TAG: 2020

July 14, 2020

WEST SULPHUR SPRINGS, W. Va. — Chicago Smash is in its infancy as the newest WTT 2020 team, but it certainly doesn’t look that way on the court. The stacked roster includes Sloane Stephens, Eugenie Bouchard, Rajeev Ram, Evan King, Brandon Nakashima and Bethanie Mattek-Sands. They’re 1-1 so far, but there’s a lot of tennis ...

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July 13, 2020

The Orlando Storm dropped eight of the final nine games against the Vegas Rollers on Monday en route to their first loss of the 2020 season, 24-15. The match was nip and tuck into women’s doubles, the fourth set of the day. After Orlando’s Jessica Pegula and Darija Jurak held serve at love to gain ...

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July 12, 2020

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. — The 2020 season officially began on June 12th at noon ET with Springfield’s Mitchell Krueger serving to Orlando’s Tennys Sandgren. When Krueger netted his first serve, his teammate Hayley Carter leapt up to grab the ball. With no ball persons or lines people hired for the event, the new ball persons ...

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July 12, 2020

When Chicago Smash coach Kamau Murray revealed his lineup for the team's debut in World Team Tennis a day before Sunday's match against the Vegas Rollers, 18-year-old Brandon Nakashima saw he would be teaming with Rajeev Ram to face the most successful duo in tennis history, Mike and Bob Bryan. "I definitely was excited," Nakashima said. Making his WTT debut as well, Nakashima parlayed his excitement into motivation to help lead the expansion Smash past Vegas 24-18 in both teams' season opener at The Greenbrier. ...

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July 10, 2020

World TeamTennis is back in Chicago, and 2017 U.S. Open champion Sloane Stephens is leading the way. One of the original eight WTT franchises in 1973, Chicago returns as the league’s third expansion team during the past two years, in addition to Orlando and Vegas. The Smash opens the season at 4 p.m. ET Sunday ...

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July 10, 2020

Jay Gooding is carrying a range of emotions into the start of his first season as the head coach of the Orlando Storm. He is enlivened by the prospect of coaching and working with some of tennis’ best players once again, something he hasn’t been able to do often since the sport’s top-tier tours shut ...

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July 7, 2020

LAS VEGAS — Monica Puig spent one weekend with the Vegas Rollers last summer, the only time she’d ever participated in World TeamTennis. Then disappointment set in. Not knowing what to expect, she loved her cup of coffee in WTT and was bummed it didn’t last longer. Now she’s freshly brewed for an entire season, ...

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June 25, 2020

Twenty-three time Grand Slam champion, four-time Olympic gold medalist and five-time World TeamTennis King Trophy winner, Venus Williams, has committed to play WTT’s 45th season for the Washington Kastles. The three-week season is scheduled from July 12-30 at The Greenbrier “America’s Resort” in White Sulphur Springs, W.V. ...

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June 16, 2020

World TeamTennis has added several prominent tennis stars to an already jam-packed lineup of 2020 roster players set to compete during the 45th season taking place at The Greenbrier in West Virginia. ...

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May 22, 2020

The love of tennis unites more people than you might think and WTT’s Nick Gismondi is ready to prove it as he chats with Captain of the Gold Medal 1980 ‘Miracle On Ice’ team Mike Eruzone! ...

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