By Gary AndersonJanuary 11 - Double Olympic champion Lin Dan and former French Open winner Li Na have been named the 2013 Chinese Male and Female Athletes of the Year at the China's Central Television (CCTV) Sports Awards.

September.Li, 31, who became the first Asian player to win a Grand Slam singles title with her win at Roland

Garros in 2011, finished 2013 as the world number three on the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) world

By Gary AndersonJanuary 1 - Japan's Shingo Kunieda and Aniek van Koot of the Netherlands have been crowned the 2013 men's and women's wheelchair tennis world champions after finishing the year on top of the International Tennis Federation (ITF) world rankings.

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Garros momentum with wheelchair doubles wins at WimbledonJune 2013: World's top two wheelchair tennis

players face off in final at Roland GarrosMay 2013: France and Netherlands take World Team wheelchair

By Paul OsborneDecember 23 - Four Britons have qualified for the 2014 Australian Open Wheelchair Tennis Championships making it the second Grand Slam in a row that will feature four competitors from the country.

Grand Slam singles final in Melbourne and Gordon reaching his first Grand Slam singles semi-finals at Roland

Garros and the US Open so I'm confident they will be in good form taking on the world's best."

of career Grand Slam appearances after reaching the men's singles semi-finals on his debuts at both Roland

Garros and the US Open in 2013.He will face tough opposition in the shape of Japan's world number one

By Paul OsborneDecember 18 - Serbia's Novak Djokovic has been named the International Tennis Federation's (ITF) world champion for 2013 despite finishing second in the rankings behind Spain's Rafael Nadal.

the third season running, as well as reaching the Wimbledon and US Open finals and the semi-finals at Roland

Garros.

78 of 82 singles matches played, and a career-best 11 titles.She captured two Grand Slam titles, at Roland

Garros and the US Open, to stand at 17 career majors, and went on to win the year-end WTA Championships.Americans

long-term deal with the Fédération Française de Tennis (FFT) securing the pan-European coverage of Rolland Garros

Our live coverage of Roland Garros alone reaches more than 60 million viewers each year on Eurosport

Eurosport's experience and top quality live coverage of the past 25 editions of Roland Garros contributes

We are determined to further grow the visibility and profile of Roland Garros and this is a very significant

By Paul OsborneNovember 8 - The Aegon Championships at Queen's Club, London and the Gerry Weber Open in Halle, Germany, will become World Tour 500 events in 2015 following an announcement from the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP).

Aegon Championships and the Gerry Weber Open will mark a three week grass court swing between Rolland Garros

When we announced the creation of a three-week gap between Roland Garros and Wimbledon from 2015, our

By Gary AndersonSeptember 9 - Lucas Sithole became the first African in history to win an International Tennis Federation (ITF) wheelchair tennis Grand Slam event after he defeated David Wagner in the final of the US Open quads, while Stephane Houdet and Aniek van Koot took the men's and women's singles titles in New York.

while Ellerbrock claimed the French Open title in June, beating the Dutch player in the semi-finals at Roland

titles at British Open Wheelchair Tennis ChampionshipsJune 2013: Double delight for Houdet at Roland

GarrosJune 2013: World's top two wheelchair tennis players face off in final at Roland Garros

By Gary AndersonSeptember 8 - Serena Williams overcame Belarusian Victoria Azarenka and a gusting wind at the Arthur Ashe Stadium in Flushing Meadows in New York, to clinch her fifth US Open singles title and her 17th Grand Slam victory.

dominates Lisicki to claim first ever Grand Slam win at WimbledonMay 2013: Williams completes Roland

Garros preparations with Italian Open victoryDecember 2012: Sprint king Bolt and tennis queen Williams

By James CrookSeptember 5 - Britain's Gordon Reid has pulled off a spectacular win over Belgium's world number four Joachim Gerard to make the semi-finals of the wheelchair tennis US Open in New York to set up a clash against world number two Stephane Houdet for a place in the final.

Reid will have to overcome the man who defeated him en route to retaining his title at Roland Garros

number one Maikel Scheffers 6-2, 6-0 to book his place in the semi-finals.Reid will have to overcome Roland

Garros champion Stephane Houdet to reach his first Grand Slam finalParalympic champion and top seed

By Nick ButlerAugust 2 - London 2012 medalists Lucy Shuker, Jordanne Whiley and Andy Lapthorne join world number six Gordon Reid in being named in the Britain squad for next month's US Open Wheelchair Tennis event in New York City.

second Grand Slam singles event after reaching the men's singles semi-finals and men's doubles final at Roland

Garros in June.Meanwhile, in the women's singles and doubles Shuker and Whiley will both complete their

participation in all four Grand Slams, having previously played at the Australian Open, Roland Garros

By Gary AndersonJuly 20 - South African Lucas Sithole became the first African player to win an International Tennis Federation (ITF) wheelchair tennis Super Series event with victory in the quad singles at the British Open Wheelchair Championships, while Germany's Sabine Ellerbrock claimed the women's title.

tennis Super Series event Ellerbrock (pictured top) followed up her first Grand Slam title win at Roland

Garros last month by winning the British Open for the first time in her career.She overcame world number

By James CrookJuly 10 - Wheelchair tennis prodigy Gordon Reid is hoping to follow in the path of fellow Scotsman Andy Murray, who ended Britain's 77-year wait for a Wimbledon men's singles title last weekend, as he gets ready to take on the world's elite players at the British Open.

French world singles number two Stéphane Houdet, who won the men's singles and doubles events at Roland

Garros last month, and inflicted a defeat on the Briton and his partner Dutch Maikel Scheffers&

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Garros momentum with wheelchair doubles wins at WimbledonJuly 2013: Britain's Whiley reaches second

and Aniek van Koot took the men's and women's titles respectively, following on from their wins at Roland

Garros last month.

Wimbledon wheelchair tennis doubles event line-ups confirmedJune 2013: Double delight for Houdet at Roland

GarrosJune 2013: World's top two wheelchair tennis players face off in final at Roland Garros

By Emily GoddardJuly 4 - International Equestrian Federation (FEI) top partner Longines has been named as the title supporter of this year's Rising Star Award, which will be presented to the sport's greatest young talent at the FEI Awards ceremony later this year.

We organise a tennis tournament for children in the frame of the French Open at Roland Garros and we

By James CrookJune 18 - Recently-crowned Roland Garros wheelchair tennis singles and doubles champion

The 42-year-old Frenchman came up against Fernandez in the first round on his home courts at Roland Garros

But Houdet has even claimed that he felt better going into the final at Roland Garros this year than

GarrosJune 2013: World's top two wheelchair tennis players face off in final at Roland GarrosJune

2013: Debutant Reid sets up semi-final clash against defending champion at Roland GarrosJune 2013

: Wheelchair tennis stars gear up for Roland Garros