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Sven Groeneveld has coached a slew of standout WTA players including Grand Slam champions such as Monica Seles, Arantxa Sanchez Vicario, Mary Pierce and Ana Ivanovic, but he has taken on an entirely new challenge as the new coach of four time Grand Slam champion Maria Sharapova.
InsideOut Sports & Entertainment announced today that Pete Sampras will play James Blake and John McEnroe will face Jim Courier in the semifinals of the Champions Shootout to be played Wednesday, February 26, 2014 at 7 pm at the Sleep Train Arena in Sacramento.
In our last statistical column, we looked at the players with the most wins at Premier events, find that Serena Williams had by far the most (71, compared to 46 for the next player on the list). But what about losses?
Since Davis Cup carried points, we would ordinarily talk about movers at this time. But Novak Djokovic couldn't move no matter what, and Dusan Lajovic didn't add any points, and Tomas Berdych and Radek Stepanek effectively repeated what they did last year -- so nothing happened.
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.
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.
Injury-plagued British battler Elena Baltacha has given up on her tennis career and will now concentrate on coaching.
Japanese tennis star Kei Nishikori has signed a personal sponsorship deal with Delta Air Lines.
John McEnroe really could have been serious as he donned a curly blond wig as he played in Japan for the first time since 1997 to help the nation’s top ranked player Kei Nishikori raise funds to rebuild and rejuvenate tennis in the region devastated by the earthquake and tsunami that struck on March, 11, 2011.
It’s pretty rare to see a golf club bought and turned into a tennis center, but that’s what’s happening in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, as the Dornier family has bought the Oaks at Sherwood golf course for $2.7 million and plans to feature soft yellow balls rather than small and hard white ones.
Rafael Nadal and David Ferrer met on court for the third time in three weeks as the pair of Spaniards played an exhibition in tennis-starved Peru.
Longtime Serbian Davis Cup team member Nenad Zimonjic has been honored with the 2013 Davis Cup Award of Excellence. The award was presented during a special on-court ceremony at the 2013 Davis Cup by BNP Paribas World Group Final between Serbia and the Czech Republic in Belgrade, Serbia on Saturday, November 16.
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