By Sportingintelligence  25 April 2012 Kaka has become the first sportsman in the world to amass 10 million followers on the micro-blogging website Twitter. As this report from the Associated Press detailed when the Real Madrid footballer passed the landmark, he tweeted: ‘Thank youuuuu. To celebrate I’ll make a twitcam’. Whatever that means. Love it […]

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 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 Alexandra Willis 1 December 2010 Kim Clijsters has been awarded the WTA Player of the Year for 2010 for the second time in her career. Tennis fans and the media voted the bubbly Belgian as their player of the year in recognition of her achievement in winning the US Open title for the third […]

By Alexandra Willis 15 October 2010 The governing body of men’s tennis has acknowledged that it will consider a re-organisation of the men’s calendar in a “meaningful way” to avoid a flurry of injuries and withdrawals towards the end of the season. World No.1 Rafael Nadal, who has consistently affirmed that the tennis season is […]

By Alexandra Willis 12 October 2010 Rafael Nadal has poured cold water over the suggestion that he is nigh on certain of becoming the first man since Rod Laver to complete the calendar Grand Slam. Speaking at a press conference during the ATP World Tour Shanghai Rolex Masters 1000,  the world No.1 reminded members of […]

5 October 2010 . Caroline Wozniacki is within touching distance of clinching the world No.1 women’s tennis ranking after winning the Toray Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo last week. As revealed first by sporting intelligence, the Dane merely has to reach the quarter-finals or better in this week’s China Open in Beijing to surpass Serena […]

By Nick Harris 29 September 2010 A day after Ian Poulter clarified, via his Twitter account, that Colin Montgomerie had not in fact banned his Ryder Cup players from tweeting during the event, the English golfer has revealed he’s lost another bet to a team-mate over the result of a practice round. Yesterday, Poulter tweeted: […]

By Alexandra Willis 2 September 2010 Another controversial foot fault at the US Open at Flushing Meadows has prompted calls for tennis to extend the Hawk-Eye challenge system to include foot faults. One year on from the explosive incident that saw Serena Williams docked a penalty point after she was called for a foot fault […]

ALEXANDRA WILLIS is the Deputy Editor of ACE Tennis Magazine, and alongside mag work and an affair with social media, has the dubious honour of following British players to Grand Slam qualifying from time to time as part of her professional duties. If you happen to bump into her court-side, she’ll probably tell you that she went […]