Tennis Tour Tidbits – Radwanska, ESPN, Hewitt, and more…

Written by: Staff on 11th July 2013

Tennis Tour Tidbits - Radwanska, ESPN, Hewitt, and more...

epa03775213 Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland returns to Sabine Lisicki of Germany during their semi-final match for the Wimbledon Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis Club, in London, Britain, 04 July 2013. EPA/GERRY PENNY |

Agnieszka Radwanska was picked to pose for ESPN the Body Issue and there admitted she does indulge in junk food on occasion. “You can’t beat a nice, home-cooked Polish meal,” she said. But also McDonald’s cheeseburgers or cheesecakes from The Cheesecake Factory. I am proud to say I have tried every single one!” . .

ESPN’s John Skipper commented on his company’s layoff of 5 percent of its U.S. workforce and says the company will actually add more people. “We had not for a long time looked at our organization with an eye toward making sure that our resources, our people, our money was spent against things that make a difference. The world’s a little different. There’s really 10 distribution deals to do now, and they’re long-term, so we consolidated some of our affiliate sales functions. We closed the Denver office; we quit doing 3D. So we eliminated a bunch of jobs. But we are adding people for the SEC Network; we’re adding people in digital; we will add people for the new SportsCenter. We are continuing to put more resources in L.A. We’re not retrenching.”. . .

Sania Mirza has donated an autographed racquet to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals for auction, the proceeds from which will help provide relief to working animals. “The funds we raise from auctioning my tennis racquet will provide comfort to horses forced to pull heavy carts, bullocks who work in sugar mills and donkeys who are forced to labor in the brick kilns,” Mirza said. . .

Tim Henman is offering an exclusive coaching session to the winners of a tennis championship being held as part of SportsFest at Abu Dhabi Summerfest. Henman also says he doesn’t expect his daughters, Olivia, Rose and Grace to follow in his footstep, though they occasionally do play tennis. “No, there’s no budding Wimbledon champion!” . . .

Wimbledon Champion Marion Bartoli and Wimbledon finalist Sabine Lisicki join four additional top 10 players in the field for the 2013 New Haven Open at Yale presented by First Niagara, August 16-24, 2013 at the Connecticut Tennis Center. . . .

There are some places in England where tennis is affordable. In Sheffield, the Lawn Tennis Association is running Mini Tennis sessions, which cost £5 pounds for a family of four. There are also cardio and coaching sessions in Manchester that cost £1.50 for children and £3 for adults. . .

Lleyton Hewitt, who won his first round match at the Hall of Fame Championships is 6-2 on grass this year and says that his game is rounding back into form “I feel pretty good. At Queens I played really well, as good as I’ve played in a long time. At Wimbledon in my first round I played fantastic against [Stanislas] Wawrinka. Didn’t do anything wrong. And then lost my way, didn’t play with a lot of rhythm out there, didn’t serve well against [Dustin] Brown.”

Topics: Agnieszka Radwanska, Espn Tennis, Lleyton Hewitt, Marion Bartoli, Sabine Lisicki, Sania Mirza, Tim Henman