Florida Tennis News

Seven-time Grand Slam singles winner Mats Wilander has listed his home in the Idaho resort area of Sun Valley for $8.5 million. The Swedish-born Wilander and his wife, Sonya, a former model, bought the roughly 80-acre parcel in the 1990s. There’s no tennis court, because the couple wanted to create a retreat away from tennis for their four children…read article…

Hewitt $10,000 baby bonus

July 3rd, 2008 in Florida Tennis News

Lleyton Hewitt and wife Bec can celebrate their other Wimbledon windfall today - the baby bonus they’ll receive for selling the story she’s expecting. The Hewitts confirmed the happy news to a women’s magazine - for an estimated six-figure sum. The baby, due in January, will be a sibling for the couple’s two-year-old daughter Mia, whose birth, conception and early milestones were sold in a reported $1 million magazine deal…read article…

Rob Lowe’s Tennis instructor: Nanny’s a floozy

July 2nd, 2008 in Florida Tennis News

Neil Armstrong, a tennis instructor employed by Rob Lowe says former nanny Jessica Gibson came onto him like a ton of bricks - even though he was 48 and she was 22…”She was very forward and did not seem concerned with being discreet…”. She was one of Lowe former nannies who sued for breach of contract and is now suing them for sexual harassment…read article…

Andy Murray’s girlfriend

July 2nd, 2008 in Florida Tennis News

Kimberley Sears looks every inch a wealthy young woman with the world at her feet. She is an English student at Brighton University who has expressed an ambition to become an actress but has as yet done nothing about it, she is also the girlfriend of Andy Murray. she has transformed Andy from a volatile, sulky and occasionally offensive teenager (or, as Tim Henman put it, a ‘miserable git’) into a focused and considerably calmer 21-year-old…read article…

Court goes from tennis to evangelist

July 2nd, 2008 in US/World Tennis News

Margaret Court, considered by many the finest women’s tennis player ever, won her first major title, the 1960 Australian Open, at age 17 and became a star overnight. She racked up 64 Grand Slam titles and in 1970 became the second female to win the Grand Slam. After a long and fulfilling career in tennis, Court became a pastor in Australia and has written books on her faith. Court said she went through a time after her tennis career of illness and depression but she allowed the scriptures to change her life. “(The Bible) changed my life,” Court said. “I think if I’d known this then, I might have won a few more Wimbledons.”…read article…

Sexpots and bitches

July 2nd, 2008 in US/World Tennis News

Former player Justin Gimelstob, who is now on the ATP board of directors, has been forced to apologise after a radio interview in which he threatened Kournikova with violence. He branded Anna Kournikova a ‘bitch’ and described female tennis players ’sexpots’. He said of Tatiana Golovin that she was a ’sexpot,’; of Nicole Vaidisova, ’she’s a well developed young lady”; and of Alize Cornet “she’s a little sexpot’. He said there were fewer lesbians now on the women’s tour than 15 years ago, adding: “That’s because they’re all Russian chicks…”…read article…