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It's like Friday all over again: We wish we had something to tell you -- but we don't. Not really. Everything went as expected. Sunday's action opened with Novak Djokovic facing Tomas Berdych, needing to win to keep the tie between Serbia and the Czechs alive.
The Mark Knowles Celebrity Tennis Invitational, November 22-23 at the Atlantis Tennis Centre on Paradise Island, has an interesting mix of players including Sabine Lisicki, Taylor Townsend, Lucie Safarova, Max Mirnyi, Denis Kudla, Jesse Levine Jean-Julien Rojer and Oliver Marach . The event raises funds supporting a range of local charities on the islands. . .
Sabine Lisicki has signed a second deal since reaching the final at Wimbledon when she signed with the car insurance company AdmiralDirekt.de.
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.
Andrea Jaeger had never met Thousand Oaks resident Kevin Feinbloom before she received an email from him recently, a short time removed from some devastating news Feinbloom had received from his doctors: a diagnosis of Stage 4 Esophageal cancer that came “totally out of the blue.”
Former top 5 player Kimiko Date-Krumm of Japan on Li Na becoming the first Asian woman to reach the world No.3 ranking. “For Asian players it's really good. When I was young there weren't so many Asian players in the world, ...
Samantha Stosur, determined to recapture a place in the world’s top ten after slipping down to 18th position on the WTA computer has appointed the Zambian-born former British Davis Cup player Miles Maclagan, as her new coach.
Daily tickets and Daily Double packages for the BNP Paribas Open, the most-attended ATP World Tour and WTA tennis tournament in the world, to be held March 3-16, 2014, are now on sale, it was announced by Steve Simon, tournament director.
Juan Martin Del Potro calls his forehand his best shot and told El Pais that a mathematician friend of his coach did a study of it and claims it's the most powerful one on tour. . .
Ilie Nastase had this to say about 22-year-old Simona Halep who won her sixth title of the year in Sofia. "To finish the year with a win like this is great for Simona. It will give her confidence going into the new year, which begins pretty soon in Australia." . . .
Simona Halep can't seem to get off to an easy start these days. She must be getting really tired. On the other hand, she has the whole off season to rest....
A strange match -- and not just because it featured #1 versus #2 in the semifinal. Simona Halep started reasonably well in the first set, collapsed, took charge in the second, went down a break in the third, then took charge again.
When Elena Vesnina lost the second set of this, we couldn't help but think, "Well, that's that." But this is the new model Vesnina. She came back to win -- and leave her record at 2-1, the same as Ivanovic's.
Britain’s Heather Watson has revealed she contemplated retiring from tennis at the age of 21 after her form disintegrated, her ranking plummeted and she struggled to win a solitary match after suffering a serious bout of glandular fever or mononucleosis earlier this year.
The ITF has announced the draw for the Fed Cup by BNP Paribas World Group Final between Italy and Russia in Cagliari, Sardinia on November 2-3. / Alisa Kleybanova is the only player on Russia’s Fed Cup team to reach the second week of Grand Slam, but although she once cracked the top 15 she is a long way from that form as she’s only six months into her comeback from Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.
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