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When the International Tennis Federation and Grand Slam Committee take stock of the 2014 US Open one issue bound to provoke debate is the attitude to serious cramping and heat related issues following the lamentable scenes of an agonized Peng Shuai being pushed off court in wheelchair following her retirement from the women’s semi-final against Caroline Wozniacki.
Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus, a former Top 10 player and Australian Open finalist, has received the first wild card for the Fayez Sarofim & Co. US Men's Clay Court Championship that will be held at River Oaks Country Club April 7-13.
Common sense finally seems to have prevailed as world no.8 Juan Martin Del Potro has withdrawn from the Sony Open in Miami with an ongoing problem in his left wrist.
Stanislas Wawrinka says the effort of returning after his Australian Open win left him lacking energy during a three-set defeat to Kevin Anderson in the fourth round of Indian Wells.
Stanislas Wawrinka confirmed that a long rest of nearly a month was exactly what he needed to clear his head and prepare for a resumption of tennis after winning the Australian Open.
The city of Indian Wells receives an annual $5 million in economic value for the $351,000 it invests in the tournament, according to a report obtained by the Palm Springs newspaper, The Desert Sun.
The Australian Open may be called “the Happy Slam,” but perhaps at no event are the players in a more jovial mood than they are at the BNP Paribas Open.
Many are the calls for women to play the best of five sets matches in Grand Slam events to justify equal prize money with their male counterparts. Now Maria Sharapova has insisted that a far better plan would be to play men’s matches at the four majors over a shorter distance of best of three sets.
Martina Hingis intimated she had played her last match on the WTA scene when her doubles partnership with Daniela Hantuchova hardly set the world on fire last year but clearly the 33 year-old has been re-energized by coaching Sabine Lisicki and now the pair have entered the women’s doubles event at Indian Wells’ BNP Paribas Open.
Ion Tiriac, the Romanian tennis star turned billionaire with the trademark moustache, was the initial guiding force behind Boris Becker’s teenage onslaught onto the tennis world that saw the German become a Wimbledon champion at the age of 17. But nearly three decades on Tiriac is not sure his former prodigy has what it takes to become a top-flight coach...
Sloane Stephens is still struggling with the wrist injury she suffered at Hopman Cup, with doctors yet to figure out the problem.
The inaugural International Premier Tennis League is still more than eight months away but after Sunday’s players draft in Dubai it seems with each passing day, more doubts occur and now Andre Agassi has thrown doubt on his part.
Roger Federer spends almost as much time living with his family in the plush apartment he owns as Dubai’s exclusive marina as he does in his native Switzerland.
World no.5 Juan Martin Del Potro faces a nervous 16 hours flight as he heads from the Middle East to the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota for an appointment with Dr. Richard Berger to ascertain the extent of the left wrist injury that forced him to retire from the Dubai Duty Free Championships after just one set.
Australian Open finalist Dominika Cibulkova fulfilled her top seeding after a few rough showings since Melbourne, with the Slovak beating Poland Urszula Radwanska 6-3, 6-4 in the first round.
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