For the first time since last summer’s Wimbledon Championships, the Big Four of the men’s game will all face each other at the same slam. Rafael Nadal missed last year’s US Open and this season’s Australian Open due to knee pain, while Andy Murray didn’t play at Roland Garros because of a back condition. Federer…
James Blake, a former world top-5 player on the ATP World Tour and a fan favorite in his native New England, has joined the player field for the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships, to be held July 8 – 14 in Newport, Rhode Island. The tournament, which is hosted directly after Wimbledon, is the first…
Rising American tennis player Jack Sock (ranked #118 in the world, so far) played one of the highest ranked opponents he has faced thus far in his young career (14th-ranked Tommy Haas) and the formidable competition that ensued will only serve to further his already impressive game. Conditions were damp on court #2, which opened…
Photo: Sloane Stephens, of the U.S, serves the ball to compatriot Vania King during their second round match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium Thursday, May 30, 2013 in Paris. (AP Photo/Michel Euler) – No. 17 Sloane Stephens beat fellow American Vania King 6-1, 6-3. She made a splash at…
Yes, Jack Sock will be wearing the Adidas tennis shoes upon which he thoughtfully wrote the initials of two friends who died recently in separate accidents. One of the victims he is honoring was a former high school teammate, and the other was a friend he played with in juniors tournaments. The shoes came to…
As you can see in the photo above (AP Photo/Michel Spingler), Ukraine’s Sergiy Stakhovsky took things into his own hands, and took a picture with his smart phone after contesting the decision of the umpire to call the ball in, in his first round match against Richard Gasquet of France at the French Open tennis…
Today’s Roland Garros players had two goals. The first? To finish today’s match today in order to avoid strenuous back-to-back matches down the line, especially when facing even stronger competition. And the second goal? To win today’s match, of course. American Jack Sock did both, impressively. To quote the musical Les Misérables: “A little fall…
For the next two weeks, it’s time to set your DVR. Or plan get up early. The French Open begins 6am (EST) Sunday and commences play that time for the next couple weeks. The main draw is out and the United States will be represented well on the red clay courts. There are 25 American…
He said he couldn’t wait to play on European clay for the first time, and he wasn’t kidding. With a score of 6-2, 6-3, American Jack Sock defeated Argentina’s Facundo Arguello in the final qualifying round and earned his way into the 2013 French Open. For American tennis fans, it’s an exciting week that lies…
Bon jour! The 2013 French Open gets under way Tuesday morning at 10am, with the qualifying tournament. Also known as “the qualies,” the Qualifying competition offers a chance for each participant to compete for a place in the tournament’s main draw. Here’s a glance at “the tournament before the tournament”: 128 determined tennis players are…
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