American Liezel Huber is now the only doubles player ranked No.1 on the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour. Huber had shared the top position with her doubles partner Cara Black of Zimbabwe since November 12, 2007, but for the first time since then, at the 2010 Family Circle Cup, the American played with another partner [...]
Top seed Caroline Wozniacki evened her win-loss record in WTA singles finals to 7-7 by winning her second straight title at the MPS Group Championships in Florida. The world No.2’s opponent in the final was Belorussian Olga Govortsova.
The 52nd-ranked Govotsova failed to win her first singles title on the Tour, fell to [...]
Maria Sharapova claimed her first title since April 2008 when Jelena Jankovic retired during the first set of their Toray Pan Pacific Open final.
The unseeded Russian, ranked 25th in the world, was leading 5-2 in the first set when the seventh-seeded Serb withdrew because of a right wrist injury.
The 2009 [...]
World No.41 Melanie Oudin of the United States has signed a four-year sponsorship deal with cellular phone service provider Virgin Mobile.
The surprising 2009 US Open quarterfinalist could earn as much as $2 million from the deal, depending on her tennis results, but is guaranteed approximately $500,000 from the company.
If the [...]
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, [...]
Germany’s No.1 player Andrea Petkovic had four match points against defending champion Svetlana Kuznetsova, but the Russian scraped through the rain-affected match to reach the third round of the French Open. Kuznetsova had actually lost to Petkovic one, their last meeting in Tokyo in 2009.
The world No.41 Petkovic had triple match point at [...]
Jelena Dokic has launched her new website atjelenadokic.net and here is her welcome message:
The 27-year-old Dokic has direct entry to the main draw of both Roland Garros and Wimbledon. Her opponent in the first round of Roland Garros will be world No.25 Lucie Safarova. The former [...]
