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The tennis season’s final Grand Slam event begins next week, as the world’s top players gear up for the 2013 U.S. Open from Flushing Meadows, N.Y. Andy Murray and Serena Williams are back in hope of defending their 2012 singles titles, while 2010 men’s champion Rafael Nadal makes his much-anticipated return to the hard courts of Queens. Novak Djokovic and Victoria Azarenka will...
Published: August 24, 2013
Tigers Woods’ fast start in the second round of The Barclays from Liberty National Golf Course in Jersey City, N.J., was marred by some questionable behavior and late struggles before he rallied to finish with a second-round 69 after wrapping up his rain-delayed round on Saturday morning. He sits at six under for the tournament, five shots back of leader Matt Kuchar. Following a strong opening-round...
Published: August 23, 2013
Tennis fans can expect to hear the usual names when it comes to the discussion of 2013 U.S. Open contenders. The last three U.S. Open men’s champions, Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray, are expected to battle for the crown on the men’s side, while Serena Williams and Victoria Azarenka are seen as the two biggest threats to win from the women’s draw. But some...
Published: August 23, 2013
Momentum can change hands in an instant in tennis, so when you have it you want to hang onto it. No player in tennis has more momentum heading into the season’s final Grand Slam event than Rafael Nadal, who has won 10 straight matches, including ATP Masters 1000 titles in Montreal and Cincinnati since his upset loss at Wimbledon two months ago. Now, Rafa enters Flushing Meadows as the world No....
Published: August 22, 2013
The North American hard-court season will conclude with a bang this summer in Flushing Meadows, N.Y., site of the 2013 U.S. Open. Andy Murray and Serena Williams return as defending champions on the men’s and women’s side, respectively, but each will have to fend off a loaded field of contenders in order to retain the crown. What’s more, there are a handful of notable...
Published: August 22, 2013
Maria Sharapova has withdrawn from the 2013 U.S. Open due to a right shoulder injury. @MariaSharapova officially withdraws from the 2013 US Open due to a right shoulder bursitis. We wish her a speedy recovery! #usopen — US Open Tennis (@usopen) August 22, 2013 Slated to be the No. 3 seed in the women’s draw (Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland now takes her spot at third), Sharapova released a...
Published: August 20, 2013
Maria Sharapova has made plenty of mistakes on the tennis court, but netting a forehand return or committing a double fault is to be expected from time to time. Changing your surname from Sharapova to “Sugarpova” for a two week period, solely for the purpose of promoting your own line of candy, is a much less forgivable error. According to the Times of London‘s Neil Harman,...
Published: August 20, 2013
It’s amazing how much can change in two months time. Less than eight weeks ago Rafael Nadal was coming off one of the worst losses of his career at Wimbledon. There were serious doubts about his knee and of course his future at the top of men’s tennis. Even though the 12-time Grand Slam champion had just stamped his name across the clay-court season just two weeks earlier, capping...
Published: August 18, 2013
Victoria Azarenka earned her first title in Cincinnati on Sunday night by defeating world No. 1 Serena Williams 2-6, 6-2, 7-6 (8-6) in a hard-fought match in the women’s final of the 2013 Western & Southern Open, per WTA on Twitter: The top two players in women’s tennis went back and forth for well over two hours on Center Court at the Lindner Family Tennis Center, exchanging blows...
Published: August 8, 2013
The top two men’s tennis players on the planet, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray, are poised to collide in the final of the 2013 Rogers Cup in Montreal this weekend in what would be their first meeting since last month’s Wimbledon final. This week’s tournament draw is hardly unimpressive, with many of the sport’s big names taking part, including Rafael Nadal, Tomas Berdych and...