The most talented Serbian junior Filip Krajinovic has signed an exclusive clothing and shoe deal with Nike. Krajinovic, 16, is ranked #24 in the world in the ITF Junior Rankings and recently reached the semifinals at The Junior Wimbledon Championships.
He started playing tennis aged five. In 2007, aged fifteen, he started practising at Nick Bollettieri…
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World No. 2 and 2005 Rogers Masters champion Rafael Nadal enters this year's tournament with a 24-match and four-title winning…
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Here is an interview Maria Sharapova did for ITF Tennis site, called "Olympic spotlight on...Maria Sharapova". Maria talks about Olympic Games and her dreams.
Q: How excited are you about the Olympics?
MS: I'm very excited. It's every young boy's and girl's dream to participate in the Olympics. To…
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Jelena Dokic defeated 7th seed Michelle Gerards from Netherlands 6-0 6-0 in yesterdays final in Darmstadt, Germany. This is Jelena's third ITF title this year.
Jelena now has a 32-7 W/L record for 2008 and is 11-1 in three set matches. Her…
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Rafael Nadal is on the cover of the new issue of Inside Tennis Magazine. There are two articles in this issue about Rafa. The cover story "The Greatest Match, the Gutsy Victor" - Nadal Usurps King Federer on the Lawns and "Triumph in the Dusk" - Wimbledon Centre Court Gave Us a Final That Was Both The Greatest Match in Tennis History and a Transcendent…
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July 20, 2008.
Q. Could you give us a quick update on what your health is and what's been hurt and how things are feeling overall?
ANDY RODDICK: Yeah, I feel great, actually. I'm probably healthy for the first time since before Rome. Probably the first time since our Davis Cup match…
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Defending champion Novak Djokovic talks about his return to the Rogers Masters, where he is the third…
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Feeling the heat to defend his World No. 1 South African Airways Ranking, Roger Federer talks about his chances in…
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Second-seeded Frenchman Gilles Simon dispatched defending champion Dmitry Tursunov of Russia in straight sets to capture the $525,000 Indianapolis Tennis Championships Sunday.
Simon, who pocketed $83,500 for the win, defeated the third-seeded Tursunov, 6-4, 6-4, to win his fourth career ATP singles title.…
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Canada's Aleksandra Wozniak bested France's Marion Bartoli to win the $600,000 Bank of the West Classic tennis event on Sunday.
Wozniak succeeded in winning her first career title by defeating Bartoli 7-5, 6-3 on the hardcourts at Taube Family Tennis Stadium.
Wozniak won the semifinal when…
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Top-seeded Fernando Verdasco rallied to down fourth-seeded Russian Igor Andreev and win the Croatia Open title on Sunday.
Verdasco struggled in the first set, but battled back to take his second ATP singles title in three sets, 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7-4). The match lasted 2 hours and 50 minutes.
It's the second ATP title for the Spaniard - adding to his victory…
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Anna Kournikova was spotted at the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Swim that is presented…
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France's Pauline Parmentier won her second WTA title on Sunday, beating Czech qualifier Lucie Hradecka 6-4, 6-4 in the finals of the clay-court tournament.
The 53rd-world ranked Frenchwoman followed on from her success in the semi-finals where she eliminated top seed Agnes Szavay of Hungary in straight sets to lift her second title after Tashkent…
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Albert Montanes rallied to down Steve Darcis of Belgium and win the Dutch Open title.
Montanes was blitzed in the first set by the third-seeded Darcis, the defending champion, but settled down and came back to take his first ATP singles title in three sets, 1-6, 7-5, 6-3.
Darcis captured his…
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Argentine Juan Martin del Potro easily discarded crowd favorite Jurgen Melzer in Sunday's final at the Austrian Open. The 19-year-old Del Potro, who won his first-ever title last week in Stuttgart, captured his second straight ATP singles title.
"These were two great weeks for me,… Continue
Added by Svetlana on July 21, 2008 at 4:01am —
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Ana Ivanovic is spending her well deserved vacation with her family in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Ana used her free time in Palma de Mallorca to do an interview and photoshoot for…
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She's the top player from the South American nation of Colombia, but there's a lot more to Catalina Castano than just her talents on the tennis…
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Andy Roddick was named to the Top 50 Man Candy of The Year by the editors of OK! magazine. Among other athletes, which leads David Beckham, actors, musicians and other hot men, Andy is placed No.45.
Congrats Andy!
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Here is an interview Daniela did for
Times Online on her love of Italian food, the fear of injury and why far too much is made of her looks. And several photos of Daniela taken by Julian Hargreaves for the article of…
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