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Four generations of Australian Davis Cup captains and players have united to fight for the survival of Davis Cup ahead of an historic vote to change the competition forever.
Four generations of Australian Davis Cup captains and players have united to fight for the survival of Davis Cup ahead of an historic vote to change the competition forever.
IMG, a global leader in sports, fashion and media, are thrilled to announce that Greg Rusedski, Xavier Malisse, Guy Forget, Mikael Pernfors and Fabrice Santoro will complete the line-up of this year’s Champions Tennis at the Royal Albert Hall.
The Tennis Podcast and Telegraph Sport have extended their partnership to produce regular free, weekly downloadable shows for the duration of 2016, as well as additional shows during Grand Slam tournaments.
Things have gone from bad to worse for Tennis Australia. First the federation banned Bernard Tomic from Davis Cup, after which the 22-year-old took a wild card into the U.S. Hall of Fame Tennis Championships, lost in the first round, flew to Miami, and got arrested.
Past complaints about the length of the tennis season will be conveniently shoved aside as the International Professional Tennis leagues begins a 15-day inaugural season featuring teams in four Asian cities at the weekend.
Popular Davis Cup captain and former number 1 Patrick Rafter has been promoted into one of the top jobs in Australian tennis, with the former two-time grand slam winner being named as performance director for Tennis Australia.
The best thing would be the travelling, for sure. You get to see different places, meet new people. Every city has something different, like they have the strawberries and cream [in London].
Stanislas Wawrinka confirmed that a long rest of nearly a month was exactly what he needed to clear his head and prepare for a resumption of tennis after winning the Australian Open.
ASICS is well represented at the Delray Beach Open as two seeds were ousted tonight by ASICS players!
The shelf life of Patrick Rafter as Australian Davis Cup captain may be more limited than expected after the former US Open champion and perhaps the most popular man in all of Aussie tennis casts doubts on his willingness to keep doing the job due to the huge travel commitment.
Lleyton Hewitt has given a serve to anti-doping protocols in Davis Cup after he was delayed two hours after losing a match by anti-doping functionaries at the first round tie in France. Besides going down 5-0 to the hosts, the long-time Australian stalwart was fuming at his treatment at the hands of the paper-shufflers.
At 2-3 in the third set, Mats Wilander commented on EuroSport on Federer's aggressiveness forcing Murray to start going forward himself: "…and suddenly we are looking at a completely different style of tennis, … and how healthy would that be?"
Australian Davis Cup captain Patrick Rafter will find himself back on court at the Australian Open when he teams in doubles with former protege Lleyton Hewitt.
Roger Federer's first appearance at the Brisbane International is said to have caused a surge in ticket sales.
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