By Sportingintelligence 23 January 2012 SERENA Williams, eliminated from the Australian Open on Monday after losing her fourth-round match against Ekaterina Makarova in straight sets, has today been revealed at the most heavily fined player in women’s tennis. The 30-year-old American, who has won 13 Grand Slam singles titles (five Australian Opens, one French Open, […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 9 January 2012  The most lucrative Grand Slam in tennis history is nigh, with the Australian Open singles winners due to collect Aus$2.3m each (£1.49m), which is more than any Slam singles winners to date. For triumphing in the doubles, the winning couples will split […]

By Sportingintelligence  5 January 2012 A tennis coaching document used at one of the world’s most famous tennis academies – Nick Bollettieri’s in Florida – recommends breathing out when hitting the ball in a manner that naturally leads to punctuation with a grunt, it has been revealed today. While the academy and Bollettieri – who […]

By Alexandra Willis 27 October 2011 Nick Bollettieri has offered his support to the Women’s Tennis Association in their battle to contain the presence of grunting on the tennis tour, revealing that he and his team are already exploring the ways to teach young juniors not to grunt. Speaking to The Daily Telegraph, Bollettieri, also […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 9 May 2011 Fanciful predictions said two billion people would watch the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton live on TV around the world – and around 300m actually did, according to preliminary findings of research by sportingintelligence into the real global audience. That […]

By Alexandra Willis 5 May 2011 Come next Monday, with just two weeks to go to the French Open at Roland Garros, and six weeks to The Championships at Wimbledon, there will be no American players ranked inside tennis’s top 10 rankings for the first time in the history of the sport. Serena Williams, the […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 22 April 2011 The best paid sportsmen in the world, judged on average earnings per player across whole leagues, are the basketball players who make their living in the NBA in North America, according to the findings of sportingintelligence’s Global Sports Salaries Report 2011 (GSSS […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 20 April 2011 Barcelona are the best paid team in global sport measured by average first-team wages, ahead of their great rivals Real Madrid in second place, knocking baseball’s New York Yankees from the No1 spot, according to the Global Sports Salaries Survey 2011, to […]

By Alexandra Willis in Indian Wells 20 March 2011 Novak Djokovic out-fought the game’s prize fighter to win the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, coming from behind to defeat Rafael Nadal 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 and extend his figures for the 2011 season to 21-0. Despite coming out of the blocks marginally slower than his […]

By Alexandra Willis in Indian Wells 13 March 2011 Elena Baltacha may not have been able to pull off another match point-saving miracle against the No.13 seed Flavia Pennetta in their second round encounter at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, but the British No.1 feels that her performance, which saw her come within […]