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Italian tennis team members hold the Davis Cup trophy after the final between Netherlands and Italy at the Martin Carpena Sports Hall in Malaga, southern Spain, as Italy wins its second consecutive Davis Cup title, Sunday, Nov. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

The number of tennis players worldwide goes past 100 million, federation says

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Spain's Rafael Nadal during a tribute after playing his last match as a professional tennis player in the Davis Cup quarterfinals at the Martin Carpena Sports Hall in Malaga, southern Spain, on early Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Rafael Nadal’s retirement ceremony was based on what he wanted, tennis official says

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Novak Djokovic of Serbia celebrates point against Jannik Sinner of Italy during a Davis Cup semi-final tennis match between Italy and Serbia in Malaga, Spain, Saturday, Nov. 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Novak Djokovic and Aryna Sabalenka win ITF World Champion awards for 2023

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Elina Svitolina of Ukraine returns the ball to Mayar Sherif of Egypt during a match of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championship in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili) **FILE**

Ukrainian tennis player Elina Svitolina won’t play Russian unless tours act

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ITF seeks new host city for Billie Jean King Cup finals

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FILE - In this Monday, July 8, 2019 file photo, Ukraine's Dayana Yastremska returns the ball to China's Shuai Zhang in a women's singles match during day seven of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London. Australia. Top 30 tennis pro Dayana Yastremska has been suspended provisionally for failing an out-of-competition doping test, the International Tennis Federation announced Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021. Yastremska is a 20-year-old Ukrainian who is ranked 29th and reached the fourth round at Wimbledon in 2019. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

Tennis pro Yastremska denied in bid to lift suspension

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FILE - In this file photo dated Thursday, Oct. 30, 2003, U.S. Fed Cup members from left, Martina Navrartilova, Lisa Raymond, Meghann Shaughnessy, Alexandra Stevenson and Fed Cup Captain Billie Jean King, accept a replica of the Betsy Ross Flag at the Advanta Championships, in VIllanova, USA. The Fed Cup is changing its name to honour tennis great Billie Jean King, becoming The Billie Jean King Cup, the first major global team competition to be named after a woman, it is announced Thursday Sept. 17, 2020.(AP Photo/Miles Kennedy, FILE)

Fed Cup changes name to honor tennis great Billie Jean King

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FILE - In this Jan. 4, 2020 file photo, Chile's Nicolas Jarry plays a shot during his match against France's Benoit Paire at the ATP Cup tennis tournament in Brisbane, Australia. The top 100 tennis player was given an 11-month doping ban by the International Tennis Federation on Monday, April 20, 2020, stemming from a failed test at the Davis Cup Finals in November. (AP Photo/Tertius Pickard, File)

Top 100 tennis player Nicolas Jarry gets 11-month doping ban

By HOWARD FENDRICH - Associated Press

A worker wearing a hazardous materials suit stands at the entrance to a subway station in Beijing, Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020. The new virus accelerated its spread in China, and the U.S. Consulate in the epicenter of the outbreak, the central city of Wuhan, announced Sunday it will evacuate its personnel and some private citizens aboard a charter flight. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Tennis Fed Cup event moved from China amid viral illness

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In this photo taken Friday June, 28, 2019, a Wimbledon 2019 tennis ball is weighed at the International Tennis Federation (ITF) lab in Roehampton, near Wimbledon south west London. Based for about 20 years in a three-room area on what used to be a pair of squash courts in Roehampton, the ITF tech lab is filled with more than $1 million worth of machines that help make sure rules are followed and parameters are met. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Tennis tech folks who test all stay mum on Wimbledon speed

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Novak Djokovic, of Serbia, celebrates after defeating Juan Martin del Potro, of Argentina, during the men's final of the U.S. Open tennis tournament on Sept. 9, 2018, in New York. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger)

Top-ranked Djokovic, Halep honored by ITF as World Champions

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Serena Williams, right, talk with chair umpire Carlos Ramos as Naomi Osaka, of Japan, listens during the women's final of the U.S. Open tennis tournament, Saturday, Sept. 8, 2018, in New York. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger)

Governing body defends umpire after Serena Williams flap

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Novak Djokovic, of Serbia, returns to Steve Johnson in the first round at the Western &amp; Southern Open, Monday, Aug. 13, 2018, in Mason, Ohio. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Tennis leaders preparing to vote on Davis Cup overhaul

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Andy Murray, of Britain, returns the ball against Kyle Edmund, of Britain, during the Citi Open tennis tournament Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)

Tennis head touts windfall for nations to approve World Cup

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

Victoria Sasinka, 13, of the US serves the ball, during an International Tennis Federation Tournament, at Harare Sports Club, in Harare, Monday, Aug. 6, 2018. As Zimbabwean soldiers opened fire on rioters, protesters and bystanders after a disputed election, teen-agers in an International Tennis Federation tournament were battling each other on hard courts a few kilometers (miles) from the deadly violence. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

Election violence in Zimbabwe didn’t faze tennis teens

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Lawyer Adam Lewis speaking to the media during a press conference at he launch of the Independent Review of Integrity in Tennis interim report in London, Wednesday, April 25, 2018. Lewis is one of three members of the panel along with Beth Wilkinson and Marc Henzelin. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Tennis corruption report: ‘Tsunami’ of problems at low level

By HOWARD FENDRICH - Associated Press

FILE - This is a Sunday, Nov. 26, 2017 file photo of the French captain Yannick Noah, center, holding the cup after France won the Davis Cup at the Pierre Mauroy stadium in Lille, northern France. France won the Davis Cup for the first time in 16 years after beating Belgium 3-2. The Davis Cup is set to be transformed into a one-week, 18-nation World Cup of Tennis in a major overhaul of the international team event in men’s tennis. The International Tennis Federation says it has unanimously endorsed a proposal to create a new season-ending event in November starting in 2019. The World Cup of Tennis would be played over seven days in the traditional week of the David Cup final and comprise a round-robin format followed by a quarterfinal knockout stage. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Davis Cup revamp plans get mixed response

By STEVE DOUGLAS - Associated Press

FILE - This is a Sunday, Nov. 26, 2017 file photo of the French captain Yannick Noah, center, holding the cup after France won the Davis Cup at the Pierre Mauroy stadium in Lille, northern France. France won the Davis Cup for the first time in 16 years after beating Belgium 3-2. The Davis Cup is set to be transformed into a one-week, 18-nation World Cup of Tennis in a major overhaul of the international team event in men’s tennis. The International Tennis Federation says it has unanimously endorsed a proposal to create a new season-ending event in November starting in 2019. The World Cup of Tennis would be played over seven days in the traditional week of the David Cup final and comprise a round-robin format followed by a quarterfinal knockout stage. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Davis Cup to be transformed into a 1-week World Cup

By STEVE DOUGLAS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, May 23, 2016 file picture, former Romanian tennis ace Ilie Nastase watches a match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium, in Paris, France. On Wednesday Feb. 7, 2018 Illie Nastase has two tennis bans reduced following his appeal against sanctions handed out for foul-mouthed comments and bad behavior as Romania's Fed Cup captain last year. The International Tennis Federation suspended the 71-year-old Nastase from the Fed Cup and Davis Cup until 2019 and from working in an official capacity in the sport until 2021. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)

Nastase tennis bans reduced 8 months on appeal, fine doubled

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FILE - In this Jan. 19, 2018 file photo France's Alize Cornet makes a backhand return to Belgium's Elise Mertens during their third round match at the Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne, Australia. Cornet has been dropped from France's Fed Cup team for next month's tie against Belgium after missing three out-of-competition doping tests in the past year.(AP Photo/Andy Brownbill,File)

Cornet under investigation after missing 3 doping tests

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