Post Laver Cup: ATP250, WTA 250

 

Fall Tennis Season 2022 - WTA 500 and 250, ATP 250, Laver Cup 2022

 The tennis ballet dancer - a Career in pictures

Post-USO Tennis Season 2022 Fourth Quarter - 2 WTA 250s + Davis Cup SF Tie

 

Zavarovalnica Sava Portorož WTA 250

Portorož, Slovenia

Chennai Open WTA 250

Chennai, India

Davis Cup Group Stage Semifinal Ties

Glasgow, Scotland

Hamburg, Germany

Bologna, Italy

Valencia, Spain

After a blistering hot Summer, we head into the Fall of the 2022 season and towards both tours ATP/WTA Finals now that we've wrapped up all four Majors this year. 

A hearty congratulations to our USO Champions:  Men Carlos Alcaraz (d. Casper Ruud). Women Iga Swiatek (d. Ons Jabuer); Men's Doubles Rajeev Ram/Joe Salisbury (D. Wesley Koolhof/Neal Skupski). Women Doubles Champions Barbora Krejcikova/Katerina Siniakova (d. Caty McNally/Taylor Townsend). And, Mixed Doubles Champs Storm Sanders/John Peers (d. Kirsten Flipkens/Edouard Roger-Vasselin.

This week the ATP has a week of rest, save for men competing in the Davis Cup Group Stage tie semifinals in Bologna, Valencia, Hamburg and Glasgow.  The Finals will be held November 22 - 27, 2022 in Malaga, Spain. In the meantime, the women will compete in two WTA 250s, so we'll get to it👇

US OPEN 2022 - Week 2

 

US Open

Billie Jean King Tennis Center

Flushing, NY

Aug. 29 - Sept. 11, 2022

Welcome to the 2nd week of the USO. Unfortunately, Serena Williams lost in her 3R to Ajla Tomljanovic, who exhibited extraordinary calm, composure and incredible grace while weathering the ear-piercing 35,000+ extremely partisan Serena fans, including a bevy of celebrities. As is Serena's way though, she fought valiantly to the very end of a close 3-setter lasting just over three hours. 

The Williams' sisters were also bounced from the Doubles competition early. Although we've heard no murmurs from Venus Williams about retirement, Serena announced before the USO that this competition will be her last professional tournament. But, she left us with a "we'll see" post-match when asked if she was done with Tennis. The world is her oyster so we shall certainly see - I'm absolutely certain this will not be the last we hear from the legendary Serena!

Defending women's champion, Emma Raducanu, who had an incredible 10-Match run from qualifications to the trophy in 2021, was ousted early in the opening round by the ever problematic and wily Alize Cornet. On the men's side, defending 2021 champion Daniil Medvedev still stands (as of today) but faces the uber dangerous and mercurial Nick Kyrgios in the R16.  

All in all, on the women's side four Top 10 players/seeds and eight Top 30 seeds remain in the 2nd Week. Of the men, six Top 10 players/seeds and seven top 30 seeds remain in the 2nd. Not bad, and there's some more-than-exciting matchups coming up for the last Major of the 2022 season👇