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Pilot Pen Open, New Haven, CT PREMIER $600,000 32m/32q/16d outdoor: hard Live Scores - in popup window draws: WTA - tourney photos: Y!: sports - news | HC | WTA NH Register: Pilot Pen Hartford Courant: Pilot Pen New Haven: radar - forecast #6 Svetlana Kuznetsova #8 Caroline Wozniacki #10 Flavia Pennetta #13 Agnieszka Radwanska #14 Marion Bartoli #16 Amelie Mauresmo #17 Samantha Stosur #18 Virginie Razzano #20 Patty Schnyder #21 Anabel Medina Garrigues #25 Jie Zheng

New Haven: #8 Caroline Wozniacki 5'10" 128lb RH 2H-BH New Haven: #34 Elena Vesnina 5'7¾" 132lb, RH 2H-BH     tennis.quickfound.net tourney page: New Haven

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On Friday at Yale University, rain prevented outdoor play, so the semifinals of the Pilot Pen Open, were moved indoors to the Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center. Inside, last year's tourney champion, 19-year-old 2nd-seeded #8 Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark (residence: Monte Carlo, Monaco), defeated 27-year-old 3rd-seeded #10 Flavia Pennetta of Italy (residence: Verbier, Switzerland) 6-4, 6-1 (photo shown).     Caroline said: "I’m used to playing indoors. But we were waiting around all day, and it’s always hard to wait. You never know if it’s going to stop raining or not, or if you’re going to go. I was here at 9:30 a.m., so it was a pretty long day. But I’m happy that I won, and that’s the most important thing." NHR story - HC story     Flavia said: "I didn’t serve very well today. It’s a little bit different playing indoor to outdoor. The ball was always really near my head, I didn’t jump at all today. I think [Caroline] played a good match, she was very forward and very aggressive. I had my chances, but I didn’t make it...     "[Playing indoors] was different. But it was the same for everyone today. It was a difficult day for everyone — for us, for the tournament director, the crowd. It’s not easy to handle this type of thing."     Also on Friday in New Haven, 23-year-old # 34 Elena Vesnina from Sochi, Russia, defeated 30-year-old 8th-seeded #16 (and former # 1) Amelie Mauresmo of France (residence: Geneva, Switzerland), 5-7, 6-1, 6-2 (photo shown).     Elena said: "I talked to my coach after the first set and he told to just focus on getting my serve in. I had trouble with my serve, I was so inconsistent and double faulted. In that first set [Amelie] played me like I was a pussy cat. In the second set I was more aggressive and changed my serve." NHR story     Amelie said: "[Elena] played a really good third set, coming up at the end of each rally with a big winner on the line or in the corner. Probably I was maybe a little less precise on the placements. But I thought I did O.K."     Elena will play Caroline in the New Haven final on Saturday. Caroline leads Elena 2-1 in career matches; they are 1-1 on hardcourts. The forecast calls for more rain.     Caroline is 5-5 in previous WTA singles finals; she won the Eastbourne and Ponte Vedra Beach titles this year, and reached the finals at Madrid, Charleston, Memphis & Bastad. Caroline has a 55-17 match record this season.     Elena is 0-1 in previous WTA singles finals; she reached her first final at Auckland early this year, after defeating Caroline Wozniacki in the quarterfinals. She has won 2 ITF singles titles, and 3 WTA (plus 6 ITF) doubles titles. Elena has a 30-16 match record in 2009, the best year of her career. WTA SCOREBOARD: New Haven     ranks are for the previous week s=seed, #=rank, *=upset, LL=lucky loser     How do players get into the "draw"? New Haven, 2nd Rd, Tue-Wed 10am losers' prize: $8,000 US; points: 60 #6 s1 wc Svetlana Kuznetsova RUS d #53 q Yanina Wickmayer BEL 6-4, 5-7, 7-6(2) Wed #8 s2 Caroline Wozniacki DEN d #35 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova RUS 6-1, 6-4 Wed #10 s3 Flavia Pennetta ITA d #32 Iveta Benesova CZE 7-6(1), 6-4 Wed *#18 Virginie Razzano FRA d #13 s5 Agnieszka Radwanska POL 3-6, 6-4,     retired—right hand injury Wed *#47 q Magdalena Rybarikova SVK d #14 s6 Marion Bartoli FRA 1-6, 7-6(5), 2-0     retired—left adductor strain Wed #16 s8 Amelie Mauresmo FRA d #33 Alona Bondarenko UKR 6-1, 6-1 Tue #34 Elena Vesnina RUS d #17 s9 Samantha Stosur AUS 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 Wed *#48 Anna Chakvetadze RUS d #29 Sybille Bammer AUT 4-6, 6-4, 7-5 Tue New Haven, QFs, Thu 10:30am losers' prize: $15,100 US; points: 120 *#16 s8 Amelie Mauresmo FRA d #6 s1 wc Svetlana Kuznetsova RUS 7-6(9), 2-6, 6-3 #8 s2 Caroline Wozniacki DEN d #18 Virginie Razzano FRA 6-4, 6-3 #10 s3 Flavia Pennetta ITA d #47 q Magdalena Rybarikova SVK 6-2, 6-2 #34 Elena Vesnina RUS d #48 Anna Chakvetadze RUS 6-1, 7-5 New Haven, SFs, Fri noon losers' prize: $28,100 US; points: 200 Friday: rain prevented outdoor play #8 s2 Caroline Wozniacki DEN d #10 s3 Flavia Pennetta ITA 6-4, 6-1 indoor *#34 Elena Vesnina RUS d #16 s8 Amelie Mauresmo FRA 5-7, 6-1, 6-2 indoor New Haven, Final, Sat 1pm loser's prize: $52,500 US; points: 320 winner's prize: $98,500 US; points: 470 #8 s2 Caroline Wozniacki DEN d #34 Elena Vesnina RUS 6-2, 6-4 New Haven, Doubles Final, Sat eve losers' prize: $16,500 US winners' prize: $31,000 US Nuria Llagostera Vives & Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez     v Iveta Benesova & Lucie Hradecka m4 eve2 New Haven, Withdrawals #15 s7 Dominika Cibulkova SVK right rib injury #31 Carla Suarez Navarro ESP abcessed tooth   WTA Aug 31-Sept 13:   US Open Flushing Meadows, NY Grand Slam $21,600,000 128 players | outdoor: hard Deco Turf Matches:     stats Live Scores - OOP - results Draws: WTA - mix doub Women: qualif - singles - doub Men: qualif - singles - doub photos: Y!: sports - news     slides | CBS | WTA Video: highlights - '09 WTA videos US Open Radio TV Sched | news | interviews website map | venue map | history NYC: radar - forecast | news # Dinara Safina # Serena Williams # Venus Williams # Elena Dementieva # Svetlana Kuznetsova # Jelena Jankovic # Vera Zvonareva    click for US Open tourney page     The US Open women's main and qualifying draws have been posted. The top qualy seeds are #102 Elena Baltacha, #104 Katie O'Brien, and #105 Sandra Zahlavova. Qualifying play begins on Tuesday, August 25, and ends on Friday, August 28.     The US Open main draw was held on Thursday, August 27, at noon EDT . The links are at left, and the matchups are below. Main draw play begins on Monday, August 31.     Rain delayed the start of the qualifying finals on Friday at Flushing Meadows. The rain returned not long after play began, and play was suspended until Saturday. More rain is forecast for Saturday. However, the 15 day forecast calls for little or no rain during the tourney proper. RadioTennis.com is carrying live audio coverage of US Open qualifying rounds. 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, 1st Rd Mon-Tue Aug 31-Sep 1 11am loser's prize: $19,000; points: 5 #1 s1 Dinara Safina RUS v #167 wc Olivia Rogowska AUS top half of draw #2 s2 Serena Williams USA v #103 wc Alexa Glatch USA bottom half of draw #3 s3 Venus Williams USA v #46 Vera Dushevina RUS bottom #4 s4 Elena Dementieva RUS v q top #5 s5 Jelena Jankovic SRB v #45 Roberta Vinci ITA top #6 s6 Svetlana Kuznetsova RUS v #96 Julia Goerges GER top #7 s7 Vera Zvonareva RUS v #100 Nuria Llagostera Vives ESP bottom #8 s8 Victoria Azarenka BLR v #78 Alexandra Dulgheru ROU bottom #9 s9 Caroline Wozniacki DEN v #90 Galina Voskoboeva KAZ top #10 s10 Flavia Pennetta ITA v #91 Edina Gallovits ROU bottom #11 s11 Ana Ivanovic SRB v #51 Kateryna Bondarenko UKR top #12 s12 Agnieszka Radwanska POL v #82 Patricia Mayr AUT bottom #13 s13 Nadia Petrova RUS v #56 Katarina Srebotnik SLO top #14 s14 Marion Bartoli FRA v #80 Rossana de los Rios PAR bottom #15 s15 Samantha Stosur AUS v #68 Ai Sugiyama JPN bottom #17 s16 Virginie Razzano FRA v #53 Yanina Wickmayer BEL top #18 s17 Amelie Mauresmo FRA v #73 Tatjana Malek GER bottom #19 s18 Na Li CHN v #54 Ioana Raluca Olaru ROU bottom #20 s19 Patty Schnyder SUI v #47 Lucie Safarova CZE top #21 s20 Anabel Medina Garrigues ESP v #424 wc Gail Brodksy USA bottom #22 s21 Jie Zheng CHN v #49 Anna-Lena Groenefeld GER top #23 s22 Daniela Hantuchova SVK v #916 sr Meghann Shaughnessy USA bottom #24 s23 Sabine Lisicki GER v #37 Aravane Rezai FRA top #25 s24 Sorana Cirstea ROU v #66 Ayumi Morita JPN top #26 s25 Kaia Kanepi EST v q bottom #27 s26 Francesca Schiavone ITA v q bottom #28 s27 Alisa Kleybanova RUS v #69 Petra Kvitova CZE top #29 s28 Sybille Bammer AUT v #43 Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez ESP bottom #30 s29 Maria Sharapova RUS v #98 Tsvetana Pironkova BUL top #31 s30 Alona Bondarenko UKR v #93 Alla Kudryavtseva RUS top #32 s31 Elena Vesnina RUS v #60 Lucie Hradecka CZE bottom #33 s32 Agnes Szavay HUN v #63 Shahar Peer ISR top #34 Carla Suarez Navarro ESP v #84 Varvara Lepchenko USA top #35 Alize Cornet FRA v q top #36 Iveta Benesova CZE v #122 Bethanie Mattek-Sands USA bottom #38 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova RUS v #67 Melanie Oudin USA top #39 Aleksandra Wozniak CAN v #362 sr Laura Granville USA bottom #40 Gisela Dulko ARG v #41 Ekaterina Makarova RUS top #42 Sara Errani ITA v #112 Arantxa Rus NED top #44 Shuai Peng CHN v #61 Jarmila Groth SVK top #48 Magdalena Rybarikova SVK v q bottom #50 Melinda Czink HUN v #86 Maria Elena Camerin ITA bottom #52 Andrea Petkovic GER v q bottom #55 Yaroslava Shvedova KAZ v #99 Masa Zec Peskiric SLO top #58 Tathiana Garbin ITA v #483 wc Mallory Cecil USA top #59 Maria Kirilenko RUS v q bottom #62 Urszula Radwanska POL v #72 Kristina Barrois GER top #64 Olga Govortsova BLR v #71 Sania Mirza IND bottom #65 Julie Coin FRA v q top #70 Timea Bacsinszky SUI v q bottom #74 Jill Craybas USA v q bottom #75 Anna Chakvetadze RUS v q bottom #76 Monica Niculescu ROU v q top #77 Stefanie Voegele SUI v #85 Alberta Brianti ITA bottom #79 Viktoriya Kutuzova UKR v #NR wc Kim Clijsters BEL bottom #81 Polona Hercog SLO v #380 wc Christina McHale USA top #83 Jelena Dokic AUS v #92 Kirsten Flipkens BEL bottom #88 Anastasiya Yakimova BLR v #124 wc Vania King USA bottom #89 Tamarine Tanasugarn THA v #95 Anastasija Sevastova LAT top #94 Mathilde Johansson FRA v #109 Michelle Larcher de Brito POR bottom #97 Severine Bremond Beltrame FRA v q top #101 Lourdes Dominguez Lino ESP v q top #113 Stephanie Dubois CAN v #302 wc Kristina Mladenovic FRA top q v q bottom US Open, 2nd Rd Wed-Thu Sep 2-3 11am loser's prize: $31,000; points: 100 US Open, 3rd Rd Fri-Sat Sep 4-5 11am loser's prize: $48,000; points: 160 US Open, 4th Rd, Sun-Mon Sep 6-7 11am loser's prize: $85,000; points: 280 US Open, QFs, Tues-Wed Sep 8-9 11am loser's prize: $175,000; points: 500 US Open, SFs, Fri Sep 11 CBS-TV 1:30 & 3:30pm loser's prize: $350,000; points: 900 US Open, Final, Sat Sep 12 7pm CBS-TV loser's prize: $800,000; points: 1400 winner's prize: $1,600,000; points: 2000 US Open, Doubles Final, Sun Sep 13 loser's prize: $210,000 winner's prize: $420,000 US Open, Mixed Doubles Final, Thu Sep 10 loser's prize: $70,000 winner's prize: $150,000 US Open, Girls Singles Final, Sun Sept 13 US Open, Girls Doubles Final, Sat Sept 12 US Open, Qualifying Finals Fri Aug 28 11am-rain-Sat Aug 29 2pm losers' prizes: q1 $3,000 2pts; q2 $5,625 40pts; q3 $8,000 50pts; qualifier 60 points Friday Q Finals: rain delayed start of play, then rain stopped play #102 Elena Baltacha GBR v #138 Anastasia Rodionova AUS 6-4, 0-0 ppd-Sat #106 Angelique Kerber GER d #149 Chanelle Scheepers RSA 6-1, 6(5)-7, 7-6(9) Fri-rain-Sat *#164 Monique Adamczak AUS d #107 Yung-Jan Chan TPE 6-4, 6-4 Fri-rain-Sat *#131 Shenay Perry USA d #111 Pauline Parmentier FRA 6-4, 6-4 Fri #114 Arantxa Parra Santonja ESP v #125 Vesna Manasieva RUS 6(4)-7, 0-0 ppd-Sat #116 B Zahlavova Strycova CZE d #139 M Duque Marino COL 6-4, 4-6, 7-6(4) Fri-rain-Sat *#127 Mariya Koryttseva UKR d #117 Klara Zakopalova CZE 6-0, 6-4 ppd-Sat #120 Julia Schruff GER v Camille Pin FRA ppd-Sat c8 m3 #121 Yvonne Meusburger AUT v #146 Anna Lapushchenkova RUS 1-0 ppd-Sat #132 Carly Gullickson USA d #229 Bojana Jovanovski SRB 7-5, 6-2 Fri-rain-Sat #134 Angela Haynes USA v #161 Valerie Tetreault CAN 4-6, 4-3 ppd-Sat #137 Petra Martic CRO v #211 Ksenia Lykina RUS 1-0 ppd-Sat #140 Marta Domachowska POL d #193 Anastasia Pivovarova RUS 6-2, 6-1 Fri *#212 Kai-Chen Chang TPE d #148 Sofia Arvidsson SWE 7-5, 6-1 ppd-Sat *#170 Yurika Sema JPN d #168 Anna Tatishvili GEO 4-6, 6-4, 6-2 Fri-rain-Sat #203 Eva Hrdinova CZE d #460 Laura Robson GBR 7-6(6), 4-6, 7-6(4) Fri-rain-Sat US Open, Withdrawals/Non-entries #16 Dominika Cibulkova SVK right rib injury #57 Anne Keothavong GBR tore left knee ligaments at Stanford; out for the year #87 Tamira Paszek AUT #NR Nathalie Dechy FRA retired     Another classic US Open full match video has been added to the video player below (and accessible from any page on this site with a video player). The match is the 1979 US Open final, Tracy Austin d Chris Evert, 6-4, 6-3. First select the category "Sports: WTA Classics" and choose then the match you wish to see. Enjoy. Finetune streaming music player popup:  18 playlists, 45+ full tracks each, 1300+ tracks total, free music, no registration, no commercials, no gimmicks.   WTA Aug 17-23: Toronto Toronto: #49 Maria Sharapova 6' 2" 130lb RH 2H-BH Toronto: #4 Elena Dementieva 5'11" 141lb RH 2H-BH Toronto: 14th WTA Singles Title Rogers Cup, Toronto, CAN PREMIER 5 $2,000,000 56m/48q/16d outdoor: hard Live Scores | draws: WTA - tourney | interviews | photos: Y!: sports - news | WTA     On Sunday in Toronto, in the final of the Rogers Cup (aka the Canadian Open), 27-year-old 4th-seeded #4 Elena Dementieva of Russia (residence: Monte Carlo, Monaco), defeated 22-year-old #49 (and former #1, working her way back up the rankings after a prolonged shoulder injury) Maria Sharapova of Russia (residences: Manhattan Beach, California and Bradenton, Florida), 6-4, 6-3 (both ladies are shown during the match, and Elena with the "transparent racket" trophy afterward).     Elena's prize is $350,000; Maria's is $175,000—and her performance raised Maria's WTA ranking to #30, which means she will be seeded at this year's US Open (Aug 31).     The two sets lasted over two hours. Both players served just one ace; Maria committed 10 double faults, Elena, 7. Maria converted only 3 of 7 break point opportunities against Elena; Elena scored on 5 of 15 break points against Maria.     Elena said: "This kind of win gives you a lot of confidence, so right now it's all about recovering and getting ready for New York... I really like to play this tournament, but I've never done anything better than first or second round, which was very disappointing for me. Every time I come I have such great crowd support. I just feel so happy to finally win this title. It means a lot to me." AP story     It was the first final Maria has reached since returning to play in May after a long injury layoff. Maria said: "I think it was a really great week for me. Playing six matches was great leading up to the U.S. Open. I think this was really good preparation."     Maria leads still Elena 8-3 in career matches, and won their previous two meetings: on a hardcourt in the Los Angeles quarterfinals in 2007, 6-3, 6-4, and in the 4th round of the 2008 Australian Open, 6-2, 6-0. Elena's last win over Maria had been in 2006, in the semis in LA, 7-5, 6-2.     2008 Olympic gold medalist Elena is now 14-14 in WTA singles finals; she won the Auckland and Sydney titles earlier this year. Elena has a 50-13 match record in 2009.     2004 Wimbledon, 2006 US Open, and 2008 Australian Open champion Maria is now 19-8 in WTA singles finals. Due to right shoulder rotator cuff tendon tears, she played only one match (a doubles match) between August, 2008, and May, 2009. She says that her shoulder has now completely healed, and her results seem to indicate that it has. Maria has a 22-7 match record this season. tennis.quickfound.net tourney page: Toronto   WTA Aug 10-16: Cincinnati Cincinnati: #5 Jelena Jankovic 5'9½" 130lb RH 2H-BH Cincinnati: 11th WTA Singles Title W&S Financial Open Cincinnati, OH PREMIER 5 $2,000,000 outdoor: hard Live Scores - draws: WTA S - Q - D - OOP - tourney draws & OOP pics: Y!: sports - news WSF - news CO | WTA | interviews | Sports: Enquirer     On Sunday in Cincinnati, in the final of the Western & Southern Financial Group Open, 24-year-old 5th-seeded #5 Jelena Jankovic from Belgrade, Serbia, defeated this year's champion in Madrid, 23-year-old top-seeded # 1 Dinara Safina (residence: Monte Carlo, Monaco), 6-4, 6-2 (Jelena is shown during the match, and with the glassware afterward). Jelena's prize is $350,000; Dinara's is $175,000. tennis.quickfound.net tourney page: Cincinnati   WTA Aug 3-9: Los Angeles Los Angeles: #20 Samantha Stosur 5'7¾" 143lb, RH 2H-BH Los Angeles: #15 Flavia Pennetta 5'7¾" 128lb, RH 2H-BH LA Women's Tennis Champ's PREMIER 700 $700,000 56m/32q/16d outdoor: hard Live Scores draws: WTA - tourney draws: S - Q - D | photos: Y!: sports - news | WTA     On Sunday in the Los Angeles suburb of Carson, California, in the final of the LA Women's Tennis Championships, 27-year-old 10th-seeded # 15 Flavia Pennetta of Italy (residence: Verbier, Switzerland), won the biggest title of her career by defeating 25-year-old 13th-seeded # 20 Samantha Stosur from Gold Coast, Australia, 6-4, 6-3 (Samantha is shown during the match; Flavia with the glassware afterward). Flavia's prize is $107,000; Samantha's prize is $55,500. tennis.quickfound.net tourney page: Los Angeles   WTA June 22-July 5 Wimbledon Wimbledon: #2 Serena Williams 5'9" 135lb RH 2H-BH Wimbledon: #3 Venus Williams 6'1" 160lb RH 2H-BH Wimbledon: 3rd Wimbledon Title 11th GS Singles Title The Championships Wimbledon, GBR Grand Slam Prize$: £11,812,000 (all events) 128 players - outdoor: grass matches: statistics - Live Scores - OOP - results draws: W sing, pdf - mix doub - women's: qualif. - singles - doub pics: Y! sport - news - UK - WTA | free intv & hlite videos - wallpaper click for 2009 Wimbledon tourney page, with quotes & 198+ choice photos, cropped & enhanced       Williams' Arena: On Saturday in London, in the final of The Championships at Wimbledon, the 2002 & '03 champ, 27-year-old 2nd-seeded #2 Serena Williams from Palm Beach Gardens, FL, won a third time by defeating her older sister, the 2000, '01, '05 '07 & 0 champ, 28-year-old 3rd-seeded #3 Venus Williams, 7-6(3), 6-2 (photo shown). tennis.quickfound.net tourney page: 2009 Wimbledon   WTA: May 24-Jun 7   French Open Roland Garros: #7 Svetlana Kuznetsova 5' 8½" 161lb RH 2H-BH Roland Garros: #1 Dinara Safina 5'11½" 154½lb RH 2H-BH Roland Garros: 2nd Grand Slam Title 11th WTA Singles Title French Open Roland Garros, FRA Grand Slam outdoor: red clay - results - stats draws: all WTA, pdf - xd - women's: qual - singles - doub   men's: qual - singles - doub photos: Y! sports   Y! news - Y! 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Serena's prize is $1,500,000; Jelena's is $750,000. tennis.quickfound.net tourney page: US Open

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Sports tennis photo gallery to find them, or, alternatively, search for a player profile at Yahoo! Sports, then click on the "Photos" link at their profile page, to get the pics. Only the AFP pics are extra large, and not all of them.     The Tennis.com Photo Gallery, new in 2006, displays mostly the same AP photos as ESPN, with the same quality and size (512 px max), and is, unfortunately, not searchable. Yahoos! of other nations sometimes include photos not shown on US Yahoo! Also, the UK Yahoo! includes some photos (from the EMPICS agency) that are over 30 days old, unlike the other Yahoos!. The Yahoo links below are category links, instead of keyword links, so if you just want to see all tennis photos click on the links instead of using the search form. Search Yahoo! UK Tennis Photos: find this: Search Yahoo! France Tennis Photos: find this: Int'l Yahoo! Tennis Photos: ARG - AUS-NZ - BRA - ESP - GER IND - ITA - JAP - MEX - SGP CBS Sportsline: Tennis News Photos carries tennis news photos from Getty Images that are not available from Yahoo! or ESPN, plus the same AP pics. The pics are usually larger and sharper than Yahoo US, but smaller than ESPN's. Unfortunately, the Sportsline photo gallery is not searchable, and the photos sometimes on their server for less than one day. BBC Tennis News Photos are in a slide-show format, a bit small, and do not link to larger versions. Archived WTA Player Photos: The QuickFound.net Photo Search page has direct entries for 9 online photo search engines, including Google, Yahoo, FAST, AltaVista, and Lycos, all on one page. MFW Web Tennis displays oncourt player photos and quicktime animations attributed to specific tourneys and matches. wtennisphotos.com displays player photos by Jean-Sebastien Marceau. WTA Tour Offcourt Photo Gallery "SE-WTATour" Photostream at Flickr "tlaenPix" Photostream at Flickr Womens Tennis Photos Andre Jahnke's WTA Photos WTN Photos Inside Tennis Photos by Fans Sportal.au Tennis Photo Galleries Sporting-Heroes.net has 550 large photos of WTA & ATP players, including many of players of the 70s & 80s that are difficult to find online. Current Tennis TV Listings: • Tennis One: Tennis TV This Month • ESPN & ESPN2: Tennis Today • Tennis.com: TV Schedule • The Tennis Channel: Schedule • Sky Sports: Live Tennis • TV Guide   Sports Sites' Tennis News Pages: CNN-Sports Illustrated: Tennis covers tennis with AP (and sometimes Reuters) stories. Occasionally the stories have a mid-size photo or two, but not as many as they used to, and the pics are no longer linked to large versions. BBC Sport: Tennis reduced the length of most stories in 2005. They often have small photos, but never large ones. They also have an online Tennis Academy. CBS Sportsline.com: Tennis coverage is basically AP, but you have to find photos on a separate page (listed above). ESPN: Tennis is basically AP; they have improved their layout & navigation.   Tennis-Specific Sites: ATP player profiles search: enter last name: find more ATP links in the page top menu Tennis.com did a complete makeover of their website in 2005--and did it again in 2006--and Chrissie forgot to call and tell me the URLs had changed both times. The site has statistics, feature stories, results, events information, and hundreds of excellent tennis instruction articles and tips from the publishers of Tennis Magazine.     You can search the very useful feature article, "Your Game" instruction, and message board forum sections of the Tennis.com website with this form. Try to be specific--if you simply search for "backhand" you will get countless results, all the articles in which the word "backhand" is used. find this:   in: articles instruction forums   TennisForm.com is "the definitive online information source for serious tennis bettors." Jiro's Tennis Page, which focuses on Thai players, has much useful general WTA & ATP info, including main draw entry lists for many WTA, ATP, and ITF tourneys. Pro Tennis Fan is a blog site covering both the WTA & ATP, with good player-specific weblogs for many WTA players. Peter Bodo's Tennis World Blog Bob Larson's Tennis News Tennis Live is an all-tennis sports talk radio show. Tennis-Pool.com is a 100% free online fantasy tennis game, where you can pick and operate your own teams of WTA & ATP players. String Forum has a database of info on over 1400 tennis racket strings. Racquet Research although not recently updated, has good pages such as "Introduction to Racquet Science," and racquet selection help. Operation Doubles: Tennis Doubles Strategy and Tactics covers the three basic doubles formations/strategies, position, switching, poaching, and much more. Go Tennis requires free registration, but they are loaded with tennis news and info. Tennis Week has a very large home page (long load), but has match summaries (and an archive of them) you might not find elsewhere. Tenniscom.com is a comprehensive tennis site for Spanish readers. College Tennis Online has current collegiate scores, news, and features. College and Junior Tennis adds scores, news and info from and about Junior tournaments. JuniorTennis.com features up-to-date coverage of juniors tourneys, plus extensive junior players info and photos.   WTA Player-Specific Sites: Martina Hingis & Anna Kournikova have their own subdomains at quickfound.net. DSafina.com official DinaraSafina.com SerenaWilliams.com official Elena Dementieva official jj-jelenajankovic.com official JelenaJankovic.net ElevenByVenus.com official Zvonareva.ru official Ana Ivanovic official VikaAzarenkaTennis.com official CarolineWozniacki.dk official MariaSharapova.com official MariaWorld (Sharapova- 4700+ photos) Sharapova Masha (good bio info) Kuznetsova Fanpage Patty-Schnyder.ch official, in German DanielaHantuchova.com official Anna Chakvetadze official Anna's World (Chakvetadze) alize-cornet.com official en.Nadia-Petrova.ru official Maria Kirilenko official Agnes Szavay official - in Hungarian NicoleVaidisova.com Golovin Attitude Tatiana-Golovin.net Ashley-Harkleroad.com K-lina.com (Karolina Sprem) Mary-Pierce.org Jelena-Dokic.com Anastasia-Myskina.com Myskina.ru official, in Russian Jennifer Capriati Monica-Seles.com KimClijsters.be official 100% Justine Henin official Justine-Henin.net (many photos)   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     If you are a coffee fan like Patty Schnyder (see her Cincinnati player's blog), then you might enjoy the eighteen classic New York Times & Los Angeles Times coffee & tea articles from 1854 to 1916 at coffee.quickfound.net.     If you are a chocolate fan like Kim Clijsters (see her Hasselt player's blog), then you might enjoy the sixteen classic New York Times & Los Angeles Times chocolate, cocoa, sugar, candy & snack articles from 1891 to 1920 at chocolate.quickfound.net.     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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Monica in Newport, July 11

(July 11, 2009) Former WTA # 1 Monica Seles was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame today. ESPN story     35-year-old Monica formally announced her retirement from pro tennis in 2008. Monica had a 595-122 won-lost record in singles, and won 53 WTA singles titles, 6 WTA doubles titles, and $14,891,762 in prize money.     Despite a 2-year gap in her career (after she was stabbed in the back by a fan in Germany in 1993), Monica won 9 Grand Slam singles titles, beginning with the 1990 French Open, and ending with the 1996 Australian Open.     Monica was still ranked in the top 10 in 2003 when she was forced to stop playing by a left foot stress fracture which never healed properly (the same type of injury that led the chronic back pain which prevents Anna Kournikova from playing). 1996 book excerpt: Monica, by Monica Seles

    (May 6, 2009) The London Daily Mail on Tuesday published excerpts from a recent interview with former WTA # 1 Justine Henin. Although she has no intention of returning to the WTA Tour, Justine said: "‘I’m going to start to play again because I’ve planned a few exhibitions for the end of the year. I didn’t hit at all in the past few months. I had surgery on my right knee, so I’ve been off for a few months now. So I’m going to start a little bit—not because I want to, but just to keep the contact with the ball, and be okay when I’m on court for the exhibitions."
    About her compatriot Kim Clijsters plans to return to WTA play later this year, Justine said: "If she feels she has to do it, then it’s the right decision... I wish her the best, for sure. It’s tough but she has the courage and the personality." London Daily Mail story

    (Mar 26, 2009) Retired former WTA # 1 Kim Clijsters announced today that she will return to the WTA Tour in August. 2005 US Open champion Kim has requested (and will receive) wild cards for this Summer's hardcourt tourneys in Cincinnati and Toronto, and for the 2009 US Open. Kim had previously scheduled exhibition matches against Steffi Graf (May 17 at Wimbledon) and Michaella Krajicek (June 14 during the Ordina Open), and will also play 2 dates of World Team Tennis. Kim retired two years ago, citing primarily that she was tired of the frequent injuries she incurred on the WTA Tour.

    Kim said: "I have missed playing tournaments most. I am doing it for the challenge. I have been training for 11 or 12 weeks. Training harder than ever before. Then this drive came back...
    "When I started preparing for the Wimbledon game with Steffi Graf I felt this drive. I wanted a new challenge. This is just for fun for now to see if I can do it. I don't need to be number one again. I have done that and I don't need to do it again. I am just going to see how things evolve...
    "I train six days a week, half of which is building up stamina and physique. I am really looking at (my) weak points to prevent injuries." AP story - Reuters story

    (Mar 25, 2009) Women's Tennis Association CEO Larry Scott is leaving the WTA in June, after six years of running the organization. Scott will become Pac-10 Conference commissioner on July 1. A successor has not yet been named. AP story

    (Mar 2, 2009) YouTube video: Maria Sharapova practicing at Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy, Bradenton, Florida, on Monday, Mar 2, 2009. Maria is reportedly flying from Florida to California (where she will hopefully be ready to compete in the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells) on Saturday, March 7. See more videos from Bollettieri's, including Jelena Jankovic & Nicole Vaidisova, in the "WTA Video" selector above on this page. These videos are from Jola Walczuk-Haschek of Best Sports Vacations.

    (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.


    (Dec 14, 2008) Former WTA # 12 Tatiana Golovin will not play in the 2009 Australian Open due to ongoing back pain and inflammation at the "sacrospinalis-iliac crest".
    In the French magazine L'Equipe in November, 2008, Tatiana said: "As I haven’t played for almost one year, it is easy to say : 'Golovin is going to retire.' I can tell you now that it is not the case. I still have pain in my back, I don’t practice, but I am still totally hopeful to play again soon. It will be in a few weeks, months or even in one year, but my career is not over."
    Tatiana had surgery on March 12, 2008 to remove a cyst that was causing pain. While the doctors had the hood open, they decided to remove her appendix as well, just to be on the safe side. Tatiana hoped to be playing again by the French Open. Tatiana played one complete match at the German Open, then withdrew, one by one, from each subsequent tourney, as she never quite reached playable condition. golovin-attitude.com

    (Oct 2, 2008) Former WTA # 1 Maria Sharapova is out for the rest of the season due to a torn right shoulder rotator cuff tendon. On her website, Maria said: "I've been progressing really well, but the recovery is taking a lot longer than I had selfishly planned. Therefore, my team and I decided to `shut it down' for the season."
    On August 1 Maria withdrew from the 2008 US Open as well as from the Beijing Olympics due to the injury. Maria had been unknowingly playing with the tendon torn since April.
    Maria had withdrawn from the Rogers Cup in Montreal on July 30 after aggravating the ongoing right shoulder injury while defeating # 58 Marta Domachowska, 7-5, 5-7, 6-2.

    Maria had an MRI scan on Thursday, July 31, which disclosed two small tendon tears in her shoulder. On her official website on Friday, Aug 1, Maria said: "Well my 24 hour medical tour came to an end yesterday after I met [in New York] with Dr. David Altchek who is the premier shoulder doctor in the world. He looked at all my tests from April and today and informed me that I have been playing with a moderate tear in my rotator cuff tendon since April. He actually couldn't believe that I've been playing this long with this injury. You can imagine that I was not very thrilled to hear that my medical team did not see this tear in my shoulder back in April.
    "The good news is that it didn't get much worse since April but we could have started the healing time back then instead of now. He does not believe that I need surgery and is sending me to work with a specialist in Arizona next week to do extensive rehab and strength work and he believes that I should be ready to play in 2-3 months."

    Maria has struggled with right shoulder problems for over three years. In a newsletter from her website dated July 29, Maria said: "[After Wimbledon] I spent many hours of each day working with Prince on different rackets and string. Ever since Indian Wells and that backhand incident, I haven't been able to get my arm up and close to my head without some sort of impingement and grinding... so I've been trying different rackets with different weight balances that are a bit more flexible and the strings looser to get as much tension away from my arm as possible.
    "So for the last week I have been playing with a new frame...I'm usually very sensitive to any minor changes and we usually do this in the off season, but we really had no choice this time. Apart from that I spent a good ten or so days concentrating on my fitness and in the last week been playing a few practice matches etc."

    (Aug 28, 2006 updated 1/2007) # 4 Maria Sharapova has signed a new racquet endorsement contract with Prince which will pay her around $25 million dollars over the next 10 years. Maria's previous deal with Prince, a five-year contract, was signed when she was 14 years old, and due to expire. Maria currently uses Prince's O³ White model. The deal includes a base pay, plus incentives for high rankings and tournament performance.
    Maria also has 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.

    (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.

    (Jan 6, 2004 revised) Wimbledon will have a new retractable roof for Centre Court in place in 2009, officials announced. Construction will begin after The Championships in July, 2006. The 2007 Championships will be played with no roof at all (the current partial roof removed), a new fixed partial roof will be in place in 2008, and the retractable roof completed in 2009. The roof will take 10 minutes to deploy, so Centre Court rain delays of up to 30 minutes will still be possible, but the roof is being installed to assure TV networks of almost continuous coverage, even if it rains. The arena's capacity will also be increased from 13,800 to 15,000.
    AELTC Long-Term Plan - original BBC story.

2004 Wimbledon, 2006 US Open, and 2008 Australian Open champion Maria Sharapova of Russia is featured in the 2006 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition, which hit newsstands on Feb 14. Click on the photo to see the SI Swimsuit pages online, including 22 pics of Maria looking very nice.