With both sisters ranking and stamina dropping, how long will they attempt to keep playing the WTA Tour?
Venus, the elder of the two sisters fell ill during 2011 and missed the majority of the season, causing her ranking to drop to 103rd in the world. Making her come back at Miami this year, Venus did well to beat reigning Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova, but Venus was shaky at best and looked exhausted after playing the first set of her matches. In tennis years Venus is old, an incredible player in her time but her time is up, I hope she competes in the Olympics and then retires from tennis.
Serena Williams is simply an embarrassment to tennis, over the last several years she has put in zero effort and expected to turn up and be the best player at every tournament she plays! Serena hasnt dealt with being overtaken very well, arguments with umpires, lack of respect for her fellow players and unrealistic boasting like “I probably played 20%” We have seen players like Azarenka, Clijsters and Stosur overtake Williams and she cannot take it. Hopefully promising young American talents like McHale and King can start a new generation of women’s tennis in America, a generation that shouldnt include Serena Williams.
While the sisters are able to make finals and semi finals at the moment, what happens when they are falling at quarter finals? If the Williams sisters are still playing professional tennis in 2013, god help American Tennis!
Here are a couple of special pictures of Victoria Azarenka taken during the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami. Cant believe someone let Victoria drive a Ferrari
I came across this amazing photo taken at the Family Circle Cup yesterday between Safarova and Wozniack. Its a real shame when you have great players like Wozniack and Safarova playing on an outside court with no one watching!
Can someone explain to me why this top level of tennis is only available to watch for the 5 people there (or 1,000 at the whole tournament) and not available for the millions online?
It seems as though Tournaments and the WTA are still missing out on several revenue streams and are yet to properly adopt new technologies. No wonder that Tennis is still lagging behind other sports in terms of viewership numbers!
I came across this great computer generated image of Maria Sharapova. It was designed by Nikita Volobuev, but apart from that there is not much information about the design.
Taylor Townsend is a fifteen year old American who is going to turn pro this year. Taylor is already ranked number 2 in the world for ITF Juniors and she is hoping to be able to make the step across to the senior ranks. Townsend will be playing all the junior Grand Slams and then will turn professional.
Townsend trains at USTA headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla., and has been working out near her home at the Racquet Club of the South in Norcross, Ga.
These days… im not really sure why players have to announce they are turning professional. It just means they will be playing senior tournaments for money, which Im sure she has already played senior tournaments.
p.s. she will need to focus on getting a lot fitter, because the WTA Tour is all year round with very tough long matches.
Additionally, Ashleigh Barty is probably the best junior in the world at the moment and she has already turned pro (at 15 years old).
World number six, Caroline Wozniacki seems to have found a new talent other than using those incredible legs to defend against other players. With Caroline being extremely famous in Denmark, she has decided to release a charity single, “Oxigent” (Oxygen) to support the Danish and Polish Paralympic teams.
While this was apparently recorded back in 2010, it’s now being released for the same cause! Even though it has autotune written all over it, I’m a big fan of Caroline and love the song. While you have players like Djokovic and Monfils in music videos and Rafa sharing a video with Shakira, here you have a tennis player using their voice, which very often is used to grunt, or to yell, so to hear the Danish number 1 sing is quite a breath of fresh air! Let me know in the comments what you think, wonder what Wozniacki’s boyfriend, Rory Mcllroy thinks of her potential to duet with Rihanna!
After 4 years of being an ambassador for Sony Ericsson, world No. 2 Maria Sharapova will now be a team with Samsung. Her new deal will only cover Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States, which are countries such as Armenia, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan, and it will last for 3 years. The deal includes promotion of phones, tablets, and TVs. Sharapova’s agent had this to say:
Maria really hasn’t been marketed that much in Russia. It’s important to her because that’s where her roots are. I also felt that was a really untapped market, with the 2014 Sochi Olympics coming up.
Although it happened about two weeks ago, I thought I’d show you guys a clip from the quarterfinal women’s match where Maria Kirilenko faced Maria Sharapova. Two point away from the end of the match, Kirilenko apparently tapped her racquet a few times against the court during the point and the point was subsequently stopped by the referee and called a hindrance. If you didn’t catch that while you were there or watching on TV, here’s your chance for a replay of the incident.
It has been confirmed that Brazil will hold their first WTA Tournament in 11 years next year. The 2013 event has been announced, but they are still trying to work out a date, location and other details.
Federation president Jorge Lacerda says Brazil “got the needed approval to give this gift to Brazil’s women’s tennis. One of our goals is to make women’s tennis grow, taking advantage of the 2016 Olympics in Rio.”
Serena Williams seems to have come out with yet another stupid comment. After her loss at the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami to Caroline Wozniacki, Serena said the following:
“The good thing is I could’ve played a lot better,” Serena told reporters. “I probably played about 20 percent. You know, it would really suck and if I had to sit here and say I couldn’t do any better. That’s not the case. I just made a tremendous amount of errors. There’s no reason for that. I’m older and I shouldn’t do that. There’s no excuse. I just gotta stop that. It’s silly.”
Serena only played at 20 percent. Is this not just a rude comment towards Wozniacki and her play?
Serena Williams claims she doesnt get enough credit for being nice! What a joke.
Serena explained why she apologized to Samantha Stosur after she lost a Hawk-Eye challenge at Miami’s Sony Ericsson Open.
“I always do kinda out of habit,” Serena told reporters about the Hawk-Eye apology. “I don’t mean to. I don’t get enough credit for being a super nice person and clapping on good points. They only focus on me yelling at umpires. I’m actually an unbelievable professional competitor out there.”
This is a complete load of rubbish. Serena never actually apologized to Stosur or the chair umpire at the US Open 2011. Serena its about time you grew up!
Petra Kvitova told ESPN in an interview that the USA tour last year was the reason she was in a lull after winning Wimbledon.
“I don’t really like to play in America that part of the tour is not good for me because of my asthma and problems breathing with the humidity.” (paraphrased)
Possibly this is the reason why she has been performing poorly in the USA at the moment!
It seems as thought Arantxa is actually worth around 30 million euros. First, she accused her parents of taking all her 60 million dollars in earnings, but she forgot to tell everyone that she owns many buildings and a parking lot in Spain, as well as having overseas bank accounts in Switzerland and Andorra that contain millions.
I think this is the last time I believe anything Arantxa says!
