Posted in US/World Tennis News on Aug 27th, 2008
Don King, celebrating his 77th birthday, is now promoting the US Open. Over three decades after promoting the ‘Rumble in the Jungle’, the ‘Thrilla in Manila’, and ‘Ali-Frazier II’ at Madison Square Garden, ‘The Don’ is at it again, this time hired by Nike to trumpet the showdown between Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer, depicting [...]
Posted in US/World Tennis News on Aug 27th, 2008
A village with over 10,000 of the world’s finest bodies, sex wins most gold medals at the Olympics, according to Matthew Syed, an Olympian. And according to an Australian Tennis player, “everyone is totally crazy once they are out of their competitions”…read article…
Posted in US/World Tennis News on Aug 21st, 2008
Boris Becker and fiancee
Paris Hilton and the pink tennis racket
Shirtless Rafael Nadal in the upcoming New York Magazine
Anna Kournikova in the upcoming Maxim Magazine
Agassi, Graf at the Hamptons
Posted in US/World Tennis News on Aug 20th, 2008
John McEnroe was defaulted in his opening-round match of the Hall of Fame Champions Cup in Newport, R.I., for unsportsmanlike conduct and official code violations. Having won the first set against MaliVai Washington, McEnroe was trailing 4-2 in the second when he was issued a code violation for an obscenity aimed at the chair umpire. [...]
Posted in US/World Tennis News on Aug 20th, 2008
Chris Kearney, who was named the Atlantic-Coast Conference Freshman of the year for Tennis last year is behind bars after police allege he hit two pedestrians with a sport utility vehicle while driving drunk and then tried to flee the scene on foot. Kearney was charged with driving while intoxicated, two counts of felony hit [...]
Posted in US/World Tennis News on Aug 14th, 2008
Boris Becker says he has become engaged to the daughter of his former manager in a weekend ceremony in Porto Cervo on the Italian island of Sardinia. The 40-year-old German tennis star, who became the youngest-ever winner of the Wimbledon’s men’s singles title at the age of 17 in 1985, became engaged [...]
Posted in US/World Tennis News on Aug 13th, 2008
Former tennis star Pam Shriver has filed for divorce from one-time James Bond actor George Lazenby. Documents filed in Los Angeles Superior Court cite “irreconcilable differences” for the end of the couple’s six-year marriage. The pair have three children together, including twins born in 2005. Shriver is seeking custody of the children. The 46-year-old Shriver, [...]
Posted in US/World Tennis News on Aug 7th, 2008
Anna Kournikova in front of Justin Gimelstob at a WTT match
Rafael Nadal shows his car to Ana Ivanovic in Mallorca
Andre Agassi in a ski vacation in New Zealand
Guillermo Canas and his model girlfriend Fabiana Semprebom
Posted in US/World Tennis News on Aug 7th, 2008
Bankrupt apparel chain Steve & Barry’s LLC can pay Venus Williams under the terms of her clothing line contract, a U.S. bankruptcy judge said. Steve & Barry’s, which plans to sell itself at an auction later this month, can pay Williams the $250,000 owed to her under a license agreement, provided she makes certain assurances. [...]
Posted in US/World Tennis News on Aug 7th, 2008
The U.S. Tennis Association reached an agreement to buy a majority interest in the Cincinnati Masters ATP hard-court tournament and hopes to turn it into a combined event for men and women. The USTA plans a multimillion-dollar renovation to the tournament stadium in Mason, Ohio. The event is part of the U.S. Open Series of [...]
