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Roland Garros Rewind: Monfils Stuns, Nadal Survives, Sharapova and Radwanska Cruise

May 27, 2013 By 1 Comment

Welcome back to your daily review of the studs and duds at Roland Garros 2013. ATP: Match of the day:  Five sets and four hours.  Three tiebreaks and a 7-5 final set.  A two-set lead squandered by the man who eventually won—after saving triple break point midway through the fifth.  A home underdog firing 26 [...]

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WTA Katowice Gallery: Kvitova, Vinci Rout the Competition, as Beck Reaches First Semifinal

April 12, 2013 By Leave a Comment

KATOWICE (April 12, 2013) — Friday at the BNP Paribas Katowice Open quarterfinals saw the remaining two seeds, No. 1 Petra Kvitova and No. 2 Roberta Vinci, get by their respective opponents, Petra Martic and Karolina Pliskova. Young German Annika Beck defeated qualifier Maria Elena Camerin and reached her first WTA semifinal with a second [...]

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WTA Katowice Gallery: Radwanska Exhibition Match; Pironkova, Minella, Peer and more

April 9, 2013 By Leave a Comment

KATOWICE (April 9, 2013) — Tuesday at the BNP Paribas Katowice Open included a special doubles exhibition match featuring Poland’s top talent, Agnieszka Radwanska, and also saw two seed bow out, No. 5 seed Alize Cornet and No. 4 Julia Goerges as she was forced to retire down 4-1 in the third set. Full results [...]

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WTA Katowice Saturday Tennis Gallery: Veterans and Young Talents Take Stage

April 6, 2013 By Leave a Comment

KATOWICE (April 6, 2013) — Tennis Grandstand photographer Rick Gleijm kicks off our week-long photo gallery coverage of the BNP Paribas Katowice Open on Saturday with round one qualifications. Future young talents as well as a few veterans took the courts with players including Valeria Savinykh, Magda Linette, Marie Bouzkova, Aravane Rezai, Jill Craybas, Katarzyna [...]

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What to Watch in the WTA This Week: Previews of Acapulco, Florianopolis, and Kuala Lumpur

February 24, 2013 By Leave a Comment

While eight of the top ten men are active in the week before Indian Wells, only two of the top ten women have chosen live matches over practice sessions.  Two clay tournaments in the Western Hemisphere accompany an Asian hard-court tournament as the last chance to reverse or extend momentum before the March mini-majors. Acapulco:  [...]

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What to Watch in the WTA This Week: Previews of Dubai, Memphis, and Bogota

February 17, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Shifting down the Persian Gulf, eight of the top ten women move from Doha to Dubai for the only Premier tournament this week.  In North and South America are two International tournaments on dramatically different surfaces.  Here is the weekly look at what to expect in the WTA. Dubai:  Still the top seed despite her [...]

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Kimiko Date-Krumm: The Finest Wine in Tennis

January 17, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Age restrictions on the WTA Tour have wrested dominance from the prepubescent prodigies of old. Week-to-week, players of all ages continue making their mark, all products of their generation. The young guns are fiery, full of determination. Those in their mid-twenties are methodical, but looking for a breakthrough or an escape after nearly a decade [...]

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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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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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Family Circle Cup: Meet your top 8 seeds

April 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment

It’s sometimes easy to forget that tennis players are real people. Theoretically, we all know that tennis players have lives off the court, but since there aren’t usually cameras behind the scenes, we don’t know much about them. Many of the players have allowed fans a little bit of insight into their daily lives by [...]

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