Archive: September 2014
New US Open champion Marin Cilic was quick to praise the inspiration given to him by one-time hero and now coach Goran Ivanisevic and reveal the part the 2001 Wimbledon winner played in last nights triumph on Arthur Ashe Stadium.
Wimbledon finalist Eugenie Bouchard has left the new WTA event in Hong Kong high and dry without a draw card player after pulling out of this week's tournament; the Canadian, ranked eighth, cited fatigue.
Kei Nishikori's US Open performance could attract major Japanese sponsors to tennis. "Kei's success will have ramifications for all aspects of tennis in the country, which is good because there will be new money coming to tennis," said IMG agent Fernando Soler, whose agency represents Nishikori, to the New York Times.
Serena Williams took a record $4 million for winning the US Open, the biggest prize money check that has been given in tennis. Williams got $3 million for winning the US Open, and $1 million for winning the US Open series, with points given for how players perform in warm-up events.
The 2014 tennis season may not be over quite yet, but it will undoubtedly go down as a year of incredible parity on the ATP Tour. Four different men captured Grand Slam titles, including two for the first time. Marin Cilic joined Stanislas Wawrinka as a new major champion by triumphing over fellow first-time slam finalist Kei Nishikori 6-3, 6-3, 6-3 at the U.S. Open on Monday evening.
The USTA announced that Tony Trabert, a two-time U.S. National Championships singles winner and long-time voice of the US Open on CBS Sports, has been named the 2014 inductee into the US Open Court of Champions, a US Open and USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center attraction honoring the greatest singles champions in the history of the U.S. Championships/US Open.
Devastated Novak Djokovic was pondering his schedule as the beaten US Open semi-finalist and decided to skip Davis Cup play this weekend in India for Serbia after losing a 6-4, 1-6, 7-6 (7-4) 6-3 to Japan's Kei Nishikori.
Roger Federer has already put his 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 semi-final defeat at the US Open in perspective after going down to Marin Cilic and is turning his focus to the Swiss Davis Cup weekend semi-final in Geneva against Italy.
When the International Tennis Federation and Grand Slam Committee take stock of the 2014 US Open one issue bound to provoke debate is the attitude to serious cramping and heat related issues following the lamentable scenes of an agonized Peng Shuai being pushed off court in wheelchair following her retirement from the women’s semi-final against Caroline Wozniacki.
Andy Murray will not be going to the polls today as his long-term residence in England means he does not get a vote in the historic Scottish referendum on whether to secede from the United Kingdom. But the former Wimbledon and US Open champion did a last minute U turn on his stance of not getting involved in politics by taking to Twitter and Facebook to reveal his support for independence.
The Kei Nishikori upset win over Novak Djokovic for a place in the final of the US Open should prove to be a win-win situation for Japanese clothing and fashion giant Uniqlo, a short version of “unique clothing” sponsor of both players.
This was a case where you really didn't have to see the match to imagine what happened. You *knew* Serena Williams would produce most of the power, and end most of the points one way or the other, and that Caroline Wozniacki would get lots and lots of balls back until Serena hit either a winner or an error.
For the first time since the 2005 Australian Open (Marat Safin vs. Lleyton Hewitt), a men's singles Grand Slam final will be without either Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, or Novak Djokovic. It will also be the first Grand Slam final between two men ranked outside the top 10 since the 2002 French Open...
Both of the U.S. Open junior singles titles were won by unseeded participants on Sunday. On the boys' side, Australian Omar Jasika overcame Quentin Halys of France 2-6, 7-5, 6-1. The Czech Republic's Marie Bouzkova triumphed in the girls' event by holding off Ukrainian Anhelina Kalinina 6-4, 7-6(5).
Another week, another item for the Bryan Brothers record book. In this case, one hundred titles. Pretty routinely. Granollers/Lopez actually had more winners, but they also had far, far more errors -- the Bryans officially produced only five. Hard to beat a team that plays like that.
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