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The Dusseldorf clay event has dodged another financial bullet and will be held in May, 2014 despite the loss of sponsor PowerHorse energy drinks, officials have confirmed.
Tennis Australia CEO Craig Tiley says he’s taking further aim at the Asian market in order to overcome this year’s dip in profits. The new CEO also says Tennis Australia will be better placed to handle a $3 million increase in prize money for the 2014 Australian Open, which will be a record $33 million.
Melanie Oudin was pretty pleased how her fall season had gone, as she won the Las Vegas USTA Challenger and reached the semifinals of four more circuit events.
Andy Murray is apparently in the running as heavy favorite among ten contenders for the prestigious 2013 BBC Sports Personality of the Year.
Ana Ivanovic is trying not to let the pressure of once standing atop the WTA rankings get in the way of what the Serb hopes will be a return to top form in 2014.
Rafael Nadal habitually adopts the humble approach when asked what are his aims for the upcoming tennis year; merely stating he will be content with continued fitness and the ability to play top matches.
International Tennis Federation president Francesco Ricci Bitti says critics of Viktor Troicki's one-year doping suspension don't understand the decision made by the Court of Arbitration for Sport. “Critics need to read the decision,” Ricci Bitti told the AP.
Dutchman Robin Haase has admitted that an anti-doping test carried out in 2006 revealed that he has abnormally high levels of testosterone, but in a letter he received from the ATP, they said it the abnormal level could very well be natural.
Andy Murray will be receiving more home recognition after his historic summer Wimbledon title, with the Scot set to be handed the freedom of the city of Stirling.
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.
It's boom time this month for tennis in South America, with Maria Sharapova set to make her return to the sport after missing several months since the summer with a shoulder injury, The Russian world No. 4 will face Ana Ivanovic next week in the Colombian capital of Bogata on December 6.
Rafael Nadal will interrupt his brief period of off-season training next month to participate in his first live poker tournament
Andy Murray will be receiving more home recognition after his historic summer Wimbledon title, with the Scot set to be handed the freedom of the city of Stirling
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.” . . .
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