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The most unusual tournament of the year will be held later this month in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
There looks to be another changing of the guard at the head of the Spanish Davis Cup team, with local media reporting that Alex Corretja will no longer be in charge as captain.
On September 26th, a collective sigh of sadness from female tennis fans was heard around the world when world no. 1 Novak Djokovic announced he and longtime girlfriend Jelena Ristic were engaged. The couple, together since high school have been going strong for almost 9 years.
World no.3 Andy Murray may be under doctor’s orders to rest and not exert himself in any way after his successful back operation last week.
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China already has a Grand Slam singles champion in Li Na, but the country’s top singles player is aging and there is hope that Zhang Shuai will be the next player out of that country to have major impact on the tour.
Serb Viktor Troicki says he is hopeful that justice will somehow be served when he appears before the Court for the Arbitration of Sport on October 9 in Switzerland to protest his innocence in a controversial anti-doping incident last spring.
David Nalbandian, in the eyes of many respected judges, the finest all-court player in recent years never to have won a Grand Slam singles title, has announced his retirement at the age of 31 after a persistent battle to overcome a shoulder injury.
John Tomic may have escaped jail for his much publicized violent altercation with his son’s former practice partner in Madrid but he continues to be ostracized from the game and Tennis Australia has announced he will be blocked from attending next January’s Australian Open.
Long-time Atlanta resident, tennis volunteer and former USTA Southern staffer Eddie Gonzalez was recently named the BB&T Atlanta Open Tournament Director and Chief Development Officer.
Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal fired the first shots in their struggle this week for the ATP top ranking held by the Serb, with top seed and three-time champion Djokovic beating Lukas Rosol 6-0, 6-3 in less than an hour.
Craig Tiley has never believed in coasting his way through life but things are going to be doubly hectic for the next few months as the South African remains the Australian Open’s tournament director while also getting to grips with succeeding Steve Wood as Tennis Australia chief executive officer.
Though he fell in last weekend's Kuala Lumpur semi-finals, the hopes of Stanislas Wawrinka are looking up as he tries to make it an unprecedented two Swiss in the ATP year-end finals in London, now just five weeks away in early November.
Although the Lawn Tennis Association chairman of the board, David Grigson insists Canadian Michael Downey was the unanimous choice as the new chief executive to lead British tennis, Judy Murray...
Singles Champion Donald Young was presented with an etched wine bottle trophy and a check for $7,200 in prize money.
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