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The USTA has announced that former world number one junior Taylor Townsend, 2011 U.S. Open Junior Champion Grace Min, two-time NCAA singles champion Nicole Gibbs, 2014 NCAA singles champion Danielle Collins, former Wimbledon and Australian Open junior finalist Madison Brengle and USTA Girls 18s National Champion CiCi Bellis have been awarded women’s main draw wild card entries into the 2014 U.S. Open. Australia’s Jarmila Gajdosova and France’s Amandine…

Ana Ivanovic battled back after trailing in the second set to knock off Sorana Cristea of Romania 6-1, 7-5 to advance at the Western and Southern Open. The Serb trailed 4-1 in the second set before rallying for the straight set victory. “I was happy. I was a little bit doubtful going on the court…

American John Isner rolled into the second round of the Western and Southern Open on Monday, taking down South African Kevin Anderson 6-3, 6-4 to move on in Cincinnati. It was a good bounce back match for Isner who had lost his opening match in the last two tournaments since winning the Atlanta Open title….

The USTA has announced a series of physical improvements and new fan enhancements for the 2014 U.S. Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, N.Y. The two-week tournament begins Monday, Aug. 25, and concludes with the Men’s Singles Final on Monday, Sept. 8. In the first phase of a five-year transformation of the…

Poland’s Agnieszka Radwanska upended Venus Williams 6-4, 6-2 on Sunday in Montreal to become the first Polish player to win a Rogers Cup crown. The win was the first tournament victory of the season for Radwanska and she used an outstanding return game to dominate the 34-year old Williams from the start. Venus had just…

France’s Jo-Wilfried Tsonga captured the Rogers Cup trophy on Sunday, defeating Roger Federer 7-5, 7-6(3) in Toronto to win his first ATP Tour title of the season. The win over Federer marks the fourth straight over a higher-seeded opponent for Tsonga, who had previously ousted Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray and Grigor Dimitrov before toppling the…

Twenty-eight-year-old Wayne Odesnik, a former top 100 player from Fort Lauderdale, Fla.,  will return to the U.S. Open main draw for the first time since 2009 after earning a wild card on Saturday by winning the 2014 USTA Pro Circuit U.S. Open Wild Card Challenge. Odesnik clinched the wild card when Rhyne Williams, the only player who…

The USTA has announced that Tony Trabert, a two-time U.S. National Championships singles winner and long-time voice of the U.S. Open on CBS Sports, has been named the 2014 inductee into the U.S. Open Court of Champions, a U.S. Open and USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center attraction honoring the greatest singles champions in the history…