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Novak Djokovic (SRB) Djokovic is World Champion for the third consecutive year. The 26-year-old successfully defended his Australian Open title and reached the finals at Wimbledon and the US Open. He won a total of seven titles in 2013, including the ATP World Tour Finals, and finished the year ranked No. 2. Serena Williams (USA) Williams has been named World Champion for the fourth time. In 2013 she won Roland Garros and the US Open to take her total number of Grand Slam titles to 17. She captured the year-end WTA Championships and finished the season with a career-best 11 titles and the No.1 ranking. Bob and Mike Bryan (USA) The Bryans are World Champions for the tenth time after narrowly failing to complete the Grand Slam in 2013. Victories at the Australian Open, Roland Garros and Wimbledon saw the brothers hold all four majors at the same time. They won 11 events during 2013, to improve their all-time records to 15 Grand Slam titles and 93 titles in total. Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci (ITA) Errani and Vinci are World Champions for the second straight year. The duo won three titles during the year, including the Australian Open, and led their country to victory in Fed Cup by BNP Paribas. They ended the year as the No.1-ranked team. REVIEW OF THE YEAR 04 2013 ITF WORLD CHAMPIONS 05 The Hyundai Hopman Cup is the first event of every year and in 2013 it was very special as the tournament moved into its new home at the beautiful, state-of-the-art Perth Arena. The Spanish team of Fernando Verdasco and Anabel Medina Garrigues defeated Serbia's Novak Djokovic and Ana Ivanovic to take the title. Russia's boys won the title for the first time at the World Junior Tennis tournament in Prostejov, Czech Republic, defeating the United States while the girls' event was won for a record sixth time by the United States, who overcame Russia in the final. In Junior Davis Cup by BNP Paribas, held in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, Spain defeated Korea, Republic in the final for a fifth title. The Russians won Junior Fed Cup by BNP Paribas for the fourth time after seeing off Australia in the final. Belinda Bencic, the 16-year-old from Switzerland, is our ITF Junior World Champion for 2013. Bencic won Roland Garros and Wimbledon as well as the 54th Italian Open, Abierto Juvenil Mexicano, Santa Croce and Roehampton. Alexander Zverev is our ITF Junior World Champion in the boys' category after a commendable rise up the rankings that saw him climb from No.126 at the start of the year to finish 2013 at No.1. The Seniors Team and Individual World Championships took place in Antalya, Turkey while the Super-Seniors Team World Championships were held in Poertschach, Austria and Prostejov, Czech Republic while the Individuals were played in Poertschach. This discipline continues to grow with more and more players competing in every age group. How appropriate that one of the founding fathers of Seniors Tennis, Gardnar Mulloy, turned 100 in the ITF Centenary Year. Beach Tennis also had a very strong year in 2013, adding new events with a growing number of players. The ITF Beach Tennis World Team Championship was held in Moscow and was won by Brazil in an upset over the favourites from Italy. The ITF Beach Tennis World Championships were staged in Cervia, Italy, with the men's title won by Italy's Marco Garavini and Alessandro Calbucci and the women's by Italy's Veronica Visani and Sofia Cimatti. The 18th ITF Worldwide Coaches Conference, sponsored by BNP Paribas, was held in Cancun, Mexico in November and hailed as the best ever by Executive Director of Development Dave Miley. Over 800 delegates from 85 ITF member nations attended the conference with the theme, The Long-term Development of the High Performance Player. The Tennis iCoach website, the online coaching and sport science library, was relaunched in conjunction with the conference. David Jude, another long-standing member of the ITF Board, was honoured with the International Tennis Hall of Fame's Golden Achievement Award. David is the consummate volunteer and served the ITF very well as Honorary Treasurer. The All England Club was awarded the 2013 Philippe Chatrier Award at the ITF World Champions Dinner for the many contributions the Club has made to tennis with a history even longer than the ITF. It was wonderful to see the three chairman that I have served with – Philip Brook, Tim Phillips and John Curry – take to the stage in Paris to accept the award in front of all of the 2012 World Champions and the guests who represent every constituency in tennis. The ITF/International Tennis Hall of Fame Davis Cup and Fed Cup Awards of Excellence in 2013 went to Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia and Corrado Barazzutti of Italy respectively. Both also received Davis Cup Commitment Awards among the more than 300 players who received this honour in its initial year for having competed in 20 or more home and away ties or 50 at any level of the competition. The ITF has recognised some challenges in generating commercial revenues and is focussing efforts on increasing revenues through new deals. Current forecasts forewarn of potential deficits over the next two years, which the ITF Board of Directors have acted upon through conducting reviews of the Commercial department and the value/global reach of its properties. They have agreed to a limited utilisation of reserves if required so that ITF programmes are not reduced. The ITF remains positive that, with its strong balance sheet and closely managed expenditure, it will meet the challenges ahead. 2013 ITF WORLD CHAMPIONS ITF SINGLES WORLD CHAMPIONS ITF DOUBLES WORLD CHAMPIONS Alexander Zverev (GER) Zverev is just the third player from his country to be named ITF World Champion after becoming the youngest year-end boys' No.1 since 2005. He was the most consistent male performer on the ITF Junior Circuit, winning two singles titles and reaching three other finals including at Roland Garros. Belinda Bencic (SUI) Bencic had an outstanding year during which she was unbeaten until late July, winning 39 straight matches and two Grand Slam titles, at Roland Garros and Wimbledon. She was also a quarterfinalist at the US Open and ended the year with six titles, an overall 42-2 singles win-loss record and the year-end No.1 ranking. Shingo Kunieda (JPN) Kunieda is World Champion for the fifth time after regaining the year-end world No.1 ranking. The 29-year-old reached the finals of all three Grand Slam singles events in 2013, winning his 14th major title at the Australian Open. He also won the season-ending NEC Wheelchair Tennis Masters to finish the year with a total of seven titles. Aniek van Koot (NED) Van Koot came out on top in a year-long battle with Germany's Sabine Ellerbrock for the No.1 ranking. The 23-year-old captured two of the three Grand Slam singles titles, at the Australian Open and the US Open, and achieved the doubles Grand Slam with Jiske Griffioen. She also led Netherlands to victory in the BNP Paribas World Team Cup. ITF JUNIOR WORLD CHAMPIONS ITF WHEELCHAIR WORLD CHAMPIONS (Continued from previous page)

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