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Official Professional Tennis Players Twitter List

Twitter is already a huge medium for players to reach their fans online. Twitter provides a little personal touch and allows players and the general public to communicate in a simple way. I have been wondering for a while now, which players are actually already using Twitter! So here is our official WTA and ATP [...]

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Lindsay Davenport to Partner Liezel Huber at WTA Doubles Events

Lindsay Davenport is planning to come back to the women’s doubles tour and will partner Liezel Huber. Huber told Radio Roland Garros that Davenport has committed to play doubles at the Bank of the West Classic in Stanford, California and the Mercury Insurance Open in San Diego, California.Since leaving the Tour for the second time [...]

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Martina Hingis will Play Nottingham WTA Event

Former Wimbledon champions Martina Hingis and Richard Krajicek will be the star attractions at this summer’s Nottingham Masters tournament. The event takes place at Nottingham Tennis Centre between 10 and 13 June.

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Serena Williams to Play in Rome WTA Event

Serena Williams has annonced that she will be returning to the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour after spending over two months on the sidelines. Williams has not competed since she won the Australian Open in January, 2010, her 12th Grand Slam title. She has accepted a wild card into the 2010 Internazionali BNL d’Italia in Rome, [...]

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Nicole Vaidisova To Retire from Tennis at 20 Years of Age

Nicole Vaidisova was one of the most talked about players on the WTA tour, not just for her good looks but also her results. She had reached the Semifinals of the French Open at the age of 16, then in 2007 won her way to the Semifinals of the Australian Open, and the Quarterfinals of [...]

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Enhanced Performance

Serena Williams has certainly staked her claim at the top of the women’s’ game after reclaiming her No1 ranking from Dinara Safina after the 2009 US Open. The latter part of the season usually sees players drop their intensity and look forward to the prospect of a holiday. The Sony Ericsson Championships in Doha was [...]

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Kim Clijsters and Justine Henin Turn Down Fed Cup

As the news broke that Kim Clijsters and Justine Henin would not be competing for Belgium in the February 6-7 Fed Cup tie against Poland many fans on the forums questioned Kim and Justines’ tenacity. Clijsters, who fell to Nadia Petrova in the 3rd round of the Australian Open 0-6 1-6 had let it be [...]

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Elena Dementieva Actually Can Server, Who Knew!

Over the years Elena Dementieva has received a lot of stick about her serve. Here is quite a fun video of Dementieva serving. I dont think she actually did this first go, but maybe over the series of several hours!

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Sabine Lisicki and Caroline Wozniacki Rumble at the Net

I love it when tennis players get all upset over the smallest things. Here is a match yesterday at Wimbledon between Sabine Lisicki and Caroline Wozniacki, the two ladies but each other at the net during a change over. How funny! Is it just me or do both of these girls look exactly the same? [...]

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Eastbourne 2009: Chakvetadze vs Jankovic

And so both Serbian “sisters” go out in the first round. But while there was nothing particularly shocking about Ivanovic’s loss – since it came to Petrova, last year’s finalist and possessor of the kind of power serve you expect to be successful on grass – Jankovic’s loss is pretty shocking. Although Chakvetadze is a [...]

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Sania Mirza is Engaged to Sohrab Mirza

It has been reported that Indian female tennis star Sania Mirza is now engaged. 22 year old Sania is engaged to Sohrab Mirza, a business scholar from her hometown of Hyderabad. The 22-year-old Sania, now ranked only 95th in the world, is not planning to stop playing competitive tennis, just as her fiancé wants to [...]

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WTA Tour Ladies Strut Their Stuff in FHM

Victoria Azarenka, Dominika Cibulkova, Anna Chakvetadze and Alona Bondarenko appear on this month’s French edition of FHM men’s magazine. The article, which coincides with the tournament of Roland Garros being held in Paris, includes interviews with the tennis players and very sexy pictures in bikini.

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Jelena Jankovic Dress for 2009 French Open

Chinese brand ANTA has officially released their new dress which Jelena Jankovic will be wearing throughout the 2009 French Open starting in just over a day. It is going to be very interesting to see how this dress looks in real life away from all the special affects in this picture above.

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Vera Zvonareva Now Promoting Gender Equality

Vera Zvonareva has been named a “Promoter of Gender Equality” as part of the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour’s partnership with UNESCO. Here’s what the world No.6 Russian said about the honor: I think that the UNESCO-Sony Ericsson WTA Tour partnership is incredibly important and this is a role that I value highly and will work [...]

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Depleted Warsaw Field Provides Opportunity

Many people, including me, thought Maria Sharapova’s decision to return to the tour in Warsaw was misguided.  A premier level event on her worst surface in the week immediately prior to the French Open did not seem like the place to gain momentum or confidence.  She would probably crash out early against a middling clay [...]

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French Open – Women’s Preview

The second major of the year is already upon us as qualifying for the French Open gets underway today.  With just a few days to go until main draw play begins this Sunday, all the talk on the men’s side is about Rafael Nadal’s quest for his 5th consecutive French title and whether Federer or [...]

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Regina and Maya Pitts the Next Williams Sisters?

There has been a lot of talk about two young girls from the USA who have been called the next Serena and Venus Williams. Their names are Regina and Maya Pitts and they are 8 and 5 respectively at the moment. Recently they were on the Ellen show and received tickets to go and watch [...]

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Serena Williams Claims To Be Best In World But Cant Back It Up!

Serena Williams still rates herself as the best player in the world even though she has been toppled from the top spot by Russia’s Dinara Safina. “We all know who the real number one is,” Williams told a news conference at the Italian Open on Monday. “Quite frankly, I’m the best in the world.” Williams [...]

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Indoor Clay? Pros and Cons

The WTA players are in Stuttgart, Germany this week for the first major stop on the European clay court swing.  Just like all the other events in Europe this time of year, the tournament is on red clay.  Unlike all the other events, though, this one is indoors.  This Stuttgart event used to be part [...]

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Dinara Safina Replaces Serena Williams as World Number One

Dinara Safina is now officially the womens world number one tennis player. On Monday Dinara Safina has now joined the group of world number one tennis players. Dinara and Marat as the only brother and sister combination to have every been both world number one. Safina is still yet to win a Grand Slam title [...]

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