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Posted by WTM on March 4, 2010 · Leave a Comment
On March 7, Ivan Lendl will celebrate being on this earth for a half-century. A half-century was how long it felt that this towering Czech dominated tennis, reaching eight straight U.S. Open finals from 1982-1989, holding the No. 1 ranking for 269 weeks and winning 94 singles titles.
The following profile on Lendl is featured in [...]
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Posted by WTM on January 26, 2010 · 1 Comment
On this day in tennis history, Rod Laver began his march to history. It was on this day, January 27, in 1969 that Laver won the first leg of his historic second Grand Slam title, defeating Andres Gimeno in the Australian final played in Brisbane as excerpted below from the book ON THIS DAY IN [...]
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Posted by WTM on January 24, 2010 · 1 Comment
By Bud Collins
Bud Collins, the world’s most famous tennis journalist and author of the definitive tennis history book THE BUD COLLINS HISTORY OF TENNIS, profiles matches Sunday featuring giants Ivo Karlovic and John Isner against Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray respectively at the Australian Open. The following story – and other musings from Down Under [...]
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Posted by WTM on January 21, 2010 · 2 Comments
By Randy Walker
The tennis world was quite abuzz Thursday when His Royal Highness Prince William of Wales attended the Australian Open and watched the final set of the second round match between Roger Federer and Victor Hanescu. Following the match, the Prince was able to meet privately with Federer, as well as No. 1 WTA [...]
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Posted by WTM on January 19, 2010 · 1 Comment
Barbora Zahlavova Strykova of the Czech Republic and Russia’s Regina Kulikova created tennis history Tuesday playing the longest women’s match in the history of the Australian Open and the second longest match of all time.
Strykova won the first-round match, 7-6 (7-5), 6-7 (10-12), 6-3, in 4-hours-19 minutes, played over two days because of Monday’s rain [...]
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Posted by WTM on January 19, 2010 · 1 Comment
Louk Sorensen became the first player since 1985 to represent Ireland in a Grand Slam tournament when he went through the qualifying rounds at the 2010 Australian Open. Sorensen is now into a second-round match with American John Isner by defeating Lu Yen-hsun of Chinese Taipei 6–4, 3–6, 6–2, 6–1 Tuesday, likely to result in [...]
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Posted by WTM on January 12, 2010 · Leave a Comment
The following is a look at the matches from 2000 to 2009 that Hall of Fame journalist Bud Collins, author of the book THE BUD COLLINS HISTORY OF TENNIS, says were the best of the decade. You can read more about Bud on his official website www.BudCollinsTennis.com.
All right, so it’s time again to look [...]
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Posted by WTM on December 3, 2009 · 2 Comments
Amelie Mauresmo announced her retirement from professional tennis Thursday at the age of 30. In a press conference in Issy Les Moulineaux, France, Mauresmo said she no longer had the desire to train and compete.
“I don’t want to train anymore,” a tearful Mauresmo said. “I had to make a decision, which became evident in the [...]
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Posted by WTM on November 13, 2009 · 1 Comment
The mercurial career of Marat Safin came to a close Wednesday in Paris as the hulking Russian played the final match in the final tournament of his final year of ATP tennis, losing to reigning US Open champion Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina 6-4, 5-7, 6-4 in the second round of the BNP Paribas [...]
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Posted by Krithi on October 30, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Halloween, October 31, has been a salient day in the history of tennis – highlighted by the pro debut of Venus Williams in 1994. The following are events that happened on October 31 as excerpted from the book ON THIS DAY IN TENNIS HISTORY ($19.95, New Chapter Press, www.TennisHistoryBook.com).
1994 – Fourteen-year-old future world No. 1 [...]
Posted by WTM on October 10, 2009 · Leave a Comment
SURPRISE, Ariz., Oct. 9, 2009 – Andre Agassi made a triumphant debut on the Outback Champions Series tennis circuit Friday night, defeating Mikael Pernfors of Sweden 6-2, 7-5 in the opening round of the $150,000 Cancer Treatment Centers of America Tennis Championships at Surprise. Todd Martin also won his opening round [...]
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Posted by WTM on October 7, 2009 · Leave a Comment
NEW YORK, N.Y., October 6, 2009 – Andre Agassi will make his highly anticipated Outback Champions Series debut when he takes on Mikael Pernfors of Sweden Friday night in the opening round of the 2009 Cancer Treatment Centers of America Tennis Championships at Surprise, Ariz.
The Cancer Treatment Centers of America Championships [...]
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