Philadelphia, PA (SportsNetwork.com) – Puerto Rico’s Monica Puig was not one of this week’s eight combatants at the prestigious WTA Finals, but that didn’t keep her from coming away from Singapore as one of the big winners at the season-ending […]
New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) – Former world No. 1 great Roger Federer will play “Baby Fed” in an exhibition tennis match at Madison Square Garden in March. World No. 11 Grigor Dimitrov, whose playing style reminds some of the 17-time […]
Moscow, Russia (SportsNetwork.com) – One-time world No. 3 star Nikolay Davydenko announced his retirement on Thursday. The 33-year-old Russian, who captured the ATP World Tour Finals in 2009 and helped his country win the Davis Cup in 2006, said injuries […]
Philadelphia, PA (SportsNetwork.com) – With China’s Li Na no longer in the fold, Kei Nishikori is now the toast of the town in tennis-crazed Asia. The 24-year-old always seemed a bit undersized to me and didn’t appear to have enough […]
Philadelphia, PA (SportsNetwork.com) – Well, it took just over nine months, but the elite eight field for the prestigious WTA Finals in Singapore was filled out this week with the additions of Wimbledon runner-up Genie Bouchard, Agnieszka Radwanska, U.S. Open […]
Beijing, China (SportsNetwork.com) – U.S. Open champion Serena Williams withdrew from the China Open ahead of her quarterfinal match against Sam Stosur due to a left knee injury. Williams, who was the defending champion in Beijing, retired from a match […]
Philadelphia, PA (SportsNetwork.com) – Belgian tennis, of course, enjoyed quite a bit of success on the women’s side in recent years, thanks to former world No. 1s Justine Henin and Kim Clijsters in the 2000s, but they’ve yet to produce […]
Philadelphia, PA (SportsNetwork.com) – It’s never good news for a sport when it loses one of its biggest stars to retirement. And that’s exactly what happened to tennis on Friday when Li Na announced she was hanging up her racquet. […]
Beijing, China (SportsNetwork.com) – Two-time Grand Slam champion Li Na announced her retirement from tennis through an open letter on Friday. Li has retired due to lingering knee injuries, which forced her to withdraw from the recently concluded U.S. Open. […]
Dubai, United Arab Emirates (SportsNetwork.com) – For a second consecutive year, the United States and Great Britain have been draw to face each other in the first round of the Davis Cup. The two proud tennis nations met in the […]