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World no.9 Richard Gasquet has moved quickly to replace coach Riccardo Piatti who walked out on the Frenchman midway through the recent Barclays ATP World Tour Finals in London and will be working with former French Open champion Sergi Bruguera from next February.
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.
With six of the eight Grand Slam singles titles going to European players in 2013, tennis television rights in Europe remain big business.
Toni Nadal, uncle to Rafael who can cement the year ending world no.1 ranking today if he beats Stanislas Wawrinka at the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals in London, maintains the success so far of this year in coming back from a seven months absence with knee problems to win ten titles is already his nephew’s most incredible achievement of all.
I spent a couple of hours this morning writing what I thought was a very nice piece about the one and only way Federer could be kept out of qualifying for London. Simple as one-two-three. It was just math.
Sport is becoming more and more saturated by statistics and the new sponsorship deal, or global relationship, between the WTA and SAP only serves to enhance the move forward.
A few weeks after taking over the Spanish Davis Cup captaincy, former No. 1 Carlos Moya has not yet bothered to speak with his tennis troops.
Andy Murray is sitting on the sidelines in the frenetic closing weeks of the ATP season.
Patrick Mouratoglou has finally revealed the basis of his coaching relationship with world no.1 Serena Williams and how he transformed her into a resilient performer who does not fall prey to the number of injuries and illnesses that once restricted her tennis.
It’s hard to imagine former US Open champion Gabriela Sabatini as a shy young girl these days as she traipses the globe comfortably promoting her line of perfume and cosmetics.
Old Swedish stager Jonas Bjorkman has dusted off his racquets five years after his ATP retirement to lend a hand in doubles at the Stockholm Open,
There was Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova. Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe. Stretching the field, you can talk of Rolls and Royce, Rogers and Hammerstein. But a quartet?
Sven Groeneveld, the highly respected Dutchman who for the last seven years has been the fulcrum of the adidas Players Development Program, could be ready to go back on the open coaching market and become the centre of the three way tussle between female players who wear the three stripes.
Czech fifth seed Lucie Safarova began her week with a win over China's Peng Shuai 7-5, 6-4 while Serb Bojana Jovanovski, seeded eighth, beat former French Open winner Francesca Schiavone 6-4, 6-3.
As he heads back to Europe after third-round disappointment at the Shanghai Masters, Roger Federer says he's surprised at the lack of a true youth movement in the current men's game.
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