Archive: February 2012
The largest amateur tennis tournament in the United States has enlisted the services of top sports public relations and marketing firm Brener Zwikel & Associates to help promote this year’s 112th edition of The Ojai Valley Tennis Tournament...
Get the latest Open 13 results as the top Men’s tennis players continue to strive for top prize: DRAWS- Singles:
Click below for the latest Men’s results for the Copa Claro tournament in Argentina: DRAWS- Singles: click here Doubles: click
Get the latest Women’s results below as the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships continue in the United Arab Emirates:
Check out these videos and photos of Milos Raonic at the SAP Open in San Jose, California. We've got footage and photos from the semifinals and finals!
Sabine Lisicki is currently doing a good job in her tennis after raising her ranking more than 160 places during 2011 and reaching at least the final 16 in the last three Grand Slam tournaments. But she is considering pursuing a possible career in sports medicine once she lays down her competitive racket.
Tennis knowledgeables such as Butch Buchholz and Cliff Drysdale are long time advocates of Davis Cup (or the World Group at least) being truncated into an exclusive two-week window with all matches played at the same venue. Now Jelena Jankovic believes the same concept would work for the Fed Cup.
It’s only February, but most of the top 10 women have already suffered injury. The Dubai Duty Free Championships lost Victoria Azarenka (ankle), Petra Kvitova (virus), Li Na (back) and Vera Zvonareva (hip) before they even played a match.
Back in 2009, a controversy of earthquake proportions hit Dubai when Israel’s Shahar Peer was refused a visa to compete in the Dubai Duty Free Championships. The tournament was hit with a record fine and threatened with expulsion from the WTA Tour if such a thing was repeated
Manuel Orantes, a Spanish tennis star of the 1970s and 1980s, who defeated top top-seeded Jimmy Connors to capture the 1975 US Open title and played an instrumental role in Spain's Davis Cup efforts for many years, will be inducted to the International Tennis Hall of Fame this year.
David Ferrer can expect to lose the #5 ranking this week to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, at least temporarily -- but the better he does here, the easier it will be to get it back. And, presumably, the more easily he wins his matches here, the more energy he will have for the bigger events.
Not the most encouraging start for Alexandr Dolgopolov, considering that he needs at least a semifinal to avoid falling in the rankings. This doesn't assure that Michael Llodra will stay Top Fifty, but we'd guess that one more win will do it.
It's pretty clear that Andy Roddick still isn't his old self -- although it's worth remembering that he hasn't had many matches since his problems started. But this means that he will remain stuck below #25 -- a big handicap for him when we get to Indian Wells and Miami.
Nina Bratchikova is off to a good start this year, but this is still hard to believe. Maybe Roberta Vinci noticed that she was going to be #22 no matter what she did here. Too bad Sara Errani couldn't lend a few of her games to her doubles partner Vinci....This is no appreciable help to Errani, but any more wins will count, and with Vinci out, she is the only Top Forty player in the field.
Given all the upsets here, this should have been Ksenia Pervak's opportunity. Instead, she ends up just barely above #40. The jinx on seeds here is amazing. This made it five down, and the next match made it six. The Pervak match would make it seven; only #4 Marina Erakovic is left. Hradecka remains just above #60.
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