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World Team Tennis is underway at Indian Wells but is flying under the radar due to all the Tour Finals events. Tennis Australia announces that the women’s semis will be played in prime time in 2022.
High-altitude tennis balls used in this year’s WTA Finals
With Guadalajara sitting at more than 5,000 feet above sea level, the players are using a high-altitude tennis ball to help neutralize playing conditions low on oxygen and high in rebound. Full Story: WTA (11/13)
‘Perfect place, the perfect time’: Could World Team Tennis have a future at Indian Wells?
This is the first time the event has been played at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden, and there are hopes that perhaps success from this year’s event could lead to WTT being played there more regularly in November.Full Story: The Desert Sun (11/14)
Maria Sakkari: ‘I had zero support from federations or sponsors’
“I was lucky to have parents like my parents because they invested a lot and I had zero support from federations or sponsors,” says Sakkari, whose mother, Angeliki Kanellopoulou, was once ranked No 43 in the world. Full Story: The Guardian (11/13)
Tennis-Women’s semis get prime time slot in Australian Open shake-up
The Australian Open will join the other majors in having both men’s semi-finals played on the same day from next year with the women’s last-four stage matches moving to evening prime time slot as part of fixture shake-up, the organisers said on Friday. Full Story: WTVB (11/12)
‘King Richard’ stars, USTA Foundation surprise XS Tennis in Chicago
Actors Will Smith, Saniyya Sidney and Demi Singleton surprised student-athletes at XS Tennis, a USTA Foundation National Junior Tennis and Learning (NJTL) chapter that brings tennis to under-resourced youth in Chicago’s South Side, with a pop-up meet and greet. Full Story: USTA (11/13)
Tennis club, pickleball players in dispute over use of courts
Both sides have aired their differences at recent city council meetings. Pickleball players say they want to coexist with the tennis players, while the tennis club members say they are willing to help them get their own courts.. Full Story: The Gilroy Dispatch (11/13)
Wheelchair tennis legend retires from competition with new goal in mind
American Nick Taylor is hanging up the racket and retiring from USTA Wheelchair Tennis Competition. Full Story: KSNW (11/13)
Jane Brown Grimes, a Rare Female Force in Tennis, Dies at 80
One of the rare women executives in tennis in her time modernized the International Tennis Hall of Fame, ran the rule-making body of women’s tennis, and was president of the United States Tennis Association, died on Nov. 2 at her home in Manhattan. She was 80. Full Story: The New York Times (11/13)
This Week in Professional Tennis
| Date | Tournament | Tour/Level | Location/Timezone |
| 11/10-17 | Akron WTA Finals Guadalajara | WTA Finals | Guadalajara (UTC – 6) |
| 11/13-28 | World Team Tennis Broadcast alert: The early rounds are carried by NBCSN and FTF. Tennis Channel coverage starts Nov 22. | WTT | Indian Wells (UTC – 8) |
| 11/14-21 | Nitto ATP Finals | ATP Finals | Turin (UTC + 1) |
| 11/15-21 | Montevideo Open | WTA 125 | Uruguay (UTC – 4) |
