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FILA announced today that it has signed an endorsement agreement with the #1 ranked American male tennis player, John Isner. The multiyear partnership with Isner continues FILA’s legacy of sponsoring elite tennis champions.
An American is guaranteed to reach the Basel semi-finals for the first time since Andy Roddick in 2010.
Serena Williams' bid for the calendar-year Grand Slam in 2015 is over. The world No. 1 was stunned 2-6, 6-4, 6-4 by unseeded Italian Roberta Vinci 2-6, 6-4, 6-4 in the U.S. Open semifinals...
American players did a little bit of everything on Sunday at the U.S. Open. The headliners, of course, were Serena and Venus Williams.
Pierre-Hugues Herbert was a set and a break down to American Steve Johnson, but stormed back to win 3-6, 7-6(5), 6-2 in one hour and 42 minutes in Winston-Salem on Friday.
It's only January, but London can go ahead and starting getting ready for Fabio Fognini. That's right; the volatile Italian is likely heading to the World Tour Finals.
Attempting to rank the year-end top 10 players from any country is a virtually impossible task--unless you do it in, say, something like September, October, or November. It's even more difficult in the case of the United States.
Last year, my partner and I formed Advantage USA Tennis, a non-profit to help support and promote American tennis. Just for fun, we imagined what we might do if our goal was, instead, to keep American tennis in the dumps.
Patrick McEnroe, you are responsible for directing the quite extensive resources of the USTA into junior player development.
A steady line of tennis professionals trickles into the Riviera Country Club’s Grand Ballroom. Before them, on a perfectly-sized 36’x18’ wooden dance floor, rests a U10 tennis net.
This nation loves its heroes, and sporting personalities meet the requirements more than most.
The US Open has really big balls. You know the kind every kid wants. They want the super sized balls because they are perfect to try to get an tennis players autograph on.
Patrick McEnroe, you are responsible for directing the quite extensive resources of the USTA into junior player development.
I sadly predict no American males will make the second of our homegrown US OPEN. Secretly, I’m rooting for Ryan Harrison to break through, but it’s more of a headline thing than favoritism.
A tournament as well-presented as the ATP World Tour Finals in London deserves at least one firecracker of a match. Whatever else happens this week, Rafael Nadal and Andy Roddick gave the tournament just that on Monday night, with Nadal somehow fending off a swashbuckling Roddick to win 3-6 7-6 6-4.
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