The Miami Open tournament is one of the most popular tennis tournaments across the globe. Its fans are widespread, coming from all the corners of the world.
At the start of the new year, after Costa Rica's winter football season has concluded and while tournaments in cycling and surfing are at a lull, the country's main sports attraction comes from an unlikely place -- the tennis court.
The Arthur Ashe Stadium crowd roared, and Caroline Wozniacki urged it on, swinging her arms up and shouting triumphantly to a standing ovation. She had just won the break point of her year, chasing down a swinging volley and forcing Maria Sharapova to miss in the deciding third set.
NEW YORK – Five-time champion Roger Federer sat out a two-hour break for torrential rain to race into the U.S. Open fourth round on Sunday on a stormy, humid New York day which saw David Ferrer crash to defeat.
Catherine "CiCi" Bellis won the 2014 edition of Costa Rica's junior circuit tournament known as the Copa del Café. After her victory, the 14-year-old admitted to feeling nervous at the start because of all the spectators watching. Tonight, Bellis, who turned 15 in April, could have an audience in the millions.
Catherine Bellis, who won Costa Rica's Copa del Café in January, is the youngest girl to win a match at the U.S. Open since Anna Kournikova did it in 1996.
