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Former New Haven Open Champion and World No. 6 Petra Kvitova, World No. 11 Sara Errani and World No. 19 Genie Bouchard have committed to play the New Haven Open at Yale, a WTA event that is part of the Emirates Airline US Open Series to be held August 15-23, 2014...
If Broadway's hottest musical is “Sunday In The Park With George,” the hottest act in tennis is the French Open. One does not have to reach far to find parallels. The setting is the same (Paris) and the musical's motif is the famous Impressionist painting whose color is dabbed on canvas by thousands of pigment points which could easily be metaphors for the quarter-million fans that inhabit Stade Roland Garros over its fortnight.
Does anyone still wonder why professional tennis can't have a commissioner? One only has to examine the game's structure (sic) to understand how quixotic such a job title would be for our sport. Four men and one woman are currently paid over $1 million a year to administer totally different segments of tennis.
Defending champion Nicolas Mahut of France has committed to the player field for the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships in Newport, R.I., where he captured both the singles and doubles titles last year.
World No.3 Agnieszka Radwanska and the 2011 Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova will take part in the Rally For Bally in Eastbourne on 15th June as support for the cause continues to grow throughout the tennis world.
When we were teenagers, perspective was always defined in terms of railroad tracks retreating into the distance. Now that we are adults, there are no tracks. None related to any discussion of perspective.
The 36-year-old twins will return to their hometown of Camarillo for the event once again being presented by Alexander Cadillac. The date for the day of tennis, music, food and wine tasting has moved to Saturday, July 19, and will take place from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., at Spanish Hills Country Club.
Those of you who seek clarification of the editorial drift of Tennis Week enunciated a few issues ago, would do well to note that this column covered the Australian Open without once mentioning Mats Wilander or Martina Navratilova.
The show will air Sunday, May, 18, at 1 p.m. ET / 10 a.m. PT, immediately following the finals of the Italian Open. Another airing will take place later in the day at 10 p.m. PT.
Silence of the Lambs would never fly as a title for a tennis movie. Silence is rare in our sport and lambs have not been sighted for some time. Issues instead bellow out for attention. Certainly the game's leaders are more shark than sheep but seldom do they act together.
Former touring tennis professional Ros Nideffer of San Diego (Rancho Bernardo) captured the 50 and over singles title at the USTA National Senior Women's Hard Court Championships with a 6-2, 6-3 victory in the final over second-seeded Tracy Houk of Montara, Calif.
It will be a championship day on Friday as singles finals in the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s divisions of the USTA National Senior Women’s Hard Court Championships are scheduled to be played at the La Jolla Beach & Tennis Club.
The United States Tennis Association (USTA) today announced its plans to create the new home for American tennis, a state-of-the-art facility at Lake Nona area in Orlando, Fla., that will enhance the sport at every level.
British Fed Cup Captain Judy Murray and television presenter Helen Skelton joined the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) today to announce the launch of four ‘Great British Tennis Weekends’ which will take place across the country from May to July 2014.
The International Tennis Hall of Fame & Museum in Newport, Rhode Island has broken ground on the first project within a multi-faceted $15.7 million capital campaign and improvement project.
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