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Pete Liguori
Sports writer for the Racing and Tennis sections on VAVEL. Also a huge baseball and football fan. Trying to live the Big City dream. Follow me on Twitter, chaps: @PeteUSSports
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The 25th-seeded Italian needed only three sets and little over an hour to defeat Brydan Klein, a 25-year old Brit currently ranked at No.177....
It took 45 minutes for the 2012 semifinalist to win her opening round at the All England Club. Firing 21 winners to only five unforced errors throughout the 12 games of her match against Car...
Lleyton Hewitt’s last match at Wimbledon happened sooner than everyone hoped. The 2002 champ’s campaign was halted today by another retiring veteran: Jarkko Nie...
The former No.1 ranked doubles player in the world opened her Wimbledon campaign breezing past Estonia’s Kaia Kanepi in straight sets. The player from Taipei now faces eithe...
The former top-10 Juan Monaco opened his Wimbledon campaign against a tricky opponent in Florian Mayer. The German, a 2004 quarterfinalist at the All England Club who’s comi...
The world No.38 from France downed Romania's Alexandra Dulgheru to win a main draw match at the All England Club for the first time as a pro...
Opening Court 5 activities in Wimbledon, Hungary’s Timea Babos and posted a straight set win against Petra Cetkovska and will now face Serena Williams in the Ro...
Scott Dixon set the fastest lap of the second practice session at Fontana with a 33.083-second lap. Simon Pagenaud and Ed Carpenter rounded out t...
In an era before four men roamed tennis courts around the world sharing the tour’s most important events, Grand Slams were mostly upset-prone, up for grabs, events. In this scenario, one man...
ESPN announced today the Penske teammates will contend at the 23rd ESPY Awards next month. While Power is the defending Verizon IndyCar Series ch...
Back in 2010, the dominance of four men on the ATP tour was even wider than it is today. The distance between the top 4 and the mere mortals represented a gap s...
CFH Racing is the newest team on the IndyCar grid, and they've already been victorious twice thus far in 2015....
In-depth on the penalties that have shaken up the Austrian Grand Prix starting grid, and a full list of the grid following the penalties....
After a tight battle against Mercedes stablemate Nico Rosberg, Lewis Hamilton prevailed over the German, earning his seventh pole position in eight races....
Boosted by her usual power serves, Sabine Lisicki made her way into the AEGON Classic semifinals, in Birmingham. She is joined by fourth-seeded and former Wimbledon semifin...
Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel set the fastest time of the second Friday practice, clocking a 1:09.600. He was followed by Mercedes’ Nico Rosberg, te...
Underlining season-long engine woes, both the Red Bull duo and McLaren’s star driver will suffer grid penalties as the teams decided to use fresh engines at the Red Bull ...
The Italian tire giant announced today the compounds available for the remainder of the European season, the next four rounds of the World Championship, in Silv...
As the castle built by Red Bull and their longtime partners crumbles under the heavy pressure of lack of performance, the imminent breakup of a successful nine-season marriage becomes closer...
The French company announced it will apply to become the series' lone rubber supplier, replacing Pirelli. The implementation of new 18-inch ...
In the first round of the ATP 500 event at the Queen’s Club, in London, Richard Gasquet claimed a routine 6/1, 6/2 win over the Italy’s Simone Bolelli, earning his 400th career win and beco...
Every rule has its exceptions. Americans, for instance, were widely known as fast courts specialists until the rise of Michael Chang and Jimmy Connors. And while Spain has b...
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