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The New York Sportimes selected Lely High School and University of Kentucky graduate Jesse Witten in the second round of Tuesday’s World Team Tennis Roster Player Draft.

The ostensible passionate courtship between Greg Norman and Chris Evert lasted only 15 months.

Ashley Harkleroad, the former upstart American tennis pro who gained notoriety for posing for Playboy magazine in 2008, will be making a come back to the WTA Tour in 2010.

Asheville Citizen-Times sports reporter extraordinare Keith Jarrett has a hot follow on the debacle of a tennis event that was held earlier this year.

Only one of the four players competing in Grand Slam Asheville tonight owns a framed Playboy magazine cover.

‘The event will go on now,’ said Woods. ‘My overhead cost has gone down considerably.

News, gossip and other items of interest from the world of tennis: Ankling for an Injury In herA new memoir , On the Line , Serena Williams reveals that her 2003 left knee injury - the one that required surgery and knocked her out of tennis for eight months - was sustained not on the […]

News, gossip and other items of interest from the world of tennis: Ankling for an Injury In herA new memoir , On the Line , Serena Williams reveals that her 2003 left knee injury - the one that required surgery and knocked her out of tennis for eight months - was sustained not on the […]

Never has there been a greater assemblage of pro talent on the courts at the Palisades Tennis Center than there was Sunday afternoon.

Andre Agassi has replaced Novak Djokovic on the Grand Slam stage. Three days before the US Open begins, Andre Agassi and Marat Safin will stage their own Grand Slam showdown in Asheville, North Carolina.

Last year’s first-ever “Shotgun 21″ Tennis Championships gave Pacific Palisades residents over five hours of thrilling rallies, memorable points and, in the end, one exhausted winner.

When Aces general manager Dani Apted unabashedly proclaims, “I drafted a good-lookin’ team,” she’s referring to the players’ appearance as much as their prowess on the court.

He sat in the upstairs pavilion, overlooking the No. 1 court at the Westgate Tennis Center as Lindsay Lee-Waters battled Chieh-Yu Hsu in a qualifying match Sunday afternoon in the Movie Gallery Pro Classic women’s tennis tournament.

Melanie Oudin did not reach the Family Circle Cup semifinals as Ashley Harkleroad did in 2003 as a popular upstart teen from Georgia, but the 17-year-old qualifier from Marietta, Ga., had lots of crowd support.

Since its inception in 2002 the Liverpool International Tennis Tournament has seen huge crowds thrilled by International stars such as Bjorn Borg, Novak Djorkovic, Caroline Wozniacki, Ashley Harkleroad, Martina Navratilova, Goran Ivanisevic, Ivan Ljubicic, Marat Safin, Paradorn Schrichaphan, Pat Cash, Illie Nastase, Mansour Bahrami, Henri Leconte, …

Backcourt Baby News Another first for Ashley Harkleroad, the first professional tennis player to pose for a nude pictorial in Playboy : According to online reports, Harkleroad and her coach and fiancA© Chuck Adams welcomed their first child, a baby boy weighing 7 pounds, 12 ounces, on March 25.

One thing that hasn’t changed much — other than the players, of course — is the annual, month-long city tournament each May at what is now known as the Arthur L. Allen Tennis Center.

Ashland’s Julie Ditty has a new home for the 2009 World Team Tennis season. Newport Beach Breakers selected Ditty in the second round this week during the WTT’s annual draft.

Jamea Jackson perhaps won’t fill many pages in the annals of tennis history, but in one regard the U.S. player who’s 260th in the world ranking will always be first: She opened the instant-replay era with an unsuccessful challenge.

Ashley Harkleroad reached the round of 16 at Indian Wells last March. Before the month is out, Harkleroad may be a mom.

Dinara Safina can see the summit and opens Indian Wells aiming to climb closer to the rankings peak.

Alla Kudryavtseva can defeat heralded tennis pro Maria Sharapova, but she can’t seem to escape her.

Posted by John Paulsen - SPORTSBYBROOKS has advance photos of SI’s upcoming swimsuit issue, which includes a few shots of tennis player Daniela Hantuchova .

This article is part of On the Baseline’s 2009 Players to Watch Series . Please join us for a special look at several rising and resurgent stars on the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour.

The United States will spring a February Fed Cup Surprise. The USTA is expected to announce tomorrow it has selected the Surprise Tennis and Racquet Complex in Surprise, Arizona to host the February 7-8 …

Maria Sharapova did it in 2002. Maybe another rising young female tennis player will follow her path and make a name for herself this week.

High Snobiety reports, “For Fall Burton got together with Playboy to work on an entire collaborative collection.

College on the Record has a “Golf Equals Hot” item published and everyone is desperately searching for photos of the young, talented and yes very attractive and sexy golfer.

Ashley Harkleroad has skipped this year’s U.S. Open because she is expecting a baby.

I didn’t write that as a cheap ploy to get your attention. But it is becoming a cheap ploy by Amanda Beard to get your attention.