Professional Tennis
The USTA Pro Circuit, the largest developmental tennis circuit in the world, celebrated its 35th anniversary in 2014 by featuring 87 events, awarding nearly $3 million in total prize money and seeing several American players produce notable results. This year, the USTA Pro Circuit included a record 36 tournaments held on clay. In conjunction with…
Lincoln, Neb. native Jack Sock will miss the Australian Open after undergoing hip surgery, he said in a tweet Thursday. The 22-year-old is the fourth-highest ranked American, and concluded 2014 ranked 42nd in the world. He will also miss the rest of the Australian summer circuit which includes the Hopman Cup where he was due…
ESPNW has released the Impact 25 this week, a list of exceptional athletes and influencers who made the largest impact on women’s sports this year. The list is broken up into 12 athletes, 12 influencers and one Woman of the Year. Serena Williams and Li Na made the list as athletes while Billie Jean King…
The seventh ranked player in the world Tomas Berdych has announced who is coach will be for the 2015 season. The Czech, who reached the ATP Finals semifinals in November, has hired Andy Murray’s former coach Dani Vallverdu. Vallverdu split from Murray last month in a decision each part called mutual. It didn’t take long…
The 2015 Australian Open will feature the “deepest and strongest” field in the tournament’s history, as all of the top 100 ranked players on the men’s side and 99 of the top 100 on the women’s side will be in Melbourne, Australia for the season’s first Grand Slam, according to the official Australian Open Web…
The ATP has announced that there will be significant prize-money increases on the World Tour over the next four years, and will surpass $100 million for the first time ever in 2015. It says that prize money could reach $135 million by 2018. The biggest hike will come at the top-tier Masters 1000 tournaments where…
Eugenie Bouchard has signed a global marketing and management deal with the agency WME-IMG, joining Maria Sharapova and Serena Williams as IMG Tennis clients. “I am really excited about joining WME-IMG, a company that is in the best possible position to help me achieve my business goals and maximize the value of my brand,” said…
The coaching merry-go-round continues to spin throughout professional tennis as the sport’s offseason once again brings with it a number of coaching hires and firings. The most recent on the men’s side Wednesday, as top-ranked American John Isner announced a new coaching agreement with former player and current Tennis Channel broadcaster Justin Gimelstob for the…
The WTA announced on Tuesday that it has agreed to a media rights contract with PERFORM that will be worth more than $525 million over 10 seasons starting in 2017. The deal plans to produce all singles matches on the women’s tour each year, around 2,000 or so matches a season. “Their investment at this…
Last week, Agnieszka Radwanska told the media in her home country of Poland that she would be hiring a “super coach” to work with her in 2015. On Tuesday, she followed through on that by announcing that Martina Navratilova would be joining her coaching staff in 2015. She will work alongside Radwanska’s current coach Tomasz…