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Drawing close to its conclusion, only a few tournaments remain in the 2016 tennis season before the year-end championships. What better time to reflect on all that’s transpired throughout this long campaign and identify standout performers. In the coming weeks, annual awards will be handed out to recognize the top ATP and WTA players, as well as others who distinguished themselves in several...
Published: September 28, 2016
Perhaps more than any other professional sport, tennis awards some of the worst trophies you’ve ever seen. The biggest tournaments, the Grand Slams, have beautiful, even iconic trophies such as Wimbledon’s partially gilded sterling silver Venus Rosewater Dish for the women’s singles champion. Why so many bad trophies? With more than 120 tournaments between the ATP World...
Published: September 24, 2016
Teenage Grand Slam champions went out of style with Johnny Mac (John McEnroe) short shorts. These days, 30-somethings and players in their late 20s dominate Grand Slams and the Top 10 in men’s and women’s tennis. Winners of the 2016 U.S. Open, Stan Wawrinka, 31, and Angelique Kerber, 28, are playing their best tennis late in their careers. So when discussing teen phenoms, it’s...
Published: September 18, 2016
Dan Evans was unable to complete an unlikely comeback for Great Britain during Sunday’s Davis Cup semi-final action, losing in four sets to Argentina’s Leonardo Mayer. Andy Murray had beaten Guido Pella in three sets to tie things up at 2-2 earlier in the day, but Evans’ loss means Argentina advance to the final. They’ll meet Croatia, after Marin Cilic beat France’s...
Published: September 17, 2016
Great Britain kept their 2016 Davis Cup hopes alive in the doubles on Saturday, as Andy Murray and Jamie Murray pulled one back for the defending champions, beating the Argentinian duo of Juan Martin del Potro and Leonardo Mayer in four sets. The Brits started the day in dominant fashion but suffered a minor meltdown in the second set. The Murray brothers kept their composure in the third and fourth...
Published: September 16, 2016
Argentina’s Juan Martin del Potro secured a thrilling five-set win over Great Britain’s Andy Murray on Friday in the Davis Cup semi-finals, as his nation took a 2-0 lead in the tie. Del Potro was down two sets to one at one stage, although he won the last two stanzas in style to clinch a 6-4, 5-7, 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-4 victory. Kyle Edmund also surrendered a lead, losing...
Published: September 16, 2016
A mouthwatering opening rubber between Andy Murray and Juan Martin del Potro promises to be the highlight as this year’s Davis Cup enters the semi-final stage. Defending champions Great Britain continue their attempt to retain the Cup for the first time since 1936 against Argentina at the Emirates Arena in Glasgow starting on Friday. Former British tennis player Greg Rusedski was in hopeful...
Published: September 15, 2016
Great Britain will host Argentina in the semi-finals of the 2016 Davis Cup at the Emirates Arena in Glasgow, Scotland, on Friday. The defending champions will hope to stay on course for a second successive tournament win and face either France or Croatia, who will be taking each other on in their own crunch clash. Read on for a closer look at the two semi-finals, but first, here is the complete schedule,...
Published: September 12, 2016
All hail Stan Wawrinka, the new king of the U.S. Open. Wawrinka pulled off a major upset in the finals Sunday, beating defending champion Novak Djokovic in four sets, 6-7, 6-4, 7-5, 6-3. Wawrinka was relentless throughout the match, beginning in the first set. While he lost the opening game, he came back from a 5-2 deficit to force a tiebreaker that Djokovic ultimately won. Wawrinka’s steady...
Published: September 12, 2016
Stanislas Wawrinka earned his first career U.S. Open title with a 6-7 (1), 6-4, 7-5, 6-3 upset over No. 1 Novak Djokovic. This is the third Grand Slam title of Wawrinka’s career after earning wins at the 2014 Australian Open and the 2015 French Open. Djokovic was trying to defend his title in New York while gunning for his third Grand Slam title of the season, but he struggled with a toe...