Articles filed under Tennis
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Federer reaches 3rd round at WimbledonJun 22, 2010 11:00 pm - WIMBLEDON, England -- Roger Federer walked off the court with a smile Wednesday, relieved to survive another tense early-round match at Wimbledon. The six-time champion ...
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2008 champ Rafael Nadal wins in Wimbledon returnJun 21, 2010 11:00 pm - WIMBLEDON, England - Trying to switch directions while chasing a shot beneath the Royal Box at Wimbledon's Centre Court, Rafael Nadal lost his footing and took a nasty-l...
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Federer averts upset in 1st round at WimbledonJun 20, 2010 11:00 pm - WIMBLEDON, England - The situation was so unfamiliar to Roger Federer, so "uncomfortable," to use his term. On a surface he rules, at a tournament he owns, against an op...
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Roddick still eager to make his markJun 18, 2010 11:00 pm - "Rodd-ick! Rodd-ick! Rodd-ick!" Surprising as it may have been to hear full-throated chants echo through the often staid Centre Court stands - 15,000 or so voices rising...
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No racket from vuvuzelas at WimbledonJun 16, 2010 11:00 pm - WIMBLEDON, England --- Quiet, please. Organizers are making sure there will be no racket from vuvuzelas at the Wimbledon tennis championships. The plastic horns which ha...
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Arlington Heights coach remembered as 'father of high school tennis'Jun 08, 2010 11:00 pm - The man people called the "father of high school tennis" passed away this week in Arlington Heights. Ken Schaller, a longtime tennis coach at Arlington High School and a...
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Nadal exacts revenge on Soderling to capture 5th French Open titleJun 06, 2010 11:00 pm - PARIS - Scurrying along the baseline as only he can, sliding through the red clay he rules, Rafael Nadal stretched to somehow dig the ball out of a corner and fling it b...
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Schiavone wins French Open women's titleJun 04, 2010 11:00 pm - PARIS - Francesca Schiavone threw uppercuts, put her fists to her face and skipped about the court. And then, when she had won the French Open, she really let her emotio...
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Nadal, Soderling to meet in rematchJun 04, 2010 11:00 pm - PARIS - On the way to each of his four French Open championships, Rafael Nadal needed to beat Roger Federer - and did. In 2005, it was in the semifinals. In 2006, 2007 a...
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Nadal not thinking revenge In Sunday's finalJun 04, 2010 11:00 pm - PARIS - All Rafael Nadal cares about is winning a fifth French Open championship. Doesn't matter how he's played until now. Doesn't matter that he can regain the No. 1 r...