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After reaching a Wimbledon final in front of the best-behaved crowd in tennis, Canadian Eugenie Bouchard was thriving in the opposite end of the cultural spectrum as she continued a run at the rowdy New York hothouse of the US Open.
Maria Sharapova made sure that sponsor Porsche got a share of the red-carpet spotlight as she arrived at a New York City breast cancer event in a flash Panamera model.
It may not be main-draw action, but the 2014 U.S. Open is officially underway. Qualifying began on 13 different courts at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, N.Y. on Monday.
Roger Federer took care of Milos Raonic 6-2, 6-3 in the semifinals of the Western & Southern Open on Saturday night. Federer, who made similarly short 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 work of Raonic in the Wimbledon semis, needed just one hour and eight minutes to set up a final showdown against David Ferrer.
Forty-nine weeks of waiting are over and the 2014 Washington Kastles will put their three-peat of WTT titles on the line beginning tonight in Boston.
The end of a third round match in the women’s competition at The Championships revealed a winner who was a former Wimbledon champ. Even though one of the contestants was Venus Williams who was the champion here five times, today a match delivered an outcome that she didn’t want.
Aleksandra Wozniak (Blainville, QC) qualified for the main draw at Wimbledon on Thursday thanks to a 6-4. 6-3 win over American Melanie Oudin. / Aleksandra Wozniak (Blainville, QC) a franchi avec succès la troisième et dernière étape des qualifications de Wimbledon en prenant la mesure de l’Américaine Melanie Oudin en deux manches de 6-4 et 6-3.
Rafael Nadal has signed a six-year deal to represent television company Telefonica and its channels Movistar, O2 and Vivo.
Finland's Jarkko Nieminen earned an upset of Colombian seventh seed Santiago Giraldo 6-3, 6-7 (5-7), 6-3 as the smaller men's event took a definite second billing to the women also on at Devonshire Park.
Watching the progression of play at a tennis tournament is rather like opening a present that reveals yet another mystery package and yet another, until the final match is at hand. The time finally arrives where it is a surety that the last ribbon will be untied, and the unknown becomes a statistic in the record books.
Rain began in the wee hours of Wednesday morning and it continued most of the day, putting quite a hitch in the plans for quarterfinal play at Roland Garros. An umbrella was the most popular accessory.
Eugenie Bouchard (Westmount, QC) and Milos Raonic (Thornhill, ON) tried to continue writing history on Tuesday at Roland-Garros as two Canadians were playing in the quarter-finals of a Grand Slam for the first time.
Former New Haven Open Champion and World No. 6 Petra Kvitova, World No. 11 Sara Errani and World No. 19 Genie Bouchard have committed to play the New Haven Open at Yale, a WTA event that is part of the Emirates Airline US Open Series to be held August 15-23, 2014...
The next match played by an American man will come at the French Open, as the USA contingent at the Open de Nice Cote d'Azur saw its last representative bow out on Thursday. John Isner lost to Federico Delbonis 6-4, 5-7, 7-6(6) in a quarterfinal thriller to end his campaign as the tournament's No. 1 seed.
Traditional powerhouse Southern California and an Oklahoma squad coached by John Roddick will battle for the NCAA men's tennis championship on Tuesday in Athens, Ga. after a thrilling night of action on Monday.
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