TORONTO, November 4, 2016 Despite getting off to a flying start, Katherine Sebov (Kleinburg, Ont.) was unable to join fellow Canadian Bianca Andreescu in the quarterfinals of the $50,000 Tevlin Women’s Challenger. Sebov’s campaign came to a close on Thursday […]
SAGUENAY, October 6, 2016 The players’ list for the eleventh edition of the $50,000 Saguenay National Bank Challenger was unveiled on Thursday during a press conference at the Saguenay Indoor Tennis Club. The tournament, which is sanctioned by the International […]
NEW YORK, August 27, 2016 The Grand Slam® Development Fund (GSDF) was originally established in 1986 to encourage and increase competitive opportunities in developing tennis regions. With annual contributions from the four Grand Slam nations, the Fund has become an […]
RIO DE JANEIRO, August 5, 2016 (ITF) Tennis was one of the original 9 sports at the first Olympic Games in Athens in 1896. Ireland’s John Boland defeated Dionysios Kasdaglis to become the first Olympic tennis champion, while 4 years […]
PARIS, June 1, 2016 Brad Parks, the US-American founder of wheelchair tennis, was presented with the ITF’s highest accolade, the Philippe Chatrier Award, at the 2016 ITF World Champions Dinner on Tuesday in Paris at the Pavillon Cambon Capucines. The […]
LOS ANGELES, March 07 Former world numbr one Maria Sharapova said on Monday that she recently received a letter from the ITF saying she had failed a drug test at the Australian Open. The 28-year-old Russian, a five-times grand slam […]
MELBOURNE, January 18, 2016 Tennis rejects suggestion evidence of match fixing suppressed (Statement from tennis governing bodies): The Tennis Integrity Unit and the tennis authorities absolutely reject any suggestion that evidence of match fixing has been suppressed for any reason. […]
TRENTO Only one seeded player was left in the draw on semi-finals Saturday at the ATA-TRENTINO Futures event in Trento, in the northern part of Italy. Two unseeded players were first up on centre court when 18-year-old Frenchman Quentin Halys […]
KAARST, January 25, 2015 Maximilian Marterer took his second ITF Future career title within two weeks winning the final of the eleventh edition of the SEGRO International in Kaarst 7-6, 6-4 against third-seeded Czech Marek Michalicka. In front of about […]
STUTTGART-STAMMHEIM In front of about sixty spectators, two Germans faced the tournament’s top-seeds on Sunday’s finals of the 13th edition of the Südwestbank-Cup in Stuttgart-Stammheim. The women were first up on court when the only 18-year-old Antonia Lottner took on top-seeded […]
