Tennis Tour Tidbits – Ferrer, Davis Cup, Kateryna Bondarenko and more…

Written by: Staff on 25th April 2013

Sony Open tennis tournament on Key Biscayne, Florida

Tennis Tour Tidbits - Ferrer, Davis Cup, Kateryna Bondarenko and more...

epa03646384 David Ferrer of Spain walks back to the baseline after losing a point to Andy Murray of Great Britain during their men's final match at the Sony Open tennis tournament in Miami, Florida, USA, 31 March 2013. Murray defeated Ferrer. EPA/ERIK S. LESSER |

Former top 30 player Kateryna Bondarenko of Ukraine is pregnant. . .

“Young German Annika Beck says she will play 28-30 tournaments this year and says that being on the Porsche Talent Team has “made lots of things much easier.” . .

The Spanish multinational oil and gas company Cepsa is providing the gas for the official Volkswagen vehicles of the Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell. . .

The Surprise Tennis & Racquet Club in Arizona will host the Division II NCAA tennis championships next month. . .

Plans for New Zealand’s Davis Cup tie against the Philippines in September are still going ahead even though the International Tennis Federation has yet to hear an appeal from Pakistan as to whether the referee was correct in disqualifying them from an Asia-Oceania Group II tie in Myanmar. . .

World No. 4 David Ferrer said that his three set loss to Dmitry Tursunov in Barcelona “was the worst match that I’ve played in the last couple of years.”

That German Julia Goerges who was forced to skip Fed Cup last weekend and took two weeks off to recuperate from an illness, says that mono has been ruled out as a possible cause.

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