Hello Tennis Buddies Kids & Parents!

Tennis Buddies Spring Session 2012 is getting ready to fire up!   We will be starting practice February 27th.  Get signed up immediately to guaranty your spot!  Late signups will not be allowed this season.  February 15th is the deadline to get signed up, BUT DON’T WAIT UNTIL THE END.  Get your child signed up today!  Matches start on March 10th!

Additionally, we are adding a new coach this season.  Coach Ben will have his own team.  The team name is THE RAFAS.

See you all very soon!
Coach Patrick

If anyone knows how Novak Djokovic feels after sweating and scrapping for almost five hours in the Australian Open semifinals, it's his next opponent -- Rafael Nadal. A day after Nadal beat Roger Federer in four compelling sets, Djokovic dug deep to overcome Andy Murray 6-3, 3-6, 6-7 (4), 6-1, 7-5 on Friday night after 4 hours, 50 minutes.

Andy Murray had just spent nearly five hours on court in an Australian Open semifinal loss to Novak Djokovic that ran past midnight. Then he found out drug testers were looking for him. "Just a bit annoyed ... I know the players go on about it a lot, but they've changed these rules with the drug test," Murray said.

With singles play on their minds, Svetlana Kuznetsova and Vera Zvonareva nearly forgot to sign up in time for doubles at the Australian Open. The Russians were lucky they got in under the wire. On Friday, they rallied to beat the Italian duo of Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci 5-7, 6-4, 6-3 to win the women's doubles championship.

After 25 Grand Slam tournaments, Victoria Azarenka is through to her first final. Maria Sharapova, her opponent in Saturday's Australian Open title decider, has been there five times before, and won three. That's all history from Azarenka's perspective. "It's no concern for me. I mean, I worked hard to be in this situation, so why stress about it?" Azarenka said Friday of...

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With a quick wave and a smile, Kim Clijsters walked out of Rod Laver Arena for probably the last time in her professional career on Thursday, leaving behind a crowd that has come to view her as their own. Clijsters, who plans to retire at the end of the season, was adopted by fans when she began dating Australian Lleyton Hewitt in 2000 and the affection didn't wear off after the couple split...

Police issued two traffic tickets to Bernard Tomic after waiting outside his home while he spoke to a lawyer in the latest episode of a feud between the teenage Wimbledon quarterfinalist and local officers. Australian media reported that officers tried to pull over Tomic, who did not stop but drove his BMW sports car back to his home at Southport on Australia's Gold Coast.

Victoria Azarenka has beaten defending champion Kim Clijsters 6-4, 1-6, 6-3 Thursday to advance to the Australian Open final. Azarenka will play in her first Grand Slam final in her 25th major and will take on the winner of Thursday's later semifinal between Maria Sharapova and Petra Kvitova. Azarenka, Sharapova or Kvitova will take over the No.

The challenge system is proving, well, challenging for the top men at the Australian Open. No. 4-ranked Andy Murray asked for five line calls to be reviewed by video technology in his quarterfinal against Kei Nishikori on Wednesday and failed on every one. No. 2 Rafael Nadal and No. 6 Tomas Berdych challenged a combined 20 calls the previous evening and got eight right.

Tennis is such a hectic game that it's sometimes necessary to just slow the whole thing down. And when you do it looks even more spectacular.

Maria Sharapova will lead Russia against Spain in the Fed Cup next month. Sharapova will make her third appearance for Russia. The three-time Grand Slam champion won both of her singles matches against Israel in 2008. She lost in opening singles against France last year. Russia captain Shamil Tarpischev also selected two-time Grand Slam winner Svetlana Kuznetsova, No.

With Novak Djokovic clutching his leg and struggling to breathe, it looked like the "Big 4" semifinal lineup at the Australian Open might not come together after all. Then Djokovic's championship instincts kicked in. The top-ranked Serb held off No. 5 David Ferrer in a second-set tiebreaker Wednesday night and then raced through the third set for a 6-4, 7-6 (4), 6-1 win, setting up a...

France captain Nicolas Escude has again left Marion Bartoli off the Fed Cup team. Escude selected Alize Cornet, Pauline Parmentier, Virginie Razzano and Aravane Rezai to face Slovakia in World Group II, with Kristina Mladenovic as reserve for the Feb. 4-5 best-of-five series on indoor hard courts in Bratislava.