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9 January 2012 Issue 2

Unstoppable Czechs win Hopman Cup

Petra Kvitova and Tomas Berdych won the Hyundai Hopman Cup title for Czech Republic after recording a 2-0 triumph over France in Saturday's final at the Burswood Dome in Perth.

Kvitova opened the tie with a 75 61 win against Marion Bartoli before Berdych sealed victory by defeating Richard Gasquet 76(0) 64. The two Czech players, ranked No. 2 and No. 7 in the world respectively, remained unbeaten in singles play throughout the tournament.

"It's really good to win at the beginning of the season and of course I have to say thank you to Tomas because without him we wouldn't win," said Kvitova.

Tomas Berdych (CZE) and Petra Kvitova (CZE) lift the Hopman Cup

Photo: Tommy Hindley

Berdych added: "It couldn't be better, it was an extremely great week and first of all I need to congratulate my partner. She won all she can and I just add some winnings again and now we can be standing here and have such a nice trophy, so it was a really good week."

Czech Republic's only previous Hopman Cup success was in 1994 when Jana Novotna and Petr Korda teamed up to defeat Germany's Anke Huber and Bernd Karbacher in the final.

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Countdown to the Australian Open

The 2012 Australian Open gets underway in just a week's time with the world's top players heading to Melbourne for the first Grand Slam of the year.

Novak Djokovic is bidding to win his third consecutive major following his terrific season in 2011, which saw him claim the titles at the Australian Open, Wimbledon and the US Open. Rafael Nadal will lead the challenge along with Roger Federer and Andy Murray.

Kim Clijsters lifted the women's trophy in 2011, her first Australian Open victory and fourth Grand Slam title, but she missed most of the 2011 season with a torn stomach muscle. World No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki will head the women's charge but will face stiff opposition from Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova and US Open champion and home favourite Sam Stosur.

Ashleigh Barty (AUS), Casey Dellacqua (AUS), Madison Keys (USA), Aravane Rezai (FRA), Olivia Rogowska (AUS) have already been announced as the women's wild cards. Men's wild cards so far announced are Jeremy Chardy (FRA), James Duckworth (AUS), Lleyton Hewitt (AUS), Jesse Levine (USA), Marinko Matosevic (AUS) and Ben Mitchell (AUS).

Qualifying is being held this week with the main draw taking place from 16-29 January. For more information visit .

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Fed Cup draw Rankings/Results

Touring teams announced This Week Next Week

Beach Tennis dates confirmed

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Draw made for Fed Cup Zone Group I

The draw for the 2012 Fed Cup by BNP Paribas Europe/Africa Zone Group I, Americas Zone Group I and Asia/Oceania Group I competitions took place in London on Monday.

The events will determine which nations advance to the World Group II Play-Offs, to be played 21-22 April, and which nations will be relegated to Group II competition for 2013. Two teams will progress from Europe/Africa Group I and one from Americas Group I and Asia/Oceania Group I. Two teams will be relegated from Europe/Africa Group I and Americas Group I and one team will be relegated from Asia/Oceania Group I.

The competing nations were drawn into their initial round robin pools, which are contested throughout the week, with promotion and relegation then at stake in the play-off ties on Saturday.

EUROPE/AFRICA ZONE GROUP I Venue: Municipal Tennis Club, Eilat, Israel (hard - outdoors) Date: 1-4 February

Pool A Estonia Austria Bulgaria

Pool B Sweden Hungary Greece Bosnia/Herzegovina

Pool C Netherlands Great Britain Israel Portugal

Pool D Poland Romania Croatia Luxembourg

AMERICAS ZONE GROUP I Venue: Graciosa Country Club, Curitiba, Brazil (clay - outdoors) Date: 30 January - 4 February

Pool A Canada Argentina Peru Bahamas

Pool B Colombia Paraguay Brazil Venezuela Bolivia

ASIA/OCEANIA ZONE GROUP I Venue: Shenzhen Luohu Tennis Center, Shenzhen, China (hard - outdoors) Date: 1-4 February

Pool A China, P.R. Uzbekistan Chinese Taipei

Pool B Thailand Kazakhstan Korea, Rep. Indonesia

Daily reports from all three events will be available on the official Fed Cup by BNP Paribas websites: and es.

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Central American and Caribbean touring teams announced

This year the Regional Association COTECC will be sending a 14&U and an 18&U ITF/Grand Slam Central American and Caribbean Junior Touring Team to the COSAT Circuit events.

In the 14&U team the selected players are Djeri Jakara Raymond (ANT), Daniela Corina Obando Maldonado (HON), Atilio Jose Flores Castro (ESA) and Eduardo Jose Camacho Trevino ( CRC). They will be accompanied by coach John Goede (SUR) and will compete in tournaments from 16 January to 12 February in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia.

In the 18&U team, Victoria Rodriguez (MEX), Alejandra Cisneros (MEX), Simone Pratt (BAH) and Yolimar Ogando (PUR) have been invited to participate, accompanied by coach Guillermo Stevens (MEX). They will be playing in Grade 1 and Grade 2 events from 2 January to 28 January in Costa Rica, Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador.

COTECC President, Enrique Molins said: "This initiative is possible thanks to the Grand Slam Development Fund and it is an excellent incentive to our National Federations and especially to our junior tennis players who have ambitious and competitive tennis goals."

NEWS IN BRIEF

Spain wins 2011 European Tennis Trophy

Spain's Davis Cup by BNP Paribas victory in December secured the nation its fifth European Tennis Trophy for Overall Tennis Performance, Tennis Europe announced on Monday.

The Trophy recognises and rewards the annual achievements of Tennis Europe's 49 member nations, providing a year-end ranking of the performances of players and teams across the main competitive disciplines.

Spain won the Professional Tennis category, finished fifth in Junior Tennis, eighth in Seniors Tennis and fourth in Wheelchair Tennis to take the overall crown.

Other nations to be honoured are: Russia (Junior Tennis Trophy), Germany (Senior Tennis Trophy) and Netherlands (Wheelchair Tennis Trophy).

"A European Tennis Trophy victory represents not just the achievements of the players, but also the performances of coaches, administrators and federation staff," said Tennis Europe President Jacques Dupre.

The prizes will be awarded at a special ceremony during Tennis Europe's Annual General Meeting in Lyon in March.

1-18 Jan: ITF/OTF Pacific Oceania Junior Team to Australia

5-29 Jan: ITF/GSDF Asian 16&U team, India 6-15 Jan: ITF Asian 14&U Development Championship

- Division 2, Vietnam 6-15 Jan: West Asian Team to Division 2 event (team

from West Asian Championships) 8-14 Jan: ITF/CAT Southern African Junior

Championships, Namibia 8-14 Jan: ITF/CAT East African Junior

Championships, Burundi

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South African Airways ATP Rankings

Position Player Name (Nationality)

1st

DJOKOVIC, Novak (SRB)

2nd

NADAL, Rafael (ESP)

3rd

FEDERER, Roger (SUI)

4th

MURRAY, Andy (GBR)

5th

FERRER, David (ESP)

6th

TSONGA, Jo-Wilfried (FRA)

7th

BERDYCH, Tomas (CZE)

8th

FISH, Mardy (USA)

9th

TIPSAREVIC, Janko (SRB)

10th

ALMAGRO, Nicolas (ESP)

Points 13630 9595 8010 7380 4925 4335 3700 2965 2655 2380

WTA Singles Rankings

Position 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th

Player Name (Nationality) WOZNIACKI, Caroline (DEN) KVITOVA, Petra (CZE) AZARENKA, Victoria (BLR) SHARAPOVA, Maria (RUS) LI, Na (CHN) STOSUR, Samantha (AUS) ZVONAREVA, Vera (RUS) RADWANSKA, Agnieszka (POL) BARTOLI, Marion (FRA) PETKOVIC, Andrea (GER)

Points 7485 7190 6520 6440 5720 5585 5435 5250 4710 4500

ITF Wheelchair Rankings

MEN'S SINGLES RANKING

Position 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th

Player Name (Nationality) SCHEFFERS, Maikel (NED) KUNIEDA, Shingo (JPN) HOUDET, Stephane (FRA) VINK, Ronald (NED) PEIFER, Nicolas (FRA) AMMERLAAN, Robin (NED) OLSSON, Stefan (SWE) SAIDA, Satoshi (JPN) CATTANEO, Frederic (FRA) KRUSZELNICKI, Tadeusz (POL)

Points 5277 5048 4662 3282 3103 2875 2446 1994 1537 1472

WOMEN'S SINGLES RANKING

Position Player Name (Nationality)

1st

VERGEER, Esther (NED)

2nd

VAN KOOT, Aniek (NED)

3rd

GRIFFIOEN, Jiske (NED)

4th

BUIS, Marjolein (NED)

5th

ELLERBROCK, Sabine (GER)

6th

DI TORO, Daniela (AUS)

7th

SEVENANS, Annick (BEL)

8th

WALRAVEN, Sharon (NED)

9th

KAMIJI, Yui (JPN)

10th

MONTJANE, Kgothatso (RSA)

Points 5949 3509 3291 2898 2094 2015 1642 1630 1521 1117

QUAD SINGLES RANKING

Position 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th

Player Name (Nationality) WAGNER, David (USA) NORFOLK, Peter (GBR) GERSHONY, Noam (ISR) LAPTHORNE, Andrew (GBR) TAYLOR, Nicholas (USA)

Points 4636 4068 3077 2461 1681

ITF Junior Rankings

JUNIOR BOYS RANKING

Position 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th

Player Name (Nationality) SAVILLE, Luke (AUS) MONTEIRO, Thiago (BRA) BROADY, Liam (GBR) UCHIDA, Kaichi (JPN) KRUEGER, Mitchell (USA) SILVA, Frederico Ferreira (POR) HARRIS, Andrew (AUS) MILOJEVIC, Nikola (SRB) EDMUND, Kyle (GBR) NAPOLITANO, Stefano (ITA)

Points 1258.75 936.25

818.75 711.25 640.00 613.75 593.75 587.50 570.00 555.00

JUNIOR GIRLS RANKING

Position 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th

Player Name (Nationality) KHROMACHEVA, Irina (RUS) BARTY, Ashleigh (AUS) BOUCHARD, Eugenie (CAN) MIN, Grace (USA) GONZALEZ, Montserrat (PAR) KONTAVEIT, Anett (EST) DE VROOME, Indy (NED) KOVINIC, Danka (MNE) JABEUR, Ons (TUN) PUTINTSEVA, Yulia (RUS)

Points 1300.00 1105.00

987.50 790.00 773.75 772.50 752.50 740.00 717.50 702.50

EDITOR: Ed Pearson

THIS WEEK IS PRODUCED BY: ITF Communications Department Tel: +44 20 8878 6464; Fax: +44 20 8392 4747 Email: communications@

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Results week commencing 2 January 2012

ITF MEN'S CIRCUIT

CHINA F1 FUTURES, SHENZHEN ($15,000) Singles Jiri Vesely (CZE) d. Austin Krajicek (USA) 64 75 Doubles Pierre-Hugues Herbert (FRA)/Ivo Klec (SVK) d. Hsin-Han Lee/Hsien-Yin Peng (TPE) 64 62

ITF WOMEN'S CIRCUIT

$50,000+H QUANZHOU, CHINA, P.R. Singles Kimiko Date-Krumm (JPN) d. Timea Babos (HUN) 63 63 Doubles Hao-Ching Chan (TPE)/Rika Fujiwara (JPN) d. Kimiko Date-Krumm (JPN)/Shuai Zhang (CHN) 46 64 [10-7]

ITF JUNIOR CIRCUIT

SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA, GRADE 1 Boys Singles Noah Rubin (USA) d. Connor Farren (USA) 46 62 63 Girls Singles Sachia Vickery (USA) d. Christina Makarova (USA) 75 61 Boys Doubles Filip Bergevi/Fred Simonsson (SWE) d. Stefano Napolitano (ITA)/Adrian Obert (GER) 36 63 [10-7] Girls Doubles Laura Pigossi (BRA)/Marcela Zacarias (MEX) d. Rosalie Van der Hoek (NED)/ Sachia Vickery (USA) 62 64

JIANGMEN, CHINA, P.R., GRADE 3 Boys Singles Siyu Liu (CHN) d. Weiqiang Zheng (CHN) 63 64 Girls Singles Hao Chen Tang (CHN) d. Ruyu Yan (CHN) 63 61 Boys Doubles Wei-Jen Chen/Cheng-Yu Yu (TPE) d. ChaoYu Huang/KUAN-YI LEE (TPE) 64 46 [10-2] Girls Doubles Yukun Zhang/Saisai Zheng (CHN) d. Jiahui Chen/Ziyue Sun (CHN) 61 61

PONTEVEDRA, SPAIN, GRADE 3 Boys Singles David Biosca Girvent (ESP) d. Remy Chala (FRA) 75 46 64 Girls Singles Camilla Rosatello (ITA) d. Alexandria Stiteler (USA) 64 62 Boys Doubles David Biosca Girvent/Jaume Pla Malfeito (ESP) d. Enzo Py/Johan Sebastien Tatlot (FRA) 63 26 [10-7] Girls Doubles Paula Gutierrez Perez (ESP)/Aleksandra Zenovka (RUS) d. Alice Matteucci/ Candelaria Sedano-Acosta (ITA) 46 63 [15-13]

BROMMA, SWEDEN, GRADE 4 Boys Singles Jonathan Mridha (SWE) d. Robin Haden (SWE) 75 64 Girls Singles Cornelia Emily Lister (SWE) d. Donika Bashota (SWE) 75 64 Boys Doubles Mohamed Shabib/Simon Friis Soendergaard (DEN) d. Vincent Eriksson/Robin Haden (SWE) 61 64 Girls Doubles Donika Bashota/Cornelia Emily Lister (SWE) d. Jacqueline Cabaj Awad (SWE)/ Madara Straume (LAT) 63 76(1)

BELGRADE, SERBIA, GRADE 5 Boys Singles Luka Ilic (SRB) d. Thomas Jan Dafcik (GER) 60 63 Girls Singles Ivana Jorovic (SRB) d. Andreea Ghitescu (ROU) 46 76(2) 64 Boys Doubles Goran Markovic (SRB)/Maks Tekavec (SLO) d. Oliver Ceranic (AUS)/Mark Kovacs (HUN) 67(4) 64 [10-5] Girls Doubles Ivana Jorovic/Mina Markovic (SRB) d. Anastasia Chikalkina/Nelli Ponomareva (RUS) 64 46 [13-11]

ITF SENIORS CIRCUIT

TORONTO, CANADA, GRADE 3 Men 35 Age Category Singles Adam Baranowski (CAN) d. Olivier Borlee (CAN) 63 62

Men 40 Age Category Singles Karl Hale (CAN) d. Benjamin Woo (CAN) 63 62 Men 45 Age Category Singles Glenn Michibata (CAN) d. Dariusz Kozak (CAN) 60 61 Men 50 Age Category Singles Denis Dumas (CAN) d. Cary Willson (CAN) 57 75 64 Men 55 Age Category Singles Jean-Pierre Cote (CAN) d. Fraser Macdonald (CAN) 60 63 Men 60 Age Category Singles Dennis Ing (CAN) d. Daryl Howes-Jones (CAN) 62 46 61 Men 65 Age Category Singles Hani Ayoub (CAN) d. Shaheer Mikhail (CAN) 61 67(2) 62 Women 35 Age Category Singles Erin Boynton (CAN) d. Patty Thornicroft (CAN) 61 62 Women 45 Age Category Singles Cathy Litton (CAN) d. Janice Hebert (CAN) 75 63 Women 55 Age Category Singles Michelle Hall (CAN) d. Frances Critchley (CAN) 46 62 60

ITF WHEELCHAIR CIRCUIT

CALOUNDRA, AUSTRALIA, ITF 2 SERIES Men's Singles Michael Jeremiasz (FRA) d. Martin Legner (AUT) 61 62 Women's Singles Sabine Ellerbrock (GER) d. Daniela Di Toro (AUS) 61 46 76(5) Quad Singles Greg Hasterok (USA) d. Marco Innocenti (ITA) 75 ret. Men's Doubles Frederic Cazeaudumec/Michael Jeremiasz (FRA) d. Marc McCarroll/ Gordon Reid (GBR) 64 75 Women's Doubles Kgothatso Montjane (RSA)/Christine Schoenn (FRA) d. Kanako Domori/Yuko Okabe (JPN) 64 57 62

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This Week Next Week

Events - week commencing 9 January 2012

GRAND SLAM

AUSTRALIAN OPEN QUALIFYING, MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA

MEN

Germany F1 Futures Israel F1 Futures Russia F1 Futures Turkey F1 Futures USA F1 Futures China F2 Futures Great Britain F1 Futures

Schwieberdingen Eilat Moscow Antalya Plantation, FL Shenzhen Glasgow

$10,000 $10,000 $10,000 $10,000 $10,000 $15,000 $15,000

WOMEN

Great Britain Guadeloupe Turkey China, P.R. USA

Glasgow Saint Martin Antalya Pingguo Innisbrook, FL

$10,000 $10,000 $10,000 $25,000 $25,000

SENIORS

Canada

Toronto

Grade 3

JUNIORS

Venezuela Slovak Republic India Austria Japan Poland Spain Sweden United Arab Emirates China, P.R.

Caracas Bratislava Chandigarh Bergheim Saitama Szczecin Pontevedra Vasteras Abu Dhabi Shenzhen

Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 4 Grade 4 Grade 4 Grade 4 Grade 4 Grade 5

WHEELCHAIR

Australia

Adelaide

ITF 2 Series

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This Week Next Week

Events - week commencing 16 January 2012

GRAND SLAM

AUSTRALIAN OPEN, MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA

MEN

Germany F2 Futures Israel F2 Futures Russia F2 Futures Turkey F2 Futures USA F2 Futures France F1 Futures Great Britain F2 Futures

Stuttgart Eilat Moscow Antalya Sunrise, FL Bagnoles De L'Orne Sheffield

WOMEN

Germany Great Britain Guadeloupe Portugal Turkey USA

Stuttgart Sutton Gosier Coimbra Antalya Plantation, FL

SENIORS

Australia Austria Croatia

Perth Seefeld Zagreb

JUNIORS

Australia Colombia Czech Republic India Germany Hong Kong, China United Arab Emirates

Traralgon Barranquilla Prerov New Delhi Hamburg Causeway Bay Fujairah

WHEELCHAIR

Australia

Melbourne

$10,000 $10,000 $10,000 $10,000 $10,000 $10,000+H $15,000

$10,000 $10,000 $10,000 $10,000 $10,000 $25,000

Grade 1 Grade 1 Grade 3

Grade 1 Grade 1 Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 4 Grade 4 Grade 4

ITF 2 Series

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