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Roger Federer is busy preparing for the 2014 season in which he hopes to erase all of the problems which plagued him in 2013. The No. 6 told sponsor Credit Suisse that his current close-season work at his base in Dubai will be aimed at rectifying the past year which resulted in only one ATP title.
Andre Silva, the ATP World Tour’s Chief Player Officer and Tournament Director of the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals for the last two years, will have a career change for the start of 2014 and is linking up with Roger Federer’s manager Tony Godsick.
Spanish-speaking Miami will celebrate the return to the Masters 1000 event of Rafael Nadal, who skipped the date a year ago to rest after making his comeback from seven months of knew problems.
It's that stealthy time of the year. Everyone's somewhere doing something. Some off season! Its the busiest 5 weeks of the year. Re: the mighty Roger Federer. ... The guess around here was Dubai.
Veteran Australian coach Tony Roche has extended the hand of friendship to Bernard Tomic, telling the sometimes-clueless 21-year-old that he is welcome to train with the Roche team in Sydney.
Sania Mirza will continue to partner Romanian Horia Tecau in the mixed doubles at the Australian Open. . . Andrea Petkovic, who has been frequently injured, is pleased with her comeback. She ended the year ranked No. 43 after starting it ranked No. 143.
Former No. 1 Ilie Nastase of Romania says that no one should be pushing Roger Federer to retire. “I think Federer should play for as long as he wants,” he said. “I don’t agree with those people who say that you should retire when you are past your absolute best or prime.
The pending return of Andy Murray to tennis has been delayed after organizers pulled the plug on a Caribbean exhibition due to have featured the Wimbledon champion at the end of the week.
The Roger Federer Foundation will mark the start of its second decade of service as its sixth-ranked patron plays Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in an exhibition at the Rod Laver arena a week before the start of the Australian Open.
Rafael Nadal tops the ATP lists in more ways that one, with the notoriously tetchy top player in the world also the worst offender when it comes to warnings for slow play.
Roger Federer, Andy Murray and Tomas Berdych have been named three of GQ’s most stylish athletes. . . David Ferrer to the New York Times on the recently retired David Nalbandian: “He could have been No. 1.” . . .
Novak Djokovic tossed aside any fears of over-work after a long ATP season and flew to Chile only hours after playing on Serbia's Davis Cup finals side last weekend.
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.
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.
Apart from finally appointing Chris Kermode as the new executive chairman and president, the ATP World Tour’s six man board of directors has formally killed off the 11 year-old Thailand Open and have decided to set up another event in China.
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