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Death, taxes, and Spanish tennis players dominating on clay. Those may be the three certainties of life, and so far 2014 has done nothing to suggest otherwise.
The Draw for the 2014 Davis Cup by BNP Paribas World Group play-offs has handed Serbia and Spain difficult away trips to India and Brazil respectively on 12-14 September.
Petra Kvitova will lead Czech Republic’s bid to reach the Fed Cup by BNP Paribas Final for the third time in four years after the semifinal team nominations were announced on Wednesday.
Future tennis champ Francis Tiafoe won the Easter Bowl this weekend, a top competition for junior players. The win is his second major juniors title after winning the Orange Bowl in the winter . He will go on to compete in the junior events at the Grand Slams.
Fernando Verdasco won an all-Spanish final 6-3, 7-6(4) over Nicolas Almagro at the U.S. Men's Clay Court Championship on Sunday afternoon. Verdasco needed one hour and 52 minutes to capture his first singles title since the clay-court event in Barcelona back in 2010.
Fernando Verdasco won his sixth career title while contesting his 19th career final. This is Verdasco's first title since he won Barcelona on April 25, 2010.
It will be an all-Spanish singles final at the U.S. Men's Clay Court Championship on Sunday afternoon. The two compatriots, though, are heading into it after much different days at the office.
So far this week, five players have been named the winner's of the Jackie Cooper-Tory Fretz ASICS Sportsmanship Award during the 47th annual Easter Bowl finishing this weekend at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden.
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The one that played fire tennis against Jimmy Connors
Jerome Golmard the former Davis Cup tennis player from France and former no 22 ATP singles has been diagnosed with the Lou Gehrig's disease (ASL) in January 2014.
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In a match that had all the intensity of a final between two of the nation’s top 16-year-olds, top-seeded Francis Tiafoe of College Park, Md., came back to beat No. 7-seeded Taylor Fritz of Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., 3-6, 7-6 (5), 6-2, on Friday to advance to the ITF Boys’ 18s semifinals at the ASICS Easter Bowl.
This may not be the golden era of men's tennis in the United States, but outside of the U.S. Open, Americans at least manage to generally perform well at home.
IMG Tennis, a division of the global sports, fashion and media company, IMG Worldwide, announced today a new global partnership deal for its client Maria Sharapova with Supergoop!, the first prestige skincare line solely dedicated to a healthy approach to broad spectrum sun protection.
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