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The sun may have been shining, but it was not long before the first dark clouds of the day began to gather. Thankfully not on the seagulls and the tennis watching public but on last year’s Wimbledon finalist Genie Bouchard.
Eastbourne’s Johanna Konta claimed the first top 10 scalp of career when she beat world No.8 Ekaterina Makarova (RUS) in the second round at the Aegon International Eastbourne on Tuesday.
In a day with seeds scattering all over the place, former champion Jelena Jankovic seemed to be the most at ease at reliving old glories.
Eugenie Bouchard begins her 2015 Aegon Classic Birmingham campaign on Wednesday as part of another star-studded order of play at the Edgbaston Priory Club.
Eugenie Bouchard in front of the iconic Cube building in the centre of Birmingham. Bouchard will be competing in this week’s Aegon Classic Birmingham, which begins Monday 15th June and finishes on Sunday 21st June at Edgbaston Priory Club, Birmingham.
This was the day pretty much everyone was waiting for – how would Rafael Nadal perform when he came out onto Court Philippe-Chatrier against French wildcard Quentin Halys? Nadal started bullishly, swinging his brutal lasso forehand...
Check out the latest photo gallery from the 2015 Australian Open in Melbourne.
This lets Simona Halep defend her points -- and that means that she has also defended the #3 ranking. Petra Kvitova will remain stuck at #4. Yanina Wickmayer remains stuck below #65, but she seems finally to be coming back to life; her results here gained her more than a dozen ranking spots.
Corporate protagonists are already playing shift the blame as a "sexism" spat erupted in entertaining fashion at the Australian Open. The incident springs from an innocent-sounding request for admitted WTA shopaholic and fashionista Genie Bouchard - who wears the eye-catching Maria Sharapova clothing line from Nike...
Click here to check out the ladies' results from the Australian Open in Melbourne.
This was hard to believe -- Alexandra Panova was up 4-1, 30-0 in the third set. The commentators thought that the double-fault that followed was critical, but whatever the crucial point (if there was one), Panova failed to convert two match points, leaving Maria Sharapova still in the hunt for the #1 ranking. She'll surely have to do better than this, though.
For those souls not hardy enough to wake up/stay up for the opening day, it was quite a spillage of seeds on the first day. Nay – a quarter of the women’s seeds will be heading for a two week vacation at Bondi Beach. I mean, we know it is an unpredictable Slam just three weeks into the year (gosh is it really only three weeks) but the results threw up some surprising early casualties.
Check out these awesome EPA photos from the 2015 Australian Open Kids Day.
Every tennis season delivers plenty of bizarre moments and 2014 was no exception. On both the men's and women's tours, things happened that had to be seen in order to be believed. For now, however, we'll do our best to describe those wild and wacky happenings in writing.
If 2013 was the year that put Eugenie Bouchard in the spotlight, 2014 was the one that showed the tennis star is no flash in the pan. The Westmount, Que., native had a phenomenal year on the WTA tour, rising from 32nd in the rankings to No. 5 at one point before ending it at an impressive No. 7.
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