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Great Scot!

If the enthusiastic Madrileños had had their way, Sunday’s final at the Mutua Madrileña Masters would have pitched the game’s two greats against each other, so that Rafael Nadal could conquer Roger Federer, and bring a repeat of this year’s epic Wimbledon final to Spain’s biggest tournament.

Nadal had started the week by finally receiving the ATP No.1 trophy, the first time the Spaniard has officially acknowledged his achievement since he toppled his erstwhile rival off the top spot… Continue

Added by Tennishead on October 20, 2008 at 5:56am — No Comments

Idiots' guide to the week ahead...

We preview the next seven days on the WTA and ATP Tours with events in Basel, Lyon, St Petersburg, Linz and Luxembourg.

ATP Davidoff Swiss Indoors

Where? Basel, Switzerland

Surface? Indoor carpet

Prizemoney? €891,000

Draw size? 32 singles, 16 doubles pairs

Big names? Roger Federer, David Nalbandian, Juan Martin Del Potro, James Blake, Stanislas Wawrinka

2007 champion? Roger Federer

Sub-plot? Up until late last week, it was all… Continue

Added by Tennishead on October 20, 2008 at 5:30am — No Comments

INSTANT REPLAY: A look back at the week's top tennis plays

(Venus Williams, Zurich)

Weekend Winners: David, Igor, Philipp, JJ

Dinara…

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Added by tennis baller on October 19, 2008 at 10:30am — No Comments

ESPN's recent tennis articles

A few interesting ones I thought everyone would enjoy:

Key moments of the Open era: Part I. Dawn (1968-77)

Key moments of the Open era: Part 2: Daylight (1978-87)…

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Added by mikeindo on October 19, 2008 at 1:00am — No Comments

Zinedine Zidane and son Luca spotted at Rafael Nadal's match in Madrid

Former France soccer player Zinedine Zidane attended the quarterfinal match between Rafael Nadal and compatriot Feliciano Lopez at the Madrid Masters Series tennis tournament in Madrid… Continue

Added by HCFoo on October 18, 2008 at 12:42am — No Comments

Eight world no.1 tennis players confirmed to battle out in Kings Cup

Before you head to Stadium Putra in Kuala Lumpur for Showdown of Champions exho on November 18, I suggest tennis fans to go up north of Malaysia during the weekend (Nov 14-16) in Penang Island to catch the Kings Cup.

The tickets for… Continue

Added by HCFoo on October 17, 2008 at 11:53pm — 2 Comments

TheTennisZone.com Coming Real Soon!

Greetings from Tennis Zone!

I'm Ben.

I do sales, marketing, PR, stringing, and toilet-cleaning for Tennis Zone, Dayton's only full service tennis shop.

If you were referred here from the Tennis Zone email list, welcome!

If you just surfed in on Tennisopolis, you're also alright, and welcome to you too.

If you're a complete stranger, you're cool too, so maybe we'll rope you into the sport... just keep reading our blog… Continue

Added by Tough Love Tennis on October 16, 2008 at 9:52pm — 1 Comment

Linz Wild Card for Jelena Dokic

According to Austrian and Serbian Press, the "Generali Ladies Linz" organizers decided to give Wild Card to Jelena Dokic.

Jelena won 3 ITF events this year, Florence,… Continue

Added by Svetlana on October 16, 2008 at 3:34am — No Comments

Ana Ivanovic received Michael Westphal Award

Ana Ivanovic was chosen by the readers of the German Tennis Magazine's as the best "tennis personality" of the year and won the Michael Westphal Award.

The trophy is named after German tennis player Michael Westphal who tragically died at the age of… Continue

Added by Svetlana on October 15, 2008 at 2:28pm — No Comments

Serena and Common enjoy on the beach in Hawaii

Serena Williams and her boyfriend hip-hop artist Common were spotted while surfing at Launiopoko, West Maui before being spotted holding hands at a private party.

Serena took a break from the WTA Tour due to ankle injury, but she was keen to get involved in the sport of surfing as she caught some waves on the beach in… Continue

Added by Svetlana on October 15, 2008 at 2:27pm — No Comments

Tiriac reveals his plans for Caja Magica

Tennis entrepreneur extraordinaire Ion Tiriac is making the most of the media spotlight on Madrid this week by trumpeting his grand plans for next year’s Masters event in the Spanish capital.

In 2009 the Mutua Madrileña Masters Madrid, which in the past has been a men’s indoor event, will become one of the ATP’s nine new ‘Masters 1000’ tournaments and will be held outdoors in May on clay alongside a 64-draw ‘premier’ WTA tour women’s tournament.

The event’s new format, its… Continue

Added by Tennishead on October 15, 2008 at 10:48am — No Comments

Is Jelena Jankovic the real deal?

When Jelena Jankovic first assumed the No.1 ranking this summer, her ascension was largely greeted with surprise and disbelief. This was a woman who at the elderly age of 23 had not made it past a grand slam semi-final in her career, who admittedly had played a vast number of matches, but had not succeeded in converting them into titles, and was at the time losing at the quarter-final stage, week-in, week-out. Amelie Mauresmo and Kim Clijsters both reached No.1 two years before they won a… Continue

Added by Tennishead on October 15, 2008 at 10:30am — 1 Comment

Anne Keothavong blog: Gamble pays off

World No.75 Anne Keothavong enjoyed another good week on tour when she won the $50,000 ITF event in Barnstaple, England, on Sunday – her third singles title of 2008. Tennis pros don’t have much time to celebrate, though. After a 4am start on Monday and a short flight to Italy, Anne blogs from Ortisei, in the Dolomites, where she’s playing a $100,000 ITF event this week…

Making the long train journey from London to Barnstaple proved worthwhile after I ended up winning last week’s… Continue

Added by Tennishead on October 14, 2008 at 10:00am — No Comments

Looking for a tennis partner!

I am getting fat and old. Would like to get back in shape. Looking for someone or many ones to play regularly! Can drive but prefer Vancouver South.

Added by Taz on October 14, 2008 at 3:32am — 1 Comment

Rafael Nadal Receives ATP No. 1 Ranking Trophy

Rafael Nadal received the ATP No. 1 ranking trophy in front of a sell-out crowd, at the Mutua Madrilena Masters Madrid, the Spaniard's first ATP tour event as World No. 1.

A four-time… Continue

Added by Svetlana on October 13, 2008 at 8:33am — No Comments

Weekend winners : David Nalbandian, Igor Kunitsyn and Philipp Petzschner

David Nalbandian defeated Swede Robin Soderling 6-2 5-7 6-3 on Sunday and win the Stockholm Open.

It was the ninth title for Nalbandian, who goes to the Madrid Masters on Monday as the defending champion.

"It was a great final, we both played a good… Continue

Added by Svetlana on October 13, 2008 at 4:15am — No Comments

Jelena Jankovic's hat-trick

Jelena Jankovic defeated Vera Zvonareva 6-2 6-4 in Moscow on Sunday to secure her third title in a row. Jelena also beat the Russian on her way to winning titles in Stuttgart and Beijing in the past two weeks.

"I've played her twice in the last two weeks so I really knew what… Continue

Added by Svetlana on October 13, 2008 at 4:14am — 2 Comments

INSTANT REPLAY: A look back at the week's top tennis plays

(Igor Kunitsyn, Moscow)

Weekend Winners: Tomas, Dmitry, JJ, Caroline, Sorana Ballers hit the…

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Added by tennis baller on October 12, 2008 at 12:09pm — No Comments

Marat Safin's new love

Marat Safin was spotted in Moscow with his new girlfriend Nastya Osipova, a Russian pop singer.

She is 24 and according to Russian press they have known each other for just under a year.

Here are the photos of happy couple!…

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Added by Svetlana on October 12, 2008 at 6:32am — 1 Comment

Quote of the day: Elena Dementieva

"Her defensive game is just phenomenal, and it's almost impossible to hit a good shot from the baseline because she can cover the whole court. No matter what shot you hit, she is able to get to it and hits everything back at you. It seems like she…

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Added by Svetlana on October 11, 2008 at 1:24pm — No Comments