This week in tennis saw the completion of the Australian Open, the first Grand Slam of the season for both men and women. There were some expected and unexpected results in all draws, including men’s singles, men’s doubles, women’s singles, women’s doubles, and mixed doubles. The quarterfinals of the men’s tournament saw some relatively expected [...]

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This week in tennis features the first Grand Slam of the season, the Australian Open. The tournament features all of the big names that players have come to love with some notable exceptions. The Men’s top seeds are as follows: Rafael Nadal (1),  Roger Federer (2), Novak Djokovic (3), Robin Soderling (4), Andy Murray (5), [...]

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This week in Tennis saw the finals of the Davis Cup, coming in one week after the end of the men’s season-ending championship tournament. The Finals of the Davis Cup featured Serbia and France, with both teams playing for three days of matches. The Serbian Team included Nenad Zimonjuic (Ranked third in doubles play), Janko [...]

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This week in Tennis featured the men’s ATP tour finals, known as the Barclay’s ATP World Tour Finals. This year the tournament was held in the O2 Arena in London, England. The tournament takes the top eight singles players and top eight doubles teams and pits them against each other in round-robin format. The winner [...]

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The next week in tennis should prove to be an exciting and exhilarating week of play, featuring the Barclays ATP World Tour finals. The tournament features the eight best singles players of the year and the eight best doubles teams of the year. Players will play in a two-group round robin-format before heading into semi-finals. [...]

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This week in Tennis featured one single, star-studded event for the men and no tournaments for the women. Both the ATP tour and the WTA tour are wrapping up for the season. This week’s tournament was the BNP Paribas Masters tournament, a Masters 1000 event held in Paris, France. This hard court event featured over [...]

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This week in tennis featured the Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions in Bali, Indonesia for the women. It also featured the Swiss Indoors Basel in Basel, Switzerland and the Valencia Open 500 in Valencia, Spain for the men. The Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions was a small tournament, only featuring 8 different players. These are [...]

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This week in tennis featured one tournament for the women and two tournaments for the men, with all tournaments featuring plenty of big names and upsets. The women played in the China Open, while the men played in China Open and the Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships. The China Open was held in Beijing, hosting [...]

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This week in Tennis featured the Davis Cup World Group Semifinals and Playoffs for Men, and the Bell Challenge for the women. The Bell Challenge was held in Quebec City, Canada while the Davis Cup was held in multiple locations. Both tournaments were the first tournaments held after the recent U.S. Open. The Bell Challenge [...]

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This week in tennis features the final Grand Slam event of the year, the US Open. While women’s #1 Serena Williams is out of the tournament, the tournament features a myriad of big name players. The top Men’s seeds for the tournament are as follows: (1) Rafael Nadal, (2) Roger Federer, (3) Novak Djokovic, (4) [...]

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