The second edition of the $600,000 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions in Bali, the last tournament of the WTA season, will feature up-and-coming stars, but also established players including Grand Slam champion Ana Ivanovic.
To qualify for Bali and its tropical fun a player had to win an International-level event during the season [...]
World No.2 Caroline Wozniacki was supposed to play her Rogers Cup semifinal against Svetlana Kuznetsova on Saturday but persistent rain in Montreal delayed the most part of the match all the way to Monday, which forced the final to be played shortly after.
The 20-year-old cruised to a 6-2 6-3 victory over Kuznetsova in [...]
World No.15 Samantha Stosur has been a strong competitor on the Tour – 22 doubles titles, a bunch of Top 10 wins, career high of No.1 in doubles and No.13 in singles – still, up to this day, there were no singles titles in her résumé.
At the HP Open in Osaka Stosur [...]
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 [...]
Serena Williams defeated defending champion Venus Williams to win the Sony Ericsson Championships – Doha 2009.
Serena beat her older sister Venus for the second time at this year’s Championships and faced no break points en route to a 6-2 7-6(4) victory in the season finale. The match was not spectacular, as most [...]
Fourth-seeded Jelena Jankovic cruised to a 6-4 6-2 victory over seed No.23 Daniela Hantuchova and advanced to the French Open quarterfinals where she will play the winner of the match between world No.107 Jarmila Groth and world No.36 Yaroslava Shvedova.
Slovakia’s Hantuchova had only one break point during the match, which she didn’t convert, [...]
Former world No.1 Justine Henin returned to the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour in January and today at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart she won her first comeback title, having finished runner-up at Brisbane and Australian Open. The Belgian’s opponent in today’s final was Australian Samantha Stosur, whom she was playing for the [...]
Romania’s Alexandra Dulgheru won her second career WTA title and her second straight at the $600,000 Polsat Warsaw Open.
Last year at the claycourt tournament, Dulgheru was making her first main draw appearance and stunned the tennis world when she went all the way to the title while ranked No.201. Dulgheru then became the [...]
World No.8 Samantha Stosur has won 21 of her last 24 matches, and her latest victory came against Patty Schnyder in the third round of the Mutua Madrilena Madrid Open.
Schynder was a semifinalist at the Premier-level tournament last year and has more wins on clay than any other active player, but the eighth-seeded [...]
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 [...]
