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Interview with Nikolay Davydenko 2008-02-19 01:48:15 There is an interesting interview with NikolayDavydenko
in yesterday’s Independent newspaper where Davydenko talks candidly about, among other topics, the stress of coping with the match fixing allegations over the past year.
Davydenko has continually declared his innocence in the tennis betting and match fixing stories though his name more than any other is most [...] Read more:Nikolay Davydenko
Andy Murray wins in Marseille 2008-02-18 03:38:00 Andy Murray
, the British no.1 men’s tennis player won the Open 13 title in Marseille yesterday. Murray played a solid game, beating Croatia’s Mario Ancic 6-3 6-4.
This latest victory gave him his fifth ATP Tour title and will most probably send him back into the top 10 world ranking.
Murray said this victory justified his recent [...] Read more:Andy Murray
Monica Seles Retires 2008-02-17 05:19:28 After considering a comeback, Monica
Seles officially retired from women’s tennis last Thursday.
Her magnificent career included nine Grand Slam women’s singles titles and was cut short when she was stabbed in the back while watching a match in April 1993, at a tournament in Hamburg, Germany.
“I have for some time considered a return to professional [...]
Who is behind Novak Djokovic’s success? 2008-02-14 04:52:18 Before Novak
Djokovic’s win in the Australian Open, the first major tennis tournament of 2008, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal had won the last 11 Grand Slam events.
Novak Djokovic’s grand slam win has catapulted him into the elite of the world’s top tennis stars. But not many people had heard about him until he beat [...] Read more:behind
Maria Sharapova for Olympic gold 2008-02-08 03:47:59 Maria Sharapova
has made herself eligible for this year’s Olympic
Games in Beijing by representing Russia in the Federation Cup last weekend. Following on from her Australian Open success, Sharapova won both her singles matches against Israel without dropping a set.Sharapova did not represent Russia at the last Olympic Games and her absence was conspicuous. [...] Read more:Maria
, Maria Sharapova
Roger Federer to hire new coach 2008-02-06 03:37:39 Roger Federer is set to hire a coach after his shock early exit from the Australian Open last month. Starting the tennis Open as favourite , he was beaten by the eventual champion Novak Djokovic in the semi finals.
Federer has not had a coach for the past few seasons. In 2004, he won three majors [...] Read more:Roger
Betting on French Tennis Open 2008-02-04 02:49:31 In their continuing fight against match fixing charges, tennis authorities are stepping up the ante.
Legal action has been started by the French
tennis authorities in a bid to stop internet betting companies taking bets on this year’s French Open at Roland Garros.
French Open organisers have moved to shut down internet-betting markets on their tournament by [...] Read more:Tennis
Tsonga thrashes Nadal in Australian Open 2008-01-24 13:22:01 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, the young frenchman who knocked out Andy Murray in the first round shocked the world of tennis last night by thrashing world number two Rafael Nadal
to reach the Australian
Open final at Melbourne Park. He won the first set in an amazing 32 minutes!
In only his fifth grand slam tournament, the [...] Read more:Australian Open
Sharapova into Australian Open final 2008-01-24 13:11:40 Maria Sharapova
has beaten the No.3 seed Jelena Jankovic to make it to her second successive Australian
Open final.
Sharapova beat Jankovic 6-3 6-1 in 78 minutes.
Sharapova, the No.5 seed, started the match in tremendous form and stormed into a 4-0 lead in the opening set. Jankovic had injury problems and was never in the [...] Read more:Australian Open
Maria Sharapova defeats Justine Henin 2008-01-23 13:45:43 The Australian Open Women’s Tennis semi finals will see the third-seeded Jelena Jankovic of Croatia play No. 5 seed Russian MariaSharapova
, and Ana Ivanovic of Croatia against ninth-seeded Daniela Hantuchova of the Slovak Republic, who defeated the Polish teenager Agnieszka Radwanska by 6-2, 6-2 to reach her first Grand Slam semi final at the [...] Read more:Maria Sharapova
LTA Eastbourne Women’s Tennis Open 2008-03-10 10:49:17 As the worst rain & storms sweep across south-east England, tickets for the prestigous Wimbledon curtain rasier, the Lawn Tennis
Association’s Eastbourne International Women
’s Open Tennis Championships go on general sale today (1oth March), while previous customers were able to but tickets from 25th February.
According the the Mid Sussex Times, over 6,000 tickets were sold [...]
Stella Artois Championship, London 2008-04-22 09:38:12 After 30 years of sponsorship, one of the longest in Tennis history, Stella
Artois are ending their support for the pre-Wimbledon grass court tournament held every summer at Queens’s Club, London.
The Championship more commonly known as the Stella Artois which takes place on 9th - 15th June 2008 will be the final time it is sponsored [...]
Tennis victory at 55th attempt 2008-04-23 04:00:19 Robert Dee, 21, recorded a victory in the qualifying section of a futures event in Spain. Normally this would be nothing to get too excited about but when you consider this young British tennis player has earned the title of the worst player in the world after losing his first 54 professional matches you can understand why this would [...] Read more:Tennis
, attempt
Djokovic claims a lot of UK tennis kids are spoiled 2008-04-28 04:56:46 World number three, 20-year-old Serbian Novak Djokovic told BBC’s Inside Sport programme: ”In the UK a lot of kids are a little bit spoiled. If you have perfect conditions and everything you want, you don’t know the real meaning of tennis and you don’t work as hard as you are supposed to. You do not have [...] Read more:claims
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