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Fed Cup
WTA Backspin by Todd Spiker:
Backspin's "Decade's Best" countdown of the final five of the Top 25 players of the 2000's continues today with #3, a player whose career both represents (and maybe surpasses) the most far-reaching development on tour over th (Read More)
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FOXSPORTS.com.au | Tennis:
Slovak-born world No.113 Jarmila Groth will officially be granted Australian citizenship on Monday in a major boost to the Fed Cup team. (Read More)
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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-play (Read More)
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Women Who Serve:
Virginia Ruano Pascual, one of the greatest doubles players of the Open era, is retiring. Ruano Pascual, who is 36 years old, holds 42 doubles titles and three singles titles on the tour. Ten of the Spanish player's women's d (Read More)
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French Open
Open Court:
Here's a tweet from veteran WTA Tour doubles specialist Rennae Stubbs Monday: Stubbs and the American Lisa Raymond were a pair (wink, wink) for some years, a very successful doubles team that won 32 titles together and were (Read More)
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Australian Open
Open Court:
She's had a very long career. But it's still sort of surprising that Virginia Ruano Pascual of Spain announced her retirement today.She turned 36 in September, and has been a pro since January of 1992.Her first pro-level matc (Read More)
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TennisGrandStand:
Let’s just say that these photos of Ashley Harkleroad are not quite as interesting as others we have seen of the tennis starlet, but these are photos of her wedding to her coach/manager Chuck Adams. The two tennis aces were m (Read More)
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Tennis
WTA Backspin by Todd Spiker:
The "Season-Ending" Championships are long since over. The Tournament of "Champions" is a thing of the past. The Italians might even be all washed up from their Fed Cup hangover.But, until everyone packs up and heads Down U (Read More)
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Open Court:
Zina Garrison-Jackson (USA), 46Garrison-Jackson has had a tough year. First she was replaced as Fed Cup captain by the blander Mary Joe Fernandez, who is better-connected in tennis through her husband (Roger Federer's agent), (Read More)
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WTA Backspin by Todd Spiker:
Forty-four weeks of tennis action and it's come to this... trying to determine the "top" performer(s) in a year in which the player who spent the most time at #1 was most renowned for her no-shows and collapses in slams, wh (Read More)
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ZooTennis:
Fifteen-year-old Kyle McPhillips won her second consecutive ITF today, defeating No. 7 seed Caitlyn Williams 6-2, 6-0 at the ITF Grade 4 tournament at the Evert Tennis Academy in Boca Raton. She and Chanelle Van Nguyen, the f (Read More)
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Women Who Serve:
At the end of last year, I called 2008 a "strange" season. 2009, however, was just as strange, if not more so. The year did not lack drama; in fact, there was too much of it. The U.S. Open alone provided enough drama to fill (Read More)
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WTA Backspin by Todd Spiker:
Lists have always been a stock and trade component of WTA Backspin, and that's never more the case than with the annual Backspin Awards.The final "Ms. Backspin" standings won't show up in this space for a day or two, but don' (Read More)
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Fed Cup:
The USTA has announced that it will double the prize for Melanie Oudin, the Fed Cup by BNP Paribas Heart Award recipient. (Read More)
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Fed Cup:
Italy has reached top spot in the ITF Fed Cup Nations Ranking for the first time in its history. (Read More)
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WTA Backspin by Todd Spiker:
Going into this weekend, one might have said that it was a fait accompli that Italy was going to rule over the Americans in the Fed Cup final. And if you DID say it, then you'd have been 100% correct.Oh, sure, there was that (Read More)
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Down the Line - a raw + uncut approach to tennis:
A big congrats to the Team Italy - Francesca Schiavone, Flavia Pennetta, Roberta Vinci, Sara Errani - on winning their second Fed Cup title and first since 2006.They played an overmatched U.S. team in the final and dominated (Read More)
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Tennis
YouTennis.com - Tennis For You, From You:
Italy easily won its second Fed Cup title last weekend after routing the weakened United States team 4-0 in the outdoor claycourts in Reggio Calabria.During the first day of competitions, world number 11 Flavia Pennetta defea (Read More)
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Roland Garros
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Tennis
WTA Backspin by Todd Spiker:
Backspin's "Decade's Best" countdown of the top players of the 2000's continues today with the five players ranked #6-10. No discussion about the past decade would be complete without these women, but each of them has one li (Read More)
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