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AP Photo/Rick Rycroft via Daylife Wow, what a performance from Victoria Azarneka, whooping former champ and former No. 1 Maria Sharapova 6-3, 6-0 for the Australian Open title and the World No. 1 ranking. Given Maria’s repuration as a fighter, and the general feeling that first time finalists don’t win, you’d think there would have [...]
Continue Reading →GREG WOOD/AFP/Getty Images via Daylife We just watched the women semifinalists play six sets of nervy, dramatic, up and down tennis. Sharapova finally took the match from Petra Kvitova, overcoming the usual double faults and streaky tennis to get to that final victory shriek. As a late-blooming Masha fan (love the clenched fist, love the [...]
Continue Reading →Photo via WTATennis.com Being out of town this week on business and quite a bit of pleasure (congrats, Nadia and Rick!) made it difficult to keep up with the WTA year end action in Istanbul. Reading up on the final, it sounds like an exciting and fitting ending to a wild season: two established yet [...]
Continue Reading →Li Na and Victoria Azarenka’s 2011 US Open Nike outfits.
Continue Reading →GTT is thrilled to have reporter and photographer Andrea Nay on site in Cincy this week. Enjoy! – FF “Are the batteries all charged?” Maria Sharapova asks with a smile as members of the media place no less than six voice recorders, five still cameras, five video cameras, and an assortment of smart phones in front of [...]
Continue Reading →Sabine Lisicki of Germany reacts during her semi-final match against Maria Sharapova of Russia at the Wimbledon tennis championships in London June 30, 2011. REUTERS/Eddie Keogh (BRITAIN – Tags: SPORT TENNIS) I’m going to be as frank as Rafa has been about his foot injury: (He said “My foot is not fine” after his quarterfinal [...]
Continue Reading →Sabine Lisicki of Germany reacts during her match against Marion Bartoli of France at the Wimbledon tennis championships in London June 28, 2011. REUTERS/Eddie Keogh (BRITAIN – Tags: SPORT TENNIS) “Because we are not named Serena or Venus Williams doesn’t mean we don’t know how to play tennis,” Marion Bartoli commented after losing a fascinating [...]
Continue Reading →Venus Williams of the U.S. (L) and her sister Serena talk following a practice session at Wimbledon in London June 18, 2011. REUTERS/Toby Melville (BRITAIN – Tags: SPORT TENNIS) Ah, the great enigma that is a WTA draw nowadays. Look at the women who’ve won titles on grass this season: Roberta Vinci won the Unicef [...]
Continue Reading →A sneak peak at Li Na’s 2011 Wimbledon Nike outfit! And a sneak peak at Viktoria Azarenka’s 2011 Wimbledon Nike outfit!
Continue Reading →Novak Djokovic of Serbia (L) and Rafael Nadal of Spain (R) pose with their trophies with tournament director Manolo Santana after their Madrid Open final tennis match May 8, 2011. Djokovic dethroned clay king Nadal on the Spaniard’s home soil and maintained his perfect season when he beat the world number one 7-5 6-4 to [...]
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