This week in tennis features the first Grand Slam of the season, the Australian Open. The tournament features all of the big names that players have come to love with some notable exceptions. The Men’s top seeds are as follows: Rafael Nadal (1),  Roger Federer (2), Novak Djokovic (3), Robin Soderling (4), Andy Murray (5), [...]

Continue reading → First Grand Slam of the Season: The Australian Open

Fernando Verdasco beat Andy Roddick to take the win in San Jose, California, at the SAP Open on Sunday. This makes Verdasco’s 4th career title and his first win against any of the top 10 players after 15 straight losses to tennis’ best. Verdasco lost to Nikolay Davydenko in round 4 of the Australian Open [...]

Continue reading → Verdasco Beats Roddick at SAP Open

The top ranked players in both men’s and women’s tennis took home the trophies at the 2010 Australian Open. Roger Federer won the men’s singles competition after losing there last year to Rafael Nadal, the number 2 ranked player who dropped out of the Aussie open this year because of an injury, ironically in a [...]

Continue reading → Top-Ranked Federer, Williams Win Singles Trophies at Australian Open

At the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Andy Roddick defeated Fernando Gonzales on Sunday to secure his spot in the Australian Open quarter-finals.  They battled for over three-and-a-half hours until Gonzalez double-faulted around 1 a.m. The match saw Roddick struggling at times, and again clashing with a chair umpire. This is the second time during [...]

Continue reading → Top-Ranked Players Advance to Quarter-Finals at Australian Open

Andy Roddick won the Brisbane International this past Sunday at the Pat Rafter Arena by defeating the defending champ Radek Stepanek in two sets, but it wasn’t easy. A tiebreak was needed both times. This was Roddick’s first tournament after his knee injury last year that ended his season early in September. The first set [...]

Continue reading → Roddick wins Brisbane International

Novak Djokovic just recently arrived in Shanghai during this past Monday only hours away from taking a weekend title while playing in Beijing and then heading along for a return back to third in the world’s rankings, unfortunately at the expense of the injured Scot star, Andy Murray. Novak Djokovic, a Serbian tennis player, has [...]

Continue reading → Djokovic is Riding a Wave Right Into the Shanghai Masters Tournament

The former World No. 1 tennis player Maria Sharapova plans to be 100 percent healthy by the upcoming tennis season, and assures fans that she will be poised to defend her Australian Open title as soon as January rolls around. According to Maria Sharapova’s agent, Max Eisenbud, Sharapova has a set timeline for her recovery, [...]

Continue reading → Sharapova Nears Return, Plans to Defend Australian Open Crown

Lleyton Hewitt, regarded as a former world number one tennis player in the entire world is planning to make his grand, official return from hip surgery very soon. His intention is to make his grand return from this injury at the Sydney International tennis tournament which is slated to begin in January. He announced this [...]

Continue reading → In Tennis, Hewitt Targets an Event in Sydney as His Official Return From Injury