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What can we say except, "Another bad day at the office for Petra Kvitova"? These were the matches she was winning two years ago.... Instead, she ends another disappointing year stuck at #6.
What can we say except, "Another bad day at the office for Petra Kvitova"? These were the matches she was winning two years ago....
Decibel-challenged Victoria Azarenka has gone to the attack on the longtime grunting issue, with one of the loudest players in the women's game hitting back at charges that it's just the excitable ladies who make all of the noise on court.
The Women’s Tennis Association announced today that World No. 2 Victoria Azarenka is the recipient of the 2013 Diamond ACES Award for the second consecutive year.
Victoria Azarenka's physical problems apparently were real. This was a contest for a semifinal spot, and it was really not very interesting -- Li Na said later that she thought Azarenka (who hurt her back in the first set, but who was already in trouble) would retire from the match.
After playing exos in Chile and Argentina, Novak Djokovic will vacation in Patagonia. . . Roger Federer asked a coach to do some coordination exercises with his twin daughters: "No way I would do it. I am not a baby tennis coach."
Touring pro Lauren Davis claims she was knocked out cold by negligently hung lighting in a corporate sponsor booth at the 2011 Family Circle Cup.
Piotr Wozniacki has spent his last tournament as coach of his daughter Caroline and reports a big-name full time replacement will be named next week.
Sport is becoming more and more saturated by statistics and the new sponsorship deal, or global relationship, between the WTA and SAP only serves to enhance the move forward.
World No. 4 Agnieszka Radwanska, who was knocked out of the WTA Championship after going 0-3 in her round robin group, says the indoor courts at Istanbul were too slow for her liking and she didn't have enough time off prior to the tournament.
Serena Williams has not lost a singles match since mid-August, a winning run that now totals 16 matches after three successful round robin matches at the Istanbul-staged TEB BNP Paribas WTA Championships.
Jelena Jankovic is 1-1, which means she is tied in matches with Victoria Azarenka (although she has a better record in sets). The remaining White Group matchs are Li versus Azarenka and Jankovic versus Errani.
Brisbane seems to be picking up momentum as the venue of choice to start the 2014 tennis season, with tournament
World no.2 Victoria Azarenka maintains she is physically and mentally drained as her bid to finish off the year with a winning flourish at the TEB BNP Paribas WTA Championships in Istanbul as good as ground to a painful halt.
Russia finally managed to cobble together a team to face Italy in next week’s Fed Cup but the four times champions whose players dominated the WTA top 20 just a few years ago, have been reduced to naming 138th-ranked Alexandra Panova as the leading singles player.
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