International Tennis Federation News
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ATP World Tour Executive Chairman and President Brad Drewett died today from motor neurone disease, the men’s tennis body said. He was 54.
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Tennis will introduce a biological passport this year for all professional players in a drive to catch doping cheats, the International Tennis Federation said.
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The International Tennis Federation will offer former world No. 1 Pete Sampras a replica of his stolen Davis Cup trophies.
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Czech tennis player Barbora Zahlavova Strycova was suspended for six months for failing a drug test in October during a tournament in Paris.
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Esther Vergeer of the Netherlands said she’s retiring as a professional wheelchair tennis player after winning 470 straight matches during the last 10 years and a total of 169 tournament championships.
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Ted Forstmann was told by the men’s tennis tour not to violate its gambling rules after he acknowledged making a $40,000 wager on Roger Federer , a client of his company, to beat Rafael Nadal in the 2007 French Open final.
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The 500 members of the private All England Club will be taking their tea at the Wimbledon practice courts instead of in the clubhouse as the Olympics move in.
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Mallory Burdette began the summer preparing for a career in psychiatry. She’s ending it with a surprise run at the U.S. Open tennis tournament that might change her outlook when she returns to Stanford University.
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With temperatures at the Australian Open forecast to get close to 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) today, the tennis players won’t be the only ones sweating at the Grand Slam tournament.
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Daniel Koellerer , an Austrian tennis player once ranked No. 55 in the world, has been banned from the sport for life for match-fixing.
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