No. 3-seeded Spaniard Roberto Bautista Agut captured his first career title at the Topshelf Open in Holland Saturday, in the final beating unseeded German Benjamin Becker 2-6, 7-6(2), 6-4.

“I was trying to not think too much and play my game point by point,” the Spaniard said. “It was the same nervousness as every match. I played calm and aggressive in the last game. I had to celebrate hard (after match …

Americans CoCo Vandeweghe and Madison Keys completed dream weeks to each win their first career titles, days before play kicks off at the All England Club in Wimbledon.

Vandeweghe, a qualifier at the Topshelf Open in Holland, topped two seeds in the main draw en route to defeating China’s unseeded Jie Zheng 6-2, 6-4 in the final.

Key was the big American’s serve, delivering 81 aces over seven main draw matches.

“I had …

For the third straight year ESPN owns exclusive rights to broadcast the Wimbledon championships. Through its family of networks, ESPN will air 140 hours of live coverage with once against simultaneous coverage on two networks of both Center and Court 1 the second week.

ESPN will complement their broadcast with live streaming on ESPN3.com and the WATCH ESPN app.

The commentator team will include familiar faces John McEnroe, Darren Cahill, Cliff Drysdale, …

The Wimbledon men’s draw just came out, and aside from maybe some early anxiety for Rafael Nadal, things are uncommonly quite balanced.

Top seed Novak Djokovic will have Golubev, then perhaps Radek Stepanek, Vasek Pospisil before JW Tsonga in the fourth and then Tomas Berdych in the quarters. The big question mark is now Novak’s wrist. If it’s no issue I think he’ll be fine. Tsonga can be tricky on grass …

Novak Djokovic withdrew earlier today from the Boodles event in London. The reason could be because of his right wrist, that according to the French magazine L’Equipe who said the Serb withdrew as a precautionary measure.

Djokovic first injured the wrist in April after Miami. After withdrawing from Madrid the Serb hasn’t shown any discomfort with the injury since. Today’s news, though, doesn’t sound good for Wimbledon.

The former …

Former champions Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams were official named top seeds at the upcoming 2014 Wimbledon championships.

While the women’s seedings match the WTA rankings, since 2002 the tournament had used a formula to compute the men’s seedings.

Under the formula 2013 finalist Djokovic jumped World No. 1 Rafael Nadal, who lost first round last year, to gain the top seed.

2014 champion Andy Murray also climbed from a ranking of No. …

Grigor Dimitrov has been one of the new breakthrough stars on the tour this year. After his Queen’s Club win on Sunday, the 23-year-old has already won titles on all three surfaces this year and sits on the edge of the Top 10 at No. 13.

“I’m excited with the progress that I have so far, but my goals are way too high,” said Dimitrov. “So I wouldn’t call it a …

Love means everything in tennis! Just ask Michaella Krajicek. Playing in her home country at the ‘s-Hertogenbosch Topshelf Open, the 25-year-old half sister of Richard Krajicek had just won her first round match when something strange happened.

Her boyfriend of one year, ATP doubles player Martin Emmrich, walked out on to the court, took the mic and began, “We’ve now been together for 10 months and every time I look into …

In less than a week from now we’ll be in the throes of the third Grand Slam of the 2014 tennis calendar, Wimbledon!

The draws are set to be released this Friday but before then it’s never too early to handicap the field which is as wide open as it ever has been, with no clear favorite or consensus pick since all the top guys have some sort of issue.

So …

In an announcement from his management, Tommy Haas will undergo a fourth surgery on his right shoulder in New York by Dr. David Altchek at the Hospital for Special Surgery on Tuesday. The surgery will end his 2014 season and at 36 it’s a longshot he’ll make it back on the tour. But the oft-injured Haas is optimistic.

“The diagnosis was a real shock for me but a surgery can’t be …

Federer Wins 7th Halle Grasscourt Title

Roger Federer edged Alejandro Falla 7-6(2), 7-6(3) for his seventh Gerry Weber Open grasscourt title on Sunday.

“I really enjoy winning titles,” said Federer in stunning news to everyone in attendance. “It is what I play for, to play and receive a standing ovation at the end. I am very pleased with my performance…I think I deserved the title this week.”

The 32-year-old won his 79th career …

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Eastbourne, Great Britain; Surface: grass

Men’s Seeds: Richard Gasquet, Alexandr Dolgopolov, Feliciano Lopez, Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, Ivo Karlovic, Gilles Simon, Santiago Giraldo, Federico Delbonis

Men’s Floaters: Martin Klizan, Jarkko Nieminen

Men’s Notes: Not a lot of non-seeded talent, but (8) Delbonis starts against the comer Klizan, and (7) Giraldo against the veteran Nieminen…Wildcards went to Brits James Ward, Daniel Evans and Kyle Edmund…Returning former champs in the field are Lopez (2013), Karlovic …

Roger Federer will seek a seventh title at the Halle Gerry Weber Open tomorrow against Colombian Alejandro Falla. In semifinal play, the 32-year-old Federer knocked out the fast-improving Kei Nishikori 6-4, 7-6.

The match offered some late hi-jinx when the Swiss forgot the score, not realizing he had won the match. Despite the memory lapse, the father of four is pleased with his week.

“I’m very happy that things are …

It’s happens to the best of us and even to Roger Federer. Today the Swiss tennis great showed some age by doing something he had never done before in his career: completely lose track of the score on matchpoint!

The incident occurred in the Gerry Weber semifinals in Halle against Kei Nishikori. Federer was serving with double matchpoint at 6-4 in the tiebreaker when Nishikori hit a passing shot into the …

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According to Serbian press, Novak Djokovic will wed longtime girlfriend Jelena Ristic the week after Wimbledon on July 9. Blic reports the wedding will take place at Sveti Stefan in Montenegro.

The guess list is said to include Viktor Troicki, Janko Tipsarevic, Ana …