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Tennis players of the world unite! Complain about the prices of rackets and court rentals and club memberships and most of all the prices of seats / tickets to tennis tourneys. Yikes you practically need to mortgage your house to attend a really super nice tourney in Indian Wells. Wake up all tournament directors.
The Bryan's win another Masters tourney. For Mike it was his 100th. title. For Bob his 98th! They beat Melo and Dodig 6-3,3-6,10-8 ! Wow. Unreal feat. This record breaking duo are Amazeballs. For real what a nice Easter present from the Tennis Channel. They actually televised the doubles.
After an initial flourish of outspoken concern over the political situation in his troubled Ukraine homeland, Alexandr Dolgopolov realizes there may be little as an athlete that he can actually do to influence the situation.
The long-running 13-year boycott of the Indian Wells Masters by the Williams sisters goes on after Serena announced that she had considered - and rejected - an appeal to return to the tournament.
Miami Sony Open. It was a match that could have gone either way. Andy Murray versus Novak Djokovic. They played each other since they were little kids. But what happened in Miami yesterday belonged back in those days.
IMG, owners of the Sony Open in Miami, have admitted they might be forced to sell the event to concerns in China, the Middle East or India if they are continuously prevented in their efforts to upgrade the Crandon Park site on Key Biscayne.
Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan won Indian Wells for the second straight year and extended their winning streak in the California desert to 10 straight matches as they dismissed #2 seeds, Alexander Peya and Bruno Soares, 6-4, 6-3. They clinched the first set with a break, and needed just one more break early in the second set.
One high profile player/coach alliance has come to a close and another looks distinctly rocky with the news that Novak Djokovic received a last minute telephone call from Boris Becker to say he wouldn’t be able to be with his Serbian charge for the Sony Open in Miami because he was about to undergo hip surgery.
Boris Becker planned reunion with world no.2 Novak Djokovic at the Sony Open has been postponed because the 46 year-old German has fallen ill.
The Andy Murray/Ivan Lendl relationship as player and celebrity coach, that set the trend for Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer and several other top flight players to follow, sensationally came to an end today with the news the pair are to part after an exemplary two years that realized Olympic gold, the US Open and Wimbledon titles.
While Serena Williams remains optimistic about her chances at the Miami Masters, it's just the opposite for Agnieszka Radwanska, who will have to hope she heals her left knee enough to make a second-round starts after a bye at the event.
Victoria Azarenka has signed a two-year agreement with online automobile insurance company Esurance, reports Sports Business Journal.
Despite having first-class facilities to hand, staging an American Davis Cup tie would be an almost impossible task for the newly expanded Indian Wells Tennis Garden, with tournament CEO Raymond Moore blaming inconvenient scheduling vis-a-vis his annual Masters 1000 with making a Davis tie all but logistically impossible.
Andy Murray enjoys two things above all others in tennis, winning major trophies and working hard in preparation for such triumphs. And the Wimbledon champion who, by his own admission is still some way short of recapturing his best form after back surgery late last year, has been utilizing the last few days away from the public gaze to put in the hard yards.
Rafael Nadal's occasional coach believes that even his celebrated client can sometimes be blocked by insecurities, especially when playing away from his beloved clay, Francisco Roig, who substitutes on the road several times a year in order to give Nadal's permanent coach uncle Toni a bit of a rest at home, said the world No. 1 can fall victim to poor form and psychological issues on occasion.
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