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With doubles partner Casey Dellacqua claiming an automatic spot in the Australian Open field with her finals victory at the weekend in the grand slam playoffs in Melbourne, Ash Barty is now keen to make sure she also takes a spot in the major.
Fears that Andy Murray, Britain’s first Wimbledon male singles champion for 77 years, might have blown his opportunity of winning the nation’s most prestigious sports award by staying in Miami to continue his rehabilitation after back surgery were dispelled as he was voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year with a record proportion of the ballot.
Roger Federer is to lead the applause for Rod Laver as a specially arranged charity evening to be staged at Melbourne Park , the home of the Australian Open, five days before the start of 2014’s initial Grand Slam on January 8.
Lleyton Hewitt has no time to ponder an end to his career while still focusing on unfolding upcoming challenges.
Asia seems to be granted increasing new tournaments by the week but the impending added week between the French Opens and Wimbledon that comes into the tennis calendar in 2015 will see the addition of another English grass court event at Nottingham.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
German jewelry and lifestyle company Thomas Sabo is a new sponsor of world No. 15 Sabine Lisicki.
Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka heads into the ATP season start within weeks at Chennai, India, convinced that his stellar 2013 season will provide a huge boost to his future form.
2013 has been an eventful year for the United Kingdom. A new king was born in the shape of Prince George and the nearest thing the nation had to a president died with the passing of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
Taking things very cautiously after nearly five months of being sidelined again by hip and shoulder problems, four times Grand Slam champion Maria Sharapova managed to get through only her second tennis match since her shock second round match at Wimbledon.
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