TECHO Breakpoint: An online tennis auction

Have you ever dreamt of hitting with a professional tennis player? Well now you can through the TECHO Breakpoint online auction! TECHO, is a non-profit organization that seeks to overturn poverty in disadvantaged areas of Latin America.  Breakpoint is an initiative that invites the world’s top tennis players to join the fight against poverty. This year’s…

WTA Luxembourg, Moscow 2nd Round Matches: Barthel v Niculescu, Pennetta v Giorgi

Moscow and Luxembourg are well under way with quite a few typical end-of-season results.  Most notably, a visibly upset Andrea Petkovic was knocked out of Luxembourg by Pauline Parmentier in straight sets.  In other news, Juan Martin del Potro officially announced he won’t be back until 2015, which was a smart move.  Women’s Tennis Blog…

Alison Riske wins a title!

I knew that whoever prevailed in Sunday’s Tianjin final between Belinda Bencic and Alison Riske, I was going to be happy.  I like both Belinda and Alison and had the pleasure of watching them live earlier this year at Eastbourne.  In Tianjin, it was Riske who came out on top, defeating Bencic, 6-3 6-4.  Bencic…