The yearly hard court Washington DC warm-up event to the US/Canada Masters swing has received a new sponsor in the shape of Citigroup.

The tournament will remain in its present home at the William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center in Rock Creek Park. Work is currently underway to expand the site and includes a new 2,500-seat show court along with five new practice courts. The work is expected to be complete for the start of this years tournament on July 28.

The tournament has also changed to a ATP/WTA combined event but the Men’s field will be weakened this year as it clashed with London 2012 Olympic Games being held at Wimbledon.

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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!

p.s. Safarova made the final of the tournament.

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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.”

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Here is the promotional video for the upcoming Porsche Tennis Grand Prix tournament in Germany. The tournament will be held between April 21st – 29th 2012.

For more information head to: http://porsche-tennis.de

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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.

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Watch out for Barty to have a very strong 2012 and Im sure we will see this 15 year old on the WTA Tour in 2013.

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Martina Navratilova is known for having stupid opinions on pretty much everything, but it seems like she has now overstepped the mark with comments about Caroline Wozniacki.

Wozniacki has commented with the following statement:

“I would never say Martina was number one when there was no-one playing,” Wozniacki said, “or that she was the best when no-one was playing. That would be disrespectful.”

“They always have to make comments, and that’s what they get paid for – to be comments, because they are not playing any more. And they need to stir everything up,” Wozniacki said.

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1. Irina Khromacheva RUS (31 Oct 2011)
2. Sophie-An Mestach BEL (31 Jan 2011)
3. Daria Gavrilova RUS (23 Aug 2010)
4. Elina Svitolina UKR (21 Jun 2010)
5. Kristina Mladenovic FRA (08 Jun 2009)
6. Laura Robson GBR (30 Mar 2009)
7. Noppawan Lertcheewakarn THA (08 Dec 2008)
8. Arantxa Rus NED (07 Jul 2008)
9. Simona Halep ROU (19 Jun 2008)
10. Urszula Radwanska POL (10 Sep 2007)
11. Agnieszka Radwanska POL (26 Jun 2006)
12. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova RUS (30 Jan 2006)
13. Victoria Azarenka BLR (31 Jan 2005)
14. Michaella Krajicek NED (30 Sep 2004)
15. Kateryna Bondarenka UKR (05 Jul 2004)
16. Sessil Karatantcheva KAZ (28 Jun 2004)
17. Kirsten Flipkens BEL (08 Sep 2003)
18. Anna-Lena Groenefeld GER (07 Jul 2003)
19. Vera Dushevina RUS (17 Mar 2003)
20. Barbora Zahlavova Strycova CZE (18 Mar 2002)
21. Svetlana Kuznetsova RUS (10 Dec 2001)
22. Eva Birnerova CZE (15 Oct 2001)
23. Kaia Kanepi EST (11 Jun 2001)
24. Jelena Jankovic SRB (28 May 2001)
25. Maria-Emilia Salerni ARG(29 May 2000)
26. Lina Krasnoroutskaya RUS (31 Dec 1999)

My favourite player on the list has to be Lina Krasnoroutskaya she was quite sexy!

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Victoria Azarenka, Maria Sharapova, Sam Stosur and Agnieszka Radwanska could also take the top ranking, but the No. 2-ranked Kvitova is the favorite.

Caroline Wozniacki currently holds the top spot, but with her poor run in Grand Slams I doubt highly that she will be number 1 when the tournament ends.

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