In a ceremony filled with tears, Elena Dementieva retired from tennis after a loss at the WTA Championships that ended her 13-year career. The 29-year-old Russian reached two Grand Slam finals, won a Gold Medal at the Beijing Olympics and helped spur the growth of tennis in her home country. Dementieva struggled with injuries this year,…
Second-seeded Kim Clijsters defeated top-ranked Caroline Wozniacki, 6-3, 5-7, 6-3, to win the WTA Championships final on Sunday. Clijsters had won the WTA Championships title previously in 2002 and 2003. After winning the first set, Clijsters went up 4-1 in the second, but Wozniacki fought back to tie the match at five-all. She broke Clijsters…
Caroline Wozniacki wrapped up the year-end number one ranking Thursday after rallying to beat Francesca Schiavone 3-6, 6-1, 6-1 at the WTA Championships. The 20-year-old from Denmark is the 10th woman to end the season on top and the youngest since Martina Hingis in 1997. She replaced the injured Serena Williams at the top earlier…
The USTA has announced that Jim Courier has been named U.S. Davis Cup Captain. Courier signed a multi-year agreement and succeeds Patrick McEnroe, who ended his 10-year tenure as U.S. Davis Cup Captain in September. Courier will make his debut as captain when the United States faces Chile in March during at the Davis Cup…
The USTA and U.S. Fed Cup Captain Mary Joe Fernandez has announced that the core group of Bethanie Mattek-Sands, Melanie Oudin, and world number one doubles player Liezel Huber, along with Fed Cup rookie Coco Vandeweghe, will represent the U.S. in the 2010 Fed Cup by BNP Paribas World Group Final against Italy on an…
Former top-ranked Thomas Muster is making his return to the ATP Tour at the Bank Austria Trophy, 26 years after he first played at the event. Muster will play fellow Austrian Andreas Haider-Maurer on Tuesday in his first match on the tour since losing in the first round of 1999 French Open. The 43-year-old Muster was…
Roger Federer beat Germany’s Florian Mayer 6-4, 6-3 to win the Stockholm Open on Sunday and match Pete Sampras’ career total of 64 career titles. Since 1968, only Jimmy Connors (109), Ivan Lendl (94) and John McEnroe (77) have won more singles tournaments than Federer and Sampras. In beating the 47th-ranked Mayer at Royal Tennis Hall,…
Tennis Channel’s comprehensive coverage of women’s tennis’ WTA Championships will begin Tuesday, Oct. 26, live from Doha, Qatar. The network will carry all singles and doubles matches during the season-ending six-day competition, more than 30 live hours of play overall, followed by same-day encore replays each evening in prime time. In all, Tennis Channel will…
Qualifier Zarina Diyas has upset top-seeded Jelena Jankovic, 6-1, 6-2 Thursday in the second round action at the Kremlin Cup. The 268th-ranked Diyas, who celebrated her 17th birthday on Monday, led 5-0 in the first set when Jankovic called for a doctor and had her blood pressure checked. Jankovic said she had a hard time breathing,…
Britain’s Andy Murray defeated an error-prone Roger Federer 6-3, 6-2 on Sunday to win the Shanghai Masters, his second title of the year. Fourth-seeded Murray broke Federer’s serve four times while fighting off six break points. Murray also served six aces, twice the number Federer had. Murray, who didn’t drop a set in the tournament,…