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Dunlop Launch Their New Website: Back in Business!

Dunlop has just launched their updated website and it looks a lot better than previous versions. The new Dunlop site showcases their team and all the rackets, accessories, baggage that Dunlop has for tennis.

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Best Tennis Specific Sunglasses That Are Actually Affordable

Ive been lucky enough to have had the opportunity to test out the latest Sport specific sunglasses to hit the market. Tifosi is an eye wear company specialising in Golf and Tennis sunglasses. Tefosi sent over two sunglasses for me to test out, their Envy and Tyrant products.

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US Open Will Become the Worlds Richest Tennis Tournament

The U.S. Open will offer the richest purse in tennis history, with its singles champions each earning a record $1.7 million. The purse for men’s and women’s prize money is up nearly 7 percent from a year ago.

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Bethanie Mattek-Sands Looking Terrible at Wimbledon

The New York Times recently did a story about Bethanie Mattek-Sands dressing herself up in soccer-like garb every four years for the World Cup. I think it might also be a bit of a coincidence that Bethanie has been playing terrible tennis and even looking a bit sick, since she got married!

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Camille Pin Retires from Tennis

Camille Pin has announced her retirement from professional tennis after a 12 year career. Pin’s last match was a first round doubles loss at the French Open. Pin, who never won a title on the WTA Tour, said “it’s a very special day for me, because it’s such a tough decision.” Pin had mainly focused [...]

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USC and Tennessee in Mens NCAA Tennis Final

Back in the USA the University of Southern California and Tennessee will face off in the NCAA Men’s tennis final. USC, the defending champion and No. 5 seed, beat top-seeded Virginia 4-2 in the semifinals on Monday and will face No. 2 seed Tennessee for the championship on Tuesday. Tennessee beat host Georgia 4-1. Meanwhile, [...]

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Joma Tennis: Are They Really Taking Tennis Seriously?

Joma has a few top players heading up their Tennis division, such as Juan Carlos Ferrero and Feliciano Lopez, but are the really making head way in the tennis industry? Founded in 1965, Joma broke onto the tennis scene in 2008, signing Lopez to a multiple year contract. Do Joma really need to focus more [...]

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Jo-Wilfried Tsonga Showing He Doesnt Know Much About Tennis

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga showing that he really doesnt know much about tennis at all! Jo-Wilfried start to pay attention to your own sport!

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NHL Players Tie Domi and Claude Lemieux to Play at Legends of Tennis Event

Throughout his NHL career, Tie Domi never appeared well-suited for the country club set. But Domi will be putting on his tennis whites for a match with John McEnroe in Canada next month. The former bad boy of the Maple Leafs and the former bad boy of tennis will play doubles against Jim Courier and [...]

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Open Call for Tennis Writers / Please Help!

It has been quite a while since I posted here on The Tennis Times. I have wanted to keep this site up to date, but finding the time at the moment is near impossible. Im on the look out for anyone and everyone help me to keep the site up to date. I love tennis [...]

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US Open 2009 Is Off and Running and Read The Tennis Times for the Latest Gossip and Analysis

Yes it is US Open time yet again. The richest tournament in the world is going to be very interesting this year. In the first day we have seen some interesting results but most of the key players are through to the second round. If you want to keep up to date with all the scores and results from the US Open 2009 make sure you head to the official site, www.usopen.org.

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Nathalie Dechy Retires from Tennis

French tennis player Nathalie Dechy is retiring. The French tennis federation said in a statement Tuesday that the 30-year-old Dechy has decided to end her career as she is expecting a child and wants to devote her time to family life. Dechy reached the Australian Open semifinals in 2005, but is currently ranked 88th. Dechy [...]

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Prince Wimbledon Tennis Ball Guess Contest

During Wimbledon this year Prince has a little contest going on that seems to be getting a bit of hype. Prince has got a container and filled it with tennis balls and all you have to do is guess how many tennis balls are in the container. If you head to the Prince site here [...]

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Grunting Female Tennis Players, Stop!

There has been a lot of talk about grunting at this years Wimbledon. I saw on the news the other day that Nick Bollettieri mentioning that he will be providing grunting lessons at his academy after the tournament. I do think that with Maria Sharapova, Michelle Larcher de Brito, Serena Williams and others, there is [...]

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Wimbledon Pre Tournament Players Party 2009

Every year at Wimbledon there is a pre tournament players party and this year is no different. We came across a great picture of Ana Ivanovic with Virgin boss Richard Branson. Im wondering if Branson actually knows who she is or just another tactical publicity stunt.

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Roger Federer Has Arena Named After Him in Basel

It has been announced by Basel sports director Peter Horwald  on Monday that the St. Jakobshalle venue will be undergoing renovations and will also have its name changed to Roger Federer Arena. This is great news for Federer who im sure is still in shock about winning his 14th Grand Slam title and equaling Pete [...]

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New Tennis Community: Tennis Social Media with Reddit and The Tennis Times

We have just launched a new tennis community over at Reddit. Reddit is a system in which users can signup for Free and then submit and vote up their favourite news stories. Please head over to http://www.reddit.com/r/TennisNews/ Once there you simply need to register for Free. Then you need to make sure you have joined [...]

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2009 French Open Preview

The French Open 2009 will be starting in less than one day at Roland Garros, but who actually stands a chance of winning and who might as well of stayed home! Raphael Nadal is of course the king of the clay and he will be very hard to beat this year. Rafael lost last week [...]

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Tennis Ball Nike Hypermax NFW Shoes

The Tennis Ball Nike Hypermax NFW (No Flywire) features a Tennis Ball colored upper made of Tennis Ball felt and mesh. The upper sits on a White/Yellow midsole and the Visible Air Unit features a Yellow chamber. The Tennis Ball Nike Hypermax does not feature Nike’s Flywire technology while the GR/PE/Team colorways feature the technology. [...]

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Wilson Are Adopting New Media But Still Clueless

This afternoon I headed over to the Wilson YouTube Channel and noticed that they had a bunch of videos on the site from all the major Wilson sponsored players. However, when taking a look at the videos I noticed that they have all been made and edited using Windows Movie Maker (a free program from [...]

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