The 2011 Australian Open will offer a record $25 million in prize money, up 3.8 percent on the previous year, with the men’s and women’s winners to each pocket $2.2 million. Rafael Nadal’s bid for a non-calendar grand slam will headline the first grand slam of the 2011 season. The tournament’s other major focus will…
Americans John Isner and Mardy Fish each advanced in straight sets in their first round matches at the China Open. Another American, Sam Querry was upset by Frenchman, Gilles Simon, 6-3, 3-6, 6-2 also in the first round. In other men’s first-round play, German qualifier Michael Berrer upset fifth-seeded Tomas Berdych, 4-6, 7-5, 6-4. On…
Tennis Channel, the only 24-hour, television-based multimedia destination dedicated to both the professional sport and tennis lifestyle, will unveil a new player-biography series, Tennisography, Sunday, Oct. 3, at 7:30 p.m. ET. The half-hour program will profile different players every month, and the unique stories behind their rise to the professional tennis ranks and their tales’…
The United States have drawn a South American opponent in the first round for the second year in a row in round one of Davis Cup play in drawing Chile. Chile is expected to play the Americans on red clay, the favorite surface of almost any team playing the United States. Chile is a tough squad…
The latest rankings have been released for for the men’s and women’s pro tours. Atop the ATP rankings, Rafael Nadal of Spain, the 2010 U.S. Open winner, with a wide margin of nearly 5,000 in ranking points. On the women’s side, the injured Serena Williams leads the WTA rankings, coming in with 6,995 ranking points,…
Mardy Fish defeated Columbian Santiago Giraldo 3-6, 6-3, 7-5, 4-6, 8-6 in a four-plus-hour battle on Sunday to clinch a win for the United States against Colombia in the Davis Cup Playoff Round. Sunday’s victory keeps the United States into the Davis Cup World Group in 2011 and eligible to win the Davis Cup title. It…
The following is taken from Kim Clijsters’ post-match press conference on Saturday, Sept. 11th during the 2010 U.S Open. The number two-seeded Clijsters defeated Russia’s Vera Zvonareva, the number seven seed, 6-2, 6-1 to capture the 2010 U.S. Open Women’s Championship. Last year when you came in, we called it the Kimdarella story, big surprise. This year expectations…
The following is taken from Jack Sock’s post-match press conference on Saturday, Sept. 11th during the 2010 U.S Open. The top-seeded men’s junior Sock defeated the number two seed Marton Fucsovics of Hungary, 6-3, 6-4 to capture the 2010 U.S. Open Men’s Junior Championship. Talk about the week and winning the whole thing. What does it mean…
KIm Clijsters was dominant Saturday night in defeating Vera Zvonareva in straight sets 6-2, 6-1 en route to her second consecutive U.S. Open title. The match took just 59 min. to complete and Clijsters was in control from start to finish and dictated play in almost every point. The win gave Clijsters a second consecutive…
The USTA has announced that its U.S. Open Web site, www.USOpen.org, will present the first-ever live 3D streaming of the women’s singles final on Saturday, Sept. 11 and the men’s singles final on Sunday, Sept. 12. This will mark the first time in history that tennis matches have been streamed live in 3-D to the…