James Waterson reports on the day’s tennis news. Caroline Wozniacki and Maria Sharapova lead their respective groups at the WTA’s year-end championships, and there are some interesting match-ups in store. Janko Tipsarevic beat Viktor Troicki in the ATP’s first all-Serbian final in Moscow, and the win moved him up to No. 10 in the race for the ATP World Tour Finals. The WTA announced player participation increased 24 percent while withdrawal rates decreased 18 percent
In 1900, a 14-year-old Jewish boy in Poland named David Gruen founded a Zionist youth group. He made his way to Palestine when he was 20, where he eventually changed his last name to Ben-Gurion. He went on to become a founding father of Israel and its first prime minister. One of Ben-Gurion’s key aides […]
