Archive: April 2014
What a difference a year has made for 15-year-old Sofia Kenin, the ITF Girls’ 18s No. 1 seeded-player in this week’s ASICS Easter Bowl.
Donald Young Junior from Atlanta Georgia to play the tricky Spaniard.
The Aegon Championships has been voted ATP 250 Tournament of the Year by the players of the ATP World Tour in the 2013 awards. It is the first time that the Aegon Championships, held every June on grass at The Queen’s Club in London, has received the award, which had gone to the tournament in Bastad, Sweden for the previous 11 years.
"Court Confidential: Inside The World of Tennis," the new tennis book by leading tennis writer Neil Harman of The Times of London, is now available in paperback in the United States.
The field for the Tallahassee Tennis Challenger was announced Thursday morning by tournament director Karen Vogter, as two former champions and nine players inside the top 150 will make the trip to the $50,000 event, the last stop on the Har-Tru USTA Pro Circuit Wild Card Challenge, where players compete for a spot at the French Open.
Tim Henman is quietly doing his bit to try and keep British tennis on an upward path after the Wimbledon title breakthrough last summer of former protege Andy Murray. Henman, whose four Wimbledon semi-finals set the pace for the host nation until Murray made title breakthrough, is working with the Jaguar Academy of Sport...
With potential future college coaches looking on, No. 3-seeded Logan Smith of Carlsbad, Calif., beat Javier Restrepo of Miami, 7-6 (0), 6-1, on a busy Wednesday in the Boys’ 18s ITF division at the ASICS Easter Bowl being played at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden.
A few hours after the Casablanca lost its No. 1 seed, Kevin Anderson, the U.S. Men's Clay Court Championship in Houston stumbled upon the same fate. Like Anderson, top-seeded John Isner--who was also the defending champion--lost his opening match.
Click here to see the Katowice and Bogota women's results and order of play.
Click here to see the U.S. Men's Clay Court Championship results and more.
The USTA and U.S. Fed Cup Captain Mary Joe Fernandez today announced that world No. 18 and 2013 Australian Open semifinalist Sloane Stephens, No. 42 Madison Keys, No. 49 Varvara Lepchenko and No. 57 Christina McHale will represent the United States in the 2014 Fed Cup by BNP Paribas World Group Playoff against France.
In-form Alex Dolgopolov has joined Andy Murray and Tomas Berdych in the field for the Aegon Championships at The Queen’s Club, 9th-15th June, and says he is playing the best tennis of his life.
The ITF has announced the official team nominations for the 2014 Fed Cup by BNP Paribas World Group semifinals, and World Group and World Group II play-offs taking place on 19-20 April.
Tennis Channel has appointed Adam Ware to the newly created position of senior vice president, head of digital media. He will be based in the network's Los Angeles headquarters and see to the continuation of its extensive digital growth of late, including its Tennis Channel Everywhere app and the ongoing rollout of TV Everywhere accessibility.
Tennis Canada announced Wednesday the team that will compete in the Fed Cup by BNP Paribas World Group I play-off tie between Canada and the Slovak Republic. The tie will be played on April 19 and 20, 2014 at PEPS on the campus of Laval University in Quebec City.
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