Victoria Azarenka has crushed Maria Sharapova 6-3, 6-0 to claim her maiden Grand Slam at the Australian Open in one hour and 22 minutes. With the trophy comes the number one ranking on Monday.
Apart from a nervous start where she was broken in her opening service game Azarenka was completely dominant, absorbing the power of Sharapova and spreading the court effectively. Read more
Posted in Australian Open, Kim Clijsters, Maria Sharapova, Victoria Azarenka
Petra Kvitova has won the second most important title of her career, defeating Victoria Azarenka in the WTA year ending championship 7-5, 4-6, 6-3. In the almost two and a half hour match Kvitova used her powerful serve and flat hitting to come out on top of the number four seed. Read more
Posted in Petra Kvitova, Victoria Azarenka, Wimbledon, WTA Championship
18 year old Sloane Stephens’ run at the US Open has been ended by Serbian former world number one Ana Ivanovic. The 6-3, 6-4 win puts Ivanovic into the fourth round where she faces the formidable Serena Williams who thumped Victoria Azarenka in the first set of her straight sets win over the wold number five.
Ivanovic, at times, looked good. Not Grand Slam winning good, but Ana good. There weren’t too many muffed ball tosses (until she tried to serve the match out) and she seemed to have her emotions in check. Ana managed Sloane’s home crowd well and produced some great shots but still has a way to go if she wants to really compete with the likes of Williams again. Read more
Posted in Ana Ivanovic, Serena Williams, Sloane Stephens, US Open, Venus Williams, Victoria Azarenka
People have been watching Petra Kvitova all year and wondering when she would really break through and move deep into a Grand Slam and it has happened at Wimbledon. Tomorrow Kvitova will face Maria Sharapova for the Wimbledon title. Read more
Posted in Maria Sharapova, Petra Kvitova, Sabine Lisicki, Victoria Azarenka, Wimbledon
You would expect with the restrictions on outfits at Wimbledon that the players couldn’t really go wrong with their fashion choices…. You’d be wrong.
This year there have been some shockers so lets take a look at some of the worst. Read more
Posted in Andrea Petkovic, Novak Djokovic, Victoria Azarenka, Wimbledon
Maria Sharapova, far from a clay court goddess, handed out a thumping clay court lesson to Andrea Petkovic. The German youngster had nothing to dance about after Sharapova, who is looking to complete a career Grand Slam this year, trounced her 6-0 in the first set in just 32 minutes. Sharapova was clearly not messing about, relentlessly thumping her shots and teaching the (at times) cocky young Petkovic what champions are made of. Read more
Why Rafa needs to protect his teeth I don’t know but here are a series of videos that show you want top players carry in their bags on court.
Posted in Feliciano Lopez, Juan Monaco, Kimiko Date Krumm, Marat Safin, Media, Rafael Nadal, Victoria Azarenka
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egardless of how Victoria Azarenka tries to explain her meltdown in Rome it doesn’t look good. In the last six tournaments she has played she has either made it to the final 50% of the time or retired the other 50% of the time. Since 2010 she has had ten retirements. Clearly she has some physical issues she needs to get on top of and then fix before returning and retiring again. Read more
Posted in Maria Sharapova, Rome, Victoria Azarenka
These ladies prove that the WTA campaign Strong Is Beautiful is true with these amazing photographs
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