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TENNIS 10SBALLS CHECKS IN FROM 2018 AUSTRALIAN OPEN • TIDBITS FROM LOVEY • GDAY CRAIG TILEY • PLEASE WAKE-UP
Ken Rosewall writes notes annually to Roger Federer. That's really great. Or is it? Look deeper. The "suits" that run these tourneys.. yes, Craig Tiley you too... Tourney Directors seem obtuse to all of your living legends.
THE ODDITIES FROM A YANK IN MELBOURNE
Melbourne’s Yarra River flows slow and brown. At its bottom, one sees rusting bicycles from which drunken Aussies have leapt or fallen, a smattering of beer cans which were the former phrase’s root cause, and a slew of slain tennis balls likely batted from the frame of a mid-practice Nick Kyrgios.
10SBALLS • TENNIS SHARES A POSTCARD FROM “ORANGE COACH” SVEN GROENEVELD FROM MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA 2018
Click here to see our latest postcard from our great tennis friend Sven Groeneveld.
10SBALLS SHARES CRAIG CIGNARELLI’S LOOK AHEAD TO TENNIS 2018 ON THE ATP • WTA TOURS
In 2008, I was sitting at the BNP Paribas in Indian Wells and the gentleman beside me whispered something about statistics. For the past two decades, he’d worked for several national governments, performing economic modeling and then spitting out enough data to give their budgetary bean counters the shrieking fantods.
GENE SCOTT • TENNIS SUPER HERO • BEST FRIEND AND LIFETIME MENTOR @10SBALLS WOULD HAVE BEEN 80 TODAY
As truth teller, tournament director, world champion and respected tennis voice, Eugene L. Scott served many roles and had a staggering impact on Open Era tennis.
OBITUARY OF PANCHO SEGURA • DAVIS CUP • TENNIS TIDBITS • 10SBALLS POSTCARD FROM PARIS
Writing an obituary is never easy. It's Hardest when you know the person. Harder if you knew them well. Harder if you knew them a long time...
RICHARD EVANS REPORTS FOR 10SBALLS • JACK SOCK DEFEATS KRAJINOVIC TO WIN ROLEX PARIS MASTERS TITLE
They both said it. “This has been a week I will never forget.” Nor should they because, at the Rolex Paris Masters, Jack Sock and Filip Krajinovic lifted themselves to higher levels of achievement than either had ever experienced before.
FILIP KRAJINOVIC OUSTS JOHN ISNER, SETS PARIS MASTERS FINAL AGAINST JACK SOCK BY RICHARD EVANS FOR 10SBALLS
It was all set up for two Americans to make Paris their own by reaching the final of the year’s last ATP Masters 100 event. It never happened.
RICHARD EVANS REPORTS FOR 10SBALLS • WILL RAFA NADAL THROW ISNER A LIFE LINE FOR NITTO ATP FINALS IN LONDON?
The day did not start well for the Rolex Paris Masters. As soon as it was announced that Rafa Nadal was calling a press conference at 1.00 pm we knew what he was going say.
RICHARD EVANS REPORTS FOR 10SBALLS FROM PARIS • BIG NEWS IS RAFA NADAL’S YEAR END NUMERO UNO ATP PLAYER AGAIN
Outside, the falling autumn leaves might give voice to a song but inside the vast stadium on the banks of the Seine, Rafa Nadal was calling the tune.
2017 TENNIS CONGRESS IS A GREAT SUCCESS BY MASTER COACH CRAIG CIGNARELLI
It is the final evening of the Congress. With the crowd now dressed for the closing banquet, blister tape peeks out from high heels and suntanned faces now light up the room.
10SBALLS SHARES A REPORT FROM THE TENNIS CONGRESS BY CRAIG CIGNARELLI
After an impassioned speech by Ollie Stephens, on Thursday evening, creator PJ Simmons banged the gavel and launched the 2017 US Tennis Congress. When the sun rose the following morning, two-hundred fifty participants began a four day journey into tennis’ hinterlands.
CRAIG CIGNARELLI CHECKS IN FROM THE “U.S. TENNIS CONGRESS” STARTING IN ARIZONA FOR ITS 5th YEAR
Across the prairie they rumble, Nike-covered feet trampling the dusty earth to converge upon the El Conquistador Resort in the arid Arizona desert.
TENNIS • 10SBALLS SHARES RICHARD EVANS REVIEW OF MARIA SHARAPOVA’S BOOK “UNSTOPPABLE”
You are a Russian man with a 6 year old daughter and $700 in your pocket. You are standing on the curb at Miami Airport at 2.00 am and cannot speak English. The Russian coach who is supposed to pick you up doesn’t arrive.
LOVEY JERGENS JOURNAL AUGUST 2017 U.S. OPEN TENNIS PREVIEW
In just a few hours the United States tennis open begins at Flushing Meadow in Corona Park at the BILLIE Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing New York. Wow. Sure loved the simplicity of the "Westside Tennis Club" it's proper name or Forest Hills.
10sBalls Top Stories
- No Key Biscayne, No Problem; New Site, Same Great Miami Open Tennis Event
- 10SBALLS SHARES FAVORITE EPA TENNIS PHOTOS Of 2018
- THE PERFECT HOLIDAY GIFT FOR ANY TENNIS PLAYER & FAN
- ATP MEN’S TENNIS • WILL IT MOVE FROM LONDON TO MANCHESTER OR TOKYO OR SINGAPORE? OR TURIN?
- ALIX RAMSAY WRITES TO “TENNIS SANTA CLAUS” WITH HER WISHES • ANDY MURRAY!
- CALIFORNIA CHAMPIONSHIPS AT THE JACK KRAMER CLUB – DECEMBER 15 TO 22 2018 • UTR • ORACLE • AND AN AWESOME NEW TENNIS EVENT
- 10sBalls.com Shares Alix Ramsay’s Rambling On About Tennis and The Holidays
- ROGER FEDERER JOINED BY RAFA NADAL FOR THE 2019 LAVER CUP FESTIVITIES IN GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
- TENNIS PLAYERS’ UNION – IS IT NEEDED? BY MARK WINTERS
- Tennis News: Wilson’s Revolution Is Here – THE CLASH
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EUGENIE BOUCHARD NAMED 2018 TENNIS CANADA FEMALE PLAYER OF THE YEAR / EUGENIE BOUCHARD NOMMÉE JOUEUSE DE L’ANNÉE 2018 DE TENNIS CANADA
Tennis Canada announced on Wednesday that Eugenie Bouchard is the winner of the 2018 Excellence Awards in the Female Player of the Year and Singles Player of the Year categories.
TENNIS NEWS • CALIFORNIA CHAMPIONSHIPS • TOMMY HAAS, TAYLOR FRITZ, STEVE JOHNSON, MARDY FISH AND MORE
Time to get tickets to watch! Surly you have heard about The Largest Open Tennis Event in America!
TENNIS NEWS • RAFA NADAL CONFIRMS RETURN TO PRACTICE, EYES ABU DHABI EXHIBITION AND AUSTRALIAN SUMMER
According to Uncle Toni, Rafael Nadal was supposed to be back at practice on either Dec. 4 or 5. Well, better late than never!
Conchita Martínez prepara la temporada 2019 de Karolina Pliskova en Tenerife
Española y checa ya trabajaron juntas durante el pasado Open de Estados Unidos