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After months of controversy in which the pugilistic John Tomic has been prosecuted in a Madrid court house and banned from the four Grand Slam tournaments and the ATP World Tour, his son Bernard has now reluctantly admitted it is time to search for a permanent new coach.
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China already has a Grand Slam singles champion in Li Na, but the country’s top singles player is aging and there is hope that Zhang Shuai will be the next player out of that country to have major impact on the tour.
David Nalbandian, in the eyes of many respected judges, the finest all-court player in recent years never to have won a Grand Slam singles title, has announced his retirement at the age of 31 after a persistent battle to overcome a shoulder injury.
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.
Roger Federer destroyed the long held myth that winning Grand Slam titles was a single man’s game when at long last he won that elusive French Open title just a couple of months after his wedding and now Novak Djokovic has surprised his great rivals Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray by announcing his engagement to girlfriend Jelena Ristic
Following a 2013 season highlighted by winning nine titles, including two Grand Slams, Serena Williams has secured the Women's Tennis Association’s Year-End No.1, presented by Dubai Duty Free, for the third time in her illustrious career, having also achieved the honor in 2002 and 2009.
The Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) announced today that World No.5 Li Na has qualified for this year’s TEB BNP Paribas WTA Championships, to be staged at the Sinan Erdem Dome in Istanbul, Turkey, from October 22-27, 2013.
Venus Williams is not content with proving she is far from edging sedately towards retirement by reaching the semi-finals of the Toray Pan Pacific Open.
WTA boss Stacey Allaster has called the bluff of those agitating for more equality between the tennis sexes, saying in Singapore that women would be happy to play best-of-five-sets at grand slams.
Three-time Wimbledon champion Boris Becker has lifted the lid on the news that his autobiography to be published next month and will reveal some of the juicy details in the life of the always controversial player who sparked Germany's 1990s tennis boom along with 22-time grand slam winner Steffi Graf.
Rafael Nadal has now won 13 Grand Slam event titles, moving him to within just four of Roger Federer’s all time record and nudging the Spaniard from Majorca one behind Pete Sampras, but says winning this year’s US Open was the most moving...
Leander Paes became the oldest tennis player to win a Grand Slam in the Open era at the age of 40 when he and Radek Stepanek teamed up to win the US Open.
Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal, the game’s two leading players at a time when male tennis has never had a better profile are many things.
It was a bad day at the US Open for the defending champions of the ATP. One right after the other, both the men's singles and doubles 2012 champions found themselves out of contention to once again hoist the winner's trophy.
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