Archive: craig-tiley
Earlier this week, three-hundred coaches descended upon Melbourne Park’s Hisense arena for a six-day educational forum entitled: The Grand Slam Coaches Conference.
Lauren Davis and Simona Halep have the kind of hearts Andrea Bocelli sings about. When the Rod Laver Arena crowd goes off, it sounds like a Bose Speaker.
Ken Rosewall writes notes annually to Roger Federer. That's really great. Or is it? Look deeper. The "suits" that run these tourneys.. yes, Craig Tiley you too... Tourney Directors seem obtuse to all of your living legends.
The Australian Open has increased its travel allowance for players, giving more than $1,088,000 to assist with expenses for coming for the tournament. This is in addition to other expense amounts given by the tournament, which include $300 a day for accommodations and $60 a day for meals, according to the New York Times.
Australian opinion is divided about Nick Kyrgios as the 19 year-old prepares to face former Wimbledon and US Open champion Andy Murray in a bid to become the first home semi-finalists at the year-opening Grand Slam since Lleyton Hewitt ten years ago.
Attendance records are expected to be broken when the Australian Open starts next week as officials make an optimistic prediction of exceeding the nearly 685,000 who poured through the gates of Melbourne Park a year ago over the grand slam event fortnight.
Tennis Australia president Stephen Healy says the organization is in negotiations with another airline to replace Virgin Australia as a major sponsor of the Australian Open. Board level negotiations are ongoing to replace Virgin.
Andrea Petkovic tells the Australian that she admired Serena Williams growing up. "When Serena won her first slam I was not playing yet on the women's tour. She was my idol...
Roger Federer's first appearance at the Brisbane International is said to have caused a surge in ticket sales.
The rich will get richer at the Australian Open as the first grand slam event of 2014 announced another $A 3 million ($2.82 million) prize money increase on top of $A 4 million ($3.76 million) increase laid only a year earlier.
The Australian Open would be the major event most affected by the new proposed Asian Tennis League, with players coming with the effects of playing throughout the close season.
The official draw for Australian Open 2013 will be held as a public event for the first time and will take place today at Crown Riverwalk, Melbourne.
Tiley said he sees US Open winner Andy Murray as the men's champion and Maria Sharapova as women's holder at Melbourne Park during the last weekend of January,
Andy Murray is insistent he was never happy with the potential threat to boycott the Australian Open over the matter of prize money
Novak Djokovic and third ranked Andy Murray were also involved in talks that centered on the level of prize money at the four majors and the level distribution amongst the different rounds
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