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Former world No. 2 Vera Zvonareva will return to play at the 2014 Australian Open after 18 months off, but No. 19 Maria Kirilenko will miss the tournament due to ankle and knee injuries. . . Andy Murray will open his inn, called Cromlix, near his hometown of Dunblane, Scotland, next spring.
Greg Rusedski has called up his own experience as the British television commentator and former ATP player gave his informal seal of approval to Maria Sharapova's recent choice of Sven Groeneveld as her new coach.
India’s Sania Mirza continues to reiterate that she was too injured to continue both a singles and doubles career. Mirza reached a career high No. 27 in 2006 but then began to be plagued by knee and wrist injuries and by mid-2012 had stopped playing singles.
No. 1 Rafael Nadal is not only no slouch on the tennis court, but he’s also not cannon fodder at the poker tables. While in Prague on Thursday, Nadal won a charity poker tournament, besting Romanian-Canadian professional poker player Daniel Negreanu...
Britain may have had to wait 77 years for a Wimbledon men’s singles champion but until now, throughout 125 years of its’ existence, the Lawn Tennis Association hasn’t had a female president. Now retired school teacher Cathie Sabin, has broken tradition.
Britain may have its’ first male Wimbledon champion in 77 years but the Andy Murray effect is apparently not winning the battle to lure people back onto tennis courts...or those south of Hadrian’s Wall at least.
With the tennis elite set to descend on Melbourne Park for the January 13 start of the first major event of the season, the men's and women's entries look all but perfect.
Juan Reque, the former fitness trainer of Maria Sharapova, is setting up shop in San Diego. Juan Martin Del Potro has won Clarin’s Sportsman of the Year award in Argentina. . . Tennis Australia hasn't decided whether it will offer former world No. 4 Jelena Dokic a wild card into the Australian Open. . .
The sporting awards season is in full swing but Wimbledon champion Andy Murray has compromised his chances of winning the prestigious BBC Sports Personality of the Year award in his native Great Britain, held next Sunday, by deciding not to attend the ceremony and remain at his Miami training camp.
Rafael Nadal, taking just a few weeks off from tennis, is today in Prague fulfilling his obligations of being a PokerStars ambassador and will tomorrow contest a a live charity poker tournament in the Czech capital.
Bernard Tomic says that his new co-coach, Croatian Velimir Zovko, has already established a good repertoire with his suspended father, John.
Judy Murray is starting to compile her holiday-and-beyond wish list, with the mother of Andy Murray hoping to someday establish a Scottish tennis center which will surely ride the famous coat-tails of her Wimbledon-winning son.
Former French Open winner Michael Chang has emerged from the shadows after more than a decade of retirement and will serve as advisor on a part-time basis to rising Japanese player Kei Nishikori.
At a recent investor meeting at its world headquarters in Beaverton, Ore., Nike stated it expects to deliver revenues of $30 billion by fiscal year 2015, at the top end of its previously announced fiscal year 2015 target range of $28-30 billion and shared a new fiscal year 2017 revenue target of $36 billion.
Taking things very cautiously after nearly five months of being sidelined again by hip and shoulder problems, four times Grand Slam champion Maria Sharapova managed to get through only her second tennis match since her shock second round match at Wimbledon.
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