Venus Williams will return as a member of the Washington Kastles for the 2009 season. (Photo by Allen Clark/www.OffWingPhoto.com)

World TeamTennis will be returning to Washington, DC again this summer. Last year’s inaugural season of the Washington Kastles brought tennis into the city’s business district as a tennis court magically appeared from a parking lot on the grounds of the former Washington Convention Center.

This year’s Kastle’s team will have some old and new faces on the team. A sure hit among the DC crowds will be returning headliner, Venus Williams. Coaching the team will be Murphy Jensen.

Here is the entire Washington Kastle team:

• Murphy Jenson – Coach, French Open Men’s Doubles Champion and winner of three more tour doubles titles. He also played ten seasons of World TeamTennis during his career before turning his attention to television. Murphy hosts “Murphy’s Guide” and “Open Access” for the Tennis Channel and has been featured in Sports Illustrated and Rolling Stone. 
• Serena Williams, ten-time Grand Slam singles champion plus many other assorted tour singles and doubles titles.
• Leander Paes, the world’s fifth-ranked doubles player and an eight-time Grand Slam champion
• Angela Haynes, the 2006 WTT women’s MVP who is currently ranked 137th in singles and 112th in doubles in the world
• Coco Vandeweghe, winner of the 2008 U.S. Open Girl’s title
• Scott “Boom Boom” Oudsema, a member of the 2008 Kastles who finished with the fifth-best singles record among WTT roster players last season.

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