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It's boom time this month for tennis in South America, with Maria Sharapova set to make her return to the sport after missing several months since the summer with a shoulder injury, The Russian world No. 4 will face Ana Ivanovic next week in the Colombian capital of Bogata on December 6.
Sven Groeneveld has coached a slew of standout WTA players including Grand Slam champions such as Monica Seles, Arantxa Sanchez Vicario, Mary Pierce and Ana Ivanovic, but he has taken on an entirely new challenge as the new coach of four time Grand Slam champion Maria Sharapova.
Six of the world’s top 10 women and four of the top 20 men – including tennis superstar Roger Federer – will headline Brisbane International 2014 presented by Suncorp.
The Max Eisenbud influence is hugely apparent in Laura Robson’s appointment of veteran American coach Nick Saviano and his Floridian assistant Jesse Witten in a bid to direct the British teenager back towards the WTA top 20.
Stanislas Wawrinka has confirmed his participation in the Aircel Chennai Open, India's only ATP World Tour tennis event, starting December 30. . .
Robert Lansdorp has yet to be nominated for the International Tennis Hall of Fame, but perhaps he should be.
The Mark Knowles Celebrity Tennis Invitational, November 22-23 at the Atlantis Tennis Centre on Paradise Island, has an interesting mix of players including Sabine Lisicki, Taylor Townsend, Lucie Safarova, Max Mirnyi, Denis Kudla, Jesse Levine Jean-Julien Rojer and Oliver Marach . The event raises funds supporting a range of local charities on the islands. . .
Maria Sharapova has a busy start of 2014 ahead: she’s scheduled to play Brisbane, the Australian Open, the Paris Indoors and then will head to Sochi, Russia with NBC Olympics as a correspondent for its Winter Games coverage.
Italy’s fourth Fed Cup title was achieved a number of ways in a sometimes-trying year for the southern European nation, but the team hung together, which keyed their wins in all three ties they contested.
As widely predicted, Caroline Wozniacki has officially announced her new coach for the beginning of the 2014 season will be the experienced Swede Thomas Hogstedt who previously worked with the current world no.3 and no.4, Li Na and Maria Sharapova.
Teenager Genie Bouchard has made a huge leap in the past year, climbing 115 ranking spots to No 32, which could have her seeded at a slam.
Nicholas Monroe and John Isner beat the team of Marray / Sijsling the scores were 3-6,6-3,10-4. The big deal here its Monroe's first Masters tournament.
Maria Sharapova isn't about to miss a trick in the marketing of her Sugarpova candy line, with the products now on sale in time for the made-for-marketing American "holiday" of Halloween.
Serena Williams the queen of ladies tennis. She holds the titles this year. Heaps of them.
What can we say except, "Another bad day at the office for Petra Kvitova"? These were the matches she was winning two years ago....
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