Archive: roland-garros
Boris Becker will take over as head coach for Novak Djokovic starting at the Australian Open, with current coach Marian Vajda stepping into the background to spend more time at home.
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.
Swiss Marc Rosset has delved into nostalgia, telling the Swiss Tennis magazine Smash that he longs for the game of the past when the fields at the grand slams were more wide open than they are today.
While WTA business in Asia is booming, it isn’t in some of the traditional Western countries.
With six of the eight Grand Slam singles titles going to European players in 2013, tennis television rights in Europe remain big business.
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.
Aussie teenager Nick Kyrgios says that for his initiation as an Australian Davis Cup player that he wrote and read a poem to the group. That's unusual in Davis Cup circles, but the former junior No.1 impressed his team mates.
The ATP has announced significant prize money increases that will see player compensation increase by an average of 10% annually over the next five years across ATP World Tour 500 tournaments.
The Canadian tennis community is mourning the loss former player, coach and Fed Cup captain, Rene Simpson, who passed away Thursday in Chicago after a year-long battle with brain cancer.
The planning process to expand Roland Garros, the site of the French Open, has been long, laborious and fraught with problems. But now the Administrative Court of Paris has finally given the go ahead to the French Tennis Federation (FFT) for their estimated 340 million euros (about $437 million) project.
There looks to be another changing of the guard at the head of the Spanish Davis Cup team, with local media reporting that Alex Corretja will no longer be in charge as captain.
Before I start the Grass Court season I would like to have a special entry about the The World Championships Dinner in Paris. (during Roland Garros)
Jo Wilfried Tsonga traveled to London from Paris by train yesterday and within an hour and a half of arriving at St Pancras Station, he was practicing on grass
The Bryan brothers have come a long way since their first French Open doubles title a decade ago, with the Californian twins notching their 14th major with a 6-4, 4-6 (7-6 (7-4)
Security, or the lack of it, at Roland Garros came sharply into focus as masked, bare-chested protestor got onto the court during the French Open final, appearing to endanger eventual champion Rafael Nadal.
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