[IheartBB]

Czech Republic beat Spain 3-2

Stepanek rolled back the years in that final rubber. Played like a top 20 player again. And CZE become the first country to win all three team competitions in the same year (and an Olympic doubles silver). Always nice to see Vaidisova in the audience too (even if I'd prefer to see her on the court).

Great ending to a great season.

[IheartBB]

Urgh, after a quick search I see that Vaidisova is only a few months older than Azarenka. What a career she could/should have had. Top 20 at 16, top 10 at 17, retired at 19. What a waste.

[Novo]

I remember Benoît Assou-Ekotto saying the same thing a few years back, he had no interest in football or he has no love for it and he only plays for the money

[MTVN]

That was the same with Agassi as well wasn't it, he always hated tennis

[Novo]

December 2012

29th - 5th January ITF Hyundai Hopman Cup , Perth, Australia.
30th - 5th January WTA Brisbane International , Brisbane, Australia.
30th - 6th January ATP Brisbane International, Brisbane, Australia.
30th - 5th January WTA Shenzhen Longgang Gemdale Open, Shenzhen, China.
31st - 5th January ATP Qatar ExxonMobil Open, Doha, Qatar.
31st - 5th January WTA ASB Classic, Auckland, New Zealand .
31st - 6th January ATP Aircel Chennai Open, Chennai, India.

January 2013

6th - 11th WTA Apia International Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
6th - 12th ATP Apia International Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
6th - 12th WTA Moorilla Hobart International, Hobart, Australia.
7th - 12th ATP Heineken Open, Auckland, New Zealand.
12th - 20th AEGON GB Pro-Series Men's & Women's Event, Glasgow, Scotland.
14th - 27th Australian Open, Melbourne, Australia.
19th - 27th AEGON GB Pro-Series Men's & Women's Event, South Ribble, TBC.
26th - 2nd February AEGON GB Pro-Series Men's Event, Sheffield, England.
28th - 3rd February WTA PTT Pattaya Open, Pattaya City, Thailand .
28th - 3rd February WTA Open GDF SUEZ, Paris, France .


February 2013

1st - 3rd Davis Cup World Group- First round, TBC.
2nd - 9th AEGON GB Pro-Series Men's Event, Wirral, England.
4th - 10th ATP Open Sud de France, Montpellier, France.
4th - 10th ATP PBZ Zagreb Indoors, Zagreb, Croatia.
4th - 10th ATP VTR Open, Vina del Mar, Chile.
9th - 10th Fed Cup World Group - First round, TBA.
11th - 17th ATP Brasil Open, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
11th - 17th ATP ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
11th - 17th WTA Qatar Total Open, Doha, Qatar .
11th - 17th ATP SAP Open, San Jose, California, USA.
17th - 23rd WTA Memphis US National Indoor Tennis Championships, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America .
18th - 24th ATP Copa Claro, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
18th - 23rd WTA Dubai Duty Free Championships, Dubai, United Arab Emirates .
18th - 24th WTA XX Copa BBVA Colsanitas, Bogota, Colombia .
18th - 24th ATP Regions Morgan Keegan Championships, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
18th - 24th ATP Open 13, Marseille, France.
23rd - 2nd March AEGON GB Pro-Series Men's Event, Cardiff, Wales.
24th - 2nd March WTA Brasil Tennis Cup , Florianapolis, Brasil.
25th - 2nd March WTA Abierto Mexicano TELCEL, Acapulco, Mexico .
25th - 3rd March WTA BMW Malaysian Open, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
25th - 2nd March ATP Abierto Mexicano Telcel, Acapulco, Mexico.
25th - 3rd March ATP Delray Beach International Tennis Championships, Delray Beach, Florida, USA.
25th - 2nd March ATP Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships, Dubai, UAE.


March 2013

2nd - 10th AEGON GB Pro-Series Men's & Women's Event, TBC.
6th - 17th WTA BNP Paribas Open, Indian Wells, California, United States of America .
7th - 17th ATP BNP Paribas Open, Indian Wells, California, USA.
9th - 17th AEGON GB Pro-Series Men's & Women's Event, Bath, England.
16th - 24th AEGON GB Pro-Series Men's & Women's Event, Sunderland, England.
19th - 31st WTA Sony Open Tennis, Miami, Florida, United States of America .
20th - 31st ATP Sony Open Tennis, Miami, Florida, USA.


April 2013

1st - 7th WTA Whirlpool Monterrey Open, Monterrey, Mexico .
1st - 7th WTA Family Circle Cup, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America .
5th - 7th Davis Cup World Group - Quarter-finals, TBA.
6th - 13th AEGON GB Pro-Series Women's Event, Birmingham, England.
8th - 14th WTA Barcelona Ladies Open, Barcelona, Spain .
8th - 14th ATP Grand Prix Hassan II, Casablanca, Morocco.
8th - 14th ATP US Men's Clay Court Championships, Houston, Texas, USA.
8th - 14th WTA e-Boks Open, Copenhagen, Denmark .
14th - 21st ATP Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters, Monte Carlo, Monaco.
20th - 28th AEGON GB Pro-Series Men's & Women's Event, Bournemouth, England.
20th - 21st Fed Cup World Group - Semi-finals, TBA.
22nd - 28th WTA GP de SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem, Fes, Morocco .
22nd - 28th ATP BRD Nastase Tiriac Trophy, Bucharest, Romania.
22nd - 28th ATP Barcelona Open BancSabadell, Barcelona, Spain.
22nd - 28th WTA Porsche Tennis Grand Prix, Stuttgart, Germany.
27th - 5th May AEGON GB Pro-Series Men's & Women's Event, Edinburgh, Scotland.
29th - 5th May ATP Estoril Open, Estoril, Portugal.
29th - 5th May ATP BMW Open, Munich, Germany.
29th - 4th May WTA Estoril Open, Estoril, Portugal .
29th - 5th May ATP Serbia Open, Belgrade, Serbia.


May 2013

4th - 11th AEGON GB Pro-Series Men's Event, Newcastle, England.
4th - 12th WTA Mutua Madrid Open, Madrid, Spain.
5th - 12th ATP Mutua Madrid Open, Madrid, Spain.
12th - 19th ATP Internazionali BNL d’Italia, Rome, Italy.
13th - 19th WTA Internazionali BNL d'Italia, Rome, Italy .
19th - 25th ATP Power Horse Cup, Dusseldorf, Germany.
19th - 25th ATP Open de Nice Cote d’Azur, Nice, France.
20th - 25th WTA Brussels Open, Brussels, Belgium .
20th - 25th WTA Internationaux de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France.
26th - 9th June French Open, Roland Garros, Paris, France.


June 2013

1st - 9th AEGON Trophy, Nottingham, England.
8th - 16th AEGON Nottingham Challenge, Nottingham, England.
8th - 16th AEGON Classic, Birmingham, England.
10th - 16th WTA AEGON Classic, Birmingham, England.
10th - 16th ATP Gerry Weber Open, Halle, Germany.
10th - 16th ATP AEGON Championships, Queen's Club, London.
16th - 22nd WTA UNICEF Open, 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands .
16th - 23rd ATP UNICEF Open, ’s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands.
17th - 22nd WTA AEGON International, Eastbourne, England.
17th - 22nd ATP AEGON International, Eastbourne, Sussex, England.
24th - 7th July All England Lawn Tennis Championships, Wimbledon, England.
29th - 6th July AEGON GB Pro-Series Men's Event, TBC.

July 2013

8th - 14th August ATP Campbell’s Hall of Fame Tennis Championships, Newport, Rhode Island, United States.
8th - 14th WTA Budapest Grand Prix, Budapest, Hungary.
8th - 14th WTA XXV Italiacom Open, Palermo, Italy.
8th - 14th ATP SkiStar Swedish Open, Bastad, Sweden.
8th - 14th ATP MercedesCup, Stuttgart, Germany.
15th - 21st WTA NURNBERGER Gastein Ladies, Bad Gastein, Austria .
15th - 21st WTA Sony Swedish Open , Bastad, Sweden .
15th - 21st ATP German Open Tennis Championships, Hamburg, Germany.
22nd - 28th WTA Baku Cup, Baku, Azerbaijan.
22nd - 28th WTA Bank of the West Classic, Stanford, California, United States of America .
22nd - 28th ATP Credit Agricole Suisse Open Gstaad, Gstaad, Switzerland.
22nd - 28th ATP Vegeta Croatia Open Umag, Umag, Croatia.
22nd - 28th ATP BB&T Atlanta Open, Atlanta, United States.
28th - 3rd August WTA Citi Open, Washington, United States.
28th - 3rd August ATP Bet-At-Home Cup Kitzbuhel, Kitzbuhel, Austria.
29th - 4th August WTA Mercury Insurance Open, City Medical Center, United States.
29th - 4th August ATP Citi Open, Washington D.C., United States.


August 2013

5th - 11th WTA Rogers Cup , Toronto, Canada .
5th - 11th ATP Rogers Cup, Montreal, Canada .
11th - 18th ATP Western & Southern Open, Cincinnati, United States.
12th - 18th WTA Western & Southern Open, Cincinnati, United States.
17th - 23rd WTA Texas Tennis Open, Grapevine, United States.
18th - 24th ATP Winston-Salem Open, Winston-Salem, United States.
18th - 24th WTA New Haven Open at Yale, New Haven, United States.
26th - 9th September US Open, Flushing Meadows, New York, United States of America.

September 2013

9th - 14th WTA Tashkent Open, Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
9th - 11th Davis Cup Semi-finals.
9th - 15th WTA Bell Challenge, Quebec City, Canada.
13th - 15th Davis Cup World Group - Semi-finals and Play-Offs, TBA.
16th - 22nd ATP Moselle Open, Metz, France .
16th - 22nd WTA KDB Korea Open, Seoul, South Korea.
16th - 21st WTA GRC Bank Guangzhou International Women's Open, Guangzhou, China.
16th - 22nd ATP St. Petersburg Open, St. Petersburg, Russia .
22nd - 28th WTA Toray Pan Pacific Open, Tokyo, Japan.
23rd - 29th ATP PTT Thailand Open, Bangkok, Thailand .
23rd - 29th ATP Malaysian Open, Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
28th - 6th October WTA China Open, Beijing, China.
30th - 6th October ATP Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships, Tokyo, Japan.
30th - 6th October ATP China Open, Beijing, China.



October 2013

6th - 13th ATP Shanghai Rolex Masters, Shanghai, China .
7th - 13th WTA Generali Ladies Linz, Linz, Austria.
7th - 13th WTA HP Open, Osaka, Japan .
14th - 20th WTA Kremlin Cup, Moscow, Russia.
14th - 20th ATP If Stockholm Open, Stockholm, Sweden .
14th - 20th ATP Erste Bank Open, Vienna, Austria.
14th - 20th ATP Kremlin Cup, Moscow, Russia.
14th - 20th WTA BGL BNP PARIBAS Luxembourg Open, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
21st - 27th ATP Valencia Open 500, Valencia, Spain .
21st - 27th ATP Swiss Indoors Basel, Basel, Switzerland .
22nd - 28th WTA TEB BNP PARIBAS WTA Championships, Istanbul, Turkey.
28th - 3rd November ATP BNP Paribas Masters, Paris, France .
29th - 4th November WTA Tournament of Champions, Sofia, Bulgaria.

November 2013

2nd - 3rd Fed Cup World Group - Final, TBA.
4th - 10th Barclays ATP World Tour Finals, London, England.
15th - 17th Davis Cup World Group - Final, TBA.




Add this to the first post if you want Marc, it will just makes it easier for everyone to see what events are currently on and upcoming

[Novo]

Zvonareva has pulled out of the Australian Open as well

[Novo]

Organisers say Serena Williams will take part in this month’s Brisbane International tennis tournament despite undergoing minor surgery on her problematic feet.

The 15-time Grand Slam winner has withdrawn from an exhibition match in Thailand following the surgery but Brisbane International tournament director Cameron Pearson says he’s been assured by Williams’ agent that the superstar will compete at Pat Rafter Arena.

“She’ll be fit and ready for Brisbane,” Pearson told AAP on Thursday.

“She just needed a little bit more time than what the Thailand exhibition match gave her to be ready.

“I guess it’s a bit of a compliment that she wants to tailor her preparation around playing Brisbane.”


Time for Vika to take advantage of the weak and vulnerable Serena

[Marc]

Welcome back my dear friend

[Novo]

[Black Dagger]

And so it begins again

[Novo]

For anyone interested The Mubadala World Championships are on ESPN, it's only a exhibition tournament but it's still tennis.. think the press money is $250,000

Djokovic 6-3 6-0 Ferrer in the earlier Semi and now Almagro ( replacement for Nadal ) is playing Tipsarevic

[Novo]

Almagro in the final with Djokovic after beating Tipsarevic

Youtube video

A Nice win over Serena to set Vika up for 2013

[Marc]

Nadal out of the Australian Open

[Marc]

Rafael Nadal will miss Australian Open as virus hits injury recovery

Rafael Nadal has withdrawn from next month's Australian Open because his recovery from a persistent knee injury has been hampered by a stomach virus.

Former world number one Nadal, 26, has suffered from tendonitis in his left knee since losing in the second round of Wimbledon in June.

The injury forced the Spaniard, who has won 11 Grand Slam events, to withdraw from both London 2012 and the US Open.

He also pulled out of an exhibition tournament in Abu Dhabi on 27 December.

"My knee is much better and the rehabilitation process has gone well, as predicted by the doctors, but this virus didn't allow me to practise this past week," Nadal said in a statement.

"Therefore I am sorry to announce that I will not play in Doha and the Australian Open, as we had initially scheduled."

Nadal, who won the Australian Open in 2009, also withdrew from this year's ATP World Tour Finals in London.

The world number four had announced on Tuesday on his Facebook page that he had been advised to rest while he recovers from a fever caused by the stomach infection.

Nadal said it was a difficult decision to pull out of his third consecutive Grand Slam through injury.

"You need your body to be at its best for the Australian Open," he told the Australian Open website. "It was a difficult decision and I am extremely disappointed to be missing such a great event."

The left-hander now hopes to return at the Abierto Mexicano Telcel event in Acapulco which starts on 25 February.

"It hurts to have to wait another 12 months before I get another chance [but] in the meantime, the focus is now on desperately trying to get back on the tour," he said.

Australian Open tournament director Craig Tiley said: "It is completely understandable and we really feel disappointed for him."

[Locke.]

Great news

[Black Dagger]

Good stuff, he's letting Del P have the first slam of 2013

[Locke.]

Sabine Lisicki v Lucie Safarova
Caroline Wozniacki v Qualifier
Serena Williams v Varvara Lepchenko
Sam Stosur v Sofia Arvidsson
Petra Kvitova v Carla Suarez Navarro

[Novo]

The Winner of Safarova and Lisicki plays Vika Hope it's Lisicki because Vika will likely bagel her at the Australian Open

[Marc]

Murray's start to the season didn't go the way he wanted it to. He lost in straight sets to Janko.

Semi finals of the Mubadala World Tennis Championships -

Djokovic df. Ferrer
Almagro df. Tipsarevic

Novak v. Almagro final

[Marc]

Served up an OBE: Andy Murray honoured in the Queen's New Year list
Scotland's tennis star follows up Olympic and US Open titles with an OBE on the Queen's New Year Honours list

Olympic and US Open champion Andy Murray has been awarded an OBE in the Queen's New Year Honours following a year to remember for the Scottish tennis superstar.

The 25-year-old was one of a host of sporting stars to receive honours as part of a special list rewarding British athletes who excelled at the London Olympics and Paralympics.

Murray went into the Games still looking to win one of tennis' biggest titles after falling just short at Wimbledon in July.

The Scot reached the final for the first time, ending a 74-year wait for a home men's singles finalist, but was beaten in four sets by Roger Federer.

Murray reacted in superb fashion, though, beating Novak Djokovic to guarantee himself a first Olympic medal and then handing Federer his worst defeat on grass to clinch gold in the men's singles on Wimbledon's Centre Court.

Murray almost made it two gold medals on the same day but had to settle for silver in the mixed doubles with Laura Robson.

The hope was the success would spur him on to break his grand slam duck, and he did just that at the first opportunity by winning the US Open in New York.

The Wimbledon final was the fourth slam showpiece Murray had lost but he matched coach Ivan Lendl in winning at the fifth time of asking with a five-set victory over Djokovic.

Murray revealed after his triumph that his friends had been teasing him about the possibility of a knighthood - something he definitely was not expecting.

The world number three said: "A lot of my friends have been messaging me about it and I don't really know what to say. I think it should take more than one or two good tournaments to deserve something like that. It would probably be a bit rash."

The OBE is the first honour Murray, who survived the school shooting in his home town of Dunblane as a child, has received.

[Black Dagger]

Great stuff. They can Knight him when he retires and he wins a couple more slams tbh.

[Novo]

Think he's got a pretty good chance of winning the Australian Open but he can never seem to beat Djokovic and he looks like he's on form at the minute judging from his match with Ferrer so i'd still put him as a strong favorite

[Marc]

Novak will win AO

[Marc]

Novak wins.

Don't even know why Almagro was chosen as the replacement, perhaps he was already in Abu Dhabi at the time.

[Locke.]

Originally Posted by Novo

The Winner of Safarova and Lisicki plays Vika Hope it's Lisicki because Vika will likely bagel her at the Australian Open

Get ready to remove that last line of your sig