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WTA Strasbourg Day 5 recap and photos: Francesca Schiavone, Alize Cornet to meet in finals

May 25, 2012 By Leave a Comment

By Romana Cvitkovic Tennis Grandstand photographer Rick Gleijm is in Strasbourg, France covering the WTA Internationaux de Strasbourg tournament live all week. The singles and doubles finals are set and will feature Italian Francesca Schiavone against Alize Cornet, and the number 1 doubles seed of Nicole Grandin and Vladimira Uhlirova taking on number two seed Olga Govortsova and [...]

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WTA Strasbourg Day 3 recap and photos: Francesca Schiavone, Sloane Stephens reach quarterfinals

May 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment

By Romana Cvitkovic Tennis Grandstand photographer Rick Gleijm is in Strasbourg, France covering the WTA Internationaux de Strasbourg tournament live all week. The second round was underway with victories by Francesca Schiavone, Anabel Medina Garrigues, and American Sloane Stephens. Schiavone made quick work of Croatian qualifier Mirjana Lucic with a solid 6-1, 6-2 win in just an hour. [...]

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Strasbourg day 1 roundup and photos

May 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment

By Romana Cvitkovic Tennis Grandstand photographer Rick Gleijm is in Strasbourg, France covering the WTA Internationaux de Strasbourg tournament live all week. Main draw action kicked off today with top seed Sabine Lisicki on court, as well as number eight seed Tamira Paszek. The last day of qualification also concluded today. Full results and photo gallery below. Top [...]

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Sabine Lisicki, Maria Kirilenko, Pauline Parmentier practice in Strasbourg

May 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment

By Romana Cvitkovic Tennis Grandstand photographer Rick Gleijm is in Strasbourg, France covering the WTA Internationaux de Strasbourg tournament live all week. Check back each day to catch all new action direct from the courts! Today’s set highlights main draw players Sabine Lisicki, Maria Kirilenko, Pauline Parmentier and Shahar Peer as they hit the practice courts over [...]

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Maria Kirilenko to the next round after Navarro retires

October 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment

So the main tournament has started after the qualifications this weekend.  Maria Kirilenko reaches the second round in Luxembourg after her opponent Carla Suarez Navarro retired in the in the third set trailing 3-0.   Kirilenko will now meet Iveta  Benesova of Czech who beat Pauline Parmentier of France in three sets 6-3 3-6 2-6. In [...]

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WHERE IS BRITISH WOMEN’S TENNIS?: 25 YEARS SINCE ANNABEL CROFT’S BRITISH WIN

April 28, 2010 By 1 Comment

Today, April 28, 2010, marks the 25th anniversary of the last fully British female to win a WTA Tour singles title (Monique Javer won a WTA Tour singles title in 1988 but was only half British). On 28th April 1985, 18-year-old Annabel Croft of Great Britain, ranked No. 83 at the time defeated world No. [...]

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ANA IVANOVIC BEATS SCARY SPICE IN MIAMI

March 26, 2010 By 1 Comment

Ana Ivanovic participated in the Sony Ericsson  Glam Slam Match 2010 that featured Jay Sean, Novak Djokovic and  Mel “Scary Spice” B. Ivanovic, who recently dropped out of the top 50 of the WTA Tour, won the match in the closing minute of the match. “Sony Ericsson always come up with such imaginative ideas to [...]

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US OPEN DARLING MELANIE OUDIN BACK ON TRACK?

February 7, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Is Melanie Oudin, the darling of last year’s U.S. Open, finally back on track? The 18-year-old Georgian busted out of a six-match losing streak to be the heroine of the U.S. Fed Cup team’s 4-1 upset win over France over the weekend. Oudin beat France’s Julie Coin 7-6 (3), 6-4 on indoor clay in Lievin, [...]

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Mondays With Bob Greene: They Should Have Picked Me In The First Place

July 28, 2008 By Leave a Comment

Bob Greene, the esteemed former Associated Press tennis writer, wraps up the week that was in international tennis with his “Monday’s With Bob Greene” column – a revival of his popular weekly feature at the AP. This week Bob summarizes the the Rogers Cup and the East West Bank Classic.

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Mondays With Bob Greene: US Olympic Team Struggles

July 21, 2008 By Leave a Comment

Bob Greene, the esteemed former Associated Press tennis writer, wraps up the week that was in international tennis with his “Monday’s With Bob Greene” column – a revival of his popular weekly feature at the AP. This week Bob summarizes the the Bank of the West Classic and the Austrian Open.

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