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Head has announced it will continue to sponsor Tennis Europe, the official ITF tennis federation, for another two years to expire at the end of 2015.This new sponsorship will give particular attention to junior tennis and will include sponsorship of 340 international junior events in 46 countries.
Jan Menneken, the man responsible for bringing in more than $500 million of commercial and television income to the International Tennis Federation over the last 16 years, is to leave his position as the governing body’s Executive Director, Commercial at the end of the month.
Just after Alicia Molik became the show stopper at the Australian Open and before Jelena Dokic wowed the crowds at Rod Laver Arena, the quiet lefthander Casey Dellacqua raised the roof, coming out of nowhere in 2008 to reach the fourth round...
For the first time since 2004 Canada is among the eight countries competing in the Hopman Cup, an ITF team exhibition event taking place from December 28 to January 4 in Perth, Australia.
The ITF announced that the 2014 BNP Paribas World Team Cup, the ITF’s flagship wheelchair tennis team event, will be held in Alphen, Netherlands.
...big congrats to Max Braeckman who brought her (Kirsten Flipkens) out of obscurity to number 12 in the world. Max formerly coached Xavier Malisse. He is currently a coach at the Kim Clijsters academy.
The International Tennis Hall of Fame & Museum and the International Tennis Federation have presented the 2014 Golden Achievement Award to David Jude, a longtime volunteer leader in the tennis community who served as Honorary Treasurer of the ITF for 37 years.
The ITF announced today that Serena Williams of the United States and Novak Djokovic of Serbia are the 2013 ITF World Champions. Williams is named Women’s World Champion for the fourth time, while this is the third successive year that Djokovic has received the honor.
Asia seems to be granted increasing new tournaments by the week but the impending added week between the French Opens and Wimbledon that comes into the tennis calendar in 2015 will see the addition of another English grass court event at Nottingham.
Mitsuji Konoshita, the president of the Cambodia-based GL Finance, and former circuit player from Japan, is ready to build a multimillion- tennis academy in Cambodia.
Top-seeded Sophie Woorons-Johnston of Anderson, S.C., playing in the USTA National 40 Hard Court Championships for the first time, defeated fourth-seeded Ros Nideffer of San Diego, 6-3, 6-1, to capture the women’s singles title.
After an agonizing year she will most definitely want to forget, Britain’s Heather Watson is looking forward to rejuvenating her career in 2014 under new coach Diego Veronelli.
The ITF announced today that it has renewed its sponsorship agreement with NEC Corporation as title sponsor of the NEC Wheelchair Tennis Masters and as an Official Partner of the ITF Wheelchair Tennis Tour for 2014.
Pat Cash has now been the face of CNN’s Open Court television show for five years but the Australian still keeps himself more than active on the competitive court in seniors’ event. And he will be re-running his 1987 Wimbledon triumph against Ivan Lendl in London...
International Tennis Federation president Francesco Ricci Bitti says critics of Viktor Troicki's one-year doping suspension don't understand the decision made by the Court of Arbitration for Sport. “Critics need to read the decision,” Ricci Bitti told the AP.
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