Serena Williams – featured by popular demand!

By popular demand, we now feature another tennis cutie pie, Serena Williams. Serena Williams is 27 years old and was born in Saginaw, Michigan, USA. She currently resides in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, USA.

Serena Williams is currently ranked No. 3 in the world. She reached the No. 1 ranking for the first time on July 8, 2002. She was ranked No. 1 again earlier this year. She has 32 career Sony Ericsson WTA Tour singles titles including nine Grand Slam titles, three each at the Australian Open and US Open, one at Roland Garros, and two at Wimbledon.

Ivanovic – vote for her or others as World’s Hottest Athlete

Would you like to vote for your favorite cutie pie tennis player to be the World’s Hottest Athlete? At InGameNow, you can vote for cutie pies such as
Ana Ivanovic. There are four one-on-one votes with another player.

InGameNow provides several brackets in which to vote. Bracket # 2 is Tennis Vixens. Bracket # 1 is Girls With Balls (soccer, billiards, softball, golf, basketball, handball, volleyball). Other brackets will be coming up later this month.

Check it out and vote for your favorite tennis cutie pie. Plus, there are great photos of the hot athletes.

Ivanovic named 2nd hottest woman of tennis

According to Sports Crunch, sexy, cutie pie Ana Ivanovic was named the 2nd hottest woman of tennis. Sports Crunch has rated the top 50.

However, I think they made a mistake. Ivanovic should be No. 1. When she gained the No. 1 world tanking WTA Tour, I knew that is where she belonged. At least, she belonged there for her hotness. She has currently dropped to No. 4 in the world for her tennis playing, but that doesn’t mean she has to drop any in the “hot” category. So I think whoever did the voting made a mistake.

Ivanovic loses in the Semifinals

Sexy Serbian tennis cutie pie, Ana Ivanovic, actually won two matches in a tournament, something she has been able to do only twice in seven tournaments since winning the French Open in May. That win had vaulted her to a No. 1 world ranking. She has since dropped to No. 4.

Ivanovic had a bye in the 1st round, then defeated 16th ranked Marion Bartoli of France 6-2, 6-4. In the 3rd round she beat 57th ranked Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic 6-1, 6-4.

Kirilenko out in 2nd round

The 2008 WTA Zurich Open started off well for Russian tennis cutie pie, Maria Kirilenko as she won her first match 7-5, 6-2.

No. 32 ranked Kirilenko’s opponent was another featured cutie pie, 14th ranked Daniela Hantuchova of Slovakia.

Her second round opponent was 23rd ranked Francesca Schiavone of Italy. Kirilenko lost that match 3-6, 5-7.

Kirilenko has been up and down the last part of this tennis season. Going back to mid August, Kirilenko lost in the 1st round of three tournaments in a row, including the US Open. Then she won the WTA Tour Hansol Korea Open, followed by losing in the 1st round of the next two tournaments. Add to that this 2nd round loss, and has not had a good record the later part of this season.

Chakvetadze goes down in 1st round

It was a tough day for 12th ranked Russian tennis cutie pie, Anna Chakvetadze as she lost in the first round of the 2008 WTA Zurich Open being played in Zurich, Switzerland Oct. 13-19.

Chakvetadze, the 7th seed in the tournament, started off strong against 66th ranked Monica Niculescu of Romania. However, after winning the 1st set 6-3, Chakvetadze could only manage five games in the last two sets, losing them 3-6, 2-6.

Happy Birthday Elena Dementieva

Happy Birthday to Elena Dementieva who turns 27 today. She was born in Moscow, Russia, Oct. 15, 1981, and turned pro Aug. 25, 1998 at the age of 16. So far in her career, she has 10 career WTA Tour singles titles, 6 WTA Tour doubles titles, 3 ITF Women’s Circuit singles titles, and 3 ITF Women’s Circuit doubles titles, along with being a gold medalist at the Beijing Olympics in 2008. She is currently ranked No. 5 in the world.

Wozniacki retires from match in 2nd round

Danish tennis cutie pie, Caroline Wozniacki, retired from her match in the 2nd round of the WTA Tour Ladies Kremlin Cup played Oct. 6-12, 2008 in Moscow, Russia. Wozniacki had lost the first set 4-6, and was down 2-3 when she withdrew from the match. She was playing No. 13 Nadia Petrova from Russia. Petrova lost 6-4, 4-6, 6-7 (6-8) to fellow Russian, Elena Dementieva, in the Quarterfinals.

A report on TheSportsNetwork indicates Wozniaci retired from the match due to an upper respiratory illness. That’s too bad, since she was fresh off her win at Tokyo last week, and has won three of her last seven tournaments. She might have made it four out of eight.

Dementieva exits in Semifinals.

Russian cutie pie, Elena Dementieva, was the 3rd seed in the WTA Tour Ladies Kremlin Cup played in Moscow, Russia, Oct 6-12, 2008. She was defeated in the Semifinals by No. 1 ranked Jelena Jankovic.

Dementieva had a Bye into the 2nd round where she defeated No. 21 ranked Katarina Srebotnik of Slovenia in a close 3-set match going into a tie-break, 6-3, 4-6, 7-6 (7-2). Her next round match against fellow Russian, No. 13th ranked Nadia Petrova, was an even closer 3-set match, again going into a tie-break, which Dementieva won 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (8-6).

Hantuchova out in 2nd round

Daniela Hantuchova, tennis cutie pie from Slovakia, lost bad in the 2nd round of the WTA Tour Ladies Kremlin Cup in Moscow, Russia which was played Oct 6-12, 2008.

Ranked 14th in the world, Hantuchova easily won her first round match against 23rd ranked Francesca Schiavone of Italy, 6-3, 6-2. But she was no match for 8th ranked Vera Zvonareva of Russia. Hantuchova lost that match 1-6, 0-6.

Zvonareva was playing well in this tournament. She made it to the finals where she ran up against # 1 ranked Jelena Jankovic, of Serbia, losing 2-6, 4-6.