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• #MariaSharapova retirement speculation as #Tennis star calls press conference to make ‘major announcement’

  By Nanthakumar Victor Emmanuel, P.Eng on March 6, 2016 • ( 1 )

  #MariaSharapova has called a press conference scheduled for Monday night in which she will make a “major announcement” according to her management, fuelling speculation that she could be about to retire from professional #Tennis due to the string of injuries she… Read More ›

• #Tennis-#Murray puts holders #Britain ahead in #DavisCup

  By Nanthakumar Victor Emmanuel, P.Eng on March 4, 2016 • ( 0 )

  #AndyMurray beat #Japan‘s #TaroDaniel as #Britain began defending their #DavisCup title in their World Group, first round tie in #Birmingham on Friday. Read more at: https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/tennis-murray-puts-holders-britain-ahead-davis-cup-151621143–ten.html

• #Tennis: Ranking Watch: #JelenaOstapenko New Teen Titan

  By Nanthakumar Victor Emmanuel, P.Eng on March 1, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  #Tennis: The #Latvian #JelenaOstapenkojoins fellow 18-year-olds #BelindaBencic (No.8) and #DariaKasatkina (No.46) to become the largest cohort of youngsters since April of 2009 (#CarolineWozniacki, #AnastasiaPavlyuchenkova, #Sorana Cirstea). Read more at: http://www.wtatennis.com/news/article/5383777/title/ranking-watch-ostapenko-joins-teen-titans

• #Tennis-#Canada’s Davis Cup hopes hit as #Raonic and #Nestor pull out

  By Nanthakumar Victor Emmanuel, P.Eng on February 29, 2016 • ( 0 )

  #Canada’s #DavisCup hopes received a double blow on Monday when world number 13 #MilosRaonic and top doubles player #DanielNestor pulled out of next weekend’s first-round tie against #France in #Guadeloupe. Read more at: http://uk.reuters.com/article/tennis-davis-canada-idUKL3N1685C3

• #Tennis: 3 young guns ready to erupt in 2016

  By Nanthakumar Victor Emmanuel, P.Eng on February 29, 2016 • ( 1 )

  #Tennis legends #RogerFederer, #NovakDjokovic, #SerenaWilliams, and #MariaSharapova will not be around forever, no matter how much we want them to be. Who is the next world No.1? Who will carry the tennis torch? #NickKyrgios #SloaneStephens #DominicThiem Read more at: http://www.tenniscanada.com/3-young-guns-ready-to-erupt-in-2016/

• #Tennis-#US ‘tired’ of early #DavisCup exits, says #Courier

  By Nanthakumar Victor Emmanuel, P.Eng on February 29, 2016 • ( 1 )

  #UnitedStates captain #JimCourier is “tired” of losing in the first round of the #DavisCup but says he feels no extra pressure ahead of a tough away encounter against a resurgent #Australia. The United States have been bundled out of the… Read More ›

• 1,000 years in the making: The evolution of #Tennis

  By Nanthakumar Victor Emmanuel, P.Eng on February 29, 2016 • ( 0 )

  Early versions of Jeu de Paume racquets Long, long and even longer before #Stadium seating and #Radar guns, it is thought by many historians that monks in #French monasteries were the first to play what they coined, jeu de paume;… Read More ›

• #Tennis: #Federer plans tour return in April

  By Nanthakumar Victor Emmanuel, P.Eng on February 26, 2016 • ( 0 )

  #Tennis: World number three #RogerFederer has delayed his #ATP World Tour return by a month and plans to make his comeback from knee surgery at the #MonteCarlo Masters in April. Read more at: http://uk.reuters.com/article/tennis-federer-idUKL3N1656HC  

• #Tennis: No time for #NovakDjokovic to dwell on rare setback

  By Nanthakumar Victor Emmanuel, P.Eng on February 26, 2016 • ( 0 )

  #Tennis: When you’re as good as #NovakDjokovic, it must become difficult to keep track of the growing body of statistics. One of his more impressive feats came to an end Thursday in #Dubai, where the world No. 1 fell to… Read More ›

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