Archive: australian-tennis-news

Andy Murray Is Comfortable With Australian Open Progress

Andy Murray is insistent he was never happy with the potential threat to boycott the Australian Open over the matter of prize money

Lleyton Hewitt Not Ready To Retire

Lleyton Hewitt, currently world no. 105 and more than two years on from his last ATP World Tour title is insistent he is not ready to follow the Andy Roddick route into retirement

Bernard Tomic Acknowledges Poor Shanghai Performance

Bernard Tomic earned a rebuke from his Australian Davis Cup captain Patrick Rafter for not giving full effort during the recent US Open.

Brisbane Gets Lleyton Hewitt and Sam Stosur

Lleyton Hewitt has left it late to make his veteran's debut at next January's Brisbane event

Novak Djokovic Pleased With Distribution Of Australian Open Prize Money Increase

It won't likely benefit him directly, but tennis elite Novak Djokovic is pleased with moves now in place to lift the prize money at the upcoming Australian Open

Australian Open Offers Major Improvements

While Tennis Australia chief executive Steve Wood said after the Australian Open increased it's prize money by a record $4 million

Australian Open 2013 To Increase Prize Money

The Australian Open is working to head off any suggestion of a player boycott over prize money by announced a payout hike of $4.1 million

Patrick Rafter Shows He Is A Good Citizen

Australian Davis Cup captain Patrick Rafter has been spending a few days away from tennis doing tourism promotion on the tropical far north of the island-continent

Lleyton Hewitt Gets Shanghai Wildcard

Former No. 1 Lleyton Hewitt will make his sixth appearance in Shanghai in 13 years after being given a wild card into next October's Masters 1000 event.

Australia Might Go With A Youth Movement In Davis Cup Play

After suffering a 3-2 loss to Germany in Davis Cup it appears that Australia might go with a youth movement next year.

Bernard Tomic Gets Chewed Out by Davis Cup Captain Rafter

Bernard Tomic may have escaped censure from the Grand Slam Committee after his far from committed display against Andy Roddick at the US Open

Bernard Tomic Is Off The Hook Following Match Performance

Tomic has escaped censure and a heavy fine from the Grand Slam Committee after John McEnroe used the ESPN television microphone to publicly accuse the Australian teenager of not trying

This Is The Final Tournament For Tennis-Great Kim Clijsters

Injuries have severely punctuated the Clijsters career over the last couple of years and she said: I am too old to play the game that I want to play physically.

Sam Stosur Is Hoping She Can Successfully Defend Her US Open Title

The Australian No. 7 Stosur refuses to totally give up on her own chances as she returns to the venue a year after winning her first Grand Slam title.