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The Not So Glamorous Life

November 25, 2010 By Andrea Lubinsky 1 Comment

This week, the best eight singles players in the world have converged on London for the ATP World Tour Finals. When they’re not playing tennis, these guys stay in the nicest hotels, eat at the best restaurants, and chat with celebrities. They’ve earned it. It takes a great deal of hard work to make it [...]

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Is Dementieva Continuing a New Sporting Trend?

November 10, 2010 By Leigh Sanders 3 Comments

There is no doubt what the biggest story in tennis has been this week. Elena Dementieva, the Russian Ice Queen, has left us almost as abruptly as she arrived. Dementieva strove to show us that, after Kournikova, Russian women could actually compete at the top of the game and weren’t there to earn the WTA [...]

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Around The Corner: Hamburg And Atlanta Hit It Off This Week

July 19, 2010 By Mike McIntyre Leave a Comment

The International German Open – Hamburg, Germany The German Open offers European clay-court specialists another opportunity to pad their ranking point totals for the year. Russian Nikolay Davydenko is seeded first but given his play as of late I wouldn’t expect much in terms of results here. Struggling to find his game after returning from [...]

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Blooming in to Life Once Again

July 9, 2010 By Leigh Sanders Leave a Comment

All we have been hearing over recent months is negativity surrounding British tennis. Tales of rotten apples in the barrel, failed youngsters, squandered millions and a country lost in a downward spiral of tennis faux pas which shows no signs of halting but for the increasingly confident performances of lone star Andy Murray. Yet this [...]

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DOES YOUR IMAGE ON COURT AFFECT SUCCESS ON COURT?

February 10, 2010 By Manfred Wenas 4 Comments

By Melina Harris Hey guys, we’re suffering from yet another bitingly cold snap in London and I thought to myself as I sat down to write my column today; what topic in tennis could serve to warm me up? I couldn’t help but be magnetically drawn for some strange reason to Feliciano Lopez discussing his [...]

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FEDERER’S AUSSIE TEARS – PART I

January 29, 2010 By Tennis Grandstand Leave a Comment

Roger Federer is known for showing his emotions – almost as much as he is for winning major tennis titles. At the 2009 Australian Open, Federer could not hide his disappointment in losing an epic five-set final to Rafael Nadal. Federer began weeping uncontrollably in the post-match ceremony when asked to make his obligatory runner-up [...]

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Seventeen-Year-Old Roger Federer’s First ATP Match Victory

September 29, 2009 By Randy Walker 1 Comment

From the book ON THIS DAY IN TENNIS HISTORY, it was on Sept. 30, 1998 that Roger Federer registered his first career victory on the ATP Tour. Who was his first victim who undoubtedly is a great trivia question answer at the dinner table or cocktail party?

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Federer’s First of Five US Open Titles

August 28, 2009 By Randy Walker 2 Comments

Roger Federer is no doubt the King of the US Open. He will be seeking his sixth straight men’s singles title in 2009, equaling the effort by Bill Tilden, who won six straight titles from 1920-1925.

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Mondays With Bob Greene: You just try to first get the ball back

August 24, 2009 By Bob Greene 4 Comments

Bob Greene, the esteemed former Associated Press tennis writer, wraps up the week that was in international tennis with his “Monday’s With Bob Greene” column – a revival of his popular weekly feature at the AP. This week Bob summarizes the Rogers Cup and the Western & Southern Financial Group Masters.

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Tennis Channel Buys Ads Criticizing Cablevision: This Week In Tennis Business

August 19, 2009 By Justin Cohen 2 Comments

From Tennis Channel buying ads criticizing Cablevision for not carrying the network to the USTA announcing that Cincinnati will get an upgrade at its tournament site to Monica Seles returning to Canada to play an exhibition match, these stories caught the attention of tennis fans and insiders this week.

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