World number three, 20-year-old Serbian Novak Djokovic told BBC’s Inside Sport programme: ”In the UK a lot of kids are a little bit spoiled. If you have perfect conditions and everything you want, you don’t know the real meaning of tennis and you don’t work as hard as you are supposed to. You do not have [...]
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Djokovic claims a lot of UK tennis kids are spoiled
Michaela - Monday 28.04.08, 10:56am
Tags: Mens Tennis · Tennis News · Tennis and Politics
Wimbledon shame amid bribery scandal
mjr - Monday 01.10.07, 16:44pm
Amid the current allagations of bribery and betting scandals to hit the game of Tennis, Avrind Parmar has emerged as the first British player to admit to being offered money to throw a game. Parmar, who reached No 138 in the world rankings at the peak of his career, has told how he was made [...]
Tags: Mens Tennis · Tennis and Politics
Women’s Tennis Star Swaps Racket for Gun
mjr - Thursday 20.09.07, 15:35pm
Shahar Peer is ranked no. 16 in women’s tennis. She recently made it to the quarter-finals of The U.S. Open. But in a country where military service is mandatory, the Israeli player has other duties these days.
Peer has put down her tennis racket and picked up a gun. Today, just two weeks [...]
Tags: Tennis and Politics · Women's Tennis






