The number one women’s tennis player, Ana Ivanovic, took a little tighter grip on her ranking with a win at the Montreal Cup. Ivanovic nearly lost her crown achievement to fellow Serbian Jelena Jankovic but, with her second-round victory, she lives to enjoy another day at the top.
Third-ranked Maria Sharapova withdrew from the tournament with […]
The WTA is cracking the whip over in women’s tennis. A new regime that was slated to begin in 2010 has been bumped up a year and will be taking affect next season. For some it’ll be a good thing. For others - well - it might cramp their style a little bit.
Pushing all the […]
You know, everyone is talking about Rafael Nadal and his cat-like stalking of the number one spot. He’s been waiting a long time for it. Nadal and Roger Federer have been the one-two punch for a looooooong time - it seems so odd to think it’s on the verge of getting shook up.
Nadal is just […]
Jelena Jankovic is an interesting player. She’s a consistent, scrappy, defensive player who just gets it done on the court. Gets it done up to the quarters and semis of just about every tournament she is in anyway.
Jankovic is number two in the world and, had she won the East West Bank Classic, she would […]
This is a bit of old news, but it’s still news nonetheless and I feel I must talk about it.
Roger Federer.
Yep, you see where this is going already, don’t ya? What’s happening to the big kahuna? I’m theorizing here, but I’m going to guess in about a week, R-Fed isn’t going to be numbah […]
Hello all! I am back from my extended trip to the east coast. I saw some amazing things - sadly nothing tennis-related, though.
And on the heels of that sad news, I have some more bad news that will bring the frownies out to play. Due to a series of events and circumstances, this blog will […]
Canada’s Aleksandra Wozniak could be described at the WTA’s dark horseman. Wozniak has been reeked havoc to top players last week at Stanford for the Bank of the West Teen Classic. Not only did she outplay both Serena Williams and Marion Bartoli but has also put them sideline for the next tournament in the Olympus […]
Written by: Darren Whitfield, Guest Blogger
Gone are the days of Andre Agassi, Pete Sampras, Monica Seles, and Jennifer Capriati. These are the names of just a few champions who were part of the American tennis dynasty. In the late 1980’s and 1990’s American tennis was at its height. In everyone Championships there was an […]
Some tennis players only play another player on the tour once in their life. Not for Samantha Stosur. Not only is she playing Aleksandra Wozniak for the second time in her career, she is playing her for the second time in the Bank of the West Classic. Stosur was knocked out of the tournament earlier […]
James Blake may have nine lives in the Indianapolis Tennis Championship. The defending champion has looked less than brilliant in his quest to repeat last year’s victory. Today Blake struggled against South Korean Jun Woong-sun. In the first set Jame couldn’t find his pace and was broken early. Eventually he found his rhythm and took […]
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