Posts Tagged "Tennis Australia"
Bernard Tomic’s 2013 will be his best ever
By ryan.eckford1, 4 Feb 2013
Bernard Tomic has shown so far in 2013 that he is a much-improved tennis player.
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Bernard Tomic may say that there are no problems between him and the hierarchy that is Tennis Australia, including Pat Rafter, Tony Roche and Todd Woodbridge.
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How Australian tennis dropped the ball
By The Crowd, 23 Sep 2011 Last weekend’s Davis Cup tie was a spectacle that the Australian tennis public has been crying out for in recent times. Why then was the tie against Switzerland hosted by the Royal Sydney Golf Club?
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Tennis Australia served a double fault
By johnhunt92, 20 Sep 2011 The Davis Cup tie over the weekend between Lleyton Hewitt and Stanislas Warwinka was a tense classic that included a spray from the generally calm Pat Rafter over the issue of light.
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Aussie tennis rising? Don’t hold your breath
By The Crowd, 8 Jul 2011 Before Australian sports fans get too excited by Luke Saville and Ashleigh Barty winning this year’s boys and girls Wimbledon titles, a collective breath needs to be taken before possible claims that Australian tennis may again be on the up.
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Australian tennis deserves better than Stosur no-show
By Alistair Hogg, 18 Apr 2011 Sam Stosur’s refusal to represent her country in this weekend’s Fed Cup is a stone-cold snub to those who have nurtured her career and given her the opportunity to play tennis professionally.
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Evonne Cawley gets her second dream
By Doug Conway, 2 Mar 2011 Evonne Cawley’s first dream came true when she won Wimbledon. Now her second dream is coming true, as she takes tennis to as many indigenous kids as possible.
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Pat Rafter no saviour for Aussie tennis: Newcombe
By AAP, 25 Dec 2010 John Newcombe can’t see Australian men’s tennis reaching any great heights in the near future – and believes it will take more than just Pat Rafter to fix it.
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Pat Rafter and Roche to the Davis Cup rescue
By Darren Walton, 21 Oct 2010 Tennis greats Pat Rafter and Tony Roche have the onerous task of dragging the Australian Davis Cup team out of the international wilderness.
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Lleyton Hewitt opts for fresh Open preparation
By Robert Grant, 20 Oct 2010 In a last-ditch bid to win the Australian Open, Lleyton Hewitt has radically altered his preparation for his home grand slam and will play the Kooyong Classic lead-up tournament for the first time.
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Lleyton Hewitt the man in Davis Cup – again
By Laine Clark, 19 Sep 2010 According to Australian captain John Fitzgerald, nothing more could be asked from Lleyton Hewitt as a Davis Cup player.
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Game, set and match for Lleyton Hewitt?
By Daniel Dufty, 3 Sep 2010 Lleyton Hewitt’s early exit from the US Open was a surprise, losing in his first round clash against big hitting Paul-Henri Mathieu, Hewitt was given his marching orders. The exit was Hewitt’s earliest at the US Open, and for a past 2001 champion, it was a big fall from grace for the star Australian.
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Tennis Australia enter brave new world
By johnhunt92, 20 Apr 2010 For as long as Paul McNamee was challenging the Tennis Australia old guard, he had my support. It’s no coincidence that in the time Geoff Pollard was head honcho, and along with his amigos, was ruining the sport, our talent pool dried up and our once proud tennis culture all but dissipated.
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Loss of courts killing Australian tennis, says JA
By Darren Walton, 8 Mar 2010 Former world top-tenner John Alexander has pinpointed what many good judges believe is the real reason behind Australia’s dramatic decline from tennis superpower to Davis Cup minnow.
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Past champions say Tennis Australia too controlling
By AAP, 2 Mar 2010 Potential supporters of Paul McNamee in last year’s Tennis Australia presidency battle were allegedly told voting for him could jeopardise million dollar television rights, the ABC reports.
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Rafter keen to boost Aussie men’s tennis
By Valkerie Baynes, 3 Dec 2009 Two-time US Open champion Pat Rafter is to present Tennis Australia with plans to stop the national men’s game from sliding into oblivion.
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Hewitt serves it up to Tennis Australia
By Justin Chadwick, 28 Oct 2009 Lleyton Hewitt put Tennis Australia on notice while Paul McNamee declared the winds of change were blowing as the fallout from the controversial re-election of long-serving president Geoff Pollard continued.
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Pollard wins presidency vote over McNamee
By Guy Hand, 27 Oct 2009 Long-serving Tennis Australia (TA) president Geoff Pollard will remain in charge of the sport for the next 12 months after seeing off the challenge of Paul McNamee.
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It’s got to be Paul McNamee for Tennis Australia
By Spiro Zavos, 26 Oct 2009 On Monday Tennis Australia votes for its latest President. In the blue corner is the establishment doyen Geoff Pollard, now 20 years at the helm. And in the red corner, with the promise of change, is Paul McNamee, a former professional player and now a gifted and successful administrator.
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John Tomic is urging Tennis Australia to break the bank to give his prodigiously gifted son every chance to parlay his immense potential into “10 to 15 grand slams”.
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