Gigi Fernandez and Natasha Zvereva have been elected to the International Tennis Hall of Fame Class of 2010 in recognition of their competitions and contributions, a tribute to the game of doubles. Fernandez and Zvereva won more women’s doubles titles (38) and Grand Slam women’s doubles championships (14) together than any other team since Martina
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
Serbian tennis beauty, Ana Ivanovic, will be wearing adidas products for a long, long time after extending her agreement with German sportswear brand Adidas AG for the remainder of her tennis career and beyond.. The twenty-two year old former Roland Garros champion has also relaunched her personal website which, according to web traffic monitor Alexa,
First Kim Clijsters of Belgium turned pro in 1997, climbed to world No. 1 in both singles and doubles as a 20 year-old in August of 2003, and won her first Grand Slam at the U.S. Open in 2005. Following a series of ankle injuries and hip strains in 2006, she retired after the Australian
Martina Hingis apparently can't give it up. Perhaps it is true with tennis as in other areas: You can take the girl out of tennis, but you can't take the tennis out of the girl. Although she is not ready to launch a serious comeback after seeing the success of Kim Clijsters and Justine Henin
The tennis police are at it again, fining Russian player, Ekaterina Bychkova, $5,000 and barring her from playing for 30 days for match-fixing claims, which will keep the 123rd ranked player from participating in the Australian Open this month. Last week, the Tennis Integrity Unit handed down the fine and suspension. The anti-corruption unit said
WTA player, Ana Ivanovic of Serbia, is looking for redemption. The 22-year-old former No. 1 ranked player was plagued with injuries and illness during the 2009 season and dropped to No. 21, her lowest year-end ranking since 2004, her 2nd year as a pro, when she ended the year at No. 97. Ivanovic blames her
This photo is the memory I have of Serena Williams from 2009. She is shaking hands with Kim Clijsters of Belgium after Williams was disqualified by a foot fault during the Women's Singles Semifinal match of the 2009 U.S. Open on September 12, 2009. Williams was given a point penalty, which happened to be match
The WTA Tour's 16th ranked player and 2009 U.S. Open semi-finalist, Yanina Wickmayer from Belgium, has successfully appealed against the ban imposed on her for missing three drug tests in eighteen months under the World Anti-Doping Agency's controversial "whereabouts clause". Wickmayer and fellow countryman, Xavier Malisse, a former Wimbledon semi-finalist, were suspended by a Belgian
Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario may have to get a part-time job to pay off her back-tax debt. The Spanish Supreme Court has ordered the former top-ranked women's player to pay back approximately $5.1 million in unpaid income tax. The court rejected Sanchez-Vicario’s assertion that she was a resident of Andorra and not Spain from 1989 to 1993.
