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Swiss star Stan Wawrinka is starting to reap the benefits of his Australian Open title, with the newest Grand Slam champion now an official ambassador for Subaru automobiles.
Venus Williams saved face for the American sisters after the Doha pullout of world No. 1 Serena, powering into the second round over Petra Martic 6-2, 6-2. The elder sibling next faces fellow former Wimbledon winner Petra Kvitova, with the Czech making her first appearance since a first-round Australian Open loss following a recovery from a virus.
After years of lobbying the grass season will finally come into its own in 2015, with a six-week ATP season to be played on the lawns. The men will get a true run-up to Wimbledon, with three weeks now separating the end of the French Open and the start of Wimbledon.
With sister Serena withdrawing from WTA tennis over the next month as she claims an Australian Open back injury, Venus Williams is suddenly making up the numbers for the unpredictable sister act as she plays at the Dubai Open starting next week.
Li Na is set to become the world’s no.2 ranked female tennis player in just seven days’ time as the Australian Open champion bids to capitalize on the enforced withdrawals of Serena Williams and Victoria Azarenka from this week’s Qatar Total Open in Doha.
Plans to strengthen the grass court season between the French Open and The Championships, Wimbledon took another significant step forward today with the news that Nottingham is to host an ATP250 men’s event during the week before Wimbledon from 2015.
Mylan World TeamTennis has alignment its teams and reassigned some of its stars, in the process moving into three new cities and busting up one of professional sports best rivalries.
There are a number of skeptics out there who don’t believe that the forthcoming International Premier Tennis League (IPTL), which will play its first season from November 28 to December 20, will really fly, but Morgan Menahem, the CEO of the IPTL, thinks that the league has bright future.
Gael Monfils really does like playing in France. And indoor hardcourts. This was career final #21. He has won only five of them. Four of the titles (Metz 2009, Montpellier 2010, Stockholm 2011, and now Montpellier 2013) have been on indoor hardcourts, and three (all but Stockholm 2011) have been in France. This marks the first time he has ever won a title twice.
Eugenie Bouchard has been getting better almost daily in recent months. It showed in the first set of her match with Serbia's Vesna Dolonc; Bouchard blasted through it in twenty minutes. Then -- perhaps she realized that she was a set away from winning the tie.
Switzerland is playing it safe for April's Davis Cup quarter-final at home against Kazakhstan by picking Geneva's spacious Palaexpo to host the tie.
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The difference here was probably the second serves. Jerzy Janowicz won only 56% of his second serve points; Richard Gasquet won 70%. And so Gasquet is back in the final. He will stay at #9; Janowicz will stay at #21. It's almost as if this match didn't happen....
At least it looks as if the Russians will soon be out of their misery. As soon as the teams were announced, it was obvious that the Russians would be overmatched by Australia, but the actual contest was more sad than anything else.
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