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Scotland's main tennis cheerleader - Judy Murray - has expressed her concern at the lack of development monies to be spent on the sport in the country despite the summer Wimbledon title from son Andy.
Venus Williams won’t say whether she will ever compete at the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells again, but it’s doubtful given that she and her sister Serena have not played there since 2001 when they claim they were victims of racism.
The USTA today announced that tickets for...
Tennis South Africa has decided to hire separate captains for the nation’s Davis Cup and Fed Cup teams, a combined job John-Laffnie de Jager has been doing for eight years.
China’s leading tennis ladies have confirmed their participation in the Shenzhen Open, as the official direct entry list is announced for the USD 500,000 WTA tournament, which takes place at the Shenzhen Longgang Sports Center from December 29, 2013, to January 4, 2014.
The ATP and WTA seasons are over, and the Davis and Fed Cup finals are in the books. But plenty of pros will be playing for various clubs in the French Team Championships, which began this week and will conclude December 15.
With three days remaining before the Czech Davis Cup begin their title defence against Serbia in this week’s final, Vladimir Safarik has taken over as emergency captain after Jaroslav Navratil was hospitalized with a blood clot in the lung.
At the Fed Cup World Group Final, the International Tennis Hall of Fame and the International Tennis Federation (ITF) honored longtime Italian Fed Cup Captain Corrado Barazzutti with the 2013 Fed Cup Award of Excellence.
Italy’s fourth Fed Cup title was achieved a number of ways in a sometimes-trying year for the southern European nation, but the team hung together, which keyed their wins in all three ties they contested.
When Elena Vesnina lost the second set of this, we couldn't help but think, "Well, that's that." But this is the new model Vesnina. She came back to win -- and leave her record at 2-1, the same as Ivanovic's.
The ITF has announced the draw for the Fed Cup by BNP Paribas World Group Final between Italy and Russia in Cagliari, Sardinia on November 2-3. / Alisa Kleybanova is the only player on Russia’s Fed Cup team to reach the second week of Grand Slam, but although she once cracked the top 15 she is a long way from that form as she’s only six months into her comeback from Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.
Russia has announced it will field a Fed Cup team.
Russia finally managed to cobble together a team to face Italy in next week’s Fed Cup but the four times champions whose players dominated the WTA top 20 just a few years ago, have been reduced to naming 138th-ranked Alexandra Panova as the leading singles player.
The Fed Cup is supposedly the foremost team competition in the female tennis world but while the currently fit top eight players are battling it out in this week’s TEB BNP Paribas WTA Championships in Istanbul, next week’s Italy v Russia final in Cagliari, Sardinia is descending into farce.
Nike extends its deal with Nike, with a new arrangement, which will begin in January 2014, will see Nike step up from Official Supplier to become an Official Partner of British Tennis...
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