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A well-known saying is the only constant in life is change and that certainly seems to be the case amongst the world’s leading tennis players during the current off-season.
David Ferrer has been added to the fast-expanding the coach-change list, with the Spanish veteran announcing a split after a decade and a half with longtime mentor Javier Piles.
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...
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.
Veteran Swiss trainer Pierre Paganini likes the current look of Roger Federer as his 32-year-old client regains his classic form after a 2013 marred by injuries and setbacks.
The ATP Players Council has been discussing what would be a radical move, asking first round losers who retire with an injury at the Grand Slams to give up 30% of their prize money to the lucky loser who would have replaced them.
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.
Western Australia is doing all it can to help its young hopefuls get a leg up as they begin their
Eurosport and IMG Media have agreed to a new joint five-year media rights partnership with the Lawn Tennis Association, while the BNP Paribas Open at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden has renewed its TV broadcast agreement with Tennis Channel.
Roger Federer appears to be quietly dropping the hint that former Swedish great Stefan Edberg could be the man to give him coaching advice as the Swiss prepares to opening what he hopes is a recovering 2014 season after the disaster which was 2013.
Amidst collecting just about every award has to offer, albeit from a considerable distance while still ensconced in his Miami training base, Andy Murray has finally given the thumbs up to his return to action after back surgery and officially announced he will be playing next week’s Mubadala World Tennis Championship in Abu Dhabi.
Tennis New Zealand is putting a large chunk of developmental money into juniors and is now shying away from paying veteran pros. According to the New Zealand Herald, since 2007, Tennis New Zealand has invested more than $2 million in 40 to 50 players of all ages.
Former ATP Players Council president Ivan Ljubicic put a tremendous amount of time into politicking for the betterment of his sport during his long playing career, but he retired in April of 2013 and is now coaching world No. 11 Milos Raonic.
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