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Two American men playing for a Grand Slam title in men's double has been commonplace over the last decade and a half. Normally, however, they are on the same side of the net. And related. And identical.
Check out a wonderful non-profit tennis tournament in New England. The Wint Filipek Sr. Memorial Tennis Tournament will begin it's 13th years June 3rd
American men and women are a combined 0-9 in the main stadium at the BNP Paribas Open. That's right; in nine tries through three days, Americans have failed to win a single match on the marquee court in Indian Wells.
Taylor Fritz finished his first-round match at the Memphis Open on Tuesday with 13 fewer points won than Yen-Hsun Lu.
It is always difficult to predict the top 10 American men, in order, at the end of each year. This season may be especially difficult, because John Isner no longer has a stranglehold on the No. 1 spot.
The 7 train coming out of Penn Station has an absence this year. Normally, I’d sit in the blue seat next to the door where I could smell the urine and get a good view of the subway rats as we spent an hour passing through the dark tunnels on our way into Queens.
Gussy Moran was different. A tennis whiz with a hefty forehand, she trained with the legendary Bill Tilden, played over at Charlie Chaplin’s place.
Babolat’s “Jack Sock for President” campaign may be hard to explain. But whatever it is, it's working. In fact, the campaign took a giant step in the right direction on Friday at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, where Sock became the first–and so far only–American to reach round four of the 2016 U.S. Open.
There was no passing of the torch in American men's tennis at the U.S. Open on Monday. But there certainly were some close calls.
Gael Monfils is the highest seed left standing as the Citi Open semifinals arrive on Saturday, after John Isner lost a quarterfinal thriller against fellow American Steve Johnson.
Taylor Fritz and Jared Donaldson helped carry the American torch on the opening day of main-draw action at the Citi Open, where the host nation produced mixed results.
American World No. 38 Stevie Johnson has won his first ATP World Tour singles title after beating Uruguayan second seed Pablo Cuevas 7-6(5) 7-5 at the Aegon Open Nottingham...
If America is to be made great again in the department of men's tennis, at least anytime in the near future, it's up to John Isner.
And then there were three. That's how many American men are left at the French Open and first-round action concluded on Tuesday; John Isner, Jack Sock, and Bjorn Fratangelo.
Eighteen-year-olds Frances Tiafoe and Tommy Paul headline the wild card entries for the 2016 Fayez Sarofim & Co. U.S. Men’s Clay Court Championship.
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