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Li Na became the first Asia player to reach the No. 3 year-end ranking, but didn't have any energy left in the third set of her loss to Serena Williams.
Canadian Vasek Pospisil was temporarily dumbstruck by pure awe in the early stages of his Basel semi-final against Roger Federer before settling in and giving his idol a workout at the Swiss Indoors before Federer's 6-3, 6-7(7), 7-5 win.
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga has assembled an all-French coaching team which he will be sharing with compatriot Nicolas Mahut.
With 11 titles to her name in 2013, including two Grand Slam event titles and the WTA Championships, it is stating the blindingly obvious to say Serena Williams is by far the most dominant force in women’s tennis.
The Women’s Tennis Association announced that World No. 2 Victoria Azarenka is the recipient of the 2013 Diamond ACES Award for the second consecutive year.
Amid the repeated injuries which have continually stalled her once-promising career, German Andrea Petkovic can still take heart from countryman Tommy Haas, who went through much of the same and is now tearing up the courts at age 35.
The Canadian coaching merry-go-round continues, with teenaged WTA talent Eugenie Bouchard calling time on her relationship with former French champion Nathalie Tauziat, a period in which the 19-year-old rose to her current 32nd in the world.
Serena Williams was forced to battle both new world no.3 Li Na and her own exhaustion to win a fourth WTA Championships title in Istanbul.
Russia has announced it will field a Fed Cup team.
Serena Williams the queen of ladies tennis. She holds the titles this year. Heaps of them.
The draws for Davis Cup by BNP Paribas Europe/Africa Zone Groups I and II took place at the ITF headquarters in London on Monday.
The International Tennis Federation (ITF) and StarGames announced today that the second annual World Tennis Day will take place on Monday, 3 March 2014.
I spent a couple of hours this morning writing what I thought was a very nice piece about the one and only way Federer could be kept out of qualifying for London. Simple as one-two-three. It was just math.
SAP is continuing to innovate with the WTA in a global relationship to help provide players, coaches, fans and the media with insights through interactive analytics underpinned by the SAP HANA platform.
As the WTA waved a fond farewell to Istanbul after three years of staging the women’s tour’s year ending TEB BNP Paribas WTA Championships at the Sinan Erdem Dome, optimism is abundant that the next five years in Singapore will see the event grow.
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