Tennis News
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History

It has been owned and operated for nearly 20 years by Bob Larson and reports daily and hourly on the state of the game, the pro players and the industry. It features no editorial only hard news. Larson spends all day on the phone with tennis industry insiders and packaged up tennis. He also goes to the US Open and Indian Wells Masters
Indian Wells Masters
The Indian Wells Masters is an annual tennis tournament held in Indian Wells, California....

 where he has a second home every year. At the US Open, Larson has a bench that he sits at all day long bumping into people and getting scoops.

Other Properties

Daily Tennis is the daily emailed tipsheet that goes out to the tennis industry insiders. Juniortennisnews.com is the main source of tennis news for junior tennis players in the US. College News is an emailed daily newsletter to college coaches and players and tennis celebs is a weekly emailed newsletter highlighting celebrity oriented tennis news.

Tennis Person of the Year Award

Tennis News awards the tennis industries annual "Person of the Year" Award. The award was started in 2005 and is named The Bellamy after its first recipient Steve Bellamy
Steve Bellamy
Steve Bellamy is a former rock musician, songwriter, and entrepreneur in sports and media as well as the writer/director for the film The Story starring Bode Miller, Lindsey Vonn and Hilary Swank...

 the founder of The Tennis Channel
The Tennis Channel
Tennis Channel is an American speciality channel with programming devoted to the game of tennis. Founded in 2003, the network is owned by a group of investors including sports marketing firm IMG. Well known tennis professionals Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi are two of the many investors in this...

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Winners include:
  • 2005 - Steve Bellamy
    Steve Bellamy
    Steve Bellamy is a former rock musician, songwriter, and entrepreneur in sports and media as well as the writer/director for the film The Story starring Bode Miller, Lindsey Vonn and Hilary Swank...

     - founder of The Tennis Channel
    The Tennis Channel
    Tennis Channel is an American speciality channel with programming devoted to the game of tennis. Founded in 2003, the network is owned by a group of investors including sports marketing firm IMG. Well known tennis professionals Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi are two of the many investors in this...

  • 2006 - Peter Burwash
    Peter Burwash
    Peter Burwash is Canadian former tennis player, and current tennis coach, television commentator, motivational speaker and writer.- Early life :...

     - founder of PBI International
  • 2007 - Arlen Kantarian - former CEO of the USTA
  • 2008 - Nick Bolletieri - founder of Bolletieri Academy


After receiving the award, Bellamy promptly left The Tennis Channel to start The Ski Channel
The Ski Channel
The Ski Channel is a Video On Demand Cable, Satellite and Telco television network distributed on Comcast, Time Warner Cable, DirecTV, Verizon FiOS, Brighthouse Networks, Cablevision, RCN, AT&T U-Verse and Cox Communications. The technical term for a channel of this type is VODnet...

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