Ardmore: Luke Donald enters the US Open more focused on a different No. 1 than reclaiming his old ranking. Like winning major No.1. Donald heads into his 10th US Open, starting on Thursday at Merion Golf Club. He's had big wins over an 11-year pro career. He's even been No. 1 for a total of 56 weeks until the run ended late last year. Tiger Woods, Greg Norman, Nick Faldo...
11:34 PM, Jun 11, 2013
Sergio Garcia approached Tiger Woods at the driving range at Merion Golf Club on Monday and after a brief exchange shook hands with the world number one in an apparent attempt to make up after their recent unpleasantness. The meeting during practice for the U.S. Open was the first between the longtime adversaries since Garcia made a "fried chicken" reference directed at Woods last month at a European Tour awards...
08:32 AM, Jun 11, 2013
Pennsylvania: Merion Golf Club has been linked with some of the most iconic moments in championship golf and Tiger Woods will aim to add a chapter of his own when he competes there in this week's US Open as the overwhelming favourite. A host of other in-form players can lay claim to being genuine contenders for the year's second major, which begins on Thursday, but Woods is widely viewed as...
01:46 AM, Jun 11, 2013
Pennsylvania: Great talent can be a burden as much as a blessing and great expectations weigh on Northern Irishman Rory McIlroy at this week's US Open at Merion in the Philadelphia suburbs. McIlroy, whose resounding wins at the 2011 US Open at Congressional and last year's PGA Championship on Kiawah Island and a climb to the number one ranking cemented him as golf's next prodigy following in the wake of...
01:40 AM, Jun 11, 2013
Ardmore: Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy and Adam Scott will play together the opening two rounds of the U.S. Open next week at Merion. For the third straight year, U.S. Open officials have put the top three players in the world ranking in the same group. The U.S. Open disclosed the tee times in a tweet on Friday, with the rest of the draw expected later in the day. The feature...
12:04 AM, Jun 08, 2013
London: Andy Murray is set to make his return from injury in next week's grass-court tournament at Queen's Club in London. The US Open champion missed the French Open because of a chronic back problem, raising fears he could also be sidelined for Wimbledon starting on June 24. But Murray says on Twitter that "barring no setbacks in the next couple of days I will be making an appearence at...
03:21 PM, Jun 05, 2013
The US Open tennis tournament will increase its annual prize money to USD50 million by 2017. ...
10:13 AM, Mar 20, 2013
The 2009 US Open winner won 7-6 (2), 6-3. Benneteau, who beat No. 2-ranked Roger Federer in the quarterfinals, is now 0-8 in ATP finals. ...
09:30 PM, Feb 17, 2013
The ATP opposes the US Open's switch to a Monday final in 2013 and is not satisfied with the prize money increase for the tournament. ...
10:19 AM, Dec 18, 2012
Murray strode into New York and when a fifth shot at a grand-slam final duly arrived he rose to the occasion. ...
08:59 AM, Dec 18, 2012
The new program will feature a Sunday women's final followed by the men's title match on Monday. ...
09:54 AM, Dec 15, 2012
London: When Andy Murray steps out on court to face Tomas Berdych in his first match at the ATP World Tour Finals on Monday the expectation he usually shoulders will weigh a little less. The season-ending event will be the London-based Scot's first tournament on home soil after he finally made his major breakthrough by winning the US Open in September, beating Novak Djokovic in an epic final. The 25-year-old...
12:18 PM, Nov 04, 2012
Shanghai: Novak Djokovic exacted revenge on Andy Murray for his U.S. Open final defeat by outlasting the Briton 5-7 7-6 6-3 to win the Shanghai Masters tennis title on Sunday. The Serbian saved five match points in the second set, including four in the tiebreak, to force a tense decider. The world number two then broke Murray, winner in Shanghai for the last two years, in the seventh game and...
06:17 PM, Oct 14, 2012
Toronto: Rafael Nadal has no timeline for his return to competitive tennis but on Tuesday the world number four did not completely rule out the possibility of returning from injury in time for next month's Davis Cup and ATP World Tour finals.Nadal has not played since suffering a shock second-round Wimbledon defeat to Czech Lukas Rosol in June and has yet to return to the practice court, but the 26-year-old...
08:40 AM, Oct 10, 2012
New York: Andy Murray was the toast of New York City on Tuesday, basking in the glory of his first grand slam title that ended Britain's 76-year wait for a male singles champion on the biggest stage. The Scotsman celebrated his stunning five-set win over world number two Novak Djokovic in the US Open final at a Manhattan restaurant late on Monday with family and friends but there were no...
10:11 AM, Sep 12, 2012
US Open champion Britain's Andy Murray is over the moon following his triumph on Monday night. ...
09:03 AM, Sep 12, 2012
New York: Novak Djokovic hates to lose, but the five-times grand slam champion was happy for his friend Andy Murray, who beat him in a pulsating, five-set struggle for the US Open title on Monday. "Any loss is a bad loss. There is no question about it," the Serb told reporters after his 7-6 7-5 2-6 3-6 6-2 defeat that denied him back-to-back US titles. "I'm disappointed to lose the...
12:05 PM, Sep 11, 2012
New York: US Open men's doubles champions Bob and Mike Bryan and 2011 women's champion Samantha Stosur are the first recipients of the Grand Slam tennis tournament's sportsmanship award. The US Tennis Association announced the honours on Monday. The Bryan twins won their Open-era record 12th Grand Slam doubles title at Flushing Meadows on Friday. Stosur lost in this year's quarter-finals to top-ranked Victoria Azarenka. The USTA sportsmanship award comes...
09:18 AM, Sep 11, 2012
New York: His considerable lead, and a chance at history, slipping away, Andy Murray dug deep for stamina and mental strength, outlasting Novak Djokovic in a thrilling five-set, nearly five-hour US Open final on Monday. It had been 76 years since a British man won a Grand Slam singles championship and, at least for Murray, it was well worth the wait. Ending a nation's long drought, and snapping his own...
06:39 AM, Sep 11, 2012
