Industry News
Vladimir Dmitriev elected as President The city of Manchester in England has ex-
pressed an interest in hosting the WTA Finals
of Tennis Europe
Vladimir Dmitriev has been elected as the first
ever Russian President of the European Tennis
Federation at the 43rd Annual General Meeting
of the organisation.
from 2019, when the season-ending champion-
ships moves from its current home of Singa-
pore.
Belinda Bencic will be out of action for sev-
eral months following wrist surgery earlier this
week.
Tommy Haas became the oldest man to win
The Meeting was held in Sochi from 23-25
March, and was attended by 89 delegates
representing 39 member nations of the Interna-
tional Tennis Federation’s (ITF) largest regional
association.
46-year old former world #4 Kimiko Date is
plotting another return to top level tennis follow-
ing knee surgery that forced her off the circuit
at the beginning of last year.
U.S. player Taylor Fritz has signed to
play with Head racquets. He uses the
Head Graphene XT Radical frame.
an ATP World Tour main draw singles match
since Jimmy Connors in 1995 with a three-set
win over Reilly Opelka in Houston recently. The
39-year old former world #2 is playing his last
year on the circuit, and went on to extend his
own record with match wins in Monte Carlo and
Munich.
Australian Open champion Henri Kontinen
has become the first Finnish player to top the
tennis rankings, clinching the ATP Doubles pole
position after the event in Miami.
The WTA Tour has strengthened its relationship
with Porsche , which becomes the official and
exclusive automobile partner of the organisa-
tion and the title partner of the ‘Porsche Race
to Singapore’, the qualifying rankings for the
season-ending WTA Finals.
Grigor Dmitrov and Simona Halep each
Roland Garros has announced a 12% prize claimed $200,000 with wins at the inaugural Tie
Break Tens event in Madrid last week.
Wimbledon organisers have also an- Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. of
money increase for the forthcoming edition of
the tournament, with a total fund of €36 million.
nounced a significant prize money increase of
£3.5 million. The singles champions will leave
SW19 with £2.2
million, double the
amount taken by the
2011 winners of the
tournament.
Baltimore, Md., has acquired theassets of
Tennis Media Company,
the owner of Tennis.com, TENNIS magazine
and Tennis Industry magazine.
The acquisition creates a unified media
platform with Tennis Channel, which
Sinclair purchased in March 2016.
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