Originally posted on Tennis-Minna:
As the tennis season is fast approaching its conclusion, we start to see news feeds containing information like “He can still qualify for the year-end championships, if he reaches the semifinal in this tournament and the final next week.” This talk increases week by week. The tour organizations are the main…

Originally posted on Sykose Extreme Sports News:
British number one Andy Murray has tweeted a picture  of himself in hospital with his thumbs up after minor surgery on his troublesome back. The 26-year-old Scot says the first thing he said when he came round from the operation was: “Did I win?” Murray is unlikely to play again this…

Originally posted on 17aces:
So its been a while since I posted one of the Forehand Times posts and it has been a whirlwind week and a half for Rafa and he hasn’t got any actual rest. 😀 Good news for the 2014 calendar is that they have added a brand new clay tournament in…

Originally posted on Little Bits of History:
The Battle of the Sexes Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs September 20, 1973: Two tennis greats meet in the Houston Astrodome in Texas. Robert Larimore Riggs was born in 1918 and took up the game when he was eleven. He became a tennis star in the 1930s…

Originally posted on movieLuv:
(Note: our light posting lately is due to a family illness.)  ON THIS DAY in 1973, at the Houston Astrodome, Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs in “The Battle of the Sexes” tennis match. This event was dramatized in the 2001 film, WHEN BILLIE BEAT BOBBY, starring Holly Hunter and Ron Silver.…

Originally posted on The Grandstand:
Andy Murray will undergo reportedly “minor” surgery on his ailing back and he is expected to miss the rest of the 2013 season. Murray, previously scheduled to return next week in Bangkok, has an outside chance of coming back for the World Tour Finals in London. “Next week Andy is…

Interesting but unlikely from my POV