Archive: January 2014
Lleyton Hewitt has decided not to risk his fitness with the Australian Open starting in less than a week. The 32-year-old made a precautionary withdrawal from the Kooyong exhibition and was replaced in the field by a teenaged unknown.
Organizers of the Apia International Sydney, have turned a blind eye to the ATP World Tour directive that defending champion Bernard Tomic's banned father John should not be allowed to attend tournaments.
Doubles is a great game and has been around for over a hundred years
Back in the day of wooden rackets Johnny Mac was considered a great doubles player. So great that even though he mostly played with Peter Fleming he also played with a heap of other guys.
Attendance records are expected to be broken when the Australian Open starts next week as officials make an optimistic prediction of exceeding the nearly 685,000 who poured through the gates of Melbourne Park a year ago over the grand slam event fortnight.
The Brisbane International set an attendance record with 105,730 fans watching the like of Roger Federer, Lleyton Hewitt, Serena Williams
Tennis Australia president Stephen Healy says the organization is in negotiations with another airline to replace Virgin Australia as a major sponsor of the Australian Open. Board level negotiations are ongoing to replace Virgin.
Caroline Wozniacki may be in slightly improved form heading onto the Australian Open than she was last year, but the former No. 1 does not appear to be playing substantially better.
Roger Federer on what he learned from his five-set loss to former No. 1 Lleyton Hewitt in the 2003 Davis Cup semifinals: “I think it really proved to me that I could play great tennis not just for a set, two sets, but three sets or maybe even longer against the toughest guys out there,” Federer said of his five-set loss.
As Pat Cash dips back into tennis briefly at this week's exhibition event in Adelaide, the World Tennis Challenge, the former Wimbledon winner admits to mixed feelings about the lack of hard-charging young Aussies in the current game.
Despite helping France to a first-ever Hopman Cup title alongside Alize Cornet, with the tie decided by the mixed doubles rubber, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga will still not be adding the event to his grand slam to-do list anytime soon.
Laura Robson’s chances of even starting the Australian Open have been thrown into doubt following the British no. 1 being forced to retire midway through her first match of the year at the Hobart International earlier today because of ongoing wrist problems.
Rafael Nadal is so relaxed after starting his year with a first ever Qatar ExxonMobil Open title that he saw no need to rush for a flight to Australia and instead spent a leisurely day off in Doha catching up with his former football idol Raul and relaxing with his family.
Jan Menneken, the man responsible for bringing in more than $500 million of commercial and television income to the International Tennis Federation over the last 16 years, is to leave his position as the governing body’s Executive Director, Commercial at the end of the month.
WTA organizers were dealt a body blow as seven-time grand slam winner Venus Williams withdrew from the pre-Australian Open event to rest after losing a final in New Zealand at the weekend to Ana Ivanovic. Williams, 33, pulled the plug on her participation...
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