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Just hours after returning to Spain from his exhibition tour of South America, world no.1 Rafael Nadal was awarded the title of his nation’s greatest athlete of all time at the sporting newspaper Marca’s silver anniversary gala in Madrid.
Pete Sampras and his wife, actress Bridgette Wilson-Sampras, have sold their Lake Sherwood-area compound near Thousand Oaks above Los Angeles.
Melanie Oudin was pretty pleased how her fall season had gone, as she won the Las Vegas USTA Challenger and reached the semifinals of four more circuit events.
Sloane Stephens had her best season ever working under USTA Player Development coach David Nainkin, finishing the year at No. 12 and reaching the second week of every Grand Slam event.
The Max Eisenbud influence is hugely apparent in Laura Robson’s appointment of veteran American coach Nick Saviano and his Floridian assistant Jesse Witten in a bid to direct the British teenager back towards the WTA top 20.
Robert Lansdorp has yet to be nominated for the International Tennis Hall of Fame, but perhaps he should be.
Aussie teenager Nick Kyrgios says that for his initiation as an Australian Davis Cup player that he wrote and read a poem to the group. That's unusual in Davis Cup circles, but the former junior No.1 impressed his team mates.
One-time rival Mark Philippoussis, who faded from the tennis scene quietly only a few years after facing Roger Federer in the Swiss player's first grand slam final in 2003, says that the 17-time grand slam champion remains a tennis threat with chances at least one more major.
Greetings and cheers from London. The team from 10sballs wakes up every morning to see the London Eye staring us in the eye. Yes, it's right outside our windows. Then we look left and see our alarm clock also known as "Big Ben" . Yes , it's truly amazeballs.
Venus Williams is not quite ready to hang up her racquet, with the 33-year-old opting for a fast start to the 2014 campaign starting in less than two months.
Novak Djokovic took one step closer to finishing the year undefeated and defending his Barclays title as he dispatched Swiss hopeful Stanislas Wawrinka 6-3, 6-3 in the semifinals on Sunday night.
The ATP has announced significant prize money increases that will see player compensation increase by an average of 10% annually over the next five years across ATP World Tour 500 tournaments.
Rafael Nadal has returned to the year-end No. 1 three years after last holding it as the Spaniard capped a miracle comeback season after winning a second group match at the World Tour Finals. And Nadal could not be more thrilled.
Toni Nadal, uncle to Rafael who can cement the year ending world no.1 ranking today if he beats Stanislas Wawrinka at the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals in London, maintains the success so far of this year in coming back from a seven months absence with knee problems to win ten titles is already his nephew’s most incredible achievement of all.
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.
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