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Posted by WTM on March 7, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Andy Roddick, this generation’s greatest American Davis Cup player, was non-committal about his future of representing his country in future series and ruled himself out of playing later this year.
During the Tennis Channel’s coverage of Serbia’s victory over the United States in Belgrade Sunday, Roddick phoned in on the air to good friend and Tennis [...]
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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 March 1, 2010 · Leave a Comment
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Novak Djokovic beat Mikhail Youzhny 7-5 5-7 6-3 to win the Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
David Ferrer won the Abierto Mexicano Telcel men’s singles in Acapulco, Mexico, beating Juan Carlos Ferrero 6-3 3-6 6-1
Ernests Gulbis beat Ivo Karlovic 6-2 6-3 to win the Delray Beach International Tennis Championships in Delray Beach, [...]
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Posted by WTM on February 22, 2010 · 1 Comment
By Charles Bricker
Could the women’s tennis tour return to seaside, holiday-maker paradise Delray Beach, Fla., where it once was a highly desirable venue 15 years ago?
The idea isn’t even on the back burner of anyone at the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour, but it’s beginning to smoulder on the back burner of Mark Baron’s brain, and Baron, tournament [...]
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Posted by WTM on February 19, 2010 · Leave a Comment
By Charlie Bricker
With a combined 15-5 record (as of Friday) and with Andy Roddick and James Blake ruling themselves out of Davis Cup, John Isner and Sam Querrey richly deserved the call they got this week to represent the U.S. against Serbia, March 5-7. But on clay? Are they ready for that?
Can these two big [...]
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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 January 25, 2010 · 2 Comments
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Australian Open – First Week
Maria Kirilenko beat second-seeded Dinara Safina 5-4, retired
Nadia Petrova beat third-seeded Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-3 3-6 6-1
Marin Cilic beat fourth-seeded Juan Martin del Potro 5-7 6-4 7-5 5-7 6-3
Li Na beat fourth-seeded Caroline Wozniacki 6-4 6-3
Justine Henin beat fifth-seeded Elena Dementieva 7-5 7-6 (6)
Alona Bondarenko beat eighth-seeded Jelena Jankovic 6-2 6-3
Marcel Granollers [...]
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Posted by WTM on January 20, 2010 · Leave a Comment
It was 20 years ago today, on January 21, 1990, that John McEnroe was defaulted from his round of 16 match at the Australian Open against Mikael Pernfors. Video of the event can be seen on these two clips from YOUTUBE here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-52G_eaAni4 and here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z8IACYeL-c&feature=PlayList&p=7839D120564C40E0&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=18
This and other events that happened today in tennis history [...]
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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 18, 2010 · 2 Comments
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Elena Dementieva beat Serena Williams 6-3 6-2 to win the Medibank International women’s singles at Sydney, Australia
Marcos Baghdatis beat Richard Gasquet 6-4 7-6 (2) in Sydney, Australia, to win the Medibank International men’s singles
John Isner beat Arnaud Clement 6-3 5-7 7-6 (2) to win the Heineken Open in Auckland, New Zealand
Alona Bondarenko beat Shahar Peer [...]
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Posted by WTM on January 16, 2010 · 2 Comments
Roger Federer is often called the greatest tennis player of all-time, but one other appropriate label is humanitarian. Federer is doing what he can to raise funds to help victims of the earthquake that devastated Haiti on Tuesday.
On Saturday, Federer posted on his Facebook fan page; “Tomorrow at 2pm, with other top players, we are [...]
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Posted by WTM on January 13, 2010 · 1 Comment
By Justin Cohen
· According to Marca, Roger Federer is the second most popular athlete on Facebook. The current World No. 1 has 3.18 million Facebook fans.
· Maria Sharapova has signed an eight-year sponsorship deal with Nike, which is reportedly [...]
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