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Injury-plagued British battler Elena Baltacha has given up on her tennis career and will now concentrate on coaching.
Japanese tennis star Kei Nishikori has signed a personal sponsorship deal with Delta Air Lines.
John McEnroe really could have been serious as he donned a curly blond wig as he played in Japan for the first time since 1997 to help the nation’s top ranked player Kei Nishikori raise funds to rebuild and rejuvenate tennis in the region devastated by the earthquake and tsunami that struck on March, 11, 2011.
It’s pretty rare to see a golf club bought and turned into a tennis center, but that’s what’s happening in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, as the Dornier family has bought the Oaks at Sherwood golf course for $2.7 million and plans to feature soft yellow balls rather than small and hard white ones.
Rafael Nadal and David Ferrer met on court for the third time in three weeks as the pair of Spaniards played an exhibition in tennis-starved Peru.
Longtime Serbian Davis Cup team member Nenad Zimonjic has been honored with the 2013 Davis Cup Award of Excellence. The award was presented during a special on-court ceremony at the 2013 Davis Cup by BNP Paribas World Group Final between Serbia and the Czech Republic in Belgrade, Serbia on Saturday, November 16.
Argentina will have to do without Juan Del Potro for the immediate Davis Cup future after the angry world No. 5 spurned an offer to return to the team after his 2013 boycott.
Rafael Nadal and David Ferrer met on court for the third time in three weeks as the pair of Spaniards played an exhibition in tennis-starved Peru.
The Mark Knowles Celebrity Tennis Invitational, November 22-23 at the Atlantis Tennis Centre on Paradise Island, has an interesting mix of players including Sabine Lisicki, Taylor Townsend, Lucie Safarova, Max Mirnyi, Denis Kudla, Jesse Levine Jean-Julien Rojer and Oliver Marach . The event raises funds supporting a range of local charities on the islands. . .
One-time rival Mark Philippoussis, who faded from the tennis scene quietly only a few years after facing Roger Federer in the Swiss player's first grand slam final in 2003, says that the 17-time grand slam champion remains a tennis threat with chances at least one more major.
Being a part of such an amazing team, strong comrades around you, generations of Serbian Tennis at one place… Focused
Greetings and cheers from London. The team from 10sballs wakes up every morning to see the London Eye staring us in the eye. Yes, it's right outside our windows. Then we look left and see our alarm clock also known as "Big Ben" . Yes , it's truly amazeballs.
30 is the new 20 In tennis. Yes, that's right. The players conditioning , the equipment ( shoes and rackets and STRINGS ) the trainers , physios , fancy tapings , hyperbaric chambers , ice baths , blood spinning , cat scans / MRI. And who knows what else keeps them playing ?
On November 24th. he will be awarded the Gussy Moran humanitarian award from 10sballs.com . It will be presented to Gar by "the Koz."
Novak Djokovic, who opened the tie, admitted to some nerves in his first set against Radek Stepanek. He broke for 4-2 in the first set, lost the break in the ninth game, but broke again in game twelve, and never looked back, winning 7-5 6-1 6-4.
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