Tennis Today: From meeting Santa to training with Fernando Verdasco, Andy Murray has been busy
Andy Murray is single-handedly making sure Tennis Today has enough content while most other tennis players disappear from our news feeds. Thanks Andy!
What’s on the site
Kyle Edmund was a genuine breakout tennis star of 2018, but was he capable of achieving even more? We take a look at his report card.
Stats are always cool, especially in tennis so who are the top 10 best servers of 2018 by unique metric?
It was a quiet Sunday so we decided to entertain with a quiz on the mercurial Marcelo Rios.
As for news, Juan Carlos Ferrero believes “beast” Rafael Nadal still has a couple of years at the highest level left in his tank.
Then there is John McEnroe who feels Serena Williams should NOT apologise for her behaviour during and after the controversial US Open final.
Meanwhile, Mark Philippousis is siding with Roger Federer in the debate over the ATP Tour scheduling.
What’s in the news
Svetlana Kuznetsova has confirmed she will miss the Australian Open and she has also hit out at the media for “twisting her words”, according to Ubitennis.
Research published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings has found that “Tennis tops list of sports for increasing life expectancy”.
According to a study of 9,000 people for up to 25 years, “tennis players lived longest among the activities they looked at — ahead of soccer, swimming and cycling”.
Abc.net.au has the story.
Venus Williams attended Create & Cultivate’s Vision Summit in Miami over the weekend and the Daily Mail has all the details.
What’s on social media
Andy Murray unimpressed by Santa.
Murray once again getting ready for teh 2020 Olympics gymnastics event.
Murray has been busy over the last few days.
Stop it Andy!
Novak Djokovic reveals some intimidate details about what he likes and doesn’t like.
We can’t wait to start reading Dominika Cibulkova’s memoirs.
What’s on TV
It’s perhaps best that you don’t look at this section in the next few weeks.
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