TENNIS NEWS, Tidbits, And Gossip.

Written by: Bob Larson Tennis on 3rd February 2014

TENNIS NEWS, Tidbits, And Gossip.

epa04051118 Switzerland's Stanislas Wawrinka (L) and Roger Federer (R) react after their team mates Michael Lammer and Marco Chiudinelli won against Nenad Zimonjic and Filip Krajinovic of Serbia in a doubles match for the Davis Cup World Group first round tie between Serbia and Switzerland in Novi Sad, Serbia, 01 February 2014. EPA/KOCA SULEJMANOVIC |

Michael Mortensen, who is now coaching Caroline Wozniacki, is on a trial basis until the end of the Sony Open in Miami at the end of March. “My aim is that this should be for the year,” he said. “I would like to see we have a full season together.” . . . Aga Radwanska appears in the new issue of Polish Glamour magazine. . . The irritable US Davis Cup captain Jim Courier with his team down 2-1 to Britain at home tells a magazine publisher what can be done to fire up American about tennis: “Sell more magazines” . . . Switzerland Davis Cup captain Severin Luthi after beating Serbia: “We’re especially happy that we can play at home in the quarterfinals. The goal is that both [Stan Wawrinka and Roger Federer] will play [against Kazakhstan].” . . . The Czech Republic’s Tomas Berdych said in Australia that he won’t play away ties this year but could change his mind: “I need to re-focus a little bit on my career. That means the second round with Japan is still with a big question-mark for me but the Czech team is good enough to win without me.” . . . The San Diego Union-Tribune reported that after his press conference post his win over Donald Young that top British player Andy Murray “hung with the press and watched the tiebreaker. At one point, Murray mumbled, “Miss it, Sam.”

–That Roger Federer on his current relationship with Novak Djokovic, whose family he has had problems with before. “The press hypes a lot of things up because they want top players to hate each other, but my relationship with Novak is good. We’ve had a tough and fierce rivalry at times but away from the court we are friendly and do a lot of things together, like charity.”

—That the USTA has rejuvenated two clay courts – transforming them from green clay to red clay – at San Diego’s Barnes Tennis Center as part of the USTA’s Davis Cup Legacy program. The program, begun more than a decade ago, is designed to leave a lasting impression in the communities which host Davis Cup ties in the United States.

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