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One day after Wimbledon, the ATP World Tour will not only return to 250-point action but it will also make its way back to clay. Joining Bastad and Stuttgart--both of which are being played on the red stuff--on the schedule is the season's final grass-court event in Newport, Rhode Island.
The seedings for the Wimbledon Championships have been announced and the All England Club’s unique seeding formula has dictated defending champion Andy Murray has been promoted from fifth place on the ATP World Tour rankings to the Championships’ no.3 seed.
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.
"When in Rome, do as the Romans do." That's how the saying goes, and so went the top two players in the world last week in Rome. Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic put on games that would not have disappointed in ancient Roman times and certainly did not disappoint in the present day.
Kei Nishikori will become the first Japanese player in the history of the ATP World Tour to be ranked in the Top 10 when next week's rankings are revealed.
The International Tennis Federation announced last week that it will launch an ITF Junior Masters featuring the top eight boys and girls from the previous year's final rankings.
As the WTA celebrated its’ 40th birthday at Wimbledon there was much annoyance that Ingrid Lofdahl Bentzer didn't break the male monopoly to become one of the 13 members of the International Tennis Federation’s Board of Directors. Now the former Swedish player who was forefront in the formation of the WTA has been appointed the International Hall of Fame’s Vice Chairman of the Enshrinee Nominating Committee.
Concern has been mounting for the past few days about Bernard Tomic after the 21 year-old Australian, whose notoriety is already expansive in tennis circles, added another unwanted record by playing the shortest match in ATP World Tour history; a 28 minutes long embarrassment against Jarkko Nieminen at the Sony Open in Miami.
It's still eight months down the track, but the season-ending ATP World Tour Finals has already lined up a ticket sales deal for what is expected to be another sold-out week of elite play in London in November.
Andy Murray got off to a really slow start -- a sign of his lack of a coach, perhaps? At least he managed to pick up his game. He'll need a lot more that this to avoid falling to #8, though. Matthew Ebden added only a few points, but that may well be enough to take him above #65.
The score makes this look closer than it was -- Roger Federer lost only three points on serve (he won 94% of first serve points, 92% of second serve points). Ivo Karlovic did pretty well on serve, too, but you knew he was doomed if it came to a tiebreak. For a guy who wasn't sure he would play, Federer certainly looks solid...
Carlos Berlocq is another guy who may not have been ready to play. The good news is, he wasn't defending anything; the bad news is, the loss will leave him not much above #60.
With no seeds in action on the first day of men's play, the biggest news was probably off-court. Juan Martin del Potro's wrist is still acting up, and he was forced to pull out -- nice news for Rafael Nadal, who was drawn to face him in the quarterfinal. The news came late enough that del Potro is being replaced in the draw by Lucky Loser Benjamin Becker; there is no seed promotion.
As an exercise in formulating an impressive roster of tennis names, StarWing Sports Management appears to have most bases covered. As a current day champion the company manages Australian Open winner, Stanislas Wawrinka.
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