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A strange start to the Australian Open: rain, cold and an upset. As in really upset. Maria Sharapova went out in three sets and over three hours to Maria Kirilenko: 6-7, 6-3, 4-6. She smacked a total of 76 unforced errors on her way out of the tournament. Sharapova hasn’t lost in the first round [...]
Continue Reading →* Click here for the “Hit for Haiti/Indian Wells” I’m probably the last person in the world to have seen this footage from Sunday’s Hits for Haiti benefit in Rod Laver Arena, but now that I have, I’m just going to watch it over and over and over again. And over again. And maybe one [...]
Continue Reading →For the first time in years, women’s tennis is in the media forefront Down Under. Darren Cahill and Pam Shriver were peppered with WTA-focused questions in an ESPN2-sponsored conference call on Tuesday, and Len DeLuca, the station’s senior V.P. of programming and acquisitions, is counting on the ladies to pull their ratings weight: “Tennis is [...]
Continue Reading →I admit I had a hard time following all of the tennis action from the past week. We had the men and women in Brisbane, Roger and Rafa (and the mighty Kolya!) in Doha, Peer protests in New Zealand, an ATP tourny in India, Laura Robson making Andy Murray look good at the Hopman Cup [...]
Continue Reading →REUTERS/Tim Wimborne via Daylife My God, it’s not even the Australian Open yet and we’ve already been treated to one of the best matches of the year! Saturday night’s all-Belgian final in Brisbane lived up to the hype. If anything, it surpassed it. There was loads of power on display, plenty of finesse and tension [...]
Continue Reading →Well, it’s good to be Justine Henin right now. She beat Ana Ivanovic convincingly in Friday’s semifinals at the Brisbane International, winning the match 6-3, 6-2 and bringing her head-to-head to a dominating 5-0 against the Serb. The more things change. . . Here’s Justine trying to convince reporters that it was a tough fight [...]
Continue Reading →It looks like Justine Henin never left the tour! Here’s the former No. 1 beating Nadia Petrova 7-5, 7-5 in the first round of the Brisbane International on Monday. Henin entered the tournament with a wild card. Here are some highlights from the match (sorry if the audio is a little off): As the commentators [...]
Continue Reading →It was love-all for tennis in 2009, with nuptials, hookups, and enough juicy rumors to keep us bloggers chattering like overworked yentas. Here’s a review of some of the year’s juiciest love matches. TENNIS HOOKUPS: Ana Ivanovic and her Australian golfing beau, Adam Scott, inspired this post. She’s been in Australia for over a month [...]
Continue Reading →We’re only 5 days away from the start of the WTA Year End Championships a.k.a. the Sony Ericsson Championships in Doha, Qatar. And with Jelena Jenkovic progressing to the quarterfinals of the Kremlin Cup this week (and Vera Zvonareva being upset in the second round), the Serbian’s secured the 8th and final spot in the [...]
Continue Reading →Justine Henin claims it was Roger Federer, not Kim Clijsters, who really inspired her return to tennis – by sparking her longing for the one Major she hasn’t won: Wimbledon. These quotes come from her t.v. appearance on RTL-TVI: “Roger Federer’s victory at Roland Garros spoke to me much more (than Clijster’s comeback) because it [...]
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