The USTA has announced that for the first time, broadcast coverage will be featured from all tournament courts–up to 16. All men’s and women’s singles and doubles matches, as well as mixed doubles matches, during the 2018 U.S. Open are scheduled to be produced from Monday, Aug. 27, through Sunday, Sept. 9. In addition,…
Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga has withdrawn from the 2018 U.S. Open, citing an ongoing knee injury. Currently ranked 64th in the world, Tsonga has not played since February when he was forced to retire in the semifinals of the Open Sud de France. He has played just six matches total in 2018, with a record…
Novak Djokovic became the first man to win all nine ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournaments as he claimed the Western & Southern Open championship in Cincinnati on Sunday. Djokovic continued his late-summer run as he defeated Roger Federer 6-4, 6-4 in his sixth attempt in the Cincinnati championship. “Obviously it’s a very special…
Tickets for the 2019 New York Open will go on sale beginning Friday, as the second year of the tournament is set to hit NYCB LIVE home of the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum next February. The 2019 New York Open will run from February 9-17, and will once again kick off with the New…
Americans Collin Altamirano and Thai-Son Kwiatkowski received wild card entries into the US Open Qualifying Tournament on Wednesday. Previously selected American Qualifying wild card recipients Donald Young and Chris Eubanks received direct entry into the Qualifying Tournament after a number of players entered into Qualifying received wild card entries into the Main Draw. Altamirano and Kwiatkowski were teammates at the University of…
The USTA today announced that the US Open will once again kick off with Fan Week, a series of events and activations taking place both at the grounds of the US Open, the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, as well as at the US Open Experience at Brookfield Place, in Manhattan. US…
Former US Open champion Stan Wawrinka, Americans Tim Smyczek, Michael Mmoh, Noah Rubin, 2018 USTA Boys’ 18s National Champion Jenson Brooksby and US Open Wild Card Challenge winner Bradley Klahn have been awarded men’s singles main draw wild cards into the 2018 US Open. Nineteen-year old Frenchman Corentin Moutet was awarded a main draw wild card by the French Tennis Federation as part of…
Hofstra University will host a prize money tournament from Friday, August 24 through Sunday, August 26, with the winner receiving an automatic bid into the New York Open’s pre-qualifying tournament. Like last year, the New York Open will host a pre-qualifying event to give top local players a chance to compete in the qualifying…
The USTA today announced that two-time Grand Slam champion and former World No. 1 Victoria Azarenka, 2004 US Open champion Svetlana Kuznetsova and rising American teenagers Amanda Anisimova and Claire Liu will receive main draw wild card entries into the US Open, joining USTA Girls’ 18s National ChampionWhitney Osuigwe and US Open Wild Card Challenge winner Asia Muhammad as main draw wild card recipients. France’s Harmony…
In a rematch of this year’s French Open final, Romania’s Simona Halep and American Sloane Stephens did battle in the Rogers Cup final in Montreal on Sunday. Halep was once again victorious, holding Stephens off with a 7-6(6), 3-6, 6-4 victory. Halep secured a late break for 5-2 in the deciding third set which…