For the fourth time in her great tennis career, Serena Williams has been named the WTA Player of the Year. She previously won the award in 2002, 2008, and 2009. Only Steffi Graf and Martina Navratilova have won more often. This time around was quite a feat, since Serena had to come back after rehabilitation
Serena Williams of the U.S.A. kept the U.S. Open trophy on home-turf for the fourth time in her career on Sunday with a hard-fought win over World No. 1, Victoria Azarenka of Belarus. Final score: 6-2, 2-6, 7-5. Williams, who is ranked No. 4, won the match at 2 hours and 18 minutes, the longest
On Saturday, 4-time Wimbledon champion Serena Williams of the USA did it again, adding a 5th Wimbledon trophy to her still expanding trophy case by defeating No. 3 seed Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland 6-1, 5-7, 6-2. At 30 years old, after missing three Grand Slams in a row in 2010 and 2011 due to injury
Kim Clijsters of Belgium defeated the new World No. 1, Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark, to win the year-ending championship in Doha, 6-3, 5-7, 6-3. Clijsters's victory earned her a fifth title of the year - one less than Wozniacki's tour-best half-dozen - and 40th of her career and solidified her season-ending ranking of No.3 in
Defending champion Kim Clijsters reached the final again at the U.S. Open by defeating the No. 3 seed and 2-time U.S. Open champion, Venus Williams 4-6, 7-6(7-2), 6-4. Kim won her 20th straight U.S. Open match in the 2-hour, 23-minute semifinal match at the National Tennis Cernter in New York. She knocked off Venus last
Former World No. 1 Lindsay Davenport of the USA announced last week that she would be coming out of retirement to play in two WTA Tour events. She'll be playing in the Bank of the West Classic at Stanford University in the final week of July, and the Mercury Insurance Open in La Costa, California
Serena and Venus Williams of the USA will ascend to the top of the doubles rankings next week, the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour announced on Wednesday. Serena will also become the sixth player in Tour history to hold the No. 1 ranking in both singles and doubles simultaneously. Following their Roland Garros semifinal victory against
After battling it out on the pro tennis circuit for almost 30 years, Martina Navratilova has a new battle on her hands. A report says that she has been diagnosed with breast cancer. However, her prognosis is said to be excellent. People magazine's website posted a story Wednesday quoting Navratilova saying "I cried" after being
