No surprises in 2012 Dallas semifinals as both Roberta Vinci and Jelena Jankovic finish off their unseeded opponents in two straight sets. Unseeded Serbian player Bojana Jovanovski will be leaving Texas Open in Dallas with mixed feelings. On one hand, she reached semifinal of a WTA tournament, on the other [...]
Amazingly, seven different women have hoisted the singles champion trophy at the last seven Grand Slam events. To refresh your memory, the septet includes Kim Clijsters, Li Na, Petra Kvitova, Samantha Stosur, Victoria Azarenka, Maria Sharapova and Serena Williams. Even more amazingly, six of the seven—plus dangerous heavy [...]
After finally ending his seventeen match losing streak, lady luck has not been kind to Donald Young as he looks extremely unlikely to defend his fourth round of last year when he takes on World No.1 Roger Federer. Following this he will face either Bjorn Phau or a qualifier. Fernando [...]
As the fourth and final grand slam of 2012 begins, Rafael Nadal’s continuing absence from the tour has left Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic as the last men standing in the battle for end-of –year number one. The two are currently neck-and-neck: in 2012 Djokovic has 8710 points to Federer’s [...]
The Australian player, Casey Dellacqua, who is number 106 on the WTA’s rankings list and who caused quite a sensation at the Texas Tennis Open being played in Dallas this week when she ousted the tournament’s number four seed, the hard hitting Belgian Yanina Wickmayer (ranked 28), 6-4 6-4, had [...]
While there are only a handful of women considered true contenders for this year’s U.S. Open women’s title, should it be a surprise that defending champion Sam Stosur is not one of them? Maybe it’s partly due to many still trying to wrap their heads around the improbable run of [...]
After Novak Djokovic’s excellent 2011 that saw him take three grand slams and five Masters 1000 titles, it definitely seemed like he was ready to hold the number one spot for a lengthy amount of time, possibly even years. However, with only three titles so far this year (Australian Open, [...]
Befitting his official ATP ranking status of No. 1 in the world, 17-time Grand Slam winner and all-round tennis ace Roger Federer has been confirmed as the top seed for the US Open this year. Seedings were officially announced this week, with draws for the men’s field expected to be [...]
Bjorn Borg vs. John McEnroe (Final, 1980) 7–6(7-4), 6–1, 6–7(5-7), 5–7, 6–4 Over the summer of 1980 tennis regent Bjorn Borg and young pretender John McEnroe engaged each other in a pair of classic grand slam finals. The first, at Wimbledon, is one of the most feted matches of all-time [...]
ANDRE AGASSI is a former number one player who was dominant in the early 1990s and mid 2000s. He is generally considered to be one of the greatest tennis players of all time. He competed in 15 Grand Slam finals and is an eight time Grand Slam singles champion, having [...]
For full draw, click Here In the final tournament before the US Open, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Tomas Berdych headline a strong Winston Salem Open event with 250 points on offer for the winner and more importantly, much needed confidence for next week. Last years finalists Julien Benneteau and John Isner also compete here. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga will face either Marcos Baghdatis or Thomaz Bellucci in the [...]
First on court in Friday afternoon’s session of the Western and Southern Open in Cincinnati was Venus Williams, unseeded in this tournament and ranked 64 on the WTA’s rankings list. Across the net was 3rd seeded Sam Stosur, last year’s US Open titlist, who is the WTA’s 6th ranked player. [...]
With his quarter final appearance last week in his home tournament of Toronto, Milos Raonic made the top twenty of the ATP rankings for the first time in his career, the current high of No. 19 being a record in Canada. While Greg Rusedski would later go on to be world number [...]
When Petra Kvitova bombed down a final winning ace to seize the Wimbledon title over Maria Sharapova, it was clear a new tennis star was born even though the shy girl from Fulnek in the Czech Republic admitted afterwards she couldn’t understand why anyone, especially photographers, would be interested in [...]
