Anna Kournikova has sold her $7.4 million mansion in Miami Beach. She was hoping to sell the property for $9.4 million, but it fell a long way short in the current economic climate. The house is a seven-bedroom Spanish-style oceanfront villa with private beach, boat dock, two-story guesthouse, entertaining area and pool.
Melissa Cook is the diehard Novak Djokovic fan who had his sweaty shirt ripped from her grasp at the Australian Open 2012 final. The shirt was snatched by a woman standing nearby the 14 year old.
“I started crying because I couldn’t believe that something I truly believe he meant for me was taken by someone else,” the tearful teen said.
“I had been yelling out to him the whole match and he had looked up and acknowledged me and then at the end he came straight over to my direction and threw the shirt up.”
Honestly I think it is all a load of crap. Why would anyone believe Novak wanted them to specifically have their sweaty shirt.. plus more importantly why would anyone want his sweaty shirt!
Martina Navratilova and Margaret Court dont have the same views on gay marriage, but Navratilova is still happy to play on Court’s cout at the Australian Open.
“It’s an honor, as always, to be on that court,” Navratilova told reporters. “It’s a personal issue. Clearly Margaret Court’s views that she has expressed on same-sex marriage, same-gender marriage, I think are outdated. But it’s not about any one person. It’s not about religious rights, it’s about human rights. It’s a secular view, not a religious view. She’s only seeing it from one viewpoint. I think it goes outside of tennis.”
Margaret Court needs to get her head out of the sand and get with the times!
Want to watch the Australian Open 2012 on your Xbox 360? Well now you can with the ESPN app. I know we are into the second week of the tournament, but better late then never. Just get the ESPN app and enjoy! They have cameras on 4-5 different courts. This means you won’t get stuck watching another boring Serena Williams match!
Boris Becker seems to be loving it at the moment in Australia, but as we can see from this picture his wife is also enjoying him being away! 
Safin passed the ‘Relaxing restrictions and roadblocks on women (with certain assets) in joining the Parliament’ legislation.
John McEnroe is just a cool cat. Here he is sporting an old school tennis shirt at the New York Sportime training.
The Federal Communications Commission ruled that Comcast discriminated against The Tennis Channel. Tennis Channel argued that Comcast gave preferential treatment to two similar sports cable networks it owned.
Comcast was fined $375,000, which is probably a lot less than what they made by providing treatment to other networks.
Gael Monfils and Jo Wilfried Tsonga Dance. Well I think this is dancing?? im not exactly too sure.
This made me laugh. Here is Caroline Wozniacki imitating Serena Williams at a recent exhibition match with Kim Clijsters.
Former top 3 player, Anastasia Myskina of Russia has been reported to be pregnant with her third child. The now retired former French Open champion is pregnant with her third son but is still working as a television personality in her native Russia as well as being the coach for the Fed Cup team, with the Fed Cup Final taking place in Moscow from 5-6 November.
“Being a mother is so different; it’s not that it’s quieter or faster, it’s just different,” she said. “Being a mom is tough—you understand what’s good for you and the babies—while tennis is just a game, it’s fun because you have a different life when you step on the court but when the baby is sick you go crazy. When I lost a match it was really bad time, now I know it was a great time, so being a mom is tougher.”
Wishing her all the best with her family and career, but I doubt she would ever come back to the tour after having three kids 
The Australian Open 2012 is the next Grand Slam of the year and since I wont be in Australia at the time I really want to watch it online. However, Australia is behind the rest of the world in terms of technology and I doubt there will be a place online to watch it for Free.
Why doesnt the Australian Open offer live streams of their event, each court could have its own camera and they could stream to the world via Justin.tv or other services. This could be an amazing service and I have wanted to do this for a long time with Challenger and other tournaments. Does anyone think this is a good idea or just me?
It seems like Caroline Wozniacki has been putting her nose in other people’s business again! Rory McIlroy announced on Friday his split with long time manager Chubby Chandler.
Chandler thinks that McIlroy’s girlfriend could have influenced the shock decision:
I don’t know whether it was his girlfriend (world No. 1 tennis player Caroline Wozniacki) getting in his ear or someone else but I thought we were doing a pretty good job, to be honest, and I think that’s how the outside world saw it.
Here is a quick short film about the life of a Tennis Ball.
Im not exactly sure what to say about this. So American!
Wimbledon is often considered sacred ground from the perspective of a professional tennis player. Victory on these revered lawns presents the ultimate tennis glory. A majority of professional tennis players would sight Wimbledon as the most desirable title in all of tennis. There is a distinct, indescribable eminence that comes with claiming the Wimbledon trophy.
No player better represents not only the brilliance but pure elegance that is characteristic of a Wimbledon champion than Roger Federer. The graceful nature with which Federer plays the game is of no comparison and is truly visible on grass. It is on this surface that Federer’s fluidity and variety really provide him with the upper hand against virtually every opponent.
Unfortunately, the beauty associated with grass court tennis is only seen for an abbreviated time span. The grass court season begins the Monday following the French Open and ends around a month later. With four warm up tournaments over a span of two weeks, transitioning from the slow, high bouncing clay courts to the fast, low bouncing grass courts presents a formidable challenge. Many players such as Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic have even opted to skip these warm up tournaments and jump into Wimbledon cold.
For the surface on which the most striking and highly technical tennis is played, it would seem a just exploit to the tennis world to extend the season much beyond its current length. The Clay court season, which spans from February to June, is four months of relentless back court grinding that presents an extremely demanding physical challenge. The Hard court season, which lasts from July to the end of November, arguably takes an even bigger physical toll on players. A prime example of this is Rafael Nadal. Nadal plays the game with a never say die attitude, but unfortunately because of this he has encountered various knee problems throughout his career due the incredible effort and grit he puts into every single point. The toll taken on his knees on grass is not nearly as severe as the aggravation experienced on the hard and clay courts.
With this being said the grass courts are considerably less destructive to the body and allow the players to focus more on what’s being done on the court as opposed to what the court is doing to their body. Despite all of this, I am in full recognition that there are obvious obstacles in the way of extending the grass court season such as a lack of venues and scheduling. If the ATP is in fact able to extend the life of the grass court season, it would not only be a positive improvement for the health of the players but it would also be nothing short of a gift to tennis fans all around the world.
Here on TheTennisTimes we are lucky enough to have 3 copies of the new Rafael Nadal’s autobiography to give away!
In the book Rafa talks about everything within his career including his amazing 2008 Wimbledon final victory over Roger Federer.
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These are edited extracts from Rafa: My Story by Rafael Nadal with John Carlin, published by Sphere (RRP £17.99).
Addition: Rafael talks about the book on the Telegraph.
There was a very interesting article on the Telegraph that stated Andy Murray’s girlfriend was struggling to find a job. Andrew Castle statted live on air:
But during the broadcast Castle, who quit ITV last year, told viewers: “I was speaking to Kim’s dad Nigel (a tennis coach) and he said Kim is struggling right now to find a job.
“So if anyone out there is listening there’s a lovely young lady who wants a job.
“This could be the first time someone gets a job via a TV commentary.”
However, the best comment of the article was from Andy stating:
“She doesn’t want to follow me around on tour. She wants to have her own career, not just pose in Hello magazine.”
I know Andy’s comment was from 2009, but it fits in very nicely with Novak Djokovic and his girlfriend Jelena Ristic just posing for Hello Magazine!
There is a very interesting article over at PostGame that showcases the top 5 highest paid female athletes. Out of the top 5 there are 4 tennis players in the list!
Thus, if your a female and you want to earn a lot of money from sport, then Tennis is the game for you.
A mailman in England was convicted of launching a graffiti campaign against British tennis star, Andy Murray and was in return fined and made to do community service.
A Scottish newspaper reported that 45 year-old Darren Swain was responsible for putting up dozens of posters at a Royal Mail sorting office in Coventry with offensive comments, two of which featured “racist slurs.” He called Murray a “useless Jock”, and the word Jock is a slang term for a Scot.
The culprit was eventually caught after officials installed hidden cameras and hired a team of handwriting experts to uncover who the perpetrator was.
He was sentenced to 200 hours of unpaid community service at the Coventry Magistrates Court and ordered to pay 3,000 pounds for being found guilty of three counts of criminal damage and two of racially aggravated criminal damage.
It is not clear however why Swain would target Andy Murray in his pejorative messages.
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