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click for US Open tourney page, with 195 photos cropped & enhanced, and many quotes       On Sunday at Flushing Meadows, in the 4th round of the 2010 US Open, this year's French Open champ, 29-year-old 6th-seeded #7 Francesca Schiavone of Italy (residence: London, England), defeated this year's champ at Istanbul & Monterrey, 19-year-old 20th-seeded #22 (high: #22) Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova from Moscow, Russia, 6-3, 6-0 (photo shown).     Despite having a realtively low speed serve (101mph fastest, 92mph average 1st, 74mph avg 2nd), Francesca won 88% of her 1st serve points. Anastasia reached break point against Francesca only once, and could not convert it; Francesca scored on 4 of the 7 break points she held against Anastasia. Francesca struck 13 winners with 14 unforced errors (1 double fault), Anastasia hit only 5 winners, with 29 errors (4 DFs). match stats     Francesca said: "It's very special. I'm very lucky to play so well again in a tournament like this. I feel better with my touch." AFP story - postmatch interview     Anastasia had to call the trainer to treat her right shoulder, which has been troubling her since last month in Cincinnati. The pain has now spread to elbow; she hopes it will heal with rest. AP story     Also on Saturday at Flushing Meadows, the 2000 & 2001 US Open champion (and 5-time Wimbledon champ), 30-year-old 3rd-seeded #4 (and former #1) Venus Williams from Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, defeated the 2009 champ in Guangzhou & Tashkent, 22-year-old 16th-seeded #18 (career-high: #15) Shahar Peer from Maccabim, Israel, 7-6(3), 6-3 (photo shown).     Venus fired the fastest serve of the tourney so far, 127mph, and averaged 111mph on 1st serve and 87mph on 2nd serve (Shahar: 103mph fastest, 92mph avg 1st, 79mph avg 2nd). Venus won 81% of her 1st serve points; Shahar, 48%. Venus broke Shahar's serve on 5 of 14 opportunities; Shahar converted 3 of the 6 break points she held against Venus. match stats     The win raised Venus's record against Shahar to 6-0. Venus said: "Winning the first set always feels good, instead of having to regroup and figuring out how you're going to win the match." AP story - postmatch interview     Shahar said: "Every time I played Venus I had tough time, and she was always kind of killing me every match [smiling.] So today was much closer match, and I think I'm playing better. I just need to take it to the end of the year also, because I don't think I played very well the last couple of weeks. So I think it's good for me, this performance of this week." postmatch interview     Venus will play Francesca in the quarterfinals on Tuesday. Venus leads Francesca 7-0 in career matches. They have met twice this year. In January, on a Plexipave hardcourt in the 4th round of the Australian Open, Venus defeated Francesca 3-6, 6-2, 6-1. And in May, on red clay in the 3rd round in Madrid, Venus won again in a similar fashion, 3-6, 6-1, 6-2.     In the 4th round on Monday, last year's US Open finalist (and the champion the past two weeks in Montreal and New Haven), 20-year-old top-seeded #2 (career-high: also #2) Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark (residence: Monte Carlo, Monaco), will play the 2006 US Open champ, (and this year's champ in Strasbourg and Memphis), 23-year-old 14th-seeded #16 (and former #1) Maria Sharapova of Russia (residences: Manhattan Beach, CA & Bradenton, FL).     Caroline and Maria played only twice before, and have not met since 2008, when, on a Deco-Turf hardcourt in the quarterfinals in Doha, Qatar, Maria defeated Caroline 6-0, 6-1. Later that year, on red clay in the 3rd round in Rome, Maria won again, 6-4, 7-6(3).     Maria is 29-8 this season, with losses to Maria Kirilenko, Jie Zheng, Lucie Safarova, Justine Henin, Na Li, Serena Williams, Victoria Azarenka, and Kim Clijsters.     Caroline is 44-14 this season, with losses to Na Li (twice), Shahar Peer, Jelena Jankovic, Justine Henin, Vera Zvonareva, Lucie Safarova, Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez, Alona Bondarenko, Jie Zheng, Francesca Schiavone, Aravane Rezai, Petra Kvitova, and Marion Bartoli.     Maria said: "[Caroline] can run all day and get a lot of balls back and make you hit tons of balls. She changes the pace really well, and gets her opponents off balance. She does many things well. That's why she's at the top of the game." The tennis.quickfound.net US Open tourney page holds 195 choice photos from this year's US Open, cropped & enhanced, and 32 postmatch quotes.     Folks who like the Twitter feeds in the right column of this page might want to check out the recent upgrades on other pages at quickfound.net. Numerous topical Twitter chatter and news feeds have also been added in the Sports, ShowBiz, SciTech, and Money subdomains at quickfound.net. And the News page (the main home page) now has drop-down selectors to from which all the Twitter feeds are accessible, a total of 55 feeds so far, with many more yet to be added. Finetune streaming music player popup:  18 playlists, 45+ full tracks each, 1300+ tracks total, free music, no registration, no commercials, no gimmicks. WTA SCOREBOARD: US Open     ranks are for the previous week s=seed, #=rank, *=upset, LL=lucky loser     How do players get into the "draw"? US Open, 4th Rd, Sun-Mon Sep 5-6 11am loser's prize: $100,000; points: 280 #2 s1 Caroline Wozniacki DEN v #16 s14 Maria Sharapova RUS Mon cAs m3 #3 s2 Kim Clijsters BEL d #41 Ana Ivanovic SRB 6-2, 6-1 Sun #4 s3 Venus Williams USA d #18 s16 Shahar Peer ISR 7-6(3), 6-3 Sun #6 s5 Samantha Stosur AUS v #13 s12 Elena Dementieva RUS Sun cAs m5 eve2 #7 s6 Francesca Schiavone ITA d #22 s20 A Pavlyuchenkova RUS 6-3, 6-0 Sun #8 s7 Vera Zvonareva RUS v #38 Andrea Petkovic GER Mon cAs m4 7pm+ #12 s11 Svetlana Kuznetsova RUS v #45 Dominika Cibulkova SVK Mon cAs m1 11am #17 s15 Yanina Wickmayer BEL v #33 s31 Kaia Kanepi EST Mon cAr m2 US Open, QFs, Tues-Wed Sep 7-8 11am loser's prize: $200,000; points: 500 #2 s1 Caroline Wozniacki DEN OR #16 s14 Maria Sharapova RUS     v #12 s11 Svetlana Kuznetsova RUS OR #45 Dominika Cibulkova SVK Wed #3 s2 Kim Clijsters BEL     v #6 s5 Samantha Stosur AUS OR #13 s12 Elena Dementieva RUS Tue #4 s3 Venus Williams USA v #7 s6 Francesca Schiavone ITA Tue #8 s7 Vera Zvonareva RUS OR #38 Andrea Petkovic GER     v #17 s15 Yanina Wickmayer BEL OR #33 s31 Kaia Kanepi EST Wed US Open, SFs, Fri Sep 10 CBS-TV 12:30pm loser's prize: $400,000; points: 900 US Open, Final, Sat Sep 11 loser's prize: $850,000; points: 1400 winner's prize: $1,700,000; points: 2000 US Open, Doubles Final, Sun Sep 12 loser's prize: $210,000 winner's prize: $420,000 US Open, Mixed Doubles Final, Thu Sep 9 loser's prize: $70,000 winner's prize: $150,000 US Open, Girls Singles Final, Sun Sep 12 US Open, Girls Doubles Final, Sat Sep 11 US Open, Withdrawals/Non-entries #1 Serena Williams USA badly cut right foot which required surgery #14 Justine Henin BEL right elbow ligment tear #86 Melinda Czink HUN   WTA Sep 13-19: Guangzhou & QC International Women's Open Guangzhou, CHN INTL $220,000 32m/32q/16d outdoor: hard Live Scores - in popup window draws: WTA: Q - main - D - OOP photos: sports21.cn tennis - WTA Guangzhou weather #23 J Zheng, #60 J Groth #77 Y-J Chan, #78 A Amanmuradova Bell Challenge Quebec City, CAN INTL $220,000 32m/32q/16d indoor: hard Uniturf PEPS, Laval University campus Live Scores - in popup window draws: WTA: Q - main - D - OOP html: OOP - results photos: Y!: sports - news | WTA Quebec: radar - forecast Canada News and Links #14 M Bartoli, #20 A Rezai #28 L Safarova, #39 B Zahlavova Strycova     The Guangzhou & Quebec City draws are not yet available as of this writing (qualifying draws are usually up on the Friday before the tourney begins, main draws on Saturday, sometimes later). The links are above for your convenience when the draws become available. WTA SCOREBOARD: Guangzhou & Quebec City     ranks are for the previous week s=seed, #=rank, *=upset, LL=lucky loser     How do players get into the "draw"? Guangzhou, 1st Rd, Mon 2pm/2:30pm, Tue 2pm loser's prize: $1,725 US; points: 1 #23 Jie Zheng CHN #60 Jarmila Groth AUS #77 Yung-Jan Chan TPE #78 Akgul Amanmuradova UZB #82 Jelena Dokic AUS #83 Ayumi Morita JPN #84 Kai-Chen Chang TPE #87 Bojana Jovanovski SRB #89 Alberta Brianti ITA #92 Chanelle Scheepers RSA #96 Simona Halep ROU #100 Ksenia Pervak RUS #101 Edina Gallovits #102 Shuai Zhang CHN #103 Alla Kudryavtseva RUS #105 Pauline Parmentier #106 Kurumi Nara JPN #107 Stefanie Voegele SUI #110 Tamarine Tanasugarn THA #116 Mariana Duque Marino #117 Sophie Ferguson AUS #127 Katie O'Brien GBR #130 Maria Elena Camerin ITA #159 Sania Mirza IND Guangzhou, 2nd Rd, Wed-Thu 2:30pm loser's prize: $2,950 US; points: 30 Guangzhou, QFs, Fri 2pm loser's prize: $5,340 US; points: 70 Guangzhou, SFs, Sat 2pm loser's prize: $10,200 US; points: 130 Guangzhou, Final, Sun 2:30pm loser's prize: $19,000 US; points: 200 winner's prize: $37,000 US; points: 280 Guangzhou, Doubles Final, Sun after singles loser's prize: $5,750 US winner's prize: $11,000 US Guangzhou, Qual Finals, Mon Sep 13 10:30am losers' prizes: q1 $265 1pt; q2 $460 6pts; q3 $860 10pts; qualifier 16 points Guangzhou, Withdrawals Quebec City, 1st Rd, Mon-Wed 11am loser's prize: $1,725 US; points: 1 #14 Marion Bartoli FRA #20 Aravane Rezai FRA #28 Lucie Safarova CZE #39 Barbora Zahlavova Strycova CZE #43 Melanie Oudin USA #44 Julia Goerges GER #49 Olga Govortsova BLR #55 Sofia Arvidsson SWE #69 Johanna Larsson SWE #76 Bethanie Mattek-Sands USA #81 Sorana Cirstea ROU #90 Alicia Molik AUS #94 Sabine Lisicki GER #95 Karolina Sprem CRO #108 Varvara Lepchenko USA #109 Jill Craybas USA #112 Christina McHale USA #113 Shenay Perry USA #115 Andrea Hlavackova CZE #133 Michaella Krajicek NED #134 Stephanie Dubois CAN #136 Lilia Osterloh USA #360 sr 83 Marina Erakovic NZL Quebec City, 2nd Rd, Wed-Thu 11am loser's prize: $2,950 US; points: 30 Quebec City, QFs, Fri noon loser's prize: $5,340 US; points: 70 Quebec City, SFs, Sat 1pm & 6:30pm loser's prize: $10,200 US; points: 130 Quebec City, Final, Sun 1pm+ loser's prize: $19,000 US; points: 200 winner's prize: $37,000 US; points: 280 Quebec City, Doubles Final, Sun noon loser's prize: $5,750 US winner's prize: $11,000 US Quebec City, Qual Finals, Mon Sep 13 11am losers' prizes: q1 $265 1pt; q2 $460 6pts; q3 $860 10pts; qualifier 16 points Quebec City, Withdrawals #54 Aleksandra Wozniak CAN right forearm tendinitis #984 sr Ashley Harkleroad USA   WTA Aug 23-28: New Haven New Haven: #21 Nadia Petrova 5'10¼" 143lb RH 2H-BH New Haven: #2 Caroline Wozniacki 5' 10" 128lb RH 2H-BH Pilot Pen Open, New Haven, CT PREMIER $600,000 30m/32q/16d outdoor: hard Live Scores | draws: WTA: Q - main - D - OOP | pics: DL Y!: sports - news | WTA     On Saturday in New Haven, in the final of the Pilot Pen Open, last week's champion in Montreal (and the top seed at next week's US Open), 20-year-old top-seeded #2 (career-high: also #2) Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark (residence: Monte Carlo, Monaco), defeated the 2008 champion at Cincinnati, 28-year-old 8th-seeded #21 Nadia Petrova of Russia (residence: like Caroline, income tax-free Monte Carlo), 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 (Nadia is shown during the match; Caroline with the glassware afterward). It was the third straight year that Caroline has won the New Haven title. Caroline's prize is $98,500; Nadia's is $52,500.     The tennis.quickfound.net New Haven tourney page holds 41 choice photos from this week's tourney, cropped & enhanced, and 5 postmatch quotes.   WTA Aug 16-22: Montreal Montreal: #10 Vera Zvonareva 5' 7¾" 130½lb RH 2H-BH Montreal: #3 Caroline Wozniacki 5' 10" 128lb RH 2H-BH Rogers Cup, Montreal, CAN PREMIER 5 $2,000,000 56m/48q/16d outdoor: hard Live Scores draws: WTA: Q - main - D - OOP | interviews | pics: DL - Y!: sports - news | WTA     On Monday in Montreal, in the rain-postponed final of the Rogers Cup (aka the Canadian Open), this year's champion at Copenhagen and Ponte Vedra Beach, 20-year-old 2nd-seeded #3 (career-high: #2) Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark (residence: Monte Carlo, Monaco), defeated this year's Wimbledon finalist (and champion in Pattya City, Thailand), 25-year-old 8th-seeded #10 (career-high: #5) Vera Zvonareva from Moscow, Russia, 6-3, 6-2 (Caroline is with the Rogers Cup transparent racquet trophy; Vera is shown during her 3rd round win). Caroline's prize is $350,000; Vera's is $175,000.     The tennis.quickfound.net Montreal tourney page holds 104 choice photos from this week's tourney, cropped and processed, and 21 postmatch quotes.   WTA Aug 9-15: Cincinnati Cincinnati: #13 Maria Sharapova 6' 2" 130lb RH 2H-BH Cincinnati: #7 Kim Clijsters 5' 8½" 150lb RH 2H-BH W&S Financial Open, Cincinnati, OH PREMIER 5 $2,000,000 56m/48q/28d outdoor: hard Live Scores | draws: WTA: Q - main - D - OOP | pics: DL - Y!: sports | WTA     On Sunday near Cincinnati, in the final of the Western & Southern Financial Group Open, this year's champ at Miami, (and the last year's US Open champion), 26-year-old 4th seeded #7 (and former #1) Kim Clijsters from Bree, Belgium, defeated this year's champion in Strasbourg and Memphis (and 3-time Grand Slam tourney champ), 23-year-old 10th-seeded #13 (and former #1) Maria Sharapova of Russia (residences: Manhattan Beach, CA & Bradenton, FL), 2-6, 7-6(4), 6-2 (Maria is shown serving during the match; Kim with the ceramicware afterward). Kim's prize is $350,000; Maria's is $175,000.     The tennis.quickfound.net Cincinnati tourney page holds 106 choice photos from this week's tourney, cropped & enhanced, and 25 postmatch quotes.   WTA Aug 2-8: San Diego & Copenhagen San Diego: #21 Svetlana Kuznetsova 5' 8½" 161lb RH 2H-BH Copenhagen: #4 Caroline Wozniacki 5' 10" 128lb RH 2H-BH Mercury Insurance Open, San Diego, CA PREMIER 700 $700,000 30m/32q/16d outdoor: hard Live Scores | draws: WTA: Q - main - D - OOP | photos: DL - Y!: sports - news | WTA Danish Open, Copenhagen, DEN INTL $220,000 32m/32q/16d indoor: hard Live Scores | draws: WTA: Q - main - D - OOP | photos: DL - Y!: sports - news | WTA     On Sunday at La Costa Resort, near San Diego, California, in the final of the Mercury Insurance Open, the 2009 French Open champ, 25-year-old unseeded #21 (career-high: #2) Svetlana Kuznetsova of Russia (residence: Monte Carlo, Monaco), defeated the 2008 champ at Eastbourne, 21-year-old 4th-seeded #11 (career-high: #8) Agnieszka Radwanska from Krakow, Poland, 6-4, 6(7)-7, 6-3 (Svetlana is shown with the glassware after the match). Svetlana's prize is $107,000; Agnieszka's is $57,150.     On Sunday at Copenhagen, Denmark, in the final of the e-Boks Danish Open, this year's champion at Ponte Vedra Beach, 20-year-old top-seeded #4 (career-high: #2) Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark (residence: Monte Carlo, Monaco), defeated 7th-seeded 28-year-old #50 (career-high: #27) Klara (Koukalova) Zakopalova from Prague, Czech Republic, 6-2, 7-6(5) (Caroline is shown with the goodies after the match). Caroline's prize is $37,000; Klara's is $19,000.     The tennis.quickfound.net San Diego & Copenhagen tourney page holds 96 choice photos from this week's tourneys, cropped & enhanced, and 30 postmatch quotes.   Tennis News Video:  Get The New York Times  Home Delivery at 50% off the regular subscription price.   WTA June 21-July 4: Wimbledon Wimbledon: #1 Serena Williams 5'9" 135lb RH 2H-BH Wimbledon: #22 Vera Zvonareva 5' 7¾" 130½lb RH 2H-BH Wimbledon: 4th Wimbledon Singles Title 37th WTA Singles Title The Championships Wimbledon, GBR Grand Slam Prize$: £13,725,000 (all events) 128 players - outdoor: grass matches: statistics Live Scores - OOP - results draws: W sing, pdf - women's: qualif. - singles - doub | pics: DL - Y! sport - news | WTA Wimbledon wallpaper - Video Gallery text: news - interviews - history click for 2010 Wimbledon tourney page, with 49 quotes & 236 choice photos, cropped & enhanced         On Saturday in London, England, in the final of The Championships at Wimbledon, the 2002, '03 and '09 tourney champion, 28-year-old #1 Serena Williams from Palm Beach Gardens, FL, won her 4th Wimbledon singles title by defeating last year's champ at Indian Wells, 25-year-old 21st-seeded #22 (career-high: #5) Vera Zvonareva from Moscow, Russia, 6-3, 6-2 (photos shown).     Serena's prize is £1,000,000 (about $1,455,200 US); Vera's prize is £500,000 (about $727,600 US).     The tennis.quickfound.net Wimbledon 2010 tourney page holds 236 choice photos from this year's Championships, cropped & enhanced, and 49 postmatch quotes.   WTA: May 23-Jun 6   French Open Roland Garros: #7 Sam Stosur 5' 7¾" 143lb RH 2H-BH Roland Garros: #18 Francesca Schiavone 5' 5½" 141lb RH 1H-BH Roland Garros: First Grand Slam Title 4th WTA Singles Title Roland Garros, FRA Grand Slam Prize$: €7,481,600 (women's total) matches: statistics draws: W sing, pdf - mix doub - women's: qualif. - singles - doub photos: DL - Y! news - Y! France - WTA | videos: embedded | text: news - interviews information site for players - 2010 RG Players' Guide: online - .pdf click for 2010 French Open tourney page, with 54 quotes & 301 choice photos, cropped & enhanced         Jeep Defeats Cannon: On Saturday at Roland Garros, in the final of the 2010 French Open, this year's Barcelona champ, 29-year-old 17th-seeded #18 (former #11) Francesca Schiavone from Milan, Italy, won her first Grand Slam title by defeating the Charleston champ, 25-year-old 7th-seeded #7 Samantha Stosur from Gold Coast, Australia, 6-4, 7-6(2) (photos shown).     Francesca's prize is 1,120,000 euros (about $1,417,024 US); Samantha's is 560,000 euros (about $708,512 US).     The tennis.quickfound.net French Open tourney page holds 301 choice photos from this year at Roland Garros, cropped & enhanced, and 54 postmatch quotes.   WTA Jan 18-30: Australian Open Melbourne: #1 Serena Williams 5'9" 135lb RH 2H-BH Melbourne: #NR Justine Henin 5' 5¾" 126lb RH 1H-BH Melbourne: 5th Aussie Open Title 12th Grand Slam Singles Title Australian Open, Melbourne, AUS Grand Slam - event stats 128 players - outdoor: hard matches: Live Scores - OOP - results draws: WS, .pdf - mixed doubles pics: DL | Y!: sports - news | WTA | interviews 2010 WTA video & audio interviews click for Australian Open tourney page, with 263+ photos cropped & enhanced, and many quotes       On Saturday in Melbourne, in the final of the 2010 Australian Open, the 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2009 AO champ, 28-year-old top-seeded #1 Serena Williams from Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, won again, defeating the 2004 Aussie Open champ, 27-year-old unranked former #1 Justine Henin of Belgium (residence: Monte Carlo, Monaco) 6-4, 3-6, 6-2 (photos shown).

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SerenaWilliams.com official Zvonareva.ru official ElevenByVenus.com official jj-jelenajankovic.com official JelenaJankovic.net CarolineWozniacki.dk official Elena Dementieva official VikaAzarenkaTennis.com official KimClijsters.be official 100% Justine Henin official Justine-Henin.net (many photos) MariaSharapova.com official MariaWorld (Sharapova- 4700+ photos) Sharapova Masha (good bio info) en.Nadia-Petrova.ru official Kuznetsova Fanpage Maria Kirilenko official DanielaHantuchova.com official DSafina.com official DinaraSafina.com Dominika Cibulkova official Agnes Szavay official - in Hungarian Ana Ivanovic official alize-cornet.com official Patty-Schnyder.ch official, in German Anna Chakvetadze official Anna's World (Chakvetadze) Ashley-Harkleroad.com K-lina.com (Karolina Sprem) Jelena-Dokic.com NicoleVaidisova.com Golovin Attitude Tatiana-Golovin.net Mary-Pierce.org Anastasia-Myskina.com Myskina.ru official, in Russian Jennifer Capriati Monica-Seles.com   WTA Specific Sites: The WTA Tour since 1996, which received a major makeover in May, 2007, provides match scores and other stats for all WTA players & events, including head-to-head matchup info, updated weekly. Blogspot WTA Women's Tennis Apparel is a blog about what the ladies are wearing. From January 2000 through March 2001, CNNSI published the Kristina Brandi Tennis Diary, a "diary" kept every 2 weeks by WTA player Kristina Brandi, showing what life is like for touring WTA players.   Tennis History: "The 700-year-old French game of tennis, traditionally as much a lady's as a man's game, was introduced to the U.S. in 1874 by a woman, Mary E. Outerbridge..." See more from this Sept. 9, 1946, TIME Magazine cover story on women's tennis and 1946 Wimbledon and Forest Hills champ Pauline Betz now on the Tennis Articles page. TIME Magazine, May 23, 1955:     In her first column, the San Diego Union's new Women's Sports Editor Maureen ("Little Mo") Connolly, retired as the world's greatest lady tennis star at a ripe old 21, showed that sports punditry is as easy for her as smashing a tennis ball down an opponents throat.     Lamented Little Mo in great pontifical style: "[On] the American scene today ... we're reducing sports to a cluster of numbers on a board ... We ... are expecting our champions to be stadium automatons, the human equivalents of the balls in a super pinball machine ... We're watching for the numbers to light up and forgetting the play." TIME articles: Maureen Connolly's 1st US Open & Wimbledon titles Book Excerpt: The Courts of Babylon: Dawn of the Pro Tennis Tours more tennis history book excerpts in the nav menu (top of page) WTA Top 20 Rankings 1989-2006 International Tennis Hall of Fame WTA Historical Bios Lawn Tennis 1873-1938 Pictorial History of Tennis 16-page .pdf Sportsline Tennis History includes a listing of Grand Slam champions, the winners of the most career singles titles, and more. The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club site still has some good Wimbledon history pages. The USOpen.org History has stats and year-by-year finals descriptions since 1968 (but nothing about the Forest Hills and Newport Casino US Nationals before the "Open era"). Other Tennis Stats & Records: Although crippled by intrusive advertising, Tennis Corner offers excellent single page summaries of ATP and WTA player statistics. And their WTA & ATP Results Archive 1968-2003 has records of ATP and WTA tournament champions and final scores going back to the mid-1970's, and for major tournaments back to 1968 (the first year of "Open" professional tennis).   Free Online Tennis Books: Lawn Tennis 1908 with a chapter by     Blanche Bingley Hillyard Lawn Tennis for Ladies 1910 by Dorothea K. Douglass Lambert Chambers Tennis for Women 1916 by     Molla Bjurstedt Mallory Lawn Tennis for Girls 1920 by     Suzanne Lenglen Lawn Tennis 1886 by James Dwight Game of Lawn Tennis 1888 by     "Cavendish" of The Field   Tennis Website Search: The DMOZ Open Directory searches for keywords in website titles and descriptions (not page content). You can limit your search to the Tennis links category, or search all sports links. find this: in: All Tennis College Tennis Tennis Players All Sports   Google Usenet Forums: rec.sport.tennis alt.tennis     Apologies for the typographical errors on this page occasionally. These cut-and-paste errors result when faulty brain wiring impairs one person trying to keep up a large website. I try to keep errors to a minimum, but some always creep in.

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    (Sep 2, 2010) WTA #1 Serena Williams has revealed the details of her foot injuries in an interview. The injuries required 18 stiches, 12 on her right foot and 6 on her left foot, and surgery on her right foot to repair a torn toe tendon. USA Today interview

    (August 20, 2010) WTA #1 Serena Williams has withdrawn from this year's US Open. Serena has not yet recovered from cutting her right foot on broken glass at a restaurant in Europe in July, and from repair surgery after the injury. Serena said "My doctors have advised against my playing so that my foot can heal."
    Serena cut her foot after her Wimbledon title victory on July 3, and the injury was at first not thought to be serious. Serena then lost to Kim Clijsters in an exhibition in Belgium on July 8. Asked how she was able to play the exhibition with the injury, Serena said: "Those Belgian doctors and waffles."
    Serena underwent surgery in Los Angeles on July 15. Serena had previously withdrawn from three tourneys leading up to the US Open and from all of her 2010 World Team Tennis matches due to the injury. AP story - July 20 AP update - original AP story

    (August 18, 2010) Former WTA #1 Justine Henin will not play any more WTA tourneys until 2011. Justine incurred a partial ligament tear in her right elbow while playing her 4th round match against Kim Clijsters at Wimbledon on in June (Kim won the match, 2-6, 6-2, 6-3), which had already caused her to withdraw from the summer season, including this year's US Open.

    Justine said: "I took several medical examinations in the last days... Unfortunately the healing process is taking time. This means I must be patient... For my preparation for the competition in 2011, I cannot take any risks, so I hope to be back to practice in October. I'll work hard to get ready for this new season!" Justine's official website - BBC story

    (March 5, 2010) The WTA has posted a new page showing "all-time" (which means since 1989!) and current year's service speed leaders. However, a note at the bottom of the page shows that the data, is only from show courts at a fraction of the tourneys (12 events this year).
    The actual all-time WTA service speed record is 130 miles per hour, set by then 35-year-old Brenda Schultz-McCarthy in the 1st round of qualifying at Cincinnati in 2006. The WTA should not list "all-time" service speed leaders without making this perfectly clear.

(Feb 9, 2010) 2008 French Open champion Ana Ivanovic is featured in the 2010 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition, which is available online now. Ana in SI-SE►     (Jan 11, 2010) Former WTA #1 Maria Sharapova has signed a new endorsement contract with Nike which could pay her as much as $70 million over the next eight years.     In 2007 Maria signed a racquet endorsement contract with Prince which will pay her around $25 million dollars over 10 years.     Maria's previous deal with Prince, a five-year contract, was signed when she was 14 years old.     As is often the case with endorsement contracts, the new deal includes a base pay, plus incentives for high rankings and tournament performance.     Maria also has (or has had) endorsement contracts with Gatorade & Tropicana, Colgate - Palmolive, Motorola (expired in 2007), Parlux Fragrances, Canon, watchmaker TAG Heuer, Land Rover, Nike, and others, plus Japan-only deals with Honda & Pepsi, which make her the highest-paid female athlete in the world, earning an estimated $23 to $25 million a year.

    (Feb 11, 2009) Maria Kirilenko, Daniela Hantuchova, and Tatiana Golovin are all featured in the 2009 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition, which is available online now.


    (Jan 5, 2005) The WTA has made a 6-year deal with mobile phone manufacturer Sony Ericsson to become the primary WTA Tour global sponsor. The price? $88 million.

(Feb 2006) 2004 Wimbledon, 2006 US Open, and 2008 Australian Open champion Maria Sharapova of Russia is featured in the 2006 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition. Click on the photo to see the SI Swimsuit pages online, including 22 pics of Maria looking very nice.