Tenth seed Maria Sharapova wasted three match points as clouds were approaching Cincinnati and didn’t manage to be faster than the rain, so her final against fourth seed Kim Clijsters got suspended at 6-2 5-3 with Clijsters serving on deuce. You know how these rain delays can bring a turnaround and that’s exactly what [...]
American Melanie Oudin, who came out of nowhere to reach the quarterfinals of the 2009 US Open, found it hard to carry the burden of high expectations and fell to the recently-married Alona Bondarenko in the second round this year. The 18-year-old Oudin made 38 unforced errors during her 6-2 7-5 loss to seed [...]
The best thing in the second part of Justine Henin’s career would be a Wimbledon title and even though her coach Carlos Rodriguez doesn’t believe, or at least publicly, that she is capable of winning the grass court Grand Slam just yet, the Belgian former world No.1 is on a very good way to [...]
Wimbledon is just days away and the annual party celebrating the tournament was held at the Roof Gardens in West London’s Kensington last night. As usual, the WTA players gave their best to look good and glamorous, and oh well, as usual, their success was sporadic.
Let’s start with the bright examples. Venus Williams [...]
World No.62 Ana Ivanovic followed up her first round upset of Victoria Azarenka with a 6-1 7-5 victory over Yaroslava Shvedova at the Western & Southern Financial Group Women’s Open in Cincinnati. It’s Ivanovic’s first back-to-back win since the tournament in Rome in May when she reached the semifinals.
Ivanovic’s next opponent will be [...]
Wimbledon may have strict dress code but there still is enough space for players and their brands to experiment and bring something new and exciting. Let’s see how successful they’ve been this year.
Let’s start with Venus and Serena Williams. We’ve already paid close attention to both Venus’ Eleven dress and Serena’s Nike [...]
Belgian Yanina Wickmayer beat Czech Petra Kvitova in the final of the Generali Ladies Linz, thus winning her second Sony Ericsson WTA Tour singles title and ensuring her place in the Top 20 for the first time.
Third seed Wickmayer, a wildcard into the draw, had defeated top seed and world No.11 Flavia [...]
Wimbledon may have strict dress code but there still is enough space for players and their brands to experiment and bring something new and exciting. Let’s see how successful they’ve been this year.
Let’s start with Venus and Serena Williams. We’ve already paid close attention to both Venus’ Eleven dress and Serena’s Nike [...]
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 [...]
This is not an upset, nor is it surprising, but I still have the inertia of covering Ana Ivanovic and her early losses at tournaments still come as small shocks although they shouldn’t be by now. Anyway, the former world No.1, unseeded this year, fell in the very first round of Wimbledon 2010 to [...]
