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 [...]
Two Russians took the two tournaments that finished this weekend: Elena Dementieva won the Open GDF SUEZ in her ninth attempt, and Vera Zvanareva successfully defended her PTT Pattaya Open title.
Dementieva, top-seed and last year’s finalist in Paris, recovered from losing the first set to beat Czech Lucie Safarova 6-7(5) 6-1 6-4 [...]
Top seed Maria Sharapova has made an excellent introduction to the French Open, which starts tomorrow, with a title at the claycourt International-level tournament in Strasbourg.
The Russian reached the final by defeating fifth seed and three-time Strasbourg champion Anabel Medina Garrigues, and then went on all the way to the title with a [...]
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 [...]
The last match of today’s play at the $700,000 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart was an upset of defending champion Svetlana Kuznetsova. The third-seeded Russian lost to China’s Li Na 6-3 7-5 in the second round.
The only other second-round match that took place on Wednesday happened to be an upset as well, [...]
Svetlana Kuznetsova may have survived four match points against Andrea Petkovic in the second round of the French Open, but the defending champion was not as lucky in the next round and fell on the third match point by fellow Russian Maria Kirilenko.
The sixth-seeded Kuznetsova had a point for a 3-0 lead in [...]
The controversy hit celebrity couple of Indian tennis star Sania Mirza and Pakistani cricket captain Shoaib Malik exchanged wedding vows on Monday, April 12th, three days prior to the date initially planned.
The 23-year-old bride wore a beautiful red sari that her mother wore at her wedding 25 years ago, while the 28-year-old [...]
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 [...]
A lot of you like to know what our favorite players will be wearing at majors ahead of us, and here’s what a poster over at Tennis Forum says will be Elena Dementieva’s dresses for the tournaments to come: the first image in this post is showing the Russian’s dresses planned for Roland Garros [...]
