Seven tennis stars honored at the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour Player Awards

The annual Sony Ericsson WTA Tour Player Awards were announced in Miami on Wednesday and seven players received the honor for their achievements during 2009.
World No.1 Serena Williams won her third Tour’s Player of the Year award and, together with her sister Venus Williams, the Doubles Team of the Year award. In [...]

 
 

Elena Dementieva beats Serena Williams to defend Sydney title

Russian Elena Dementieva won the Medibank International Sydney title for the second successive year with a 6-3 6-2 victory over Serena Williams in the final.
Williams was troubled by a sore left knee, but said to have suffered just a little bit and gave all the credit to Dementieva, who won the match [...]

 
 

Maria Sharapova’s on-court fashion in 2009

As promised, Women’s Tennis Blog is continuing its tradition of revising on-court outfits from the season behind us. This year’s retrospections will start with the best-dressed WTA player – Nike-clad Maria Sharapova.

Sharapova started the season late, because of her career-threatening shoulder injury, playing her first match of 2009 at the BNP Paribas [...]

 
 

Elena Dementieva wins in Paris, Vera Zvonareva in Pattaya City

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 [...]

 
 
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