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 [...]
Svetlana Kuznetsova choked for the first time in her life and blew four match points in the second set tiebreak (two of those with double faults), but still the Russian managed to defeat fourth seed Agnieszka Radwanska and win the Mercury Insurance Open in San Diego. Final score: 6-4 6-7(7) 6-3.
“My knees [...]
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 [...]
Ukraine’s Alona Bondarenko claimed her second career WTA title by beating Israel’s Shahar Peer 6-2 6-4 in the final of the Moorilla Hobart International.
Despite dropping serve twice in the second set Bondarenko won her first title since Luxembourg in 2006.
Peer wasn’t satisfied with her performance, saying she couldn’t find her [...]
Third seed Venus Williams defeated Italian Flavia Pennetta 7-6(1) 6-2 in the final of the $600,000 Tennis.com Zurich Open to claim her second singles title of the year and 38th career title.
The 2008 Wimbledon champion also won the Zurich title in 1999, while still a teenager.
The Tennis.com Zurich Open final was [...]
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 [...]
