Open Court:
The schedules for the first two days of play at the ATP World Tourfinals, which begin Sunday (the better to spread it out and give fansonly one singles match per session, it looks like), are as follows.And they get right to it. Local hope and hero Andy Murray gets U.S. Open champ Juan Martin del Potro, whose health certainl (Read More)
Women's Tennis Blog:
Our dear reader Teerin is contributing to Women's Tennis Blog once again, this time by creating a countdown of the best moments in the 2009 tennis season.Teerin would like to have been able to include more memorable situations, but YouTube videos can't be more than 10 minutes long. Which WTA moments would you add to Teerin' (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
⢠Scot will face Del Potro in tournament opener⢠£1m prize money will help weary players focusThe world's leading players shuffled around what used to be County Hall yesterday in their new suits, shirts, shoes and ties like guests who had arrived too early for a wedding. The preliminaries to the end-of-season ATP World Tour (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
⢠Chairman describes player's action and lies as 'regrettable'⢠Official had 'frank conversation' with former world No1Adam Helfant, the ATP chairman, has confirmed that the governing body will not be re-investigating Andre Agassi's positive drugs test in 1997 and cannot impose retrospective sanctions. In his recent autobio (Read More)
BBC:
US Open champion Juan Martin del Potro will play at the Aegon Championships for the next three years in an effort to improve his grass-court game. (Read More)
YouTennis.com - Tennis For You, From You:
Great opportunity for you to get a free copy of Donald Dellās new book āNever Make the First Offerā which gives sound business advice on negotiating deals and improving your business/career relationships along with many captivating stories about the game including his experiences with Stan Smith, Arthur Ashe, Andy Roddick a (Read More)
MensTennisForums.com:
Despite not being at his best since coming back from injury, Murray has still only lost 10 times in the course of 2009, the same number as Federer and fewer than Nadal (11), Del Potro (14) and Djokovic (18).Bearing in mind the fact that some of the defeats were on clay, and some occurred when he was not 100%, which loss hur (Read More)
MensTennisForums.com:
Here are the head to head records of the 8 players in the WTFs. As you can see, only Nadal has a winning all time record against every player. Both charts show how Verdasco on paper really doesnt have a chance in hell. Nadal has the best record overall despite Federer's 12-0 romping of both Soderling and DavydenkoThe 2009 c (Read More)
WTA Backspin by Todd Spiker:
Backspin's "Decade's Best" countdown of the final five of the Top 25 players of the 2000's begins today, with an additional edition arriving every day until the end of this year-long series on Sunday.Unlike the past five-player portions of this list, all five of the remaining women are still active on the WTA tour, or at le (Read More)
Talk Tennis:
Apparently you can earn points in the Davis Cup. Since Nadal is playing in the Davis Cup final for Spain after this tournament, the following scenerio is possible:Federer finishes ahead of Nadal in points at the end of this tournament and hence has the number 1 ranking. His year is done, thinking he has sown up the year end (Read More)
MensTennisForums.com:
He did resonably well at the Australian Open warm up tournaments, he lost to Mon Fills but did enough to make it count and he won the 2009 Australian Open, a tournament he proably was never expected to win. He didn't even drop a single set until the semis. Probably worth trading for a FO title really. He did it with 10 hour (Read More)
Talk Tennis:
Hello all,This coming August, I'll be coming off of active duty and returning to northern NJ. My wife recently discovered tennis and is now hooked. I thought a great way to thank my wife for all of her support over my years of service would be to take her to her first pro tennis tournament - the 2010 US Open.It's been yea (Read More)