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Australian Open 2010 Women’s Seeding

15 January 2010

The Australian Open 2010 will be a great display of women’s tennis where all the best players on the WTA Tour will be battling it out for the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup, which is the trophy for the winner of the women’s singles event. In a Grand Slam event like the Australian Open the Top 32 [...]

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US Open Singles: Last 16 Women

4 September 2009

In the main draw of the women’s singles event at the 2009 US Open the matches have just been completed. Only the 16 best performed players remain in the 4th round, or round of 16 as it also known. These 16 players are guaranteed 85,000 US dollars in prize money and 280 WTA ranking points for making the [...]

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US Open 2009 Men’s Singles

20 August 2009

The US Open is held at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens, New York. This year Roger Federer will be trying to equal Bill Tilden’s record of 6 straight US Open singles championships titles, which he won from 1920 to 1925. The US Open main draw begins on Monday 31 August and [...]

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Understanding Women’s Tennis Rankings #1

6 August 2009

photo credit:Mercurier Pictured above is Amelie Mauresmo’s beautiful one handed backhand drive. Mauresmo is in the very early stage of her forward swing before impact with the ball. The French woman was the 15th of only 19 woman to hold the world No.1 ranking since the WTA ranking system began on 3 November, 1975. The Sony Ericsson WTA Tour bases the women’s tennis rankings [...]

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ATP Major Tennis Tournament #6

28 July 2009

photo credit:Abdou.W The Rogers Cup in Montreal, Canada is one of the major tournaments on the ATP World Tour calendar. It is a major tournament because it 1 of only 9 ATP World Tour Masters 1000 category events. In a Grand Slam tournament there is a 128 player draw. The Rogers Cup has a 56-player [...]

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Understanding the Men’s Pro Tour #2

21 July 2009

photo credit:envisionpublicidad As previously discussed, the ATP and ITF are the governing bodies of the ATP World Tour. Together they are responsible for managing and staging the events that make up the 7 categories of tournaments each year. To recap, these categories are: The Grand Slams; ATP World Tour Finals; ATP World Tour Masters 1000; ATP World Tour [...]

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Understanding the Women’s Pro Tour #1

20 July 2009

photo credit:mptsk The women’s professional tennis tour is commonly referred to as the WTA Tour. Part of the WTA’s responsibilities is to sell sponsorship naming rights in order to increase financial backing for women’s professional tennis. As a result of sponsorship rights, the official name of the women’s professional tennis tour is the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour. Firstly, WTA stands for Women’s Tennis [...]

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Understanding the Men’s Pro Tour #1

19 July 2009

photo credit:GavinZ The men’s professional tennis tour was renamed in January 2009, to the ATP World Tour. Despite this re-branding, the men’s tour is more commonly referred to by its former name, The ATP Tour. Constant name changing and repackaging by the ATP only serves to leave tennis followers even more confused about the men’s professional tour and how the [...]

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Have the 20′s Replaced the Teens?

18 July 2009

Who are the leading teenagers on the WTA tour? What are the chances that a Teen Queen will win the women’s singles title at the US Open? It is NOT very likely. OnCourt Advantage is throwing down the challenge to be proven wrong. The power game of women’s tennis has made it increasingly more difficult for teenagers to win coveted [...]

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How Will Rafael Nadal’s Knee Tendinitis Survive the Hard Courts?

17 July 2009

One thing you should have learned about Rafael Nadal by now is that you can never count him out. Rafa, as the circumstances have turned out, now has his best chance of winning the US Open, more than at any time in his career to date. Lack of match play, time off the tour, tendinitis in [...]