Canada’s Peter Polansky advanced to the second round of U.S. Open qualifiers on Tuesday, winning his first match 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 against Brazil’s Rogerio Dutra Silva.

INDIAN WELLS, Calif. – Peter Polansky doesn’t create many opportunities for himself to play at the highest level of professional tennis. So when he does, and then falls just short, it hurts just a ...

Peter Polansky was still trying to qualify for the U.S. Open when fellow players began congratulating him. When it comes to tennis' luckiest loser, there was no need to wait to see if he'd win.

But Peter Polansky, the world No. 119 from Canada, is the only one to have completed a so-called “lucky loser” grand slam in the same calendar year.

Aleksandra Wozniak advanced to the second round of the U.S. Open with a straight-sets win over American Laura Granville yesterday while fellow Canadian Peter Polansky flirted with the biggest win ...

While sleeping overnight at a hotel in 2006, Canadian tennis star Peter Polansky saw a dark figure with a knife standing by the doorway to his room. Still asleep, the 17-year-old athlete bolted out of ...

But last night another Canadian, Peter Polansky, brought Ernie’s words to mind again. The 129th-ranked Polansky, of Thornhill, Ontario, made the most of the wild card he received into the draw ...

The landscape is bleak - Dancevic is the only player ranked in the Top 100, and his closest countrymen, Frederic Niemeyer and Peter Polansky, languish in the 201-300 category.

James Blake of the United States hits a return to Peter Polansky of Canada during their match at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York, September 2, 2010.

LONDON — Canada’s Peter Polansky and Brayden Schnur posted victories Monday on the opening day of the men’s singles qualification round at Wimbledon. Polansky, seeded eighth in the ...

GRANBY — Veterans Peter Polansky and Frank Dancevic led a Canadian charge into the quarterfinals of the National Bank $100,000 ATP men’s Challenger tennis tournament Thursday. Thirty-year-old ...

TORONTO (AP) — Four-time champion Novak Djokovic advanced to the third round of the Rogers Cup on Wednesday, defeating Canadian wild card Peter Polansky 6-3, 6-4. Djokovic, coming off his fourth ...