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Indian Wells BNP Paribas Open and the Williams sisters have history. Hopefully now that Larry Ellison owns the tournament the sisters will return. They were always loved at the event. And they've been missed.
Melbourne. The third set of the match between Aggie and Vika was not to be believed. Some brilliant play. Some amazing tennis. Shotmaking and anticipation and finesse. It was closer than you would think for a "Bagel set ".
Going late into the third set, I thought Wawrinka was making a mistake in not engaging in more rallies involving movement like he and Djokovic demonstrated in the quarters. I felt that while Berdych is definitely an exquisite striker of the ball, he did not move as well as Wawrinka...
The USTA and U.S. Davis Cup Captain Jim Courier announced that top-ranked American and world No. 13 John Isner, world No. 51 Sam Querrey and the world’s No. 1 doubles team of Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan will represent the United States in the 2014 Davis Cup by BNP Paribas First Round tie against Great Britain.
The Australian Open is well into its second week and we found out tonight that we will have a new mens champion. As Stanislas Wawrinka took out the 3 time defending champion Novak Djokovic, in a dramatic 5 set marathon win.
Roger Federer went back to the future with a dominating vintage win over hammered Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-3, 7-5, 6-4 on Monday to start the second week with a fourth-round victory. The Swiss played plenty of serve-and volley the day after the birthday of new coach Stefan Edberg...
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Attendance during last week's five-day heat wave which set records across Melbourne will be felt directly on the bottom line of the Australian Open. Officials are said to have accepted the fact that crowds will be sharply down at this edition, with a decrease of almost 50,000 fans...
First news of the International Premier Tennis League appeared in Bob Larson’s Daily Tennis News last March but official confirmation came at the Australian Open today with co-founder Mahesh Bhupathi revealing the competition will start November 28 and run to December 20 later this year.
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: / Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!", so reads the famous quotation from Percy Bysshe Shelley's 'Ozymandias'. These words, of course, turn out to be hollow, as all that remains of Ozymandias' works are the decaying remnants of a once flourishing empire...
At 2-3 in the third set, Mats Wilander commented on EuroSport on Federer's aggressiveness forcing Murray to start going forward himself: "…and suddenly we are looking at a completely different style of tennis, … and how healthy would that be?"
Victoria Azarenka may have looked fit and commanding as she took another step closer to a third successive Australian Open title but the world no.2 admitted she was exhausted and in need of new motivation for tennis at the end of last year.
Australian Bernard Tomic will miss at least the next three months of ATP play as the 21-year-old undergoes surgery for a hip defect which doctors say he has carried unknowingly for a decade and which has surely affected his tennis.
Eva Asderaki’s name is etched in tennis history as the umpire who had to weather the fiercest verbal onslaught ever known in a Grand Slam final when Serena Williams berated her decision-making at a crucial stage of the 2009 US Open.
Serena Williams has revealed that she almost didn’t start her match due to a back injury in a 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 loss to Ana Ivanovic in the Australian Open fourth round.
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