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Posted by WTM on March 11, 2010 · Leave a Comment
By Charles Bricker
It was all done by the ATP rule book, which states clearly that wild cards — for both the main draw and qualifying — are at the complete discretion of the tournament.
But that didn’t make it any less confounding after executives of this week’s BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, Calif., chose to dole out [...]
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Posted by WTM on March 10, 2010 · 1 Comment
By Justin Cohen
Melanie Oudin has signed an endorsement deal with Virgin Mobile that will reportedly pay her between $500,000 and $2 million over four years. Virgin Mobile announced that they will donate $1 million to homeless youth organizations if Oudin wins the 2010 US Open in New York.
Sony Ericsson has reached a contract extension [...]
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Posted by WTM on March 9, 2010 · 1 Comment
LOS ANGELES, March 9, 2010 – Tennis Channel will essentially become the 2010 BNP Paribas Open network during the next two weeks, adjusting its programming schedule for the Indian Wells, Calif.-based men’s and women’s tournament, one of the most celebrated events of the year. The channel plans 90 hours of live coverage over the 12-day [...]
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Posted by WTM on March 3, 2010 · Leave a Comment
By: Justin Cohen
According to Jay Greenberg of the New York Post, Andre Agassi will headline an exhibition match to be played at Madison Square Garden on February 28, 2011. Agassi will play either Pete Sampras or Andy Roddick, according to the report. Monday at the BNP Paribas Showdown at MSG, Venus Williams defeated Kim Clijsters, [...]
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Posted by WTM on March 2, 2010 · 1 Comment
NEW YORK – Venus Williams won the title at the BNP Paribas Showdown for the Billie Jean King Cup exhibition tennis series Monday at Madison Square Garden, defeating Kim Cljisters 6-4, 3-6, 7-5 in the final.
Williams won $400,000 for winning the one-night, four-player event that featured players who won the previous year’s major titles or [...]
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Posted by WTM on February 10, 2010 · Leave a Comment
By Justin Cohen
The USTA Southern section announced on Tuesday that the Atlanta Athletic Club will host the 2010 Atlanta Tennis Championships from July 19-25, an ATP World Tour 250 event that will kick-off the Olympus US Open Series. “The Atlanta Athletic Club is the perfect site for the Atlanta Tennis Championships,” said Rex Maynard, the [...]
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Posted by WTM on February 9, 2010 · 1 Comment
John McEnroe has always stopped just short of declaring Roger Federer as the greatest tennis player of all time, until now.
Ahead of his appearance at next month’s BNP Paribas Zurich Open in Federer’s native Switzerland (March 9-13), McEnroe explained his views to the Swiss media while promoting the new ATP Champions Tour event in Zurich.
“Roger [...]
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Posted by WTM on December 7, 2009 · 1 Comment
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Michael Berrer beat Jarkko Nieminen 6-7 (4) 6-4 6-4 to win the Salzburg Indoors in Salzburg, Austria
Konstantin Kravchuk beat Marcel Granollers 1-6 6-3 6-2 to win the Yugra Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia
Pat Rafter beat Stefan Edberg 6-7 (5) 6-4 11-9 (Champions tiebreak) to win the AEGON Masters Tennis in London, United Kingdom
Spain beat Czech Republic [...]
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Posted by WTM on December 1, 2009 · 2 Comments
The Davis Cup by BNP Paribas World Group Finals are going to be held in Barcelona Dec 4-6, 2009 as Spain will host the Czech Republic. The event will take place at Barcelona’s Palau Saint Jordi, the arena built for the 1992 Olympics. The site has a capacity of 17,000 and was the site of [...]
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Posted by WTM on November 23, 2009 · Leave a Comment
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Michael Berrer beat Dominik Hrbaty 6-7 (6) 64 7-6 (3) to win the men’s singles at the Ritro Slovak Open in Bratislava, Slovak Republic
Michael Russell won the JSM Challenger of Champaign-Urbana, beating Taylor Dent 7-5 6-4 in Champaign, Illinois, USA
Eduardo Schwank beat Jorge Aguilar 7-5 6-4 to win the Lima Challenger 2009 in Lima, Peru
Takao [...]
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Posted by WTM on November 20, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Serena Williams and Venus Williams will be joined by 2009 US Open champion Kim Cljisters and 2009 French Open champion Svetlana Kuznetsova at the 2010 BNP Paribas Showdown for the Billie Jean King Cup. The event will be played Monday night, March 1, 2010 at Madison Square Garden in New York City and will feature [...]
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Posted by WTM on November 14, 2009 · Leave a Comment
The field of eight players is set for the 200 Barclays ATP World Tour Finals in London.
Fernando Verdasco secured the eighth and final spot in the year-end ATP Championships when both Robin Soderling and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga lost quarterfinal matches Friday at the BNP Paribas Masters in Paris.
Verdasco joins top-ranked Roger Federer, defending Novak Djokovic, [...]
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