Nicole Vaidisova and Radek Stepanek got married in St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague, the biggest and most famous church in the Czech Republic. The two have been together since late 2007.
Wedding guests included ice hockey star Jaromir Jagr and tennis player Barbora Zahlavova Strycova, who reached her first Sony Ericsson WTA Tour [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Unseeded Tamarine Tanasugarn and unseeded Yanina Wickmayer, with a 13-year age gap between them, competed in the Ordina Open final and the 32-year-old Tanasugarn won the match 6-3 7-5.
The world No. 42 Tanasugarn has won her second straight Ordina Open title, and her third career title. Last year in the Ordina Open [...]
Eighth seed Francesca Schiavone of Italy defeated Belorussian Olga Govortsova 6-3 6-0 in the final of the $1,000,000 Kremlin Cup to win her second and biggest Sony Ericsson WTA Tour singles title.
The 29-year-old Schiavone battled through a two and a half hour long first-round encounter with qualifier Nuria Llagostera Vives, but since then [...]
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 [...]
Russian Anastasia Pavlychenkova claimed her maiden Sony Ericsson WTA Tour title by beating Slovakian second seed Daniela Hantuchova in the final of the Monterrey Open in Mexico.
The 18-year-old Pavlychenkova was forced to play both her semifinal and her title match in the same day, because of a rain delay. However, that didn’t [...]
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, [...]
