Victoria Azarenka has confirmed she is the best female tennis player in the world with another dominating display against Maria Sharapova. Preivously it was in the Australian Open final, but today she defeated Sharapova in the Indian Wells 2012 final. Azarenka showed another great performance and won 6-2 6-3.
Liezel Huber and Lisa Raymond are on top of the world and have just won the Indian Wells 2012 Womens Doubles title. Huber and Raymond swept aside Mirza and Vesnina in the final 6-2 6-3.
Huber and Raymond have already won the Paris, Doha and Dubai titles in February, so whats an extra title!!
“Right now we’re just playing well,” Raymond said. “When we step on the court we feel the other team is going to have to play really well to beat us, whether or not there are tough conditions. We’ve proven that over the past few weeks. And even if anyone ever thinks we’re down and out, we’ll find a way to win.”
“If we’re ever having a bad moment we try to keep it as short as possible,” Huber said. “Like if I’ve made an error or two errors, I know it’s not permanent, just take two minutes, forgive yourself and move on. Just think of the next game.
“Our run has been unbelievable – we’ve come close to losing at times, but we’ve worked very hard, and the hard work has been showing in our great results.”
Ana Ivanovic played some great tennis yesterday at the Indian Wells 2012 tournament. Ivanovic won through over defending champion Caroline Wozniacki 6-3 6-2.
“I was really looking for opportunities, and, you know, trying to come in, as well, whenever I had chance, and trying to step in from both sides and trying to stay calm in my serve and execute the way I was executing in practice,” said Ivanovic in her post match press conference. “I really managed to do that well today.”
Caroline Wozniacki had an amazingly tough match against Sofia Arvidsson at the Indian Wells tournament where she was down a set and 4-5. In the end Wozniacki responded amazingly well and reeled off nine of the last 11 games in rallying for a 3-6, 7-5, 6-2 victory.
Christina McHale defeated Petra Kvitova 2-6, 6-2, 6-3 on Sunday at the Indian Wells 2012 tournament. This is the biggest win of McHale’s career so far and takes her into the round of 16 in Indian Wells.
“She started off really well, serving really well,” noted McHale. “I couldn’t get a read on her serve in the first set, and I wasn’t moving very well, either.
“And then I just kind of hung in there early in the second, and then she started she played one service game where she gave me a couple of loose errors, and then I just kind of kept hanging in there, and then I got more comfortable as the match went on.
It seems like Serena always calls the shots. Andy Roddick has commented about the possibility of playing Olympic mixed doubles with Serena Williams: “You have to ask the boss lady”.
WTA Tour stars were all out in force at the Indian Wells players party. Here is what they had to say about Dancing. Do they dance? Who do they want to dance with?
Irina Falconi is one of the rising American female stars on the WTA Tour. Irina is blogging directly from the Indian Wells tournament this week. If you want to hear what she has to say then check out the link below.
Read Irina’s blog here.
Watch Caroline Wozniacki try a prank on Maria Sharapova during All Access Hour at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells.
Better luck next time Caroline!
Thanks to Adidas we were lucky enough to have a phone interview with Maria Kirilenko direct from Indian Wells. Clare was our reporter and she did a great job. All the questions she asked were grabbed directly from our introduction post or via Twitter.
Most of us have seen Maria Sharapova playing Fed Cup for her country but have never seen what it’s like when she’s on the sidelines.
Here’s your chance to see the tennis superstar up close and personal at their match against Spain on February 5th. Russia edged it out to win 3-2 and will face Serbia in the semifinals, taking place on April 21-22.
She isn’t as cold and impassive as you thought she would be with the other Russian players, and hopefully this video will reveal a more realistic picture of our favorite Russian beauty.
In the first part of the video, you will see Sharapova mix and mingle with Svetlana Kuznetsova and Anastasia Myskina, as well as meet with Marat Safin. Just so you know, the videos are both in Russian so don’t get too discouraged.
In the second part, it’s mostly her and Kuznetsova talking amongst themselves.
We will be interviewing Maria Kirilenko tomorrow live from Indian Wells 2012 (thanks to Adidas). We just wanted to quickly drop an article to see if our readers had any questions they wanted us to ask Maria.
If you have any questions please feel free to add them in the comments below. We will select the best questions and ask Maria to see what she has to say.
After Victoria Azarenka beat Agnieszka Radwanska in the Doha semifinals, she eventually went on to become champion at the event and have an undefeated record for 2012. However, the Polish number one had some complaints about Azarenka’s on-court antics.
This time it wasn’t about the grunting, but rather about the injury that Azarenka sustained throughout the tournament. Radwanska stated that Azarenka used the injury as a cover-up and was bluffing to everyone about her body health.
Azarenka is known for her no-nonsense attitude and apathy towards fellow players, but showed no sign of anger or resentment towards Radwanka. They are good friends off the court and here is a what she had to say about the situation:
“I still see her as a friend, but what could I do?”
“I wouldn’t have pulled out if I wasn’t hurting. I don’t believe in making comments about opponents. There are so many people on this planet that there are bound to be conflicting opinions and there’s nothing more that can be said.”
Showing signs of coolness towards such rancor might be unusual when it comes to Azarenka, but hopefully she has learned how to control her inner beast and release it only on the tennis court.
Here is our photo gallery of the Kuala Lumpur WTA Tour Event. Enjoy!
via – WTA Tour
Paola Suarez on announced her comeback to the tour a few weeks ago and now she has joined the exclusive 500 club. Paola just got her 500th career doubles match victory on Wednesday evening, just the fifth active player to reach that number.
Having retired in 2007 with a sparkling 497-179 record, she is back and hungry for more titles.
Only five active players have 500 or more doubles match wins:
773 – Lisa Raymond (773-279)
708 – Liezel Huber (708-338)
656 – Cara Black (656-264)
520 – Katarina Srebotnik (520-238)
500 – Paola Suárez (500-181)
Timea Babos is currently ranked 107 in the world and she had previously only won one match on the WTA tour, until she turned up to the Bogota tournament and won the tournament!
I was actually surprised because it was my first final and I wasn’t nervous or tight. – Babos said.
Babos defeated Alexandra Cadantu in the final 6-4 6-4.
Gisela Dulko has pulled out of the Acapulco tournament with gastroenteritis. It is a real shame that she wont be trying to defend the title she won in 2011.
“I am very sad to report that I withdrew from the Acapulco Open. I’m with gastroenteritis since yesterday and unfortunately I can not play well,” explained Dulko through in Twitter.
Source Gisela Dulko Blog
Martina Navratilova is on this years Dancing With the Stars in the USA, so I thought we would look back on Monica Seles on the same show back in 2008.
Andrea Hlaváčková is a player I dont really know too much about, but after looking at this photo Im going to have to find out more!
p.s. She looks a bit like Kournikova
Serena Williams in a bikini.. and she is looking pretty hot! Im hoping there isnt too much photoshop’ing in this image.
