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• Austin Krajicek Wins French Open Men's Doubles Title, Becomes New World Doubles No. 1

  Jun 10, 2023 by Administrator / 1,538 Views

  Austin Krajicek Wins French Open Men's Doubles Title, Earns World Doubles No. 1 Ranking 

  Clervie Ngounoue and Tyra Grant Win French Open Girls' Doubles Title 

  American Austin Krajicek won the French Open men's doubles title today with Croatian Ivan Dodig and on Monday will become the new world doubles No. 1.

   Krajicek and Dodig defeated the all-Belgian team of Sander Gille and Joran Vliegen on Saturday, 6-3, 6-1, to give the 32-year-old Krajicek his first major doubles title. Krajicek is the first American to win the Roland Garros men’s doubles title since Ryan Harrison in 2017 and it's the sixth time in the last 30 years the French Open men's doubles championship team has featured an American: 

   

  2023 - Austin Krajicek

  2017 - Ryan Harrison

  2013, 2003 - Bob and Mike Bryan

  1994 - Jonathan Stark

  1993 - Luke and Murphy Jensen

   A Tampa native who lives in Dallas, and the 2011 NCAA doubles champion at Texas A&M, Krajicek is the 20th American to rank No. 1 individually in doubles since the inception of the ATP Doubles Rankings in 1976. All 20 Americans to rank No. 1 played collegiate tennis in the

  U.S.:

   2023 - Austin Krajicek (Texas A&M)

  2022 - Rajeev Ram (Illinois)

  2003 - Bob and Mike Bryan (Stanford)

  2002 - Donald Johnson (North Carolina)

  2000 - Alex O'Brien (Stanford)

  2000 - Jared Palmer (Stanford)

  1994 - Jonathan Stark (Stanford)

  1993 - Patrick Galbraith (UCLA)

  1993 - Richey Reneberg (SMU)

  1992 - Kelly Jones (Pepperdine)

  1991 - David Pate (TCU)

  1990 - Rick Leach (USC)

  1989 - Jim Pugh (UCLA)

  1989 - Jim Grabb (Stanford)

  1985 - Ken Flach (SIU-Edwardsville)

  1985 - Robert Seguso (SIU-Edwardsville)

  1982 - Peter Fleming (UCLA/Michigan)

  1981 - Stan Smith (USC)

  1979 - John McEnroe (Stanford)

   Clervie Ngounoue, a 16-year old who is the No. 1-ranked junior in the world, and Tyra Grant, 15, ranked No. 29 among juniors, became the eighth and ninth American girls to win the junior doubles title at the French Open, after defeating Alina Korneeva and Sarah Saito (JPN), 6-3, 6-2, on Saturday.

   

  On Sunday, Taylor Townsend, 27, is competing in her second major doubles final ('22 US Open) since giving birth to her son, Adyn, in 2021. She and Canadian Leylah Fernandez will play Su-Wei Hsieh (TPE) and Xinyu Wang (CHN). A win would mark the first major doubles title for Townsend, who is projected to rise to No. 5 in the world doubles rankings, where she would join No. 3 Jessica Pegula and No. 4 Coco Gauff to give the U.S. three women in the Top 5 of the doubles rankings for the first time since the week of August 13, 2012.

   

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• Jessica Pegula to Join Coco Gauff on U.S. Billie Jean King Cup Team in Delray Beach

  Feb 25, 2023 by Administrator / 1,839 Views

  

  Mike Lawrence / USTA

   

  Jessica Pegula to Join Coco Gauff on U.S. Billie Jean King Cup Team for 2023 Qualifying tie vs. Austria in Delray Beach

   

  February 22, 2023 – Top-ranked American and world No. 3 Jessica Pegula is confirmed to join world No. 6 Coco Gauff on the U.S. Billie Jean King Cup Team set to compete in a 2023 Qualifying tie vs. Austria April 14-15 at the Delray Beach Tennis Center in Delray Beach, Fla. 

   

  Pegula would be the highest-ranked player to compete for the U.S. Billie Jean King Cup Team since No. 1 Serena Williams in 2015. Pegula and Gauff together would give the U.S. team two players ranked inside the Top 6 on the same squad for the first time since the 2005 World Group First Round, when No. 1 Lindsay Davenport and No. 4 Serena Williams featured for a U.S. squad that defeated Belgium, also at the Delray Beach Tennis Center.

   

  Pegula reached the singles final at the WTA 500 tournament in Doha, Qatar, last week, and won the doubles title there with Gauff. Gauff is currently ranked No. 2 in doubles and Pegula No. 4.

   

  The U.S. team will feature a total of 4-5 players. The final team nominations will be made by March 13.

   

  The Qualifier is a best-of-five match series that begins Friday, April 14, with two singles matches. Two reverse singles matches and a doubles match will follow on Saturday, April 15, with an amended Saturday schedule possible if one nation clinches victory in the third or fourth singles match.

   

  Tickets are on sale to the general public via Ticketmaster.com. Visit usta.com/billiejeankingcup for more information.

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