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The Mark Knowles Celebrity Tennis Invitational, November 22-23 at the Atlantis Tennis Centre on Paradise Island, has an interesting mix of players including Sabine Lisicki, Taylor Townsend, Lucie Safarova, Max Mirnyi, Denis Kudla, Jesse Levine Jean-Julien Rojer and Oliver Marach . The event raises funds supporting a range of local charities on the islands. . .
One-time rival Mark Philippoussis, who faded from the tennis scene quietly only a few years after facing Roger Federer in the Swiss player's first grand slam final in 2003, says that the 17-time grand slam champion remains a tennis threat with chances at least one more major.
Greetings and cheers from London. The team from 10sballs wakes up every morning to see the London Eye staring us in the eye. Yes, it's right outside our windows. Then we look left and see our alarm clock also known as "Big Ben" . Yes , it's truly amazeballs.
30 is the new 20 In tennis. Yes, that's right. The players conditioning , the equipment ( shoes and rackets and STRINGS ) the trainers , physios , fancy tapings , hyperbaric chambers , ice baths , blood spinning , cat scans / MRI. And who knows what else keeps them playing ?
Novak Djokovic, who opened the tie, admitted to some nerves in his first set against Radek Stepanek. He broke for 4-2 in the first set, lost the break in the ninth game, but broke again in game twelve, and never looked back, winning 7-5 6-1 6-4.
Tomas Berdych is a veteran of 25 previous Davis Cup ties spreading back more than ten years and the Czech no.1 knows he is in for a demanding weekend of his nation is to retain the trophy even though Serbia is fielding a depleted team.
Serbia limps into the Davis Cup final with the Czech Republic after Janko Tipsarevic was ruled unfit to compete due to a chronic heel injury, leaving all of the heavy lifting to Novak Djokovic.
Tennis Channel will provide exclusive live coverage of defending champion Czech Republic's and Serbia's Davis Cup final competition in Belgrade, Serbia, this weekend.
Sabine Lisicki has signed a second deal since reaching the final at Wimbledon when she signed with the car insurance company AdmiralDirekt.de.
The State Government of Rio de Janeiro has torn up its three-year advertising contract with the ATP, which indicated that the chances of the ATP World Tour Finals moving there after the tour’s deal with London’s 02 area ends appear to be almost nil.
Despite the annual chorus of complaints about a Davis Cup format fixed in stone, the worldwide team competition looks set to trudge on as it has for decades with the 2013 final set for this weekend in Belgrade.
Serbia’s bid to win the Davis Cup for the second time in the space of four years was dramatically hit this morning with the news Janko Tipsarevic has lost his battle to be fit for the three days of the final, starting tomorrow against the Czech Republic in Belgrade.
What started on a normal Monday morning, in Stuttgart on August 12, 2013, is of historic impact, not only for the Tennis Club Weissenhof but also more importantly for the MercedesCup.
Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal just reached the last stage of the ATP World Tour Finals, but have busy schedules ahead...
After a feverish period of activity ensuring the smooth running of the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals, Englishman Chris Kermode can now settle down to await the call of the ATP’s six man board of directors who appear to have ended their deliberations on who should finally succeed the late Brad Drewett as chief executive and president.
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