Archive: June 2012
The Texas Children's Ticket Turnback program at the 2012 US Men's Clay Court Championship at River Oaks Country Club earned $20,570 for the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute it was announced Thursday at Texas Children's Hospital.
The Roland Garros semi-final between World No. 2 Rafael Nadal and Spanish No. 2 David Ferrer, will have extra interest for Chinese tennis fans, with the China Open Organising Committee confirming both players will compete at this year’s tournament, to be held in Beijing from 23 September – 7 October.
Goetzke, a native of Australia, joins IMG from the Dutch Tennis Federation, where he was responsible for the development and implementation of the nation's tennis program from the junior through professional ranks.
World No. 8 Marion Bartoli, World No. 10 Angelique Kerber, World No. 13 Sabine Lisicki, World No. 16 Dominika Cibulkova and former World No. 1 Jelena Jankovic lead the player field for the Mercury Insurance Open presented by Tri-City Medical Center, a Premier WTA tennis tournament which is also part of the summer’s Emirates Airline US Open Series.
British players Jamie Baker, Oliver Golding and Liam Broady have been awarded the three remaining main draw wild cards into the AEGON Championships, which begins at The Queen’s Club on Monday.
If she didn't have a full-time job as the highest-paid woman in sport, Maria Sharapova has her own dream of the perfect lifestyle. The self-confessed people-watcher and French Open semi-finalist has dubbed Paris one of the best world cities for indulging in her not-so-secret passion.
Sara Errani stands only 5-feet-4 inches tall, but she has proved in reaching the Roland Garros semifinals that height doesn’t matter as much as some might think. Errani moves like the wind and hits a very heavy ball. She credits her change of racket to Babolat for her torrid season, where she has won three titles and reached her first final four of a major.
Bob Bryan still has his hopes of playing Olympic mixed doubles with Serena Williams despite the high-profile pair losing in the first round of the event at the French Open.
Chris Kermode, tournament director of the AEGON Championships which begin at London’s Queen’s Club on Monday will spend an anxious couple of days after Andy Murray, top seed, defending champion and main attraction, refused to guarantee his involvement after a physically demanding French Open.
In unfortunate news: Bethanie Mattek-Sands now has bad turf toe/bone injury in her big toe. She hurt it against Sabine Lisicki and could not serve well or run much after that.
This match took a lot of time start-to-finish, but that is mostly because of a rain delay in the middle. Nicolas Almagro never did much to threaten Rafael Nadal.
What this would have been like had Kaia Kanepi not been so nervous we can hardly guess. But Kanepi clearly was nervous, and never put up much of a fight. We show her ending up at #16 -- meaning, incidentally, that Sara Errani will be #14.
Come and check these awesome photos from the Roger Federer quarter final match against Juan Martin del Potro and show 10sballs.com which photos you think are prime by leaving your comments!
We have a great gallery of Andy Murray photos from his quarterfinal match against David Ferrer! Come check out these spectacular photos and let 10sballs.com know which you think are your favorites and if you want more!
Take a gander at our latest Rafael Nadal gallery with plenty of action and victory shots from the match against fellow Spaniard Nicolas Almagro. Let us at 10sballs.com know which ones you love the most!
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