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Acrimony toward the NCAA continues to grow – they've now abolished the third set for the women and made the men’s game no-ad scoring. Ever the contrarian, this time I’m going to side with the organization.
Dustin Brown is one of the more popular players on tour, far more popular than his current ranking of 101st and his career-high ranking of 89th would suggest. He is well known and even loved for his dreadlocks, his willingness to interact with fans on social media, and of course his incredible shot-making.
What a difference a year has made for 15-year-old Sofia Kenin, the ITF Girls’ 18s No. 1 seeded-player in this week’s ASICS Easter Bowl.
The Aegon Championships has been voted ATP 250 Tournament of the Year by the players of the ATP World Tour in the 2013 awards. It is the first time that the Aegon Championships, held every June on grass at The Queen’s Club in London, has received the award, which had gone to the tournament in Bastad, Sweden for the previous 11 years.
"Court Confidential: Inside The World of Tennis," the new tennis book by leading tennis writer Neil Harman of The Times of London, is now available in paperback in the United States.
The field for the Tallahassee Tennis Challenger was announced Thursday morning by tournament director Karen Vogter, as two former champions and nine players inside the top 150 will make the trip to the $50,000 event, the last stop on the Har-Tru USTA Pro Circuit Wild Card Challenge, where players compete for a spot at the French Open.
With potential future college coaches looking on, No. 3-seeded Logan Smith of Carlsbad, Calif., beat Javier Restrepo of Miami, 7-6 (0), 6-1, on a busy Wednesday in the Boys’ 18s ITF division at the ASICS Easter Bowl being played at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden.
A few hours after the Casablanca lost its No. 1 seed, Kevin Anderson, the U.S. Men's Clay Court Championship in Houston stumbled upon the same fate. Like Anderson, top-seeded John Isner--who was also the defending champion--lost his opening match.
The USTA and U.S. Fed Cup Captain Mary Joe Fernandez today announced that world No. 18 and 2013 Australian Open semifinalist Sloane Stephens, No. 42 Madison Keys, No. 49 Varvara Lepchenko and No. 57 Christina McHale will represent the United States in the 2014 Fed Cup by BNP Paribas World Group Playoff against France.
Tennis Canada announced Wednesday the team that will compete in the Fed Cup by BNP Paribas World Group I play-off tie between Canada and the Slovak Republic. The tie will be played on April 19 and 20, 2014 at PEPS on the campus of Laval University in Quebec City.
Denis Kudla did not take the college route, so he missed out on what surely would been a handful of matches against former University of Southern California star Steve Johnson. Kudla, though, has endured all too many such matches at the professional level.
Windy conditions and an in-form Peter Polansky gave Lleyton Hewitt plenty of trouble during first-round action at the U.S. Men's Clay Court Championship on Tuesday, but the 33-year-old Australian persevered for a 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 victory after two hours and four minutes.
Mark Epshteyn-Losev couldn’t have picked a better day to come up with the biggest win of his young tennis career. On his 17th birthday, the Sunny Isles, Fla., resident upset No. 2-seeded and ITF-ranked No. 45 player in the world Henrik Wiersholm, 6-2, 6-1, in the first round of the Boys’ 18s singles on Tuesday at the ASICS Easter Bowl being played at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden.
The players who reached the final round of qualifying at the U.S. Men's Clay Court Championship had already been required to work overtime. A little more extra tennis on Monday couldn't hurt, could it?
“This is unreal,” said Boyd, the Boys’ 18s No. 8 seeded player from Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., who for the second straight year eliminated Charlie Adams of Wayzata, Minn., from this event in a 6-2, 6-1 first-round victory on Monday.
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