Former world No. 1 and 6-time Grand Slam tournament champion Lindsay Davenport has been elected to receive the highest honor in the sport of tennis—enshrinement in the International Tennis Hall of Fame. Joining Davenport in the Class of 2014 will be five time Paralympic medalist Chantal Vandierendonck, who was the first ITF World Champion for…
World number one Serena Williams has withdrawn from next week’s Collector Swedish Open in Bastad, Sweden, citing having not yet fully recovered from withdrawing from last week’s women’s doubles event at Wimbledon. Last week, Serena, teaming with her sister Venus, was forced to pull out of their second round match with Kristina Barrois & Stefanie Voegele…
American Shelby Rogers notched the biggest win of her career on Thursday, knocking off 15th- ranked player in the world Carla Suarez-Navarro 6-4, 6-0 to reach the quarterfinals of the Gastein Ladies tournament in Austria. The 21-year old from South Carolina smashed 11 aces and lost only one service game en route to the straight…
Fresh off his victory over the Bryan brothers in the Wimbledon Men’s Doubles tournament title match last week, American Jack Sock moved into the quarterfinals of the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships in Newport, Rhode Island on Wednesday. Sock defeated fellow American Rajeev Ram 7-5, 6-2 in straight sets in his second round match to…
The USTA has announced that the total purse for the 2014 U.S. Open will increase by $4 million, bringing the total purse for the tournament to a record $38.3 million, an 11.7 percent increase over the 2013 U.S. Open. Both the men’s and women’s singles champions will earn $3 million, the largest payout in U.S. Open history. Each round of…
Words don’t do the match between Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer in the 2014 Men’s Singles Wimbledon Finals justice. If one had to be used it would be “Unreal.” From the seemingly miraculous fourth set comeback by Federer, to his unfathomable half-volley on a perfect return by Djokovic on break point in the fifth, everything…
The Champiosnhips at Wimbledon left the tennis world buzzing in 2014. Two new two-time champions, one of the best matches in the history of the sport, a rising nation, a rising star and much more made for an exciting two weeks of tennis at SW19. When the dust settled, Novak Djokovic won his seventh career…
Long Island's Noah Rubin defeated the sixth-seeded Stefan Kozlov in three tough sets that lasted over two hours 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 to win the Boys Junior Wimbledon Championship on Sunday. The 18-year-old Rubin came to Wimbledon having played just one other junior event this season, the Junior French Open, as he had been playing Challengers…
Playing in their first event together as a team, American Jack Sock and Canadian Vasek Pospisil took down Americans Bob and Mike Bryan 7-6(5), 6-7(3), 6-4, 3-6, 7-5 to capture the Wimbledon doubles final on Saturday. The Bryan brothers are the most dominant doubles tandem in Grand Slam history with 15 major titles under their…
While many of us Americans were doing our respective celebrating for the Fourth of July weekend, the tennis world was glued to the grass-courts at the All-England Club in London for the Wimbledon title matches. In what was the match of the year up to this point, Novak Djokovic outlasted Roger Federer in a five-set…