Archive: tennis
Xavier Malisse cut his famous ponytail. . .
Britain may have had to wait 77 years for a Wimbledon men’s singles champion but until now, throughout 125 years of its’ existence, the Lawn Tennis Association hasn’t had a female president. Now retired school teacher Cathie Sabin, has broken tradition.
Britain may have its’ first male Wimbledon champion in 77 years but the Andy Murray effect is apparently not winning the battle to lure people back onto tennis courts...or those south of Hadrian’s Wall at least.
With the tennis elite set to descend on Melbourne Park for the January 13 start of the first major event of the season, the men's and women's entries look all but perfect.
While WTA business in Asia is booming, it isn’t in some of the traditional Western countries.
Mitsuji Konoshita, the president of the Cambodia-based GL Finance, and former circuit player from Japan, is ready to build a multimillion- tennis academy in Cambodia.
"The WTA calendars continue to deepen the reach of women's professional tennis into unprecedented markets to help grow our global fan base far and wide," said Stacey Allaster, Chairman and CEO of the WTA.
Juan Reque, the former fitness trainer of Maria Sharapova, is setting up shop in San Diego. Juan Martin Del Potro has won Clarin’s Sportsman of the Year award in Argentina. . . Tennis Australia hasn't decided whether it will offer former world No. 4 Jelena Dokic a wild card into the Australian Open. . .
The sporting awards season is in full swing but Wimbledon champion Andy Murray has compromised his chances of winning the prestigious BBC Sports Personality of the Year award in his native Great Britain, held next Sunday, by deciding not to attend the ceremony and remain at his Miami training camp.
Rafael Nadal, taking just a few weeks off from tennis, is today in Prague fulfilling his obligations of being a PokerStars ambassador and will tomorrow contest a a live charity poker tournament in the Czech capital.
Bernard Tomic says that his new co-coach, Croatian Velimir Zovko, has already established a good repertoire with his suspended father, John.
Judy Murray is starting to compile her holiday-and-beyond wish list, with the mother of Andy Murray hoping to someday establish a Scottish tennis center which will surely ride the famous coat-tails of her Wimbledon-winning son.
Former French Open winner Michael Chang has emerged from the shadows after more than a decade of retirement and will serve as advisor on a part-time basis to rising Japanese player Kei Nishikori.
At a recent investor meeting at its world headquarters in Beaverton, Ore., Nike stated it expects to deliver revenues of $30 billion by fiscal year 2015, at the top end of its previously announced fiscal year 2015 target range of $28-30 billion and shared a new fiscal year 2017 revenue target of $36 billion.
German jewelry and lifestyle company Thomas Sabo is a new sponsor of world No. 15 Sabine Lisicki.
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