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Yawn. Agnieszka Radwanska may be #4, but she really isn't a threat to the top three. Certainly not to Serena Williams, who is going to be #1 for the rest of the year and quite a lot longer....
Serena really looked uncomfortable here, but she's good at finding ways to win. It is her seventieth victory of the season -- the first time in half a decade that anyone has won that many matches in a year.
The most unusual tournament of the year will be held later this month in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Long-time Atlanta resident, tennis volunteer and former USTA Southern staffer Eddie Gonzalez was recently named the BB&T Atlanta Open Tournament Director and Chief Development Officer.
The most basic rule in sporting fitness is never ignore the debilitating power of a viral infection. Yet...
"Sure, not a problem, if we have to play best-of-three, we play best-of-three. If it's best-of-five that's fine too."
While Serena received the good news that without hitting a ball she had done enough to secure the year ending WTA world no.1 ranking for the third time in her career, Venus had to accept the double disappointment of third set tiebreak defeat Petra Kvitova in Toray Pan Pacific semi-final in Tokyo and being told the 129.9 mph serve she hit 24 hours earlier was not being accepted.
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.
Following a 2013 season highlighted by winning nine titles, including two Grand Slams, Serena Williams has secured the Women's Tennis Association’s Year-End No.1, presented by Dubai Duty Free, for the third time in her illustrious career, having also achieved the honor in 2002 and 2009.
The Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) announced today that World No.5 Li Na has 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.
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WTA boss Stacey Allaster has called the bluff of those agitating for more equality between the tennis sexes, saying in Singapore that women would be happy to play best-of-five-sets at grand slams.
WTA’s chief Allaster says that despite a number of influential greats on today’s WTA that it will be China’s Li Na who will end having the greatest impact.
WTA CEO Stacey Allaster says that the women players are prepared to play the best of five sets at the Grand Slams, even though some of the tour’s leading players have said in the past that they would prefer not to.
Novak Djokovic and Li Na will compete in a friendly "battle of the sexes" in the run-up to next week's the China Open for bragging rights during the autumn Asian tennis season on the ATP and WTA Tours.
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