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More Than $800,000 Raised For Charity During Barclays ATP World Tour Finals Gala: This Week in Tennis Business with Justin Cohen
Nov. 7 | By Justin Cohen ATP Top Players Help Raise Over £400K for Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity The world’s top men’s singles players and doubles teams, including Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, Andy Murray and Bob and Mike Bryan, gathered...
Victoria Azarenka and Novak Djokovic back in the hunt — The Friday Five
Oct. 12 | By Maud Watson Victoria Azarenka (TennisBloggers.com) Business as Usual Despite pulling out of Tokyo with dizziness, Victoria Azarenka was right back to her winning ways in Beijing. She became the first player since the WTA’s roadmap was introduced...
Top 5 things to look forward to on the ATP Tour
Oct. 4 | By Lisa-Marie Burrows It is always sad when the end of a fantastic tennis season is drawing to a close and despite the pleas for an improved calendar from the players on the ATP and WTA Tours, we are secretly and selfishly pleased that the calendar...
USTA’s One Million Dollar Afternoons
Sep. 8 | By Romi Cvitkovic Each year, American tennis fans congregate in Flushing Meadows to watch their favorite players, rising stars and living legends compete in the annual U.S. Open. Ticket prices for single sessions range anywhere from upwards of $1000...
R.I.P. to the only American-born player to beat Rod Laver in Davis Cup
Jun. 16 | Barry MacKay By Randy Walker Most people in the tennis world don’t really know how good a tennis player Barry MacKay was. “I didn’t know that he was a tennis player,” confessed my father Saturday morning as we discussed the life and career of...
Jan Kodes: pace of play and court surfaces must change
May. 31 | Jan Kodes of the Czech Republic, the 1973 Wimbledon champion and 1970-71 French Open champion, is the author of the new book A JOURNEY TO GLORY FROM BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN, a one-of-a-kind coffee table book that documents the history of tennis in the...
Chris Guccione’s Comeback Trail To Visit Vero Beach
Apr. 21 | The name Chris Guccione came across my computer screen Friday. Chris Guccione and fellow Aussie Lleyton Hewitt His name was the one that popped out when I was reading though the list of direct entries into the $10,000 Vero Beach, Fla., USTA Futures...
Whatever happened to top American junior Brian Baker?!
Apr. 16 | From the backless aluminum bleachers, maybe 50 feet away, he looked like the same Brian Baker who buzzed through the field at the 2002 Orange Bowl junior championships, or the same spindly teenager who beat down Marcos Baghdatis and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga...
Roger Federer’s first ATP Singles match win
Sep. 28 | On September 30, 1998, as documented in my book ON THIS DAY IN TENNIS HISTORY ($19.95, New Chapter Press, www.TennisHistoryBook.com), a 17-year-old Roger Federer defeated Guillaume Raoux of France 6-2, 6-2 in the first round of the ATP World Tour event...
Hall of Famer Stan Smith named President of International Tennis Hall of Fame: This Week in Tennis Business with Justin Cohen
Sep. 21 | Tennis legend Stan Smith named President of International Tennis Hall of Fame & Museum Former world No. 1 and two-time Grand Slam singles champion Stan Smith has been named president of the International Tennis Hall of Fame & Museum, which...
USTA avoids 1996 seeding debacle with Serena Williams seeding
Aug. 24 | When it came time for U.S. Open officials to either seed Serena Williams according to her ranking (No. 29) or bump her way up to the top three, my guess is there were some USTA executives who decided the last thing they needed was another 1996 nightmare. Certainly,...
