Archive: September 2014
For the third time in as many meetings, Eugenie Bouchard (Westmount, QC) was defeated in straight sets by world no. 3 Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic on Saturday in the final of the Wuhan Open, a WTA Premier 5 event in China. / Pour la troisième fois en autant de rencontres, Eugenie Bouchard (Westmount, QC) s’est inclinée en deux manches face à la Tchèque Petra Kvitova, troisième mondiale, cette fois, en finale de l’Open de Wuhan, une épreuve de catégorie Premier 5 de la WTA présentée en Chine.
Click here for the latest news and draws from the Wuhan Open.
Click here to see the draws and tomorrow's schedule from the China Open in Beijing.
The world’s best female tennis players have been full of praise for the organisers of the Dongfeng Motor Wuhan Open during a successful inaugural tournament in the central Chinese city.
The semifinals are set at the Red Rock Pro Open as three seeded players and a qualifier won quarterfinal matches on Friday at the USTA Women’s $50,000 Pro Circuit event taking place at the Red Rock Country Club.
Vicky Duval fought cancer with great adversity - going through rounds and rounds of chemo and hospitalization.
Ernests Gulbis and Julien Benneteau will face each other for the third time this season on Saturday in Kuala Lumpur after scoring respective quarterfinal victories on Friday. Gulbis got past Benjamin Becker 6-3, 7-5. Benneteau, the Malaysian Open runner-up in both 2012 and 2013, outlasted Pablo Cuevas 6-3, 6-7(3), 6-4.
Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan swapped their tennis kits for baseball jerseys when they attended a Los Angeles Dodgers game on Wednesday evening.
Check out the updated draws and tomorrow's schedule for the 2014 Dongfeng Motor Wuhan Open.
Following in the footsteps of Marin Cilic, who recovered from a four-month suspension late in 2013 to win this summer's U.S. Open, Viktor Troicki is also making an impressive comeback. On the shelf for one year from last July to this one, Troicki posted his best result since being suspended when he upset David Ferrer in the Shenzhen Open second round on Thursday.
At times it probably felt like victory enough just to be back on the court for several players taking part in the Red Rock Pro Open on Wednesday.
Eugenie Bouchard (Westmount, QC) is playing her first tournament since the U.S. Open this week at the Wuhan Open in China. She advanced to the quarter-finals of the WTA Premier 5 event on Wednesday thanks to a 6-2, 6-3 win over American Alison Riske.
Click here for the results and order of play from the 2014 Dongfeng Motor Wuhan Open.
Former tennis great Mats Wilander expects that 33-year-old Roger Federer has another five years left in his career, such is the enthusiasm for the game still exhibited by the record 17-time grand slam winner. Former teenaged Roland Garros champion Wilander, now a Eurosport tennis guru, predicts great things ahead for the Swiss whose enthusiasm for the sport remains at a peak.
John Tomic's notoriety in tennis circles has struck again as his displeasure with Tennis Australia's youth policy has resulted in him withdrawing 16 year-old daughter Sara from the national academy program.
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