Ryan Harrison is currently at Indian Wells where he’ll play in his first BNP Paribas Open. In his first match he’ll go up against the familiar face of Taylor Dent; the two often train together at IMG Academies. An article in MyDesert.com highlighted Harrison’s emergence onto the American tennis scene, and some newfound camaraderie between [...]
Seventeen-year-old Ryan Harrison qualified for his second straight ATP event, this time beating South Africa’s Izak van der Merwe at Delray Beach International Tennis Championships. Harrison also made it to the quarterfinals in the doubles draw with fellow IMG pro Taylor Dent. Good luck to all IMGer’s this week! Visit TennisLiveNews.com for more.
Taylor Dent was at IMG Academies on Wednesday training for the Delray Beach International. Amidst the intense hitting session Taylor still had time to sign autographs for some young fans. Be on the lookout for Dent at the Delray Beach tournament, starting February 22.
Taylor Dent’s resurgence on the professional tennis scene is quickly becoming one of the best comeback stories of the decade. After a fractured vertebra left him bed-ridden for nearly a year, Dent made a decision to undergo a risky back surgery that doctors said would likely end his tennis career. The procedure went surprisingly well–well [...]
Two IMG Bollettieri professionals, Taylor Dent and Ricardas Berankis, moved into the semifinals of the JSM Challenger in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. Dent, who is coming off a challenger win last week in Knoxville, beat fellow American Jessie Levine 6-1, 6-2 and will face top-seeded Kevin Kim in the semis. On the other side of the draw, [...]
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Roger Federer (SUI) vs. Lleyton Hewitt (AUS)
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IMG Bollettieri Tennis Academy student and American, Ryan Harrison, beat the #2 seed, Michael Berrer of Germany, in the first round of the Odlum Brown Vancouver Open. The tournament is a $100,000 level ATP Men’s Challenger and Harrison, who is only 17 years old, received a wild card into the main draw. He beat the [...]
The ATP’s Taylor Dent and 17-year-old junior phenom Ryan Harrison — both train at the IMG Bollettieri Tennis Academy – are keeping diaries about their summer experiences.
Dent recently posted his first entry on the New York Times’ “Straight Sets” blog and talks about his comeback from a back injury and playing in Newport.
Harrison is currently [...]
Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy pros Taylor Dent and Jesse Levine both played and won their first round matches at the Campbell’s Hall of Fame Tennis Championships in Newport, Rhode Island. Dent, who received a wild card, beat Brazilian Marcos Daniel 6-2, 6-1 and will face either Fabrice Santoro or Flavio Cipolla in the second round. [...]
Joining Taylor Dent in the Wimbledon main draw will be fellow Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy students Jesse Levine and Xavier Malisse.
Levine, a 21-year-old American, defeated Matthias Bachinger of Germany 6-2, 7-5, 6-2 in the third round of qualifying to reach the main draw. Malisse, a 28-year-old native of Belgium, won his final qualifying match 6-3, [...]