seeded Marion Bartoli of France beat Australia's Anastasia Rodionova 6-1, 6-4 in the first round of the New Haven Open Monday.
After cruising 6-1 in the first set, Bartoli struggled in the second before breaking Rodionova to secure her first-round (...)
Ukrainian Sergiy Stakhovsky won his second tournament of the year, beating Denis Istomin of Uzbekistan 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 at Pilot Pen Tennis Championship Saturday.
Stakhovsky is unbeaten in four career ATP finals, including a win in Hertogenbosch this (...)
The ownership of tens of billions of dollars of art and other goods could be thrown into doubt if a lawsuit seeking the return of a famous Vincent Van Gogh painting is successful, according to a court filing by Yale University.
The university sued (...)
Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark successfully defended her Pilot Pen title by beating Elena Vesnina of Russia 6-2, 6-4 in the final Saturday.
The 19-year-old Wozniacki won her sixth career title, and third this year, and goes into next week's US Open (...)
Russian top seed Nikolay Davydenko was ousted from the final US Open tuneup event in a quarterfinal here Thursday, falling in three sets to sixth-seeded American Sam Querrey.
Querrey defeated Davydenko 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 to book a Friday semifinal berth (...)
seeded Russians Nikolay Davydenko and Svetlana Kuznetsova booked their quarterfinal berths Wednesday at the Pilot Pen hardcourt tournament, last tune-up for the US Open.
Davydenko, who heads the men's field, defeated France's Fabrice Santoro 7-5, (...)
seeded Nikolay Davydenko withstood a dozen aces from American Robert Kendrick to win 7-6 (10), 6-3 in the second round of the Pilot Pen on Tuesday.
Davydenko struggled with Kendrick's serves, which occasionally topped 130mph (209kph). But he used a (...)
The announcement came in 1800 in the back of a Connecticut newspaper just above a farmer's reward for a stray cow. A man named Noah Webster was proposing the first comprehensive “dictionary of the American language.” Webster was mocked and scorned (...)
Danish teen sensation Caroline Wozniacki played like there was no tomorrow on Saturday to win her second career WTA event in a row at the New Haven hard-court tournament.
The talented 18-year-old Dane stunned top-seeded Anna Chakvetadze of Russia (...)
Argentine teenager Juan Martin del Potro, who has won four straight titles on the ATP tour, withdrew from the Pilot Pen tournament on Monday.
No immediate reason was given for the withdrawal.
Del Potro, ranked a career-best 17th in the world and (...)