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click for 2012 French Open tourney page: 44 choice photos cropped & enhanced, 8 quotes...       On Monday at Roland Garros, in the 1st round of the 2012 French Open, this year's champ at Indian Wells and the Australian Open, 21 year old top seeded #1 Victoria Azarenka of Belarus (residence: Monte Carlo, Monaco) defeated the 2011 champion in Fes, 32 year old #103 (career high: #55) Alberta Brianti of Italy, 6(6)-7, 6-4, 6-2 (photo shown)     Victoria struck 32 winners (including 1 ace) with 60 unforced errors (including 6 double faults) while scoring on 9 of the 17 break points she reached against Alberta and totaling 109 points in the match.     Alberta hit 18 winners (no aces) with 44 errors (2 DFs) while converting 6 of the 11 break points she reached against Victoria and totaling 92 points in the match. match stats     Victoria said: "Bad days happen. Unfortunately today I had way more mistakes than I usually do, but, you know, it happens sometimes. The first match, they're not easy. But in the end of the day I still won the match, I manage to go through those 60 mistakes and still win the match. I think that's pretty good statistics." postmatch interview     In the 2nd round on Wednesday, Vika will play qualifier #194 Dinah Pfizenmaier of Germany.     Also on Monday in Paris, the 2011 French Open champion, 30 year old 7th seeded #7 (career high: #4) Na Li from Wuhan, Hubei, China, defeated the 2008 Tashkent champion (and a 2009 French Open quarterfinalist), 22 year old #41 (career high: #23) Sorana Cirstea from Targoviste, Romania, 6-2, 6-1 (photo shown)     In the 2nd round on Thursday, Na will play the winner of Tuesday's match between the 2011 champ in Quebec City, 26 year old #59 (career high: #39) Barbora Zahlavova Strycova from Pilzen, Czech Republic, and 31 year old #86 (career high: #62) Stephanie Foretz Gacon from Chatillon, France. WTA Videos, YouTube Videos & Live Streaming Video     ▼ LOAD LIVE TV Quickfound.net's YouTube channel features documentary, educational & training films which have been improved with both audio and video noise reduction.     In addition to WTA videos, use the drop-down selectors for the player above, or on any page that has one (such as TV News, Search & Links) to watch other sports playlists such as 2011 Tour de France or LPGA Tourney Highlights, movies such as The Scarlet Empress, cartoons such as Looney Tunes, and much more.   Free Live Video Stream Links   load below:   FirstRowSports - Live Score Hunter Finetune streaming music player popup:  18 playlists, 45+ full tracks each, 1300+ tracks total, free music, no registration, no gimmicks. WTA SCOREBOARD: French Open     ranks are for the previous week s=seed, #=rank, *=upset, LL=lucky loser     How do players get into the "draw"? French Open, 1st Round Sun-Tue May 27-29 11am loser's prize: €16,000 = US $20,331 ; points: 5 n1 s1 Victoria Azarenka BLR d n103 Alberta Brianti ITA 6(6)-7, 6-4, 6-2 Mon n2 s2 Maria Sharapova RUS d n75 Alexandra Cadantu ROU 6-0, 6-0 Tue n3 s3 Agnieszka Radwanska POL d n111 Bojana Jovanovski SRB 6-1, 6-0 Mon n4 s4 Petra Kvitova CZE d n330 wc Ashleigh Barty AUS 6-1, 6-2 Tue *n115 Virginie Razzano FRA d n5 s5 Serena Williams USA 4-6, 7-6(5), 6-3 Tue n6 s6 Samantha Stosur AUS d n67 Elena Baltacha GBR 6-4, 6-0 Sun n7 s7 Na Li CHN d n41 Sorana Cirstea ROU 6-2, 6-1 Mon n8 s8 Marion Bartoli FRA d n121 q Karolína Plískova CZE 6-3, 6-3 Mon n9 s9 Caroline Wozniacki DEN d n68 Eleni Daniilidou GRE 6-0, 6-1 Tue n10 s10 Angelique Kerber GER d n167 q Shuai Zhang CHN 6-3, 6-4 Sun *n171 Bethanie Mattek-Sands USA d n12 s12 Sabine Lisicki GER 6-4, 6-3 Mon n13 s13 Ana Ivanovic SRB d n134 q Lara Arruabarrena Vecino ESP 6-1, 6-1 Sun n14 s14 Francesca Schiavone ITA d n73 Kimiko Date-Krumm JPN 6-3, 6-1 Tue n16 s15 Dominika Cibulkova SVK d n158 wc Kristina Mladenovic FRA 6-2, 6-1 Mon n17 s16 Maria Kirilenko RUS d n175 wc Victoria Larriere FRA 6-1, 6-2 Tue *n62 Sofia Arvidsson SWE d n19 s17 Roberta Vinci ITA 6-2, 4-6, 6-3 Mon n20 s18 Flavia Pennetta ITA d n64 Su-Wei Hsieh TPE 6(3)-7, 6-4, 6-2 Mon n21 s19 Jelena Jankovic SRB d n82 Patricia Mayr-Achleitner AUT 1-6, 6-1, 7-5 Mon n22 s20 Lucie Safarova CZE d n99 Anastasiya Yakimova BLR 6-2, 6-0 Sun n23 s21 Sara Errani ITA d n107 Casey Dellacqua AUS 4-6, 6-2, 6-2 Sun n24 s22 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova RUS d n104 Greta Arn HUN 6-4, 6-4 Tue n25 s23 Kaia Kanepi EST d n77 Alexandra Panova RUS 6-3, 6-3 Tue n26 s24 Petra Cetkovska CZE d n49 Simona Halep ROU 6-1, 6-3 Mon n27 s25 Julia Goerges GER d n60 Lucie Hradecka CZE 7-6(1), 6-4 Tue n28 s26 Svetlana Kuznetsova RUS d n119 Mirjana Lucic CRO 6-1, 6-3 Sun n29 s27 Nadia Petrova RUS d n51 Iveta Benesova CZE 6-3, 6-3 Mon n30 s28 Shuai Peng CHN v n55 Tamira Paszek AUT 6-4, 0-1 Tue n31 s29 Anabel Medina Garrigues ESP d n126 LL Laura Robson GBR 6-2, 6-1 Mon *n169 q Lauren Davis USA d n32 s30 Mona Barthel GER 6-1, 6-1 Mon n33 s31 Jie Zheng CHN d n83 Alize Cornet FRA 6-4, 6-4 Mon *n108 Nina Bratchikova RUS d n34 s32 Monica Niculescu ROU 0-6, 6-3, 6-3 Mon n35 Christina McHale USA d n89 q Kiki Bertens NED 2-6, 6-4, 6-4 Mon *n46 Tsvetana Pironkova BUL d n36 Yanina Wickmayer BEL 3-6, 6-0, 6-3 Tue *n79 Sloane Stephens USA d n37 Ekaterina Makarova RUS 6-4, 7-6(6) Mon *n88 Ayumi Morita JPN d n38 Polona Hercog SLO 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 Tue *n61 Varvara Lepchenko USA d n39 Ksenia Pervak KAZ 6-2, 6(6)-7, 6-4 Mon *n93 Lourdes Domínguez Lino ESP d n40 Marina Erakovic NZL 7-5, 7-5 Tue n42 Klara Zakopalova CZE d n105 Lesia Tsurenko UKR 6-2, 6-1 Tue n43 Carla Suarez Navarro ESP d n96 Tamarine Tanasugarn THA 6-0, 6-3 Mon n45 Chanelle Scheepers RSA d n95 Laura Pous Tio ESP 6-4, 2-6, 6-1 Mon n47 MJ Martínez Sanchez ESP d n110 q Eva Birnerova CZE 4-6, 6-4, 8-6 Sun *n56 Vania King USA d n48 Galina Voskoboeva KAZ 6-4, 6-2 Mon n50 Petra Martic CRO d n71 Michaella Krajicek NED 6-2, 7-5 Mon n52 Venus Williams USA d n122 Paula Ormaechea ARG 4-6, 6-1, 6-3 Sun n53 Shahar Peer ISR d n98 Stephanie Dubois CAN 6-2, 6-2 Sun n57 Aleksandra Wozniak CAN d n183 q Heidi El Tabakh CAN 7-5, 6-2 Sun n58 Irina-Camelia Begu ROU d n130 wc Aravane Rezai FRA 7-5, 5-7, 6-2 Tue *n86 Stephanie Foretz Gacon FRA d n59 B Zahlavova Strycova CZE 6-3, 7-5 Mon *n151 q Yung-Jan Chan TPE d n63 Kateryna Bondarenko UKR 6-1, 7-6(8) Mon *n90 Urszula Radwanska POL d n66 Pauline Parmentier FRA 6-4, 6-3 Tue *n74 Olga Govortsova BLR d n69 Romina Oprandi SUI 6-4, 6-1 Mon n70 Jarmila Gajdosova AUS d n106 Magdalena Rybarikova SVK 6-3, 4-1 retired Tue *n190 q Alexa Glatch USA d n72 Anna Tatishvili GEO 6-3 5-7 6-4 Sun *n116 Melinda Czink HUN d n76 Anne Keothavong GBR 6-1, 6-2 Tue *n145 wc Claire Feuerstein FRA d n78 Vera Dushevina RUS 6-4, 6-1 Mon *n109 q Heather Watson GBR d n80 Elena Vesnina RUS 6-2, 6-4 Tue *n266 wc Melanie Oudin USA d n81 Johanna Larsson SWE 6-3, 6-3 Sun *n142 q Yaroslava Shvedova KAZ d n84 Mandy Minella LUX 6-3, 6-4 Mon *n114 Irina Falconi USA d n85 Edina Gallovits-Hall ROU 3-6, 6-3, 6-1 Sun *n97 Arantxa Rus NED d n87 Jamie Hampton USA 6-4, 4-3 retired Tue n92 Mathilde Johansson FRA d n101 Anastasia Rodionova AUS 5-7, 7-6(6), 6-4 Sun *n189 wc Irena Pavlovic FRA d n102 Kai-Chen Chang TPE 6-4, 7-5 Sun *n125 LL Sesil Karatantcheva KAZ d n65 Timea Babos HUN 6-1, 6-0 Mon *n194 q Dinah Pfizenmaier GER d n135 wc Caroline Garcia FRA 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 Sun French Open, 2nd Rd Wed-Thu May 30-31 11am loser's prize: €28,000 = US $35,579; points: 100 French Open, 3rd Rd Fri-Sat June 1-2 11am loser's prize: €47,000 = US $59,721 ; points: 160 French Open, 4th Rd Sun-Mon June 3-4 11am loser's prize: €80,000 = US $101,654 ; points: 280 French Open, QFs, Tue-Wed Jun 5-6 2pm loser's prize: €155,000 = US $196,954 ; points: 500 French Open, SFs, Thu Jun 7 2pm loser's prize: €310,000 = US $393,907 ; points: 900 French Open, Final, Sat Jun 9 3pm (9am EDT 6am PDT NBC-TV) loser's prize: €600,000 = US $794,168 ; points: 1400 winner's prize: €1,250,000 = US $1,588,336 ; pts: 2000 French Open, Doubles Final, Fri Jun 8 3pm losers' prize: €170,000 = US $216,014 winners' prize: €340,000 = US $432,027 French Open, Mixed Doubles Final, Thu Jun 7 losers' prize: €50,000 = US $63,533 winners' prize: €100,000 = US $127,067 French Open, Legends Doubles Final, Sun Jun 10 French Open, Girls Singles Final, Sun Jun 10 c2 m2 French Open, Girls Doubles Final, Sat Jun 9 noon c2 French Open, Qualifying Finals Fri May 25 10am Q-1 losers: €2,500 = US $3,177 ; 2pts   Q-2 losers: €4,000 = US $5,718; 40pts   Q-Fin losers: €8,000 = US $11,436; 50pts;   qualifier: 60pts n89 Kiki Bertens NED d n208 Madalina Gojnea ROU 6-2, 6-1 n109 Heather Watson GBR d n187 Anna Floris ITA 6-0, 6-1 n110 Eva Birnerova CZE d n173 Sandra Zaniewska POL 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 n134 Lara Arruabarrena Vecino ESP d n120 G Muguruza Blanco ESP 6-0, 7-6(7) n121 Karolína Plískova CZE d n126 Laura Robson GBR 4-6, 7-5, 6-4 *n190 Alexa Glatch USA d n125 Sesil Karatantcheva KAZ 6-2, 6-4 *n169 Lauren Davis USA d n139 Julia Cohen USA 1-6, 6-4, 6-2 n142 Yaroslava Shvedova KAZ d n200 Elena Bogdan ROU 6-1, 6-1 *n183 Heidi El Tabakh CAN d n146 Camila Giorgi ITA 6(5)-7, 6-4, 6-2 n151 Yung-Jan Chan TPE d n191 Veronica Cepede Royg PAR 6-1, 6-2 *n167 Shuai Zhang CHN d n163 Tatjana Malek GER 7-6(6), 4-6, 6-4 n194 Dinah Pfizenmaier GER v n207 Monica Puig PUR 5-7, 7-5, 6-2 French Open, Withdrawals n11 s11 Vera Zvonereva RUS shoulder injury n15 Andrea Petkovic GER torn right ankle ligaments n18 Daniela Hantuchova SVK foot stress fracture n44 Kim Clijsters BEL hip muscle tear n54 Silvia Soler Espinosa ESP torn ankle ligament n112 Alexandra Dulgheru ROU recovering from surgery on both knees n436 sr47 Timea Bacsinszky SUI abdominal injury n1138 sr44 Agnes Szavay HUN   WTA May 21-26: Brussels & Strasbourg Brussels: #3 Agnieszka Radwanska 5'7" 139lb RH 2H-BH Strasbourg: #14 Francesca Schiavone 5' 5½" 141lb RH 1H-BH Brussels Ladies Open, BEL PREMIER $637,000 30m/32q/16d outdoor: red clay Live Scores | draws: WTA: Q - main - D | pics: DL - Y!: sports - news | WTA Internationaux de Strasbourg, FRA INTL $220,000 32m/32q/16d outdoor: red clay Live Scores | draws: WTA: Q - main - D | pics: DL - Y!: sports - news | WTA     On Saturday in Belgium, in the final of the Brussels Ladies Open, this year's champ at Miami and Dubai, 23 year old top seeded #3 (career high: #3) Agnieszka Radwanska from Krakow, Poland, defeated the 2011 Fès finalist, 20 year old #48 (career high: #40) Simona Halep from Constanta, Romania, 7-5, 6-0 (Aga is shown holding the hardware after the match).     Agnieszka's prize is $107,000; Simona's prize is $57,000.     Simona almost won the 1st set, serving for it at 5-4. Agnieszka said: "On clay I think I need longer to warm up, not just the five minutes before the match. At the end I won nine games in a row. It was a good comeback, I think. And it's always great to win a tournament. I'm happy to get some good preparation in ahead of the French Open." WTA story     Simona said: "I had some chances in the first set on my serve and I didn't take them. But it was my first Premier final and I'm really happy for it. I improved a lot this week and had some good wins against some tough players."     Simona and Agnieszka had met only once before, last year on a Plexicushion hardcourt in the 3rd round of the Australian Open, when Agnieszka defeated Simona 6-1, 6-2.     Agnieszka is now 10-2 in WTA singles finals, and she has won the last six finals she has reached. Aga has a 36-7 singles match record this season, with more match wins thus far than any other player in the WTA. Six of her losses were to #1 Victoria Azarenka, the other to Petra Cetkovska.     Simona is now 0-3 in WTA singles finals. She reached the Fes final in 2010, and again in 2011. Simona has a 21-13 singles match record in 2012.     Meanwhile in France, in the final of the Internationaux de Strasbourg, the 2010 French Open champion (and 2011 finalist), 31 year old 2nd seeded #14 (career high: #4) Francesca Schiavone from Milan, Italy, defeated the 2008 Budapest champion, 22 year old wild card #86 (career high: #11) Alizé Cornet from Nice, France, 6-4, 6-4 (Francesca is shown holding the glassware after the match).     Francesca's prize is $37,000; Alizé's prize is $19,000.     Francesca was 8-14 for the year before this week. Francesca said: "I haven't played my best for a while. When I go home and go out to dinner, people say I'm sad. I say, 'I keep losing first round. Should I be happy?' Now they are writing for me to keep going and winning more." WTA story     Alizé said: "Right now I'm disappointed, but Francesca was playing well the whole week, not even losing a set. And my tennis is improving and coming back again. It was only positives for me this week, and now I hope I can recover and have a good tournament at Roland Garros."     Francesca leads Alizé 8-1 in career matches and has won their last seven meetings. Their previous encounter was last year on a Plexipave hardcourt in the 2nd round at Indian Wells, when Francesca defeated Alizé 6-2, 6-3.     2010 French Open champion Francesca is now 5-11 in WTA singles finals; she reached nine finals before winning her first title at Bad Gastein in 2007. Francesca has a 13-14 singles match record in 2012.     Alizé is now 1-3 in WTA singles finals; this was her first final since 2008, when she won the title at Budapest and reached the finals at Acapulco and Rome. Alizé's singles match record this season is 25-15.     Final photos are up: The tennis.quickfound.net Brussels & Strasbourg tourney page holds 33 choice photos from this week's tourneys, cropped and enhanced, and 25 postmatch quotes, placed within the results for all rounds of the tourneys. WTA SCOREBOARD: Brussels & Strasbourg     ranks are for the previous week s=seed, #=rank, *=upset, LL=lucky loser     How do players get into the "draw"? Brussels, Final, Sat 3:30pm loser's prize: $57,000 US; points: 320 winner's prize: $107,000 US; points: 470 n3 s1 Agnieszka Radwanska POL d n48 Simona Halep ROU 7-5, 6-0 Brussels, Doubles Final, Sat 1pm losers' prize: $17,600 US winners' prize: $33,000 US s4 Sania Mirza & Bethanie Mattek-Sands     d s3 Jie Zheng & Alicja Rosolska 6-3, 6-2 Brussels, Withdrawals n11 s3 Angelique Kerber GER low back injury n19 s5 Roberta Vinci ITA right wrist injury n12 Andrea Petkovic GER torn right ankle ligaments n18 Daniela Hantuchova SVK foot stress fracture n24 Sara Errani ITA n28 Petra Cetkovska CZE left quadriceps injury n29 Julia Goerges GER   Strasbourg, Final, Sat 3pm loser's prize: $19,000 US; points: 200 winner's prize: $37,000 US; points: 280 n14 s2 Francesca Schiavone ITA d n86 wc Alize Cornet FRA 6-4, 6-4 Strasbourg, Doubles Final, Sat 12:30pm loser's prize: $5,750 US winner's prize: $11,000 US s2 Olga Govortsova & Klaudia Jans-Ignacik     d s1 Natalie Grandin & Vladimira Uhlirova 6(4)-7, 6-3, (10-3) Strasbourg, Withdrawals n42 s7 Klara Zakopalova CZE illness n51 Iveta Benesova CZE left shoulder injury n57 Barbora Zahlavova Strycova CZE illness n68 Romina Oprandi SUI right knee injury n71 Michaella Krajicek NED right knee surgery (cartilage) n79 Elena Vesnina RUS right wrist injury   WTA May 14-20: Rome Rome: #8 Na Li 5'7¾" 143lb RH 2H-BH Rome: #2 Maria Sharapova 6'2" 130lb RH 2H-BH Intl d' Italia Alice Cup Rome, ITA  PREMIER 5 $2,166,400 56m/32q/28d outdoor: red clay Live Scores | draws: WTA: Q - main - D | pics: DL - Y!: sports - news | WTA     On Sunday in Rome, in the final of the Internazionali d' Italia Alice Cup (aka the Italian Open), the 2011 Rome champion (and last month's champ at Stuttgart), 25 year old 2nd seeded #2 (and former #1) Maria Sharapova of Russia (residences: Manhattan Beach, CA & Bradenton, FL), defeated the 2011 French Open champion, 30 year old 8th seeded #8 (career high: #4) Na Li from Wuhan, Hubei, China, 4-6, 6-4, 7-6(5) (Na is shown during the match; Maria is shown with the hardware afterward).     Maria's prize is $385,000; Na's prize is $192,000.     The match was not cleanly played, apparently due to the inclement weather. Maria struck 20 winners with 59 unforced errors (including 10 double faults) while totaling 109 points in the match. Na hit 21 winners with 56 errors (5 DFs) and scored 110 points in the match.     After winning the 1st set, Na took a 4-0 lead in the 2nd. But Maria won 10 of the next 11 games to win the 2nd set, and take a 4-1 lead in the third.     Although it was raining quite hard in the 3rd set, both players wished to continue playing. Na recovered to reach 6-6, then play was suspended due to the rain. When the players returned to the court, Maria had regrouped and won the tiebreaker.     Maria said: "I don't mind rain. Actually I like it... Today the court was wet and slippery when we came back, but the umpire told us it was our decision, and both of us wanted to keep going...     "This is a great win for me going into Roland Garros. I know the level [Na] played there last year, and the level she can play on clay—the way she defends and moves around and gets herself back into position—she's just a great player on any surface really. So this gives me a lot of confidence." WTA story - postmatch interview     Na said: "Obviously it's tough to rest for two hours and then play again, but I still have many positive things from this match. Playing a tough match like that showed me I'm strong, and physically I felt great. I can take a lot of positive things away from this week and I think I'm ready for the French Open.     "We both had our chances today, but in the end [Maria] was just better." postmatch interview     Maria now leads Na 7-4 in career matches.. Their most recent meeting was in March on a Laykold hardcourt in the quarterfinals at Key Biscayne (Miami), when Maria defeated Na 6-3, 6-0.     2004 Wimbledon, 2006 US Open, and 2008 Australian Open champion Maria is now 26-16 in WTA singles finals; she won last month at Stuttgart and last year at Rome and Cincinnati. Maria had a 43-14 singles match record last season; she is 29-5 in 2012, losing only to Serena Williams, Victoria Azarenka (twice), Agnieszka Radwanska, and Angelique Kerber.     2011 French Open champion and Australian Open finalist Na is now 5-7 in WTA singles finals; she won at Sydney last year, at Birmingham in 2010, at Gold Coast in 2008, and at Guangzhou in 2004. Na had a 32-17 singles match record last year; she is 21-8 in 2012.     The tennis.quickfound.net Rome tourney page holds 69 choice photos from this week's tourney, cropped and enhanced, and 24 postmatch quotes, placed within the results for all rounds of the tourney.   WTA May 7-13: Madrid Madrid: #1 Victoria Azarenka 5'10" 132lb RH 2H-BH Madrid: #9 Serena Williams 5'9" 150lb RH 2H-BH Madrid Open Madrid, ESP PREMIER M €3,755,140 64m/32q/28d outdoor: BLUE clay Live Scores | draws: Q - main - D | pics: DL - Y!: sports - news | WTA     On Sunday in Spain, in the final of the Mutua Madrid Open, this year's green clay champion at Charleston, 30 year old 9th seeded #9 (and former #1) Serena Williams from Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, defeated last year's Madrid finalist (and this year's champ at Indian Wells and the Australian Open), 21 year old top seeded #1 Victoria Azarenka of Belarus (residence: Monte Carlo, Monaco), 6-1, 6-3 (Victoria is shown during the match; Serena is shown with the very odd Madrid hardware afterward). Serena's prize is €631,000; Vika's prize is €313,000.     The tennis.quickfound.net Madrid tourney page holds 71 choice photos from this week's tourney, cropped and enhanced, and 35 postmatch quotes, placed within the results for all rounds of the tourney.   WTA Apr 23-29: Stuttgart & Fès Stuttgart: #1 Victoria Azarenka 5'10" 132lb RH 2H-BH Stuttgart: #2 Maria Sharapova 400hp @7,400rpm, 0-60mph 4.4sec, 187 mph Porsche Tennis Grand Prix Stuttgart, GER PREMIER 700 $740,000 28m/32q/16d indoor: red clay Live Scores | draws: WTA: Q - main - D - OOP | pics: DL - Y!: sports - news | WTA GP SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem Fès, MAR INTL $220,000 32m/32q/16d outdoor: red clay Live Scores | draws: WTA: Q - main - D - OOP | pics: WTA     Unbreakable: On Sunday at Stuttgart, Germany, in the final of the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix, last year's champion at Rome and Cincinnati, 25 year old 2nd seeded #2 (and former #1) Maria Sharapova of Russia (residences: Manhattan Beach, CA & Bradenton, FL), defeated this year's champ at Indian Wells and the Australian Open), 21 year old top seeded #1 Victoria Azarenka of Belarus (residence: Monte Carlo, Monaco), 6-1, 6-4 (Victoria is shown during the match, and Maria with the roadware afterward). Maria's prize is $115,000 and a Porsche 911 Carrera S Cabriolet sports car valued at $108,000; Victoria's prize is $62,500.     On Saturday in Fès, Morocco, in the final of the Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem, 20 year old qualifier #152 Kiki Bertens of the Netherlands, won her first WTA title by defeating 27 year old unseeded #111 Laura Pous-Tio from Granollers, Spain, 7-5, 6-0. Kiki's prize is $37,000; Laura's prize is $19,000.     The tennis.quickfound.net Stuttgart & Fès tourney page holds 61 choice photos from this week's tourneys, cropped and enhanced, and 36 postmatch quotes, placed within the results for all rounds of the tourneys.   WTA Jan 16-28: Australian Open Melbourne: #4 Maria Sharapova 6'2" 130lb RH 2H-BH Melbourne: 1st Grand Slam Singles Title 10th WTA Singles Title Australian Open, Melbourne, AUS Grand Slam 128 players - outdoor: hard plexicushion draws: WS, .pdf - mixed doubles women's: qualif. - singles - doub pics: DL | Y!: sports - news | WTA | AO Video - Video Vault | post-match interviews click for 2012 AO tourney page, with 55 postmatch quotes & 230 choice photos, cropped & enhanced       On Saturday in Melbourne, Australia, in the final of the 2012 Australian Open, this year's champion at Sydney, 22 year old s3 #3 (career high: #3) Victoria Azarenka of Belarus (res: Monte Carlo, Monaco), defeated the 2011 Rome & Cincy (& 2008 AO) champ, 24 year old s4 #4 (former #1) Maria Sharapova of Russia (res: Manhattan Beach, CA & Bradenton, FL), 6-3, 6-0 (photos shown).     3-time Australian Open champion Martina Hingis presented the trophy. Victoria's prize is AUD$2,300,000; Maria's prize is AUD$1,150,000 (as of January 27, one Australian dollar equals 1.0653 US dollars).     Vika also earned the ranking points she needs to displace Caroline Wozniacki as #1 in Monday's WTA singles rankings. Petra Kvitova will be #2, Maria Sharapova #3, and Caroline #4. AP story     The tennis.quickfound.net 2012 Australian Open tourney page holds 230 choice photos from this year's Aussie Open, cropped and enhanced, and 55 postmatch quotes, placed within the results for all rounds of the tourney.   WTA Aug 29-Sept 11: US Open Flushing Meadows: #29 Serena Williams 5'9" 150lb RH 2H-BH Flushing Meadows: #10 Samantha Stosur 1st Grand Slam Singles Title US Open NYC Grand Slam $22,668,000 - 128 players | outdoor: hard Deco Turf Live Scores - OOP - results - stats | Draws: WS pdf - WTA - qualif - singles - doub pics: DL - Y!: sports - Y! news "US" - Y! news "U.S." | WTA | USO Radio click for 2011 US Open tourney page: 206 choice photos cropped & enhanced, 47 quotes...        On Sunday at Flushing Meadows, in the final of the 2011 US Open, this year's finalist at Rome and Toronto, 27 year old 9th seeded #10 (career high: #4) Samantha Stosur from Gold Coast, Australia, defeated the 1999, 2002, & 2008 champion, 29 year old 28th seeded #29 (former #1) Serena Williams from Palm Beach Gardens, FL, 6-2, 6-3 (photos shown).     Samantha's prize is $1,800,000; Serena's prize is $900,000. Serena, who won the most points in the "US Open Series" of Summer tournaments, will thus also receive a bonus of $500,000, bringing her total to $1,400,000.     The tennis.quickfound.net 2011 US Open tourney page holds 206 choice photos from this year's tourney, cropped and enhanced, and 47 postmatch quotes, placed within the results for all rounds of the tourney.   WTA June 20-July 3: Wimbledon Wimbledon: #6 Maria Sharapova 6' 2" 130lb RH 2H-BH Wimbledon: 1st Grand Slam Title 5th WTA Singles Title The Championships Wimbledon, GBR Grand Slam Prize$: £14,600,000 (all events) 128 players - outdoor: grass matches: statistics Live Scores - OOP - results draws: W sing, pdf - XD women's: qual - sing - doub men's: qual - sing - doub pics: DL - Y! sport - news| WTA click for 2011 Wimbledon tourney page, with 53 quotes & 267 choice pics, cropped & enhanced         On Saturday in London, in the final of the 2011 Championships at Wimbledon, this year's champion at Madrid, 21 year old 8th seeded #8 (career high: #8) Petra Kvitova from Fulnek, Czech Republic, defeated the 2011 Rome (and 2004 Wimbledon) champion, 24 year old 5th seeded #6 (former #1) Maria Sharapova of Russia (res: Manhattan Beach, CA & Bradenton, FL), 6-3, 6-4.     Maria is shown during the match, and Petra with the "Venus Rosewater Dish" trophy afterward. Petra's prize is £1,100,000 (about $1,781,229 US); Maria's prize is £550,000 (about $890,615 US).     The tennis.quickfound.net Wimbledon tourney page holds 267 choice photos from this year's Championships, cropped and enhanced, and 53 postmatch quotes.

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US and ESPN news photo searches are located at the top of every page at tennis.quickfound.net. The same 304x345 pic at Yahoo! US is 452x512 at ESPN and 397x450 at the France & UK Yahoos (but Yahoo! includes Reuters, AFP, and some other agency pics which ESPN does not).     Yahoo! news photos are kept on the server for 30 days (ESPN: 15 days). The Yahoo! link above is now is now to the new Yahoo! Sports tennis photo gallery, which might not find all of the photos. If you are looking for more, try the individual player names, or the name of the tourney, or the city it is in, with the search form below (or try the international Yahoo! links, below).     Yahoo! Sports now includes some much larger photos than before from AFP (Agence France-Presse), either 660 or 800 pixels in their largest dimension. Unfortunately, these larger images cannot currently be accessed via the usual Yahoo! News photo search. You have to browse through the Yahoo! 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, displays 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, 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 Photo Gallery "SE-WTATour" Photostream at Flickr "tlaenPix" Photostream at Flickr Female Tennis Players picture galleries. 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 Sports: 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: Tennis.com did a complete makeover of their website in 2005, again in 2006, and again in 2010, and Chrissie forgot to call and tell me the URLs had changed every time. 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. 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, many pics) Sharapova Masha (good bio info) en.Nadia-Petrova.ru official Kuznetsova Fanpage Maria Kirilenko official DanielaHantuchova.com official yaroslava-shvedova.com official DSafina.com official   DinaraSafina.com Dominika Cibulkova official Agnes Szavay official, Hungarian Ana Ivanovic official alize-cornet.com official Patty-Schnyder.ch official, 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, 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 Lawn Tennis 1873-1938 Pictorial History of Tennis 16-page .pdf 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).   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: in: All Tennis College Tennis Tennis Players All Sports     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.

  News Briefs:

    (Mar 31, 2012) The Brazilian tennis federation has announced that Brazil will host a WTA tournament beginning in 2013. The franchise they have been awarded was vacated by the Marbella, Spain, tourney, which followed Miami on the WTA calendar (the same week as Charleston). Brazil has not hosted a WTA event for the past 11 years. AP story

    (Dec 23, 2012) Sony Ericsson will terminate their sponsorship of the WTA Tour at the end of 2012. The mobile phone manufacturer has been the WTA's primary global sponsor since 2005 at a price of almost $14.7 million a year. A replacement sponsor has not yet been named. Sony Ericsson PR manager Graciela Pineda said: "This was a strategic decision based on the evolution of the business and the brand." The joint venture Sony Ericsson will also soon become Sony only: Ericsson announced in October it would sell its 50 percent of the company to Sony for $1.46 billion. ESPN story

    (Aug 31, 2011) Former WTA #1 Venus Williams has withdrawn from the US Open due to illness. In a statement, Venus, who has been troubled occasionally for years by illness which was sometimes labeled as anemia, said that she has Sjögren's Syndrome.

    Venus said: "I’m really disappointed to have to withdraw from this year’s US Open. I have been recently diagnosed with Sjögren's Syndrome, an autoimmune disease which is an ongoing medical condition that affects my energy level and causes fatigue and joint pain. I enjoyed playing my first match here and wish I could continue but right now I am unable to. I am thankful I finally have a diagnosis and am now focused on getting better and returning to the court soon." US Open statement

    (Jul 15, 2011) WTA #28 Alisa Kleybanova is undergoing treatment for Hodgkin's Lymphoma (a form of cancer) in Italy. Alisa said: "After I do treatment for a few more months, if I feel well, there's a chance I'll be able to play tennis again. I really miss playing..." Alisa has won two WTA singles titles, both last year, in Kuala Lumpur and Seoul. Today is Alisa's 22nd birthday. Letter from Alisa via WTA - Hodgkin's Lymphoma

    (Jun 25, 2011) The WTA season ending Tournament of Champions will move from Bali to Sofia, Bulgaria, from 2012 to 2014. WTA story

    (Mar 2, 2011) Former WTA #1 Serena Williams has been treated for a pulmonary embolism. Serena's spokesman, Nicole Chabot, told People Magazine "Monday Serena Williams underwent emergency treatment at Cedars [Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles] for a hematoma she suffered as a result of treatment for a more critical situation... Last week, Serena suffered from a pulmonary embolism [a blood clot in the lungs] which was discovered upon her return to L.A. She had been in New York for doctor appointments for the ongoing issues with her foot... Doctors are continuing to monitor her situation closely to avoid additional complications." People.com story

    (Jan 26, 2011) 7-time Grand Slam champion and former WTA #1 Justine Henin has retired. The elbow injury she incurred last year at Wimbledon is not healing, and she has been playing in pain. Doctors now tell Justine that the injury will not heal.

    Justine said: "I spent the last days undergoing various medical tests and they have confirmed that my elbow has been damaged by my adventure in Australia. After my crash at Wimbledon in June, I knew it would be difficult to come back. But I had decided to keep playing and to give everything to overcome the injury. In these recent months I have rarely been spared from the pain, those last months were very hard. Time has passed, and the doubts have grown, and only return to the courts would give me answers. Not the answer I was hoping for... unfortunately. I suffered a lot the last week and every day gave me more and more pain, but I believed that my will would take the upper hand. Today, the examinations are clearly and and the doctors [say] formally, my elbow is too fragile and hurt so that my passion and my profession at high level cannot continue to exist." Justine Henin official website

    28-year-old Justine Henin from Brussels, Belgium, previously retired on May 14, 2008, but returned to play in January, 2010. She has won 43 WTA singles titles, starting with Antwerp in 1999 and ending with 's-Hertogenbosch; in 2010, including the 2003, '05, '06, & '07 French Open, the 2003 & '07 US Open, and the 2004 Australian Open. She had a 525-115 record in singles matches. Justine won a career-total of $20,917,513 in prize money, and was ranked #1 in the world for 117 weeks.

Santa Lisicki

(Dec 24, 2010) Former WTA #22 Sabine Lisicki wished everyone a merry Christmas today, as did many other players, via Twitter—Sabine also provided a nice photo of herself in snowville.     (Dec 20, 2010 revised) Over 175 movies have been added to the video players which can be found on many pages at quickfound.net, including this one. Simply select "Movies (full length)" with the left selector form, then choose a film with the right selector form after the list appears. I'll be adding a few more films to the list, but I think I have most of the good ones that are available in there already.     Please also try the Movies page at showbiz.quickfound.net, which is currently undergoing upgrades; it has some nice additional features folks will enjoy.     (Dec 12, 2010) Retired former WTA #1 Martina Hingis married French showjumper Thibault Hutin in a civil ceremony in Paris on Friday, December 10. The wedding was reported in the Swiss magazine Schweizer Illustrierte; they will publish photos of the ceremony on Monday.     Martina said: "Our wedding came as a surprise for many, but it has been in planning long in advance." Schweizer Illustrierte story (German) - English translation via Google - AFP story

(Dec 11, 2010) Former WTA #1 Serena Williams shared a photo of herself practicing today. Serena said: "Me at practice. U guys like my new practice outfit???" Serena Williams at Twitter     Besides the new outfit, the photo also shows Serena's rather large brace to protect her right foot while it heals from a re-injured torn tendon, which is the reason she cannot play in next month's Australian Open.     (Dec 9, 2010) #1 Caroline Wozniacki shared the very nice view from her apartment window in Monte Carlo today. Caroline said: "When you wake up and this is what you see when you look out the window, you know it will be a good day :)" Caroline Wozniacki at Twitter     (Dec 6, 2010) #18 Maria Sharapova defeated #2 Vera Zvonareva 6-1, 7-5 in an exhibition match in Monterrey, Mexico, yesterday. Tweeting from Bradenton, Florida this morning, Vera said: "I played an exhibition match in Monterrey with Maria yesterday! It was so great to see so many tennis fans in Mexico!!! All of them gave us a great experience! I will only have very warm memories from my trip to Monterrey!!! Thank u all of u guys who was supporting us there! LUV!" Vera Zvonareva at Twitter

Serena practicing a'la cart

    (Oct 22, 2010) Former WTA #1 Maria Sharapova is engaged to Slovenian Los Angeles Lakers guard Sasha Vujacic. The pair met a year ago at a friend's barbecue; no wedding date has been set. Vujacic announced the engagement on Thursday night. Maria's agent (Max Eisenbud of IMG) confirmed the news in an email to the Associated Press. Vujacic, now in his seventh season with the Lakers, averaged 2.8 points and 1.2 rebounds in 67 games last year. AP 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.

(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.     (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.