Ukraine’s No.1 Alona Bondarenko married her coach Nikolay Dyachok on Thursday. The couple got married in an informal style, wearing jeans and T-shirts that said “Just Married.”
“As athletes we have to get married in something sporty,” said the 25-year-old Bondarenko. “[We] didn’t want pompous outfits.”
In addition to the official marriage, [...]
Ukraine’s Alona Bondarenko claimed her second career WTA title by beating Israel’s Shahar Peer 6-2 6-4 in the final of the Moorilla Hobart International.
Despite dropping serve twice in the second set Bondarenko won her first title since Luxembourg in 2006.
Peer wasn’t satisfied with her performance, saying she couldn’t find her [...]
Denmark’s Caroline Wozniacki defended a title for the first time in her career by defeating Russia’s Elena Vesnina 6-2 6-4 and winning the New Haven title for the second year in a row.
In the Pilot Pen Tennis presented by Schick final, the world No.23 Vesnina hit three times as many winners as Wozniacki, [...]
Second seed Caroline Wozniacki is still recovering from an ankle injury sustained in Charleston and her erratic performance led to a 6-2 6-3 loss to Alona Bondarenko in the second round of the Mutua Madrilena Madrid Open. That’s not to underestimate the 25-ranked Bondarenko, who made winner after winner to score the biggest victory [...]
Anna Chakvetadze ended her two-match winning streak by losing to Tamarine Tanasugarn in the quarterfinals of the PTT Pattaya Open. Yes, winning back-to-back matches is news when we’re talking about Chakvetadze, once ranked No.5 now No.74, as she had been failing to achieve that since August 2009.
The Russian had defeated Jill Craybas [...]
Grand Slams are the places where tennis players want to look their best and sponsors want to use the opportunity of huge publicity to market their products. Let’s have a look at what women’s tennis stars are sporting during one such event, Roland Garros 2010 in Paris.
Venus Williams raised many eyebrows by [...]
Venus and Serena Williams both played their third-round matches at the Mutua Madrilena Madrid Open on Wednesday, but with different outcomes.
The fourth-seeded Venus lost the first set against seed No.15 Francesca Schiavone, but was dominant in the remainder of the match to win 3-6 6-1 6-2.
Serena, who barely survived her [...]
