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CASEY Dellacqua, Jessica Moore and Samantha Stosur are all set to descend on Perth next February after the city was announced as the host of the 2009 Asia/Oceania Zonal tennis Fed Cup.

The Sony Ericsson WTA Tour is losing one of their most personable players with the retirement of Australian player Alicia Molik this month.

Felix Mantilla in action at the 2005 US Open. Injury ended his career in 2007. Photo: Getty Images FORMER Spanish claycourt specialist Felix Mantilla is the latest coach hired by Tennis Australia to help arrest …

For our money, the best tennis writer on the planet is dead, at 46. Even if you’re unwilling to commit to the upper-body workout that is the 1,079-page “Infinite Jest,” read his essay on Michael Joyce or Tracy …

Australia’s former world top 10 tennis player Alicia Molik has retired following a long battle with a debilitating inner ear virus and a more recent string of injuries.

AUSTRALIA’s former world top 10 tennis player Alicia Molik has retired from the sport following a long battle with a debilitating inner ear virus and a more recent string of injuries.

Spaniard Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez became the first winner on the second day of the Olympic tennis event after blitzing Australian Alicia Molik as quick wins are essential on a day with 65 scheduled matches.

Lindsay Davenport made it to Beijing, but she won’t be going for the gold in singles.

AUSTRALIA’S former world No1 Lleyton Hewitt said yesterday that tennis should remain part of the Olympics, but added the competition lacked the “do or die” element present in other sports at the Games.

WOMEN’S doubles, not perennial standard-bearer Lleyton Hewitt for a change, looms as Australia’s best medals source at the Beijing Olympic tennis tournament.

Perth’s rising star Casey Dellacqua is among four debutants confirmed in Australia’s Olympic tennis team.

AUSTRALIA is likely to have multiple entries in each of the four Olympic tennis events, with the maximum four doubles teams accepted.

Japan’s Kei Nishikori eyes the ball as he returns a shot during a match on June 12, 2008.

Ai Sugiyama and her Zimbabwean partner Kevin Ullyett reached the Wimbledon Championships mixed doubles quarter finals on Wednesday after beating Australian Alicia Molik and Jonas Bjorkman of Sweden 6-7 , 6-2, …

Athens bronze medallist Alicia Molik has received a wildcard entry to the women’s singles at this year’s Olympics in Beijing.

NEW DELHI, June 29: India’s campaign to win a mixed doubles title at the ongoing Wimbledon has ended with all the Indian contenders facing a second round exit.

Casey Dellacqua serves against Nicole Vaidisova in the third round at Wimbledon.

The seventh-seeded Ukrainian double of sisters Olena and Kateryna Bondarenko will play their match today.

AUSTRALIA’S Casey Dellacqua maintained her strong grand slam doubles form with a first-round victory at Wimbledon overnight.

RANKED 157th, Samantha Stosur has emerged from obscurity and a career-threatening illness to lead Australia’s Wimbledon charge.

Jamie Murray and Jelena Jankovic will not be able to defend the mixed doubles title they won at Wimbledon last year.

Alicia Molik’s confidence and ranking have dropped over the past few years. Photo: Vince Caligiuri COMPROMISED by a persistent elbow injury that has drained her confidence and punished her ranking, former world …

BUDDING Warrnambool tennis player Victoria Townsend could follow in the footsteps of some of Australia’s best players.

Fed Cup captain David Taylor has hailed Casey Dellacqua as a great success story of Australian sport following her remarkable rise from tennis obscurity to grand slam contender.

AUSTRALIA’S Casey Dellacqua has reached the French Open women’s doubles final. Dellacqua and Italian partner Francesca Schiavone upset seventh-seeded Ukrainian sisters Alona and Kateryna Bondarenko, who won the …

LLEYTON HEWITT, the man still carrying the weight of Australian tennis on his shoulders, will head to Paris but remains uncertain if he will play in next week’s French Open.

“It started at Wimbledon last year. The best guess is that I might have picked up the problem in Paris. But no one could really tell me.”
Comeback trail … Stosur during her loss to Williams. Photo: Getty Images SAMANTHA STOSUR doesn’t cross her fingers or perform any other superstitious rituals while declaring she has […]

QUEENSLANDER Sam Stosur will go to her WTA Tour comeback tournament in Rome next week with the aid of seven matches at US Challenger events. via NEWS.com.au

Wild-card entrant Karolina Pliskova rallied to defeat eighth-seeded Kaia Kanepi 1-6, 6-3, 7-5 Wednesday and advanced to the quarterfinals of the Prague Open. via Barre-Montpelier Times-Argus

Tatiana Poutchek, Belarus, def. Ekaterina Dzehalevich, Belarus, 6-1, 4-6, 7-5. Kaia Kanepi , Estonia, def. via International Herald Tribune