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So, the story was an all Swiss final, it's staring us right in the face, right? Stan's already in and Feds's got a new coach, new racquet, and is playing great, already having beaten Tsonga and Murray both former finalists down under. Plus Rafa's got that blister that everyone's talking about...
Head has announced it will continue to sponsor Tennis Europe, the official ITF tennis federation, for another two years to expire at the end of 2015.This new sponsorship will give particular attention to junior tennis and will include sponsorship of 340 international junior events in 46 countries.
Indian Wells officials are hoping that recent hints might mean that Serena Williams is ready to set aside a feud of 13 years by signing up to play in the upcoming edition of the men's and women's Masters in the Californian desert.
Australia Day, the nation’s annual celebration of the anniversary of the 1788 arrival of the First Fleet of British ships, coincides with the Australian Open men’s final this year.
Dominika Cibulkova has reached her first Grand Slam event final at the Australian Open and while there were technical and physical issues she had to address during the off-season, the Slovak needed a mental boost too.
Li Na will have 1.3 billion fellow Chinese behind her while Dominika Cibulkova can only number 5.4 million fellow Slovaks. Nevertheless the world no.24 still insists being the first ever player from her country to contest a Grand Slam final: “It’s massive.”
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: / Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”, so reads the famous quotation from Percy Bysshe Shelley’s ‘Ozymandias’. These words, of course, turn out to be hollow, as all that remains of Ozymandias’ works are the decaying remnants of a once flourishing empire...
Rafael Nadal says that he gets more emotional for his matches against Roger Federer than against any other player, which is not surprising given that when the Spaniard arrived on the scene that the Swiss was the tour’s dominant competitor and looked unstoppable when he was on.
Two enter the court of a battle ring,
Knowing in the end there will be only one king
But they don’t seem to mind...
Perhaps Li Na appeared capable of winning her first Grand Slam title in 2011 when she reached the Australian Open final for the first time but she was not, as Kim Clijsters was a better player than she was then and Li was way too inconsistent.
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The tennis world lost a unique and very extraordinary individual when Henry Talbert passed away at his Pacific Palisades home on the morning of January 12th.
The national obsession with cricket has dealt the Australian Open a television ratings blow, with the Ashes and one-day Twenty20 Big Bash matches drawing more viewers on average than the goings-on at Melbourne Park.
Eugenie Bouchard’s Australian Open success story might have come to a close after she lost out to the superior experience of Li Na in the semifinal. However the future could not be brighter the 19 year-old Canadian with untold riches set to head her way because of her supreme marketability.
Roger Federer is reaping the benefits of both newly appointed part-time celebrity coach Stefan Edberg’s encouragement to play more attacking tennis and the bigger, more powerful Wilson racket he will now probably use for the remainder of his career.
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