In typical Serena Williams style, this year’s Wimbledon and Olympics singles and doubles (with her sister, Venus) gold medal winner has played herself into top form at the tail end of the US Open and now seems almost unstoppable in her quest for a fourth US Open title and fourteenth [...]
In search of his first grand slam, Andy Murray was in trouble early against his opponent 12th seed Marin Cilic. A slow start quickly turned into something more serious as Cilic quickly jumped to a 3-0 lead. Looking sluggish, Murray lost the set 6-3 while hitting 11 unforced errors to [...]
Andy Murray defeated Marin Cilic in their quarterfinal encounter at Flushing Meadows as he came back from a set and 5-1 down to eventually prevail 3-6 7-6 (4) 6-2 6-0. Cilic took the Brit’s serve at the beginning of the match, but Murray managed to restore the break in the [...]
For the second match in a row, a rain delay gave Maria Sharapova the chance to sort out her mind, sort out her game and overcome a tricky and determined opponent. Just as her fortunes changed after the one-hour delay against Nadia Petrova in the fourth round, when she was [...]
American favourite Andy Roddick saw his distinguished Tennis career come to an end after being defeated in the fourth round of the U.S. Open. Roddick looked on course to extend his run at Flushing Meadow after taking the first set against Argentinean Juan Martin Del Potro, but was eventually beaten [...]
Novak Djokovic‘s fourth round match with Stanislas Wawrinka was cut short after the Swiss retired in the third set with an as of yet unnamed injury. Djokovic led 6-4 6-1 3-1 when Wawrinka decided to call it a day and will face either Andy Roddick or Juan Martin Del Potro in the quarter [...]
Granollers/Lopez and Stepanek/Paes pairs eased into 2012 US Open men’s doubles semis in straight sets. Sixth seeds Marcel Granollers and Marc Lopez of Spain eliminated Austrian-Brazilian combination Alexander Peya and Bruno Soares. A late break in the first set and an early one in the set two were enough to [...]
Janko Tipsarevic eliminated Philipp Kohlschreiber in straight sets and will be playing fourth seed David Ferrer in his second consecutive US Open quarterfinal. In a rescheduled fourth round match eight seed Tipsarevic needed five minutes to finish what he had started yesterday, that is, he kept one break advantage and [...]
The Bryan Brothers enter 2012 US Open doubles semifinals, Qureshi and Rojer also through. The final result would suggest that Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi and Jean-Julien Rojer remained largely untroubled by young American brothers Ryan and Christian Harrison. The Harrisons, however, had a double break ball at 2-2 in the opener, but in [...]
Weather permitting, World n° 1 Roger Federer and World n° 7 Tomas Berdych will clash for the 16th time this evening, on Arthur Ashe Stadium, the last of a full day of round-of-16 matches to complete and quarter-finals to start in the men’s draw. As theirs is the second men’s [...]
Live Commentary will commence here as soon as the match starts.. Former world no.1 and 2003 US Open champion Andy Roddick takes on 2009 US Open champion Juan Martin del Potro in a match that could potentially be the last for A-Rod (should he lose). Roddick announced last week [...]
Live commentary of the match between Andy Murray and Marin Cilic will commence here as soon as the players start warming up. This will be the 8th encounter between the two players, with Murray leading the head to head 6-1. They last met at this year’s Wimbledon, where the [...]
Victoria Azarenka had never lost to Sam Stosur in their six previous meetings; in fact, she had never even lost a set to the Australian. Stosur’s famed “kicker” second serve does not scare the world number one, nor does her bombastic forehand and attacking style of play. But it was [...]
Rain disrupted play on Tuesday, allowing for just one men’s single match to complete. 4th seed David Ferrer was up against the 13th seed Richard Gasquet. The Frenchman was looking to move past the 4th round here in New York for the first time in his career. The 26 year [...]
