Tag: CoCo Vandeweghe

Tennis: US hopes to end 17-year Fed Cup title drought

MINSK, Belarus (AFP) — The United States aims to end its longest Fed Cup title drought when it meets a Belarus team missing former world number one and two-time Australian Open champion Victoria Azarenka in this weekend’s final. The 17-time champion US team claimed its last title in 2000 and has lost three finals since — to France in 2003 and Italy in 2009 and 2010. This time the team is missing the Williams sisters, who have […]

Tennis: All in the family as Vandeweghe makes Open last eight

by Jim Slater Agence France-Presse NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — When CoCo Vandeweghe says she’s trying to become the best athlete in her family as well as a US Open champion, it’s more impressive company than one might imagine. There’s her Olympic swimmer mother Tauna, the NBA trio of her uncle Kiki, grandpa Ernie and great-uncle Mel plus ex-beach volleyball pro uncle Bruk and aunt Heather, the US polo team captain. “My grandfather always said he was the […]