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Sloane Stephens Tapped as Fed Cup Hitting Partner for Team USA
After a day off on Monday, she will continue training at Carson, then will accompany the U.S. Fed Cup team to the Czech Republic as a hitting partner later this month.
- ZooTennis
Family Circle Cup: Haynes shrugs off tough turnaround
She played Serena Williams in the first round of Wimbledon and pushed her to the limit before falling. But Haynes’ life would change forever a few months later when her brother Dontia was killed in a motorcycle accident.
She’s struggled to regain her form but could finally be on the right track.
Haynes has played in the Family Circle Cup qualifier before, but this is the first time she has reached the main draw.
- The State
Genie may be next Canadian tennis gem
If, as many Canadian tennis officials hope, Eugenie Bouchard becomes a force on the world scene, she will have the cachet of a distinctive first name.
Bouchard, who at 15 won the Canadian under-18 indoor championship in Toronto on Saturday, is a non-identical twin. Her parents, Julie and Mike, named her sister Beatrice and her after the daughters of Prince Andrew and his former wife, Sarah Ferguson.
– The Globe and Mail
The Tennis Week Interview: Julie Coin
It will be remembered as one of the most monumental upsets in Open history and no one was more surprised then Coin, who was a math major at Clemson where she played college tennis, but could not begin to calculate her upset chances before the match began.
Asked if she believed she could win before stepping on court, Coin replied “No,” prompting a resounding roar from the crowd inside Arthur Ashe Stadium, who responded with a standing ovation.
– Tennis Week
Net Cords
Tamira Paszek Splits with Coach
Tamira Paszek, who had been coached for four years by former Gustavo Kuerten guru Larri Passos, has split with the Brazilian and is now working at the Sanchez Academy in Barcelona and learning her fourth language, to go with German, French and English. . .
– Tennis News
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