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Football Soccer Formula 1 Rugby Racing Golf Blogs TennisPublished: June 24, 2011
World No.1 Caroline Wozniacki beat Virginie Razzano 6-1, 6-3 on Friday in 66 minutes for the first win of the day at Wimbledon. Early in the first set, Razzano was broken at 2-1 and the Dane broke two more times. The first set was a short 26 minutes. Razzano was able to keep serve three times in the final set and save three of four break point opportunities. Wozniacki’s net game and lack of errors...
Published: June 16, 2011
Tennis Now Only one seeded player remains at Eastbourne on Wednesday. He may have been a grass court finalist last week, but on Wednesday, first-seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga was routed by World No. 57 Radek Stepanek in 59 minutes, 6-2, 6-3. Stepanek was able to break the Frenchman four times and won 80 percent of his first serves. Tsonga seemed lethargic and struggled with his return game, winning...
Published: June 9, 2011
Lauren Lynch reports the latest news at the French Open men’s semifinals and women’s doubles final. Rafael Nadal beat Andy Murray to race Roger Federer for another Grand Slam title at Roland Garros. Federer ended Djokovic’s 41-0 streak and chance at breaking McEnroe’s record. After an exhausting three weeks, Maria Sharapova reported sick and will not play in Birmingham. Chris...
Published: May 27, 2011
Tennis Now Defending Champion Francesca Schiavone walked on to the fourth round after her opponent Peng Shuai retired. Peng was 3-6, 2-1 down in the second set, but began to look ill and pale. She consulted a trainer and withdrew. The fifth seed will face former No. 1 Jelena Jankovic, who defeated America’s No. 1 Bethanie Mattek-Sands 6-2, 6-2. Mattek-Sands was plagued by 30 unforced errors...
Published: May 27, 2011
The morning of Day 6 started off very strong for the seeded players at Roland Garros. Roger Federer and David Ferrer set the tone for the day. No. 7 seed Ferrer is proving that he is the one of best men on clay this season in his match against No. 31 seed Sergiy Stakhovsky, winning 6-1, 6-1, 6-3. He played with very few errors—only nine to his opponents...
Published: May 6, 2011
World No. 2 Novak Djokovic was the first winner of the day and played against Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 6-1, 6-2 in 51 minutes. He was soon followed by all of the seeded players at the Madrid ATP Masters. World No. 4 Andy Murray had no such luck, losing to Brazilian Thomaz Bellucci 6-4, 6-2. Not including his two Davis Cup wins, Djokovic is matched with Ivan Lendl for the record start-of-the-season winning...
Published: May 6, 2011
The USA will not have a singles player in the top 10 for the first time after Serena Williams will not come back to defend her points in Rome causing her to fall from the World No. 10 next week. She would have been defending her doubles title with sister Venus Williams in Madrid if she was not injured. Serena could fall several points. Bethanie Mattek-Sands is the next highest ranked woman for the...
Published: May 5, 2011
Tennis Now No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki followed the footsteps of No. 2 Vera Zvonareva in getting upset in the third round of the Mutua Madrid Open on Thursday. Once again, Julia Goerges found the key to breaking Wozniacki’s consistency on court by staying in the game with a 6-4, 1-6, 6-3 win. Goerges and Wozniacki now share a tied head-to-head series at 2-2 after Goerges won their last...
Published: May 4, 2011
Tennis Now Sixteenth seed Petra Kvitova waltzed into the Madrid Open quarterfinals after defeating World No. 2 Vera Zvonareva 6-1, 6-4 to tie their head-to-head series 2-2. Kvitova save seven of eight break points and broke Zvonareva four of six times. Kvitova had success over Zvonareva on clay last year in Rome. In the third round matches, World No. 32 Lucie Safarova upset seventh seed Jelena...
Published: May 4, 2011
Tennis Now I will start off saying, “May the 4th be with you,” to Spaniard Feliciano Lopez, who took world no. 3 Roger Federer to three intense tiebreakers for some epic tennis for the last match of the day at the Mutua Mardrid Open. Federer eventually won 7-6(13), 6-7(1), 7-6(7) and improved his record against Lopez 8-0 for their first face-off on clay in their careers. Up until the third...