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First news of the International Premier Tennis League appeared in Bob Larson’s Daily Tennis News last March but official confirmation came at the Australian Open today with co-founder Mahesh Bhupathi revealing the competition will start November 28 and run to December 20 later this year.
"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...
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?"
Victoria Azarenka may have looked fit and commanding as she took another step closer to a third successive Australian Open title but the world no.2 admitted she was exhausted and in need of new motivation for tennis at the end of last year.
Australian Bernard Tomic will miss at least the next three months of ATP play as the 21-year-old undergoes surgery for a hip defect which doctors say he has carried unknowingly for a decade and which has surely affected his tennis.
Rafael Nadal was upset that he was called for multiple time violations in his 7-6 (3) 7-5 7-6 (3) fourth round win over Kei Nishikori but he’s been a serial offender of the rule, even if he is one of the tour’s greatest and most exciting competitors.
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The race may not always be to the swift, but right now, the swift are doing just fine, thank you. Rafael Nadal is #1, and he will stay #1, and he will be #1 by a very wide margin. We still don't know how wide, but he will lead Novak Djokovic by a lot more than a thousand points.
The USTA today announced that single-day tickets for the 2014 Davis Cup by BNP Paribas World Group First Round tie between the United States and Great Britain will go on sale on Monday, January 20 at 10 a.m. PT.
On Sunday in Melbourne, Eugenie Bouchard (Westmount, QC) became the first Canadian to reach the quarter-finals of a Grand Slam since Patricia Hy-Boulais at the U.S. Open in 1992.
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Not a huge surprise given current form, but Caroline Wozniacki was defending fourth round points. She will lose her Top Ten spot. Garbine Muguruza is up to #35 -- and seems sure to climb even higher. Maybe not this week, but soon.
So much for the potentially dramatic rematch of the Doha final. Gael Monfils will almost certainly return to the Top Thirty, but just barely.
The Australian Open is well into its second week and we found out tonight that we will have a new mens champion. As Stanislas Wawrinka took out the 3 time defending champion Novak Djokovic, in a dramatic 5 set marathon win. Stan avenged the previous 14 losses in a row to Djoker...
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