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All Tennis Coverage Moved To sbnation.com/tennis

2011-08-25T04:35:45Z

In case you haven't figured it out yet, doesn't seem like any new content is going to be going up on The Daily Forehand. But all the stuff you knew and loved here at The Daily Forehand (and much more) has moved up to sbnation.com/tennis.

Head over there all US Open long, and beyond.

Elise Tamaela Hospitalized After Assault by Rival's Father

2011-08-09T10:43:58Z

Elise Tamaela Hospitalized After Assault by Rival's Father

As you should have learned by now, stay tuned to SBNation.com/tennis for all tennis coverage from here on, including the above story about a bizarre, violent attack on a player at a challenger in Germany on Monday.

Wayne Odesnik, The Most Hated Man In Tennis Five thousand or so words on Wayne Odesnik, for...

2011-08-05T01:23:52Z

Wayne Odesnik, The Most Hated Man In Tennis

Five thousand or so words on Wayne Odesnik, for SBNation.com/tennis . Enjoy.

Always nice when one of the other SB Nation blogs touches on tennis. Here's a great piece on...

2011-07-30T21:08:41Z

Always nice when one of the other SB Nation blogs touches on tennis. Here's a great piece on Berkley alumna Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman on network's Cal blog, California Golden Blogs.

Few more SBNation.com/tennis pieces for you to enjoy from the Citi Open in College Park,...

2011-07-29T19:04:32Z

Few more SBNation.com/tennis pieces for you to enjoy from the Citi Open in College Park, Maryland:

31-Year Old Petra Rampre Qualifies For WTA Main Draw For First Time In Eleven Years

Canadian Phenom Genie Bouchard On Junior Tennis, The Jonas Brothers, And Lamping

Stephanie Dubois On Comebacks, Confidence, Conditioning, And Canada

Bunch more still to come, so stay tuned both here and at SBNation.com/tennis .

Also, check out Rick Limpert's article from Stanford.

SB Nation Talks to Heather Watson at the Citi Open

2011-07-25T18:52:34Z

COLLEGE PARK, MD -- On the first day of the inaugural Citi Open, a new International-level WTA tournament being held just outside Washington, DC in College Park, Maryland, I chatted with fast-rising British phenom Heather Watson.

Watson, the 2009 US Open Girls' champion, just earned direct entry to a Grand Slam (the 2011 US Open) for the first time. She has made it to the quarterfinals of two WTA-level tournaments so far this year, in Auckland and Memphis.

The whole interview, plus a few more photos of Watson practicing, can be found here.

As the US Open draws closer, more and more of our tennis coverage here at SB Nation will be coming to you via the Tennis hub of SBNation.com, which you can find here. We'll try to link here to the coverage there as much as possible, but you'll be well served by adding it to your bookmarks and RSS readers today.

Mardy Fish Edges John Isner to Repeat at Atlanta Tennis Championships

2011-07-25T03:55:03Z

NORCROSS, Georgia - It was an All-American final today in Atlanta, and for the second consecutive year, Mardy Fish had too much in the third set for 6'9" John Isner to handle.

Fish scored an impressive 3-6, 7-6 (6), 6-2 comeback win over Isner, but only after he faced two match points in the second set tiebreak. Fish fell behind 5-1 in the tiebreak before evening it at 5-5.

"I was lucky to come back in the tiebreaker," said the No. 9 ranked Fish after grabbing his first title of 2011. "When John is in that position he'll close out the match nine out of ten times."

Isner seemed in disbelief that he let this match get away from him. "I was up a set and a break. I had a match point on my own serve. You can't ask for much more than that."

Fish will now head to Los Angeles where he is the #1 seed in the Farmers Classic. Isner will take next week off before playing in Washington D.C.

In Sunday's earlier match, Matthew Ebden of Australia won his second consecutive doubles title, teaming this week with American, Alex Bogomolov Jr., in a 3-6, 7-5, 10-8 match-tiebreaker victory over Matthias Bachinger and Frank Moser of Germany.

Seen around the grounds on Sunday: Chair Umpire Steve Ulrich threatening to throw a fan out of the stadium in the doubles final after the fan was cheering misses from Bogomolov Jr. and Ebden...90-year old former University of Georgia tennis coach, Dan Magill cheering on former Bulldog, Isner...Former Atlanta Tennis Championships tournament director Bill Oakes, who now is TD at the Winston-Salem Open this August. He says he'll have a strong field and has received some inquiries from some top-30 players possibly looking to take a wild card.

Fans Keep Cool at the Atlanta Tennis Championships

2011-07-24T19:42:25Z

NORCROSS, Georgia - Who says it’s just the players feeling the heat? Not the brave tennis fans in Atlanta.

4,000 fans, scores of volunteers, tournament officials and ball kids are sometimes spending triple the time that the players are spending in the oven-like conditions this week in Atlanta.

While the hot and humid conditions snuck up on the event last year when it was played at the Atlanta Athletic Club, this year more precautions were put in place to make sure fans and tournament workers had a place to go to escape the heat.

Racquet Club of the South, this year's venue for the tournament, provides an air conditioned indoor space for a food court and a mini shopping mall, giving fans a temporary oasis in what feels like a desert. Not only is it cooler, the oasis has places to eat, shop and relax for fans when they aren’t watching tennis.

Other shaded areas that included "misting stations" were set up around the grounds. One family camped out at one of the misting areas and decided to watch the action on one of the big screen televisions outside the stadium court.

Medical staff is on hand to assist any spectators who might be struggling with the heat. "We have golf carts and first aid kits in every corner of the stadium to help fans," said one Gwinnett County Medical official. As of Saturday night no heat related illnesses were reported.

Most fans agree that the tennis in Atlanta has been hot this week, but the scorching temperatures won’t keep them away. Hand-held fans are being given away at the entrance each day and fans appear to be keeping hydrated and finding shade when necessary.