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PostPosted: 13. February 2014 03:15 
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When is the Team Tennis Season anyway? Do other single pros play also?

World Team Tennis plays after Wimbledon through the rest of July. Most of the players are obscure, but as Chungwit noted, a few big names participate, some active, some retired. The season is crammed, like about 14-16 matches for each team in less than a month. The franchise's are scattered all over the USA, so the travel is beyond ridiculous……of course, that's nothing new for Daniela. While there are standings and a championship awarded, it's quite a loosey-goosey thing. Fans are encouraged to be loud, music blares, the players have fun. Daniela would love it, and I would like to see her try it. But in light of the severity of the knee injury, Dani should go nowhere near it this year, even if she has come back before that.

Esoterica: World Team Tennis has been around over 40 years. In the early years, Billie Jean King, the main mover behind this concept, played for the Philadelphia team, nicknamed the Freedoms. Sir Elton John was fascinated by the name, and that's where his big hit Philadelphia Freedom stems from!



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She's mental if she thinks she will benefit from this! Well hopefully the new injury will make her think twice and she won't overdo it!


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Daniela's recent US Open Series results have been fairly average so I can understand why she'd want to try something different to prepare for the hardcourt season. Daniela wouldn't miss any tournaments as it's between Wimbledon & Stanford and she'd have fun doing something new. So much will depend on her knee and how healthy she is. She could test herself in a reasonably competitive environment without the pressure of the Tour. Daniela's health and fitness is the most important thing.

World Team Tennis was a much bigger deal in the 70s. Borg and Evert skipped Roland Garros to play in it.



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As stated earlier, I don't want Daniela anywhere near World Team Tennis this year now. Down the road, however, when the time comes that she decides she can't be relevant in singles, WTT and doubles on the WTA Tour can be her end game. She could continue to play the sport she loves in venues where it's far more fun and nearly devoid of pressure. We all wish she could accomplish more in singles, but from the perspective of my feeling for her as a person, she has every right to finish her career this way, being able to enjoy herself and leave the game happy.



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Was Dani going to Dubai or Rio this week without the injury? No word yet on if she will need surgery, at least that I can find. It's always hard when she's not out there. I just hope Daniela will soon once again be the Fox On The Run. (Won't that be Sweet!?) :lol:



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Was Dani going to Dubai or Rio this week without the injury? No word yet on if she will need surgery, at least that I can find. It's always hard when she's not out there. I just hope Daniela will soon once again be the Fox On The Run. (Won't that be Sweet!?) :lol:

She withdrew from the Dubai qualifiers on Wednesday.


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No Aculpulco for Daniela :( Just praying she can recover in time for Indian Wells but is looking very unlikely...


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No Aculpulco for Daniela :(

It may not be so :(, eddy. I see a silver lining here. Daniela obviously has not had an operation. The mere fact that she considered Aculpulco is a sign that she's already into rehabbing and testing her knee. And she made a prudent call, even though she clearly wanted to play in Aculpulco. If she misses Indian Wells...what much has gone good for her there since 2007? That would be 3 more weeks of healing. Maybe Miami. Never give up on the good times!

And how bad a day can it be when Ivanovic and Errani lose? Errani is meeting the same people on the way down than on the way up. I don't suppose you guys have any theories about her struggles. :haha: Naaah.



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2 tidbits of info from Google. 1st, just something neat to see, from a story about Canada vs. Slovakia in Fed Cup which refers to "respected veteran Daniela Hantuchova." More pertinent, in an article relating to Dani's withdrawal from Acapulco: "The world #31 is recovering from a knee injury and now hopes to be back in time for the Indian Wells event in March."

So are we!



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The good news is that Daniela will definitely be seeded for Indian Wells due to the Williams sisters and Kirilenko not playing, which would mean that she wouldn't play her first match until Friday earliest as top 32 get first round byes....but I guess if there's no change from last week where she can't move without being in pain then she simply should rest and hopefully be back in time for Miami...wish she'd give us an update soon...it's quite stressful looking up on tennisforum to see if she's withdrawn or still on entry list...


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IPTL: Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic to fight it out in India
Shivani Gupta New Delhi, February 27, 2014 | UPDATED 17:21 IST

One of India's doubles legend, Mahesh Bhupathi, has put his sweat, heart and soul into putting a truly international tennis league together. The work has been on for nearly three years. Some plans have stuck, some fell by the wayside. But overall, after a lot of toil and back-room negotiations, D-day is here.

In details exclusively accessed by India Today, Men's World No. 1, 2 and 3, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Stanislas Wawrinka are certain to be part of the draft. The names for International Premier Tennis League(IPTL) will be announced officially on Friday in Dubai.

Former World No. 2 and current Wimbledon champion Andy Murray is also lined up.

From the women's side, World no. 1 Serena Williams completes the marquee list.

Two Indian players are also set to be part of the reportedly 200 million-plus first-of-its-kind global venture. Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna are certain to generate much interest, especially as there is an Indian team in the fray.

A Mumbai-based team will be part of the 4-5 teams that will soon invest in an IPL-style players draft. Dubai, Singapore, Bangkok are the other confirmed teams, while Kuala Lumpur is still unsure.

Some of the other big names involved are World No. 6 Tomas Berdych and No. 10 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Ana Ivanovic, Caroline Wozniacki, Sabine Lisicki and others like Daniela Hantuchova and Daniel Nestor.

But perhaps what will generate as much interest as the the top men's singles players fighting it out is the Legends' Singles with - hold your breath - Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi being roped in. Can you imagine watching these two fighting it out again? The revival of a legendary rivalry? And that too, who know, in Mumbai?

Carlos Moya, Goran Ivanisevic and Patrick Rafter are other legends in fray.

So get set, to watch the likes of Rafa and Murray fight it out in India!





Tension rises over International Premier Tennis League revolution
The inaugural player auction for International Premier Tennis League is due to take place this weekend with reports suggesting Rafael Nadal is offered $1m per night to take part
By Simon Briggs7:36PM GMT 25 Feb 2014

Tennis tournaments rolled on in Dubai and Acapulco on Tuesday, but the locker room chat was all about this coming weekend, when the International Premier Tennis League has promised to stage its inaugural player auction in Dubai.
If all goes to plan, five teams – based in Hong Kong, Mumbai, Singapore, Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur – will send their minions to the Oberoi Hotel armed with minimum budgets of $4 million (£2.4 million) each.
In a format borrowed from cricket’s Indian Premier League, the teams will each sign up a handful of players – men, women, and champions of yesteryear – for an off-season event that has been scheduled to eat up the majority of December.

But who will commit, and where is the money coming from? At the moment the IPTL’s creator, Mahesh Bhupathi, feels like one of those movie characters who has 48 hours to save the planet. He might pull it off, but if he succeeds, it will be by the skin of his teeth.

Bhupathi was due to sit down with Novak Djokovic, one of his key targets, in Dubai on Tuesday. But the leading players’ agents are all saying the same thing: firm details, whether about the ownership of the teams or the sale of TV rights, have been hard to come by. Much persuasion will be required over the next few days.

Rafael Nadal is understood to be the keenest member of the so-called “Big Four”, as well as the most valuable property for Bhupathi to secure.
Sources suggest that he is being offered $1 million (£600,000) per night, to play perhaps three of the eight matches. (According to the ground rules, “marquee” players – those who have been world No 1 or won slams – are entitled to pick and choose their appearances, while others are in it for the three-week duration.)
Roger Federer, by contrast, has never shown any interest in the project. As for Djokovic and Andy Murray, they have been weighing up their options.

Murray’s manager, Ugo Colombini, has spent the last few days with him in Acapulco – where the Scot faced Pablo Andujar overnight – to coordinate discussions.
Several top-10 players of both genders are understood to have already signed up. In order of ranking, Stan Wawrinka (No 3), Tomas Berdych (No 6) and Richard Gasquet (No 9) among the men, and Agnieszka Radwanska (No 3), Victoria Azarenka (No 4) and Caroline Wozniacki among the women (No 11).
But even these deals may be dependent on a certain sum being raised at Sunday’s auction, and then produced in hard cash shortly afterwards.

Bhupathi has promised to deliver 40 per cent of the fees into bank accounts within a month of the auction, and there are plenty of naysayers in the tennis world whose reaction is ‘we’ll believe that when we see it’.
The next few days will be tense for everyone involved – players, agents and promoters. There is a sense of bated breath within the tennis world as everyone asks everyone else what they have heard.
For all the scepticism, most would be delighted if Bhupathi can fit the pieces of his puzzle together in time for this winter, and not just because it would represent a lucrative payday. As a radically different event, in an underused part of the tennis world, the IPTL has undeniable potential.

Tennis’s great weakness is the sameness of its 11-month calendar, especially now that the court surfaces are all playing like each other. The Bhupathi model – which fills up the one month still available for entrepreneurs – calls for each match to be played over five sets, as in a grand slam. The difference is that one set will be contested in men’s singles, one in women’s singles, one in men’s doubles and one in mixed doubles. If they all cancel each other out, the tie could come down to the “legends”.

You might expect the Association of Tennis Professionals and Women’s Tennis Association to be kicking up more of a fuss about a tournament that could potentially accelerate burnout.
But then they are both players’ unions, at least partly. Any figurehead who tried to shut down an earning opportunity like this one would be risking his or her popularity among the ranks.

Of course, there is an irony in the way so many players have spent recent years complaining about the length and arduousness of the regular season.
Nadal, indeed, has been the most vocal critic. “Things need to change,” he said in 2009. “I believe the bad thing about the calendar is how it is made and obligates you to play tournaments all year.”
But those players could reply that they spend December training like marines in any case. What difference does it make whether that training happens in Miami, say, or Hong Kong?

“If I go to play in it,” Murray said of the IPTL last year, “what I agreed to is playing three nights in one place, so I’m not travelling around across the whole of Asia in the space of a week. If I can go somewhere for one week and set up a camp where it’s warm and there are good training conditions, if I’m playing against the best players in the world, that’s the only thing that is missing from Miami.”


The International Premier Tennis League explained

PEOPLE
Mahesh Bhupathi is the instigator of the IPTL. He won five grand slam doubles titles, four of them in partnership with fellow Indian Leander Paes, before quitting the game last year to launch a business career.
Bhupathi was then signed up by Andy Murray to represent his business interests for a while, before that relationship lapsed last winter. The project also has a well-respected chief executive in Morgan Menahem, who manages Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. Other allies include Justin Gimelstob (a players’ representative on the ATP board), Boris Becker (who is now Novak Djokovic’s coach) and press spokesman Benito Perez-Barbadillo (who also works with Rafael Nadal).

FORMAT
Eight matches between five city-based teams, played home and away, running over three weeks from the end of November to late December. Each match is intended to consist of five separate sets, contested in men’s singles, women’s singles, men's doubles, mixed doubles, and legends’ singles.
Sets are to be shorter than usual: no-ad scoring (in which the first point after deuce decides each game) and a tie-break at 5-5. “It’s made for TV, three to 3½ hours, so you know when it ends,” said Menahem in January.

PLAYERS
Leading singles players who are believed to have signed: Stan Wawrinka, Tomas Berdych, Richard Gasquet, Agnieszka Radwanska, Victoria Azarenka, Caroline Wozniacki.
Leading singles players showing zero interest at present: Roger Federer, Maria Sharapova.
Leading singles players watching and waiting: Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, Serena Williams.




I've got to admit I'm a lot more sceptical about this than World Team Tennis.



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IPTL TENNIS STARS ARE THERE
28/02/2014 2:43:00 p.m. at the | Updated 28/02/2014 4:12:59 p.m.
Organizers IPTL finally unveiled the cast of this competition announced in Asia (28 November-20 December). The best are at the rendezvous.

The International Tennis Premier League (IPTL) reported Friday the list of players who will participate in the auction on March 2 . Among the confirmations awaited the presence of Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, Serena Willians and Pete Sampras. He had wanted to be discreet but Andre Agassi is also part of the stars involved in the Asian closed league of five teams owned by five cities (Mumbai, Singapore, Bangkok, Dubai and which is still unknown). Format recalled: meeting in five sets (set male, female set, men's doubles, mixed doubles, simple captions), the winner is the team that wins the most games. The draft will be subject to a salary cap, not less than $ 4 million invested and not more than 8 million. 8-10 players are allowed per team.

In the group of "Icon Players" (idols), we find Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, Serena Williams, Stanislas Wawrinka, Pete Sampras, Andre Agassi, Victoria Azarenka and Caroline Wozniacki. In the category "past champions" (champions of the past), there is Patrick Rafter, Mark Philipoussis, Michael Chang, Goran Ivanisevic, Fabrice Santoro, Rainer Schuettler, Carlos Moya and Juan Carlos Ferrero. On the sidelines of the Dubai tournament, Federer repeated that he found interesting initiative, admitted that he hoped it would work but found he preferred to wait to see what it was going to possibly be tried before . All the Top 10 ATP responded to this so except Federer and Juan Martin Del Potro.
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In category A, are present David Ferrer, Tomas Berdych, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Agnieszka Radwanska.

In category B are aligned Richard Gasquet, Milos Raonic, Tommy Haas, John Isner, Gael Monfils, Lleyton Hewitt, Ana Ivanovic, Samantha Stosur and Sloane Stephens.

In category C, Jerzy Janowicz participate, Philipp Kohlschreiber, Alexandr Dolgopolov, Marcos Baghdatis, Fabio Fognini, Feliciano Lopez, Fernando Verdasco, Sara Errani, Jelena Jankovic, Angelique Kerber, Svetlana Kuznetsova, Martina Hingis, Daniela Hantuchova.

In category D are: Kevin Anderson, Marinko Matosevic, Sam Querrey, Marcel Granollers, Dmitry Tursunov, Somdev Devvarman, Janko Tipsarevic, Rendy Ly, Sabine Lisicki, Kirsten Flipkens, Alizé Cornet Kristina Mladenovic, Su-Wei Hsieh, Francesca Schiavone, Flavia Pennetta, Sania Mirza, Dona Vekic

Finally we doubles players who will be available to the draft: Bruno Soares, Alexander Peya Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi, Marcin Matkowski, Marcelo Melo, Marc Lopez, Rohan Bopanna, Nenad Zimonjic, Marius Fyrstenberg, Daniel Nestor and Robert Lindstedt.
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Hantuchova winter in the International Tennis Premier League
02/28/2014 16:51:00

Bratislava (SITA) - Slovak tennis player Daniela Hantuchova were among the players who have pledged their start in the new competition International Tennis Premier League outside the official structures ITF, ATP and WTA. List instance brought portal Tennis Live or site L'Equipe.

Thirty Poprad native Hantuchova after being drafted in the 'Category C' together with Jerzy Janowicz Poles, Germans Philipp Kohlschreiber, Ukrainians Alexander Dolgopolova, Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis, Fabio Fognini Italians, Spaniards Feliciano Lopez and Fernando Verdasco, an Italian Sara Errani, Serb Jelena Jankovic, Nemko Angelique Kerber, Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova, and the Swiss Martina Hingis.

IPTL covers Indian Mahesh Bhupathi and mixed teams competition will be held on 20 November - 18 December 2014 in Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Mumbai, Singapore and Hong Kong. Between '. Icons are Spaniard Rafael Nadal, Serbian Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray British, American Serena Williams, Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka, Americans Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi, Victoria Azarenka of Belarus and Denmark's Caroline Wozniacki.

The section of former champions are eligible Australians Patrick Rafter and Mark Philippoussis, Spaniards Juan Carlos Ferrero and Carlos Moya, American Michael Chang, Croat Goran Ivanisevic, Frenchman Fabrice Santoro and German Rainer Schuettler. The A-category are Spaniard David Ferrer, Czech Tomas Berdych, Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Polk Agnieszka Radwanska.

Co-founder Bhupathi helps with promoting Australian former leader of the world rankings Lleyton Hewitt. Indian heralded salary cap $ 10,000,000 per team and the lower limit of $ 4 million. Each team will consist of six to ten members. Bhupathi explained that one set running 'no ad' and a possible tie-break state for 5:5 it will take men singles, women's singles, men's doubles, mixed doubles and singles legends. The winner yet decide the number of games, not points. Similarly counts in American professional summer league teams of the World (WTT).

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Top stars in IPTL line-up; draft on Sunday
Prajwal Hegde,TNN | Mar 1, 2014, 01.30 AM IST

DUBAI: Some of the biggest names in tennis -- world No.1 Rafael Nadal, No.2 Novak Djokovic and Wimbledon champion Andy Murray -- have signed-up for Mahesh Bhupathi's International Premier Tennis League (IPTL) which will have its player draft in this dazzling desert city on Sunday.

The top guns Nadal, Djokovic and Murray along with the newest entrant into the Grand Slam club, Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka and former champions Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi make up the icon group among the men for the December tournament to be played on a home-and-away basis.

American powerhouse and world No. 1 Serena Williams, Belarusian Victoria Azarenka and Caroline Wozniacki are the icon players among the women.

The player field that also includes -- the in-form Tomas Berdych, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and David Ferrer -- has been broken down into six sections in order of merit -- Icon, categories A, B, C and D and doubles players.

The Indians whose names will figure in the player drafts are world No.78 Somdev Devvarman and top-draw doubles players Rohan Bopanna and Sania Mirza.

Mumbai, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore - along with a likely fifth side from the Middle East (which is expected to be named on Sunday) - are the teams that will go into the player auction in the weekend. Teams are expected to draft between six to ten players. The salaries each team will pay its players is estimated to be between $4 and 10 million.

Every tie will consist of five matches - men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, mixed doubles and legends singles. The matches will be one-set affairs, played with the no-ad rule with the entire tie to be completed in three hours.

Teams are expected to draft between six to ten players. The salaries each team will pay its players is estimated to be between $4 and 10 million.

PLAYER LIST

Men:

Icon Players: Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, Stanislas Wawrinka, Andre Agassi, Pete Sampras.

Past champions: Patrick Rafter, Mark Phillipoussis, Juan Carlos Ferrero, Michael Chang, Goran Ivanisevic, Fabrice Santoro, Rainer Schuettler, Carlos Moya.

Category A: David Ferrer, Tomas Berdych, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.

Category B: Richard Gasquet, Milos Raonic, Tommy Haas, John Isner, Gael Monfils, Lleyton Hewitt.

Category C: Jerzy Janowicz, Philipp Kohlschreiber, Aleksandr Dolgopolav, Marcos Baghdatis, Fablo Fognini, Feliciano Lopez, Fernando Verdasco.

Category D: Kevin Anderson, Marinko Matosevic, Sam Querrey, Dmitry Tursunov, Somdev Devvarman, Janko Tipsarevic, Rendy Lu.

Doubles players: Bruno Soares, Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi, Alexander Peya, Marcin Matkowski, Marcelo Melo, Mariusz Fyrstenberg, Marc Lopez, Daniel Nestor, Rohan Bopanna, Robert Lindstedt, Nenad Zimonjic.

Women:

Icon Players: Serena Williams, Victoria Azarenka, Caroline Wozniacki.

Category A: Agnieszka Radwanska.

Category B: Ana Ivanovic, Samantha Stosur, Sloane Stephens.

Category C: Sara Errani, Jelena Jankovic, Angelique Kerber, Svetlana Kuznetsova, Martina Hingis, Daniela Hantuchova.

Category D: Sabine Lisicki, Kirsten Flipkens, Alize Cornet, Kristina Mladenovic, Su-Wei Hsieh, Francesca Schiavone, Flavia Pennetta, Sania Mirza, Donna Vekic.

Wait and watch for Roger Federer

Roger Federer, the biggest name in tennis, said he wasn't sure how the IPTL would pan, but wished the tournament would succeed. The Swiss superstar said, "I don't know much about it to be honest. I just didn't sign up because I didn't want to. I first wanted to see it get off the ground. I wanted them to put in the work. They've already signed up a lot of other guys. I hope it's going to be successful, because there is definitely potential in the Asian market, so many people live here, a lot of tennis enthusiasts come from this part of the world."

Federer said: "I hope it's going to be very successful. Who knows what's possible?"

Sharapova, Li Na pull out?

According to agency reports, Maria Sharapova and Li Na pulled out of the league expressing uncertainty about the tournament's workability.





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Daniela's playing for Singapore in the International Premier Tennis League.

Current squads

Singapore: Tomas Berdych, Andre Agassi, Lleyton Hewitt, Serena Williams, Bruno Soares, Patrick Rafter, Daniela Hantuchova, Nick Krygios

Bangkok: Andy Murray, Jo-Wilfred Tsonga, Victoria Azarenka, Daniel Nestor, Carlos Moya, Kirsten Flipkens

Mumbai: Rafael Nadal, Gael Monfils, Pete Sampras, Rohan Bopanna, Ana Ivanovic, Sania Mirza, Fabrice Santoro

Dubai: Novak Djokovic, Caroline Wozniacki, Goran Ivanisevic, Janko Tipsarevic, Nenad Zimonic, Malek Jaziri, Martina Hingis


It is believed that £14 million was spent on the 28 players sold, with 70 players putting their names forward for the auction. Australian Open champion Stanislas Wawrinka, David Ferrer and Agnieszka Radwanska remained unsold, with team owners still able to make 10 additions to their squads.

A total of 24 matches will be played between November 28 and December 13, with all four teams competing in one of the cities over a three-day period before moving to the next.

Each match will consist of a men's singles, a women's singles, a men's doubles, a mixed doubles and a legends' singles, with one set of each.

A tie-break will come into play if the score reaches 5-5, with the match winner to be decided by total games won by each team.

The first fixtures will take place from November 28-30 in Singapore, before the tournament moves to Bangkok (December 2-4), Mumbai (December 7-9) and finally Dubai (December 11-13).




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It seems all a bit random...


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