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The WTT draft will take place on April 1, 2008, in Miami, in conjunction with the Sony Ericcson Open. We will be selecting our team at that time. We are currently in negotiations with Mark Knowles, Elena Likhovtseva, Michelle Larcher de Brito, and Sam Warburg. We also hope to secure marquee visits from players with wonderful talent that will mix well with our team and be entertaining to watch. So check back with us as we will be giving updates on when our players sign and commit to the team. We hope to have everyone back for the 2008 Season and make another run at the King Trophy on July 27, 2008.
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Wayne Bryan
"One of the sport’s greatest showmen, Wayne Bryan is the father and coach of the world’s #1 doubles team, Mike & Bob Bryan. Always charismatic, Coach Bryan exudes an infectious enthusiasm for the sport that has made him one of its most widely-recognized ambassadors, as he travels the world doing clinics and emceeing events. He’s also the World Team Tennis (WTT) Coach of the Year, for the third straight year." Jeff Newman, Tournament Director of the Legg Mason Tennis Championships in Washington D.C.
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Anna Kournikova
26 years old; native Russian who resides in Miami; formerly No. 1 in doubles (1999) and No. 8 in singles (2000); 16 doubles titles including the Australian Open 2x; Season-Ending championships 2x; Mixed Doubles Finalist at U.S. Open and Wimbledon; 1997 singles semifinalist at Wimbledon.
Anna Kournikova will play for the Capitals in Sacramento on July 5, 2007 More
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Mark Knowles
2004 U.S. Open doubles titlist and 2002 Australian Open doubles champion with longtime partner Daniel Nestor; has reached the doubles finals of all four Grand Slam events; won 15th ATP Tour Masters Shield in doubles at Indian Wells 2006; 41 career doubles crowns and $5M in prize money; ended 2002 and 2004 as No. 1 doubles team in the world with Nestor; 34 years old, All-American at UCLA; 4-time Olympian for the Bahamas; Capitals squad captain and sixth year on Caps team; 3x League MVP. More
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Elena Likhovtseva
32 years old, from Moscow, Russia; 7 years with the Caps, League MVP twice; 25 doubles crowns and 3 singles titles on WTA Tour; 2003 Wimbledon Mixed doubles champion; 2007 Australian Open Mixed Doubles Champion with Daniel Nestor; career-high doubles No. 3 in the world and consistently in the world's Top 10; $5.5M in prize money. More
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Sam Warburg
24-year-old native of Sacramento and graduate of Stanford University; 2x All-American in singles and doubles; back-to-back Pac-10 singles Champion (2004-2005), NCAA Doubles Champion (2004). Finished college career ranked #2 in the nation in singles and doubles. Singles Winner: Futures events in Korea, Mexico, Costa Mesa, Godfrey (Illinois); Doubles Winner: Valencia(w/Fruttero), Costa Rica, Israel, Mexico (w/Monroe), Godfrey, Illinois (w/ Stolt). More
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Michelle Larcher de Brito
Michelle Larcher de Brito is the youngest player to win a WTA Tour Main Draw match since the Age Eligibility Rule was implemented in 1995, and is the seventh youngest in history to ever win a WTA Tour Main Draw match. Larcher de Brito defeated the world's former No. 11 player Meghann Shaugnessy in a first-round match at the Sony Ericsson Championships in Miami, Florida. The Lisbon, Portugal native was the youngest player in the top 100 juniors in the world at 14 years of age, and the youngest player to ever win the Girls 16s Eddie Herr Championship at 12-years-old in 2005. More
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Lindsay Davenport
Lindsay Davenport made her WTT debut in
1993 with the Sacramento Capitals and helped
the team to the League Championship in 1997
and 1998. Davenport is a three-time Grand Slam
singles champion who also won 51 career
singles titles and 36 doubles titles on the WTA
Tour. The former world No. 1 won the 2000
Australian Open, 1999 Wimbledon and the 1998
U.S. Open singles championships, along with
the gold medal in singles at the 1996 Olympic
Games. The last time Davenport played for the
Sacramento Capitals, the team captured the
World TeamTennis championship. Nine years
later in 2007, Davenport is returning to
Sacramento on July 21 to help the Capitals in
their drive for a record sixth League title.
Player info from WTA