Archive: December 2013
Lleyton Hewitt has no time to ponder an end to his career while still focusing on unfolding upcoming challenges.
India’s Sania Mirza continues to reiterate that she was too injured to continue both a singles and doubles career. Mirza reached a career high No. 27 in 2006 but then began to be plagued by knee and wrist injuries and by mid-2012 had stopped playing singles.
No. 1 Rafael Nadal is not only no slouch on the tennis court, but he’s also not cannon fodder at the poker tables. While in Prague on Thursday, Nadal won a charity poker tournament, besting Romanian-Canadian professional poker player Daniel Negreanu...
Asia seems to be granted increasing new tournaments by the week but the impending added week between the French Opens and Wimbledon that comes into the tennis calendar in 2015 will see the addition of another English grass court event at Nottingham.
Roger Federer may be insistent there are many more matches, extra trophies and perhaps another Grand Slam title or two left in his playing career.
Change begins with a thought, a voice, an action launched into the sea of humanity where it strikes the water’s surface and submerges into the deep.
Xavier Malisse cut his famous ponytail. . .
Britain may have had to wait 77 years for a Wimbledon men’s singles champion but until now, throughout 125 years of its’ existence, the Lawn Tennis Association hasn’t had a female president. Now retired school teacher Cathie Sabin, has broken tradition.
Britain may have its’ first male Wimbledon champion in 77 years but the Andy Murray effect is apparently not winning the battle to lure people back onto tennis courts...or those south of Hadrian’s Wall at least.
With the tennis elite set to descend on Melbourne Park for the January 13 start of the first major event of the season, the men's and women's entries look all but perfect.
While WTA business in Asia is booming, it isn’t in some of the traditional Western countries.
Mitsuji Konoshita, the president of the Cambodia-based GL Finance, and former circuit player from Japan, is ready to build a multimillion- tennis academy in Cambodia.
"The WTA calendars continue to deepen the reach of women's professional tennis into unprecedented markets to help grow our global fan base far and wide," said Stacey Allaster, Chairman and CEO of the WTA.
Roger:My most surprising realization was the fact that we can really change things for the better if we do it right.
Juan Reque, the former fitness trainer of Maria Sharapova, is setting up shop in San Diego. Juan Martin Del Potro has won Clarin’s Sportsman of the Year award in Argentina. . . Tennis Australia hasn't decided whether it will offer former world No. 4 Jelena Dokic a wild card into the Australian Open. . .
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