TENNIS NEWS Tidbits

Written by: Bob Larson Tennis on 4th February 2014

TENNIS NEWS Tidbits

epa04037518 Eugenie Bouchard of Canada in action during her match against Li Na of China in the semifinals of the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne, Australia, 23 January 2014. EPA/MARK DADSWELL AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND OUT |

Albert Costa, has been appointed today as new sporting director of the Real Club de Tenis Barcelona 1899. . . Rafael Nadal is questionable for next week’s tournament in Argentina due to back trouble. . . Former ITF junior No. 1 and teenager Belinda Bencic of Switzerland will likely start her nation’s Fed Cup tie against France’s Alize Cornet. . .Chris Evert spent a whole day with Genie Bouchard and came away with these impressions: “genuine, mature, determined, and really funny!” . . . Former No. 1 Andy Roddick will play in the golf ATT Pro Am at Pebble Beach this week. Roddick once won the title at the nearby tennis SAP Open in San Jose, which is now defunct. . . Former top 5 player Nicolas Kiefer criticized the German Davis Cup team for not finding players to contest two dead rubbers on Sunday after they shut out Spain. The German crowd loudly booed its own team. “It is a pity and sad. It has tarnished everything that has been built up in the last two days. From the outside, this is not a good look for us.”

–That Australian Open champion Stanislas Wawrinka has withdrawn from both this week’s Open Sud de France in Montpelier and next week’s ABN Amro World Tennis Tournament in Rotterdam, citing fatigue.

—That Michael Mortensen, who is Caroline Wozniacki’s new coach, expects to keep his job as Eurosport Grand Slam commentator.

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