Alexandra Mueller has just won a wild card into U.S Open qualifying after defeating Alina Jidkova 6-0, 6-3 in the USTA playoffs.

It has been announced that Channel 9 in Australia will not be renewing their rights to cover The Wimbledon Championships next year. Covering the year’s third Grand Slam for 40 years, Channel 9 has decided to focus its attention on more popular sports.

Here at The Tennis Times we have put together an official Twitter List of Professional Tennis Players. A lot of the top players are on Twitter these days and here is what Serena and Andy have to say about the service.

The U.S. Open will offer the richest purse in tennis history, with its singles champions each earning a record $1.7 million. The purse for men’s and women’s prize money is up nearly 7 percent from a year ago.

Marton Fucsovics is the Wimbledon Junior Boys Singles champion for 2010. Fucsovics defeated Ben Mitchell 6-4 6-4 in the final (I used to play tennis with Mitchell’s older brother, and remember Ben was he was only 12. Damm Im getting old now). Fucsovics, the 13th seed, beat the unseeded Mitchell on the 11,400-seater Court One [...]

Congratulations to Rafael Nadal who is Wimbledon Mens Singles champion for 2010! Rafael Nadal is again the Mens singles champion at Wimbledon. Nadal defeated Tomas Berdych 6-3 7-5 6-4. Nadal played some very solid tennis today, but Berdych just looked a little over-awed and didn’t play his best tennis today. Nadal is now tied with [...]

Roger Federer was outed at Wimbledon yesterday by Tomas Berdych 6-4, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4. The 6 time champion Federer just had no answers for the big serving of the Czech player. After the match Federer had this to say in the interview. Q. You beat him almost every time you played him. Was he any [...]

Rafael Nadal has been fined $2,000 by Wimbledon officials for receiving coaching during his third-round match. The match was against Philipp Petzschner in which Nadal was down 2 sets to 1. Typical! Nadal was given a code violation by French umpire Cedric Mourier for allegedly receiving advice from his coach, uncle Toni Nadal, during his [...]

I remember back in the day when Andrew Ilie used to play on the pro tour and whenever he won a game at the Australia Open he used to rip his shirt off. It seems like Novak Djokovic tried to do that the other day, but without any luck. Maybe you should head back to [...]

Today is a great day for Asian tennis. Yen-Hsun Lu from Chinese Taipei is the first ever player from that country to make the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam event. Lu had an amazing win by knocking out Andy Roddick 4-6 7-6 7-6 6-7 9-7. Lu is currently ranked 82nd in the world, but today [...]

After losing her second round match at Wimbledon, Svetlana Kuznetsova refused to shake hands with Anastasia Rodionova. Radionova who is now an Australian citizen defeated Kuznetsova 6-2 2-6 6-4. Radionova is known for on-court theatrics and tactics. During the match Radionova questioned a huge amount of line calls and even went for a medical break [...]

The longest tennis match ever played is still going and scheduled to continue today at 3:30pm. John Isner and Nicolas Mahut are set to continue their titanic battle on court 18 later today with the score standing at 4-6 6-3 7-6 6-7 59-59. It’s already the longest match in tennis history at 10 hours but [...]

Samantha Stosur offered no excuses after her first-round loss to Estonian qualifier Kaia Kanepi. “I just didn’t play as well as I know that I can today,” the French Open runner-up said after the 6-4 6-4 loss on Tuesday. “But I thought she played well. She served very well. I didn’t serve as well as [...]

James Blake wasnt really having a great time at Wimbledon yesterday. While playing his match he could hear Pam Shriver talking about him and not being very pleasant about his game! All happens at about 4:30. Sorry for the intro on the video. JB: “Amazing you used to play tennis. I can still hear you.” [...]

Roger Federer survives first round scare at Wimbledon. Federer was down 2 sets to love against Alejandro Falla. Federer win in 5 sets 5-7 4-6 6-4 7-6 6-0. Federer has reached the tournament final each of the past seven years, but Monday he barely survived the traditional opening match on Centre Court as defending champion. [...]

There is some great Wimbledon coverage this year by ESPN in the USA. Cliff Drysdale and Dick Enberg lead the ESPN tennis team, working with Darren Cahill, Mary Carillo, Mary Joe Fernandez, Brad Gilbert, Luke Jensen, Patrick McEnroe and Pam Shriver. Hannah Storm will host while Tom Rinaldi will be on hand for essays and [...]

Here are the Nike dresses that Li Na, Maria Sharapova and Serena Williams, will be wearing at Wimbledon.

Dinara Safina has withdrawn from Wimbledon due to the lower back injury that has plagued her since November. Last year Safina reached the semifinals of Wimbledon and was set to be seeded 20th for this years Championships. Safina’s seeded spot in the draw has been taken by Melanie Oudin, who made a dramatic run to [...]

Wimbledon is coming to life today and here is the BBC trailer everyone will be seeing in the UK.