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Australian Samantha Stosur is baffled by the lack of name recognition of a Russian team of total unknowns which will face Australia in Tasmania in weekend Fed Cup first-round play. Top Russian is the anonymous Victoria Kan on No. 158 and playing for a nation boasting six players in the top 35.
Almost all of the Russian women were unavailable for the tie, with Maria Sharapova most notably doing TV color work at the Sochi Olympics. Also playing for the visitors: No.650 Veronika Kudermetova and 259th-ranked Valeria Solovyeva.
Novak Djokovic and his lovely Jelena Ristic have been a couple for 8 years and it looks like he intends to make it Mr. & Mrs. In the coming year. They really make a beautiful couple.
Will Canada’s Eugenie Bouchard become the next marketing face of the women's game, or is it just her agency pushing that thought in hopes of gaining her new contracts?
Maria Sharapova's extremely disappointing 2014 continues. This event should have been her chance to get back to #4. Instead, after firing back-to-back double-faults to lose the final game of the match, she stays stuck at #5.
These are all free points for Maria Sharapova; if she can win her next two matches, she will regain the #4 ranking from Agnieszka Radwanska. She leaves Kirsten Flipkens at #20.
Roger Federer takes the first match for the Swiss in Davis Cup . He beat Bozoljac 6-4,7-5,6-2 . They now lead the Serbs. Stan is on court in his match....
Michael Mortensen, the Dane who guided Li Na to her first Grand Slam event title at the French Open in 2011, is the latest coach named to try and revive the game of former world no.1 Caroline Wozniacki.
Daniela Hantuchova beat Maria Sharapova in their first meeting. Never since. She might still make the Top Thirty, but just barely.
Na Li's agent believes that his Chinese client could be starting to challenge his other client - marketing icon Maria Sharapova - in the global tennis financial stakes given the massive power of the Chinese consumer. Max Eisenbud told CNN that the new Australian Open winner is gaining traction fast with the public...
Czech Karolina Pliskova produced the first minor upset of the week as she put out American seventh seed Bethanie Mattek-Sands 6-2, 6-4 in a re-run of the Kuala Lumpur final from 2013. Svetlana Kuznetsova passed a personal milestone as she claimed her 500th career victory.
Paris is a Premier event, but it suffers from the fact that it's a week after, half a world away from, and on a different surface than, the Australian Open. But it certainly has one interesting player: Nadia Petrova, who has been out for so many months, has decided to make a comeback...
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Dominika Cibulkova has reached her first Grand Slam event final at the Australian Open and while there were technical and physical issues she had to address during the off-season, the Slovak needed a mental boost too.
Li Na will have 1.3 billion fellow Chinese behind her while Dominika Cibulkova can only number 5.4 million fellow Slovaks. Nevertheless the world no.24 still insists being the first ever player from her country to contest a Grand Slam final: “It’s massive.”
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