Two local Long Islanders won the U.S. Open National Playoffs/Mixed-Doubles Sectional Qualifying Tournament, played at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. The team of Darrin Cohen & Bea Bielik was rarely tested throughout the tournament and did not drop a set in five wins. In the finals, they defeated Magda Okruashvili & Tsimafey Senkevich,…
In men’s action at the 59th Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell at the Real Club de Tenis Barcelona in Spain, hometown favorite Rafael Nadal defeated Columbian Santiago Giraldo, 6-3, 6-1 to set up a quarterfinals match against Frenchman Gael Monfils who defetade his fellow countryman Richard Gasquet, 6-4, 7-6 (7). Nadal has an overall record of 28-1 at the…
Top-ranked Caroline Wozniacki has advanced past the Porsche Grand Prix in Germany second round for the first time, beating Zuzana Kucova of Slovakia, 6-1, 6-2, to reach the quarterfinals of the event. She advances to face hometown favorite Andrea Petkovic of Germany, who rallied to defeat Jelena Jankovic, 3-6, 6-1, 6-3. This year alone, Petkovic beat both…
The USTA has announced that six men and six women have been invited to participate in its 2011 French Open Wild Card Playoffs, held April 20-22 at the Boca West Country Club in Boca Raton, Fla. The USTA and the French Tennis Federation have a reciprocal agreement in which men’s and women’s singles main draw wild…
This year at Wimbledon, each singles champion will receive a total of $1.8 million in prize money. All-England Club Chief Executive Ian Ritchie also announced that the total prize fund for the 125th Wimbledon Championships will increase to $23.8 million. In 2010, prize money for the singles champions was $1.54 million each. “Leading international sports events, such as…
The United States has been swept 5-0 by Germany in Fed Cup action, elimiated from the top tier of Fed Cup action for the very first time. Andrea Petkovic beat Melanie Oudin 6-2, 6-3, giving Germany a 3-0 lead over the U.S. Venus Williams, still nursing a hip injury, was on hand at the event at…
Rafael Nadal defeated his fellow Spaniard David Ferrer, 6-4, 7-5, on Sunday in the finals of the Monte Carlo Masters. Nadal’s win at the Monte Carlo Masters was his seventh straight title at the event, having not lost at the event since 2003 when he lost to Guillermo Coria of Argentina. “To start the clay season like this…
Six-time U.S. Open Champion Chris Evert and ESPN’s Mike Greenberg will play a mixed-doubles match in the U.S. Open National Playoffs Eastern Qualifying event, Monday, April 18 at 1:00 p.m. at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. The team of Evert & Greenberg will play 2002 NCAA singles champion (for Wake Forest) Bea Bielik of Valley Stream, N.Y.,…
Rafael Nadal of Spain and Roger Federer of Switzerland advanced to the quarterfinals of the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters with straight-set victories on Thursday. Nadal disposed of Richard Gasquet of France, 6-2, 6-4, while Federer cruised to 6-4, 6-3 win over Croatian Marin Cilic. Nadal will face Ivan Ljubicic of Croatia in the quarterfinals, as Federer will play…
Tennis Channel will provide exclusive coverage of the U.S. Fed Cup team’s competition against Germany in Stuttgart, Germany, this weekend with live and same-day, "Instant Encore" replays Saturday and Sunday. Because the Americans lost in the first round of this year’s tournament, they must defeat Germany in order to compete for the Fed Cup in…