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Sometimes the transition from the juniors to the pros is a difficult one - the raw talent is apparent, they just need some time to develop the complete package.
The ATP and WTA seasons are over, and the Davis and Fed Cup finals are in the books. But plenty of pros will be playing for various clubs in the French Team Championships, which began this week and will conclude December 15.
Six of the world’s top 10 women and four of the top 20 men – including tennis superstar Roger Federer – will headline Brisbane International 2014 presented by Suncorp.
On the face of things, life is going well for Wimbledon champion Andy Murray as he successfully steps up his rehabilitation by hitting tennis balls again on Key Biscayne’s Crandon Park.
Sloane Stephens had her best season ever working under USTA Player Development coach David Nainkin, finishing the year at No. 12 and reaching the second week of every Grand Slam event.
Apart from finally appointing Chris Kermode as the new executive chairman and president, the ATP World Tour’s six man board of directors has formally killed off the 11 year-old Thailand Open and have decided to set up another event in China.
The ATP has announced the appointment of Chris Kermode as ATP Executive Chairman & President. Kermode begins a three-year term at the helm of the ATP starting on 1 January 2014, and will be based in the ATP’s London office.
The Hong Kong Tennis Open is a weeklong WTA tournament, which is set to debut on September 8 next year, will see the arrival of some of the world’s best female players in the SAR, as they compete for honors in the US$250,000 prize money tournament...
The Max Eisenbud influence is hugely apparent in Laura Robson’s appointment of veteran American coach Nick Saviano and his Floridian assistant Jesse Witten in a bid to direct the British teenager back towards the WTA top 20.
Stanislas Wawrinka has confirmed his participation in the Aircel Chennai Open, India's only ATP World Tour tennis event, starting December 30. . .
Robert Lansdorp has yet to be nominated for the International Tennis Hall of Fame, but perhaps he should be.
Juan Martin Del Potro is furious with the Argentina Tennis Association (AAT) and Davis Cup captain Martin Jaite, but the president of the (AAT) Arturo Grimaldi appears to have extended an olive branch to the Tower of Tandil, saying that he would walk to his city to talk with the nation’s No. 1.
At the age of 32, Filippo Volandri was by far the oldest contestant in the ATP Challenger Tour Finals but the Italian still came out on top in Sao Paolo, Brazil and won the title by overcoming Colombian Alejandro Gonzalez (eight years his junior) in the final.
Australia’s Bernard Tomic looks like being spared a further appearance in a Spanish court after his father John has decided against appealing against the eight month suspended jail sentence handed to him...
Novak Djokovic's continued criticism of the world anti-doping regime as he defends banned compatriot Viktor Troicki has stung one top official, who has suggested that the world No. 2 doesn't have a clue as to how the system works.
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