Week 1 - Tennis

Welcome to the Tennis section of our blog!

I will be covering important topics in the field of Tennis, especially those that are related to Australia. In specific, I will be posting tournament and match news, including rankings and miscellaneous tennis news.

Most important in Tennis news at the moment is of course, the 2016 Davis Cup. The 105th edition of this tournament is in progress at the moment (2nd  March - 27th November) and consists of major national teams, sponsored by BNP PARIBAS. The first round of the tournament eliminated numerous teams including: Australia, Japan, Poland, Canada, Germany and Belgium. Pitting teams such as Great Britain, Serbia, Argentina, USA and Croatia against each other in the Quarterfinals. The Semi-finals were between Great Britain and Argentina and France and Croatia. The finals, to be hosted between the 25th and 27th of November will be Argentina versus Croatia.

Table taken from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Davis_Cup

In other important news, Australia has secured itself a place in the 2017 Davis Cup Group through its 3-0 Win against Slovakia at the Sydney Olympic Park. "We expect that we can go deep. This group wants to try and get our hands on the Davis Cup." - Lleyton Hewitt (Australian former no.1 professional tennis player).