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Yes, you are too sexy for that shirt. . .photo by REUTERS/Mick Tsikas via Daylife Well, we have the latest crop of weekend winners, (almost) the last before the Australian Open starts on Monday. Winning a warm up the weekend before a major is tricky – it gives a player loads of confidence but can [...]
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 →I’m loving the way the Brisbane draw is shaking out, with Kim Clijsters in one semi (playing German Andrea Petkovic) and Justine Henin and Ana Ivanovic in the other. I’m really looking forward to Justine vs. Ana. I’m not holding out for a great match, but I do think it will be an interesting one! [...]
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 →Justine Henin is coming back to tour with a new attitude, she says, which apparently means treating reporters like therapists. In interviews with the Times and The Independent, held during last weekend’s exhibition tournament in Beligium, Justine opens up about the loneliness of retirement, her mission to win Wimbledon, and her paralyzing fear of the [...]
Continue Reading →AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert via Daylife JuJu’s back! Justine Henin has started her “second career,” as she’s calling it, on a two match winning streak. She took the trophy this weekend at the Women’s Tennis Trophy exhibition in Charleroi, Belgium, scoring a confidence boosting 6-4, 6-4 win over current World No. 12 and Fed Cup [...]
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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