The world number one Victoria Azarenka has pulled out of the Brisbane International semi-final against Serena Williams. Azarenka, has blamed a bad pedicure and has said  she could not risk making the infected big toe worse, with the defence of her Australian Open Grand Slam title ahead. Serena, will now play Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in tomorrow’s final.

Andy Murray is into the semi – finals of the Brisbane International with a victory over Denis Istomin from Uzbekistan. The number 1 seed defeated Istomin 6-4 7-6 (7-3) as he continues his preparation for the Australian Open this month. Tomorrow Murray , will take on fifth seed Kei Nishikora of Japan.

Our new website is now live. The site has been totally modernised and revamped and bought more up to date. We have added our video testimonials on our video page. Please take a look and let us know what you think compared to our old site. We will up dating our blog page on a regular basic to keep all our clients up to date on all the latest news with 5 Star Tennis Holidays.

Our tennis coaching hosted weeks for 2013 have just been released on our new website. These tennis holidays are very popular and are tailored to the tennis enthusiats looking to enhance their game and have fun whilst doing so. Players are all ages and abilities attend from tennis clubs all over the Uk. During 2013 the weeks are running from May through to early November to the Algarve. The venues for the tennis holiday weeks will be the world renowned Vale do Lobo and Amendoeira Resorts. Please call 01234 482240 for more information or to book.

Congratulations to our Pro Hitter Richard Gabb who has recently won futures doubles titles in Cambodia. Richard who went to Millfield School and now attends the Team Bath Academy,has a ATP world singles ranking of 745. We are very fortunate to Richard services normally over the Easter period each year. Good luck for 2013 Richard.