Clijsters wins year-end championship in Doha over Wozniacki

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 the world behind the Dane and Russian Vera Zvonareva

Lindsay Davenport coming out of retirement to play at Wimbledon

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 in August.

At age 34, Davenport hasn’t played in a tournament since the 2008 U.S. Open and claims that she’s not coming back, just playing for fun. She stated:

Steffi Graf Tops Role Model List

Two tennis stars have come out on top of a new survey asking people about the leading role models in sports. Steffi Graf and Roger Federer were named as the top female and male sports role models respectively in a survey of 1,500 people run by Barclays – sponsors of the English Premier League.

Perhaps tennis has benefited from all the scandals rocking the sports arenas of football, baseball, and golf in the past months. Many highly regarded sports figures have toppled off the pedestals some have placed them upon, as one after another shows they are not only human, but sometimes surprisingly and disappointingly so. At any rate, tennis claims two role models on this list, a good commentary on the sport many of us enjoy to watch and play.