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The one that played fire tennis against Jimmy Connors
Acrimony toward the NCAA continues to grow – they've now abolished the third set for the women and made the men’s game no-ad scoring. Ever the contrarian, this time I’m going to side with the organization.
The field for the Tallahassee Tennis Challenger was announced Thursday morning by tournament director Karen Vogter, as two former champions and nine players inside the top 150 will make the trip to the $50,000 event, the last stop on the Har-Tru USTA Pro Circuit Wild Card Challenge, where players compete for a spot at the French Open.
With potential future college coaches looking on, No. 3-seeded Logan Smith of Carlsbad, Calif., beat Javier Restrepo of Miami, 7-6 (0), 6-1, on a busy Wednesday in the Boys’ 18s ITF division at the ASICS Easter Bowl being played at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden.
A few hours after the Casablanca lost its No. 1 seed, Kevin Anderson, the U.S. Men's Clay Court Championship in Houston stumbled upon the same fate. Like Anderson, top-seeded John Isner--who was also the defending champion--lost his opening match.
Click here to see the Katowice and Bogota women's results and order of play.
The ITF has announced the official team nominations for the 2014 Fed Cup by BNP Paribas World Group semifinals, and World Group and World Group II play-offs taking place on 19-20 April.
The players who reached the final round of qualifying at the U.S. Men's Clay Court Championship had already been required to work overtime. A little more extra tennis on Monday couldn't hurt, could it?
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First Patrick. Now Jose. “When a high percentage of the coaches want it more than the players,” he said, “we have a problem.”
The Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) announced today a new three-year plan for 2014-2016, designed to transform the marketing organization into a digital and mobile centric editorial and publishing organization to better serve its fans, partners, players and tournament members as the consumption of sport entertainment is rapidly changing worldwide.
Two sons of former world Top 10 women’s tennis players won straight-set matches Wednesday at the 10th annual USTA International Spring Championships taking place at the StubHub Center.
The long-running 13-year boycott of the Indian Wells Masters by the Williams sisters goes on after Serena announced that she had considered - and rejected - an appeal to return to the tournament.
Click here to see the Charleston tennis results and order of play.
Click here to see the Monterrey results, order of play and more.
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