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More hours of grass court tennis will be shown on British television than ever before in the run-up to The Championships, Wimbledon after the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) signed an agreement with BT Sport to cover the Aegon Classic (Birmingham), the Aegon Championships (Queen’s) and the Aegon International (Eastbourne) in June.
World No.3 Agnieszka Radwanska and the 2011 Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova will take part in the Rally For Bally in Eastbourne on 15th June as support for the cause continues to grow throughout the tennis world.
British Fed Cup Captain Judy Murray and television presenter Helen Skelton joined the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) today to announce the launch of four ‘Great British Tennis Weekends’ which will take place across the country from May to July 2014.
The Aegon Championships has been voted ATP 250 Tournament of the Year by the players of the ATP World Tour in the 2013 awards. It is the first time that the Aegon Championships, held every June on grass at The Queen’s Club in London, has received the award, which had gone to the tournament in Bastad, Sweden for the previous 11 years.
British tennis player Ross Hutchins has been appointed the new Tournament Director of the Aegon Championships, the annual grass court tournament at The Queen’s Club in London.
Chris Kermode’s appointment as the ATP World Tour’s Executive Chairman and President has left a vacancy as Tournament Director of the Aegon Championships, the London grass court event that is long established in the Wimbledon build up and next year elevates to a 500 series.
The ATP has announced the Tournaments of the Year in the 2013 ATP World Tour Awards presented by Moët & Chandon, with repeat winners the Shanghai and Dubai joined by newcomer Queen’s as the most favored ATP World Tour events in their respective tournament categories.
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.
Sloane Stephens has decided to hire coach Paul Annacone full time for the 2014 season.
Eurosport and IMG Media have agreed to a new joint five-year media rights partnership with the Lawn Tennis Association, while the BNP Paribas Open at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden has renewed its TV broadcast agreement with Tennis Channel.
Britain may have had to wait 77 years for a Wimbledon men’s singles champion but until now, throughout 125 years of its’ existence, the Lawn Tennis Association hasn’t had a female president. Now retired school teacher Cathie Sabin, has broken tradition.
The tennis family from all over the world of tennis attended the prestigious Lawn Tennis Writers' Annual Awards lunch on December 3rd
Serena Williams will play Victoria Azarenka in an exhibition match in Thailand in the next couple weeks in a matchup of the world's top two players. The Lawn Tennis Association of Thailand announced that the match will be part of the regular invitational event in Hua Hin...
At the start of next year the ATP World Tour’s new executive chairman Chris Kermode will take residence in an office once occupied by the man he coached at tennis, Etienne de Villiers.
Sloane Stephens had her best season ever working under USTA Player Development coach David Nainkin, finishing the year at No. 12 and reaching the second week of every Grand Slam event.
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