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The ITF has announced the official team nominations for the 2014 Davis Cup World Group first round ties taking place on January 31- February 2.
Head has announced it will continue to sponsor Tennis Europe, the official ITF tennis federation, for another two years to expire at the end of 2015.This new sponsorship will give particular attention to junior tennis and will include sponsorship of 340 international junior events in 46 countries.
Indian Wells officials are hoping that recent hints might mean that Serena Williams is ready to set aside a feud of 13 years by signing up to play in the upcoming edition of the men's and women's Masters in the Californian desert.
Australia Day, the nation’s annual celebration of the anniversary of the 1788 arrival of the First Fleet of British ships, coincides with the Australian Open men’s final this year.
Dominika Cibulkova has reached her first Grand Slam event final at the Australian Open and while there were technical and physical issues she had to address during the off-season, the Slovak needed a mental boost too.
Li Na will have 1.3 billion fellow Chinese behind her while Dominika Cibulkova can only number 5.4 million fellow Slovaks. Nevertheless the world no.24 still insists being the first ever player from her country to contest a Grand Slam final: “It’s massive.”
The national obsession with cricket has dealt the Australian Open a television ratings blow, with the Ashes and one-day Twenty20 Big Bash matches drawing more viewers on average than the goings-on at Melbourne Park.
Eugenie Bouchard’s Australian Open success story might have come to a close after she lost out to the superior experience of Li Na in the semifinal. However the future could not be brighter the 19 year-old Canadian with untold riches set to head her way because of her supreme marketability.
Roger Federer is reaping the benefits of both newly appointed part-time celebrity coach Stefan Edberg’s encouragement to play more attacking tennis and the bigger, more powerful Wilson racket he will now probably use for the remainder of his career.
The British man charged by Melbourne Police with ‘court-siding’ or sending live point details from the Australian Open to his on-line betting agency Sporting Data Limited, is the son of a serving Metropolitan Police officer in London.
Beaten Australian Open quarterfinalist Andy Murray maintained it would have been ‘stupid’ to expect him to win the title in his first Grand Slam tournament after undergoing back surgery and insisted he was surprised to have progressed as far as the last eight.
Australian Open referee Wayne McKewen and fellow officials are still debating whether to hit David Ferrer with a retrospective $Aus 20,000 fine for pushing a line judge on his way to suffering a 6-1, 6-4, 2-6, 6-4 defeat at the hands of seventh seed Tomas Berdych.
The USTA and U.S. Davis Cup Captain Jim Courier announced that top-ranked American and world No. 13 John Isner, world No. 51 Sam Querrey and the world’s No. 1 doubles team of Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan will represent the United States in the 2014 Davis Cup by BNP Paribas First Round tie against Great Britain.
Attendance during last week's five-day heat wave which set records across Melbourne will be felt directly on the bottom line of the Australian Open. Officials are said to have accepted the fact that crowds will be sharply down at this edition, with a decrease of almost 50,000 fans...
First news of the International Premier Tennis League appeared in Bob Larson’s Daily Tennis News last March but official confirmation came at the Australian Open today with co-founder Mahesh Bhupathi revealing the competition will start November 28 and run to December 20 later this year.
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