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Victoria Azarenka is one of the most notorious grunters on tour, but she doesn't think that she’s unusual and says that there isn’t any real difference between the men’s and women’s games when it comes to players emitting loud noises.
In her third semifinal appearance at a WTA tournament, Eugenie Bouchard (Westmount, QC) overcame that hurdle for the first time in her career to reach her maiden WTA final at the HP Open in Osaka, Japan, an International Series event.
There are currently 10 young women aged 20 and under in the WTA top 80. Here’s look at their true elite potential.
This was pretty long, too (more than an hour and three-quarters), but the bottom line is, Rafael Nadal isn't giving Novak Djokovic any help at all in the contest for the year-end #1.
A great WIN by Gael Monfils today over Roger Federer in Shanghai! Gael is in the quarters at Shanghai and Sam Stosur is in the quarters in Osaka!!
No. 1 and defending champion Serena Williams, will return to Charleston for the 42nd Family Circle Cup, March 29 – April 6, 2014. . . Joachim Johansson might attempt to qualify for next week’s Stockholm Open.
Roger Federer will take a 9-0 record against Andreas Seppi into his opening match after the Italian booked his spot against the four-time champion with a 6-4, 6-2 defeat of Lleyton Hewitt.
Australian Samantha Stosur is continuing the fight to hang onto a top 20 ranking, with the 2011 US Open winner hoping to make some progress this week in Osaka.
Billie Jean King celebrated her 70th birthday last weekend at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas with her close friend Elton John, Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf among the 200 attendees.
Controversy erupted after WTA year-end final contender Angelique Kerber made a late entry and was inserted into the draw on the bottom instead of the top after Austrian No. 337 LisaMarie Moser made a convenient withdrawal due to "personal reasons" after the draw was made.
The WTA announced that Czech Republic's Petra Kvitova, Italy's Sara Errani and Serbia's Jelena Jankovic have qualified for this year’s TEB BNP Paribas WTA Championships.
The Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) announced today that Czech Republic's Petra Kvitova, Italy's Sara Errani and Serbia's Jelena Jankovic have qualified for this year’s TEB BNP Paribas WTA Championships, to be staged at the Sinan Erdem Dome in Istanbul, Turkey, from October 22-27, 2013.
While the type of move that the WTA tournament in Linz made to insure that it could give a last minute wild card to Angelique Kerber isn’t unheard of in tour history, it was unusual.
On this day 40 years ago Billie Jean King played Bobby Riggs. It was sold as the battle of the sexes. It was quite an extravaganza. Elton John couldn't haves staged BJK better if he had produced the show himself.
Davis Cup finals in November against the Czech Republic duties have forced Novak Djokovic to decline a return invitation to the Hopman Cup, the mixed team event in Perth which kicks off the 2014 tennis season.
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