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Tennis great Rod Laver believes that Australian young gun Bernard Tomic needs to make a New Year resolution to work a lot harder if he's to advance his stalled career...
Barney Waters, the CMO of K-Swiss, says that since the company’s merger with E.Land World Limited that it is better positioned to grab a great share of the market place. Water added that the company is better focused and has rediscovered its US roots.
The International Tennis Hall of Fame & Museum and the International Tennis Federation have presented the 2014 Golden Achievement Award to David Jude, a longtime volunteer leader in the tennis community who served as Honorary Treasurer of the ITF for 37 years.
The only national tennis tournament that also doubles as family time is currently working in partnership with the USPTA to register tennis facilities all across America as local host sites for the 2014 National Family Tennis Championships.
Denis Kudla and Steve Johnson are still on the outside looking in, hoping 2014 is a year their perspectives change for good.
The French national sporting newspaper l’Equipe, in the view of many a publication that provides the best and most comprehensive coverage of tennis around the globe, has awarded its’ Champions de Champions awards to Rafael Nadal and Serena Williams.
Andy Murray's Cromlix hotel project in his native Scotland will benefit from some punter input as Michelin-starred French chef Albert Roux offers the paying public a taste of what will be in store at the five-star hostelry's restaurant when it opens in 2014.
Boris Becker revealed he was approached by a representative of Novak Djokovic to be head coach as long ago as October and the actual day at the China Open in Beijing that the Serb lost his world no.1 ranking to Rafael Nadal.
The recently retired Xavier Malisse has been named as the new coach of fellow Belgian Ruben Bemelmans. Or that if The X Man gets a bit fitter like the other 30 plus year old players that he will still play singles and doubles as well. After all he and Ruben make a great doubles team.
Aussie teenaged young guns Nick Kyrgios and Thanasi Kokkinakis might be getting much of the hype as the local tennis summer approaches. But keen observer Peter McNamara is tipping his own former pupil, 26-year-old Matt Ebden, to make a run for glory long before the hot-handed youngsters.
Peter McNamara, half of one of Australia’s great doubles teams and now a respected coach as well as Mansour Bahrami’s ‘straight man’ on the ATP Champions Tour, will have his patience tested over Christmas as he waits for confirmation of a new role with Tennis Australia.
Former great Stefan Edberg has left the door wide open for a possible coaching collaboration with Roger Federer, with the Swede telling local media that he is ready to work with the 17-time grand slam event champion if asked.
Jerzy Janowicz withdrew from the Hopman Cup with a foot injury and will be replaced by No. 287 Grzegorz Panfil. . . Adidas will outfit Andy Murray in the semi-fitted Barricade top for the Australian Open. . .
Australian Samantha Stosur is pinning a lot of hopes on her new coach Miles Maclagan, who was once at the sides of Andy Murray, Marcos Baghdatis and Laura Robson. Maclagan and Robson split after the end of the season, and Stosur ended her long-term deal with David Taylor shortly after the US Open.
The ITF announced today that Serena Williams of the United States and Novak Djokovic of Serbia are the 2013 ITF World Champions. Williams is named Women’s World Champion for the fourth time, while this is the third successive year that Djokovic has received the honor.
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