Archive: peng-shuai
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.
Sharapova’s fourth WTA title of the year ties her with Ana Ivanovic for second-most behind Serena Williams’ six. It is also the most WTA titles she has won in a season since she won five in 2006.
Wimbledon finalist Eugenie Bouchard has left the new WTA event in Hong Kong high and dry without a draw card player after pulling out of this week's tournament; the Canadian, ranked eighth, cited fatigue.
When the International Tennis Federation and Grand Slam Committee take stock of the 2014 US Open one issue bound to provoke debate is the attitude to serious cramping and heat related issues following the lamentable scenes of an agonized Peng Shuai being pushed off court in wheelchair following her retirement from the women’s semi-final against Caroline Wozniacki.
Like her sadly absent countrywoman Li Na, US Open semi-finalist Peng Shuai is something of a late bloomer when it comes to contending for Grand Slam singles titles. However the 28 year-old’s success in New York is even more amazing after she revealed undergoing surgery 16 years ago to correct a congenital heart defect that was genetically inherited from her mother.
The Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) announced that Li Na and Peng Shuai have set new national records for Chinese tennis following their rise to career-high rankings in the latest WTA rankings released Monday.
Today wasn't the first time and it probably won’t be the last when the excruciating Melbourne heat became a major issue at the Australian Open. Tennis Australia and tournament supremo Craig Tiley put the entire tournament’s medical staff on high alert
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Li Na: "At the start of the match, maybe I was feeling too excited. So after one set and a half I felt like I had no more energy left."
China already has a Grand Slam singles champion in Li Na, but the country’s top singles player is aging and there is hope that Zhang Shuai will be the next player out of that country to have major impact on the tour.
After Taiwanese Hsieh Su-wei and her partner Peng Shuai of China won the women's doubles title at Wimbledon, a bidding war broke for the services of Hsieh Su-wei’s services.
Marion Bartoli ìs back on the practice courts after her spring clay debut was marred by a first-round loss to China's Peng Shuai at the Portugal Open.
China has increasingly become a force to be reckoning with in the tennis world, both as the host of important tournaments such as Beijing and Shanghai.
The day's first big news wasn't even a match. It was a withdrawal. Olympic silver medalist Maria Sharapova is out of the Canadian Open.
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