VENUS WILLIAMS WINS BNP PARIBAS SHOWDOWN AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN

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 [...]

AGENOR HOPES TO HELP HAITI AND LAYS BLAME

Ronald Agenor, the greatest tennis player to ever represent Haiti, said he will help with fund-raising efforts for his earthquake-ravaged country, but also blames the United States and the international community for his nation’s infrastructure problems that has led to such a massive loss of life in Tuesday’s devastating earthquake.
In an interview with the French [...]

1977: Alexander Is Great As Aussies Win The Cup

1977: ALEXANDER IS GREAT AS AUSSIES WIN THE CUP

JAN KODES: WATCH OUT FOR THE CZECHS IN DAVIS CUP FINAL

Former Wimbledon and French Open Champion Jan Kodes provides his perspective to WorldTennisMagazine.com in a column previewing this weekend’s Davis Cup final be
tween Spain and the Czech Republic in Barcelona. Kodes helped the Czechs (then Czechoslovakia) reach the Davis Cup final in 1975, where it lost to Bjorn Borg and Sweden, and again in 1980 [...]

1990: Teammates Agassi And Chang Propel United States in St. Pete

1990: TEAMMATES AGASSI AND CHANG PROPEL UNITED STATES IN ST. PETE

Davydenko Rules London

Nikolay Davydenko won the biggest title of his career Sunday defeating Juan Martin del Potro 6-3, 6-4 to win the year-end Barclay’s ATP World Tour Finals in London. Davydenko became the first Russian to win the season-ending championships and pocketed $770,000 with the victory. The Russian played flawless tennis from the baseline all week, registering [...]

Federer’s First Season-Ending Championship

Roger Federer is playing in the ATP World Tour’s season-ending championship for an eighth time in 2009 at the O2 Arena in London. It was in 2002 when Federer first qualified for the ATP World Tour finale as a xx-year-old. Rene Stauffer, the respected Swiss tennis writer, chronicles Federer’s first appearance at the ATP World [...]

BNP Paribas Showdown Field Set For Madison Square Garden

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 [...]

Henin Official Comeback Announcement Expected Soon

Former world No. 1 Justine Henin is expected to officially announce her comeback very soon. Belgian TV station RTBF is reporting that a press conference is expected in the next few days. Belgian newspaper De Standaard is reporting that Henin has recently ordered 14 new tennis racquets fit to her competitive requirements. Henin’s staff and [...]