Steve Johnson of the U.S. has joined Frenchman Nicolas Mahut as a wild card at Wimbledon. The 100th-ranked Johnson from Orange, Calif., will play in the singles at the grass court Grand Slam tournament for the first time since becoming a full-time professional last summer. He won the ATP Challenger title at Nottingham last week to…
The U.S. Open National Playoffs is a sequence of tournaments which gives players, the chance to live out their tennis dreams and qualify for the U.S. Open Grand Slam event. Between April 1-July 4, 13 sections of the USTA run a Sectional Qualifying Tournament with men’s singles, women’s singles and mixed-doubles matches. The winners of…
After 10 months without a title, Roger Federer finally came through with a win in Halle, Germany at the 2013 Gerry Weber Open on Sunday. He overcame opponent, Mikhail Youzhny, 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-4 to win his first title since last August, when he won at Cincinnati. Gerry Weber is a warm-up grass court tournament…
Third seeds Santiago Gonzalez & Scott Lipsky captured their fifth ATP World Tour title together on Sunday as they defeated Daniele Bracciali and Jonathan Erlich 6-2, 7-6(3) in the final of the 2013 Gerry Weber Open in Halle. Gonzalez & Lipsky are currently 11th in the race to London and will add another 250 Emirates ATP…
Seventeen-year-old Noah Rubin of Rockville Centre, N.Y. will continue junior competition at Wimbledon, June 29-July 7 at the All-England Club in Wimbledon, London in the main draw. Rubin, who has been ranked as high as sixth in the world junior rankings, reached the third round of the 2013 French Open Junior Championship. He currently trains at the John…
In typical Roger Federer fashion, he easily beat his opponent, Mischa Zverev 6-0, 6-0 to reach the Gerry Weber Open semifinals on Friday. Zverev tried to stick to his strategy to serve and volley, but in the end, it did not pay off for him. Frenchman Richard Gasquet, also made the semifinals by beating Florian Mayer…
It was a tough day at the Queen’s Club in England for two favorites. Juan Martin del Potro and Tomas Berdych both fell in the quarterfinals in their tune-up for Wimbledon. To reach his first semifinal in almost a year, Lleyton Hewitt beat del Potro 6-2, 2-6, 6-2. Hewitt hit a backhand winner to put…
After two days of bad weather, second-seeded Tomas Berdych was the first player to reach the Aegon Championships quarterfinals on Thursday at The Queen’s Club. He defeated 16th-seeded Grega Zemlja, 6-3, 6-4, for a place in his ninth quarter-final this season. Berdych will face fifth-seeded Marin Cilic, who beat Feliciano Lopez, 4-6, 7-6(5), 7-5, hitting…
On Thursday at the 2013 Gerry Weber Open, defending champion Tommy Haas advanced to the quarterfinals of the by outlasting Ernests Gulbis 7-6 (5), 6-4. The 35-year-old Haas, who won the event in 2009, is coming off a quarterfinal appearance at the French Open. Haas is the oldest player in the ATP top 100 men’s singles and…
Maria Sharapova, Serena Williams and Li Na were recently unveiled by Forbes magazine on its Top 100 World’s Highest Paid Athletes list for 2013, the only women on the list. Sharapova, number 22 on the list, remained the top-earning female athlete for the ninth straight year with $29 million, followed by Serena at 68 with $20.5…