Archive: December 2013
The sporting awards season is in full swing but Wimbledon champion Andy Murray has compromised his chances of winning the prestigious BBC Sports Personality of the Year award in his native Great Britain, held next Sunday, by deciding not to attend the ceremony and remain at his Miami training camp.
Rafael Nadal, taking just a few weeks off from tennis, is today in Prague fulfilling his obligations of being a PokerStars ambassador and will tomorrow contest a a live charity poker tournament in the Czech capital.
Bernard Tomic says that his new co-coach, Croatian Velimir Zovko, has already established a good repertoire with his suspended father, John.
Judy Murray is starting to compile her holiday-and-beyond wish list, with the mother of Andy Murray hoping to someday establish a Scottish tennis center which will surely ride the famous coat-tails of her Wimbledon-winning son.
Former French Open winner Michael Chang has emerged from the shadows after more than a decade of retirement and will serve as advisor on a part-time basis to rising Japanese player Kei Nishikori.
At a recent investor meeting at its world headquarters in Beaverton, Ore., Nike stated it expects to deliver revenues of $30 billion by fiscal year 2015, at the top end of its previously announced fiscal year 2015 target range of $28-30 billion and shared a new fiscal year 2017 revenue target of $36 billion.
German jewelry and lifestyle company Thomas Sabo is a new sponsor of world No. 15 Sabine Lisicki.
Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka heads into the ATP season start within weeks at Chennai, India, convinced that his stellar 2013 season will provide a huge boost to his future form.
2013 has been an eventful year for the United Kingdom. A new king was born in the shape of Prince George and the nearest thing the nation had to a president died with the passing of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
Taking things very cautiously after nearly five months of being sidelined again by hip and shoulder problems, four times Grand Slam champion Maria Sharapova managed to get through only her second tennis match since her shock second round match at Wimbledon.
The low-carb beer brand Michelob Ultra is preparing to replace Corona as the ATP’s lead sponsor in the United States next year, and will have its logo on the nets at 10 U.S. tournaments through 2015, the Sports Business Journal reported.
Roger is one smooth cat. Man he just is. He can't help it. He just exudes a quality that says I know who I am.
Former British player and current television pundit Greg Rusedski has made big plans - in his own head - for compatriot Andy Murray, with the Canadian-born former US Open finalist suggesting that Murray make it his goal to take over the No. 1 ranking someday.
Lleyton Hewitt won Australia’s top tennis award, the Newcombe Medal for his perseverance and refusal to bow to injury but if the ceremony were to be held just a couple of months later, there is now a distinct chance Jelena Dokic would have merited a special mention for the same qualities.
Serve and volley coming from both sides of the net is now an almost extinct tennis art form but Patrick Rafter and Tim Henman proved it is still possible in the final of London’s Statoil Masters...
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