, 6-2 on Wednesday in Cincinnati. Kuznetsova committed 18 less unforced errors than the Canadian Bouchard, who was bounced in the first-round of the Rogers Cup last week. “It…
The USTA has announced that 2014 USTA Boys 18s National Champion Noah Rubin, 2012 Olympian and former world number 43 Ryan Harrison, current world number 93 Tim Smyczek, top 17-year-old Jared Donaldson and 2014 NCAA singles champion Marcos Giron have been awarded men’s singles main draw wild card entries into the U.S. Open. Wayne Odesnik, Australia’s Bernard Tomic and France’sMichael Llodra will also receive U.S. Open main draw wild…
Andy Murray rolled into the third-round of the Western and Southern Open on Wednesday as he defeated Portugal’s Joao Sousa 6-3, 6-3. Murray notched three of four break points and didn’t allow a single break on his way to the straight-set victory. A two-time champion at the Cincinnati event, Murray is seeking a return to…
The International Tennis Federation (ITF) ruled Tuesday that two World Group playoff matches as part of the Davis Cup will have to be moved to different venues due to ongoing conflicts in the respective regions. The Sept. 12-14 contest between Israel and Argentina, set to take place in Tel Aviv, will have to be played…