Friday 2 March 2012

Anastasia Myskina

Anastasia Myskina Biography
Anastasia Myskina (ah-nass-TAH-seeya MUYSS-kee-nah) was born July 8th, 1981 in Moscow, Russia from parents Andrey and Galina. She started playing tennis at 6 with her parents , she then went to the Spartak club in Moscow where she was coached by Marat Safin's mother until they left for Spain in 1994. Anastasia is trained by Svitoslav Mirza since 1994 and has improved every year since even reaching a career rank of #41 in July 2000! She is an established top-10 player and picked up the seventh tournament win of her career when successfully retaining her Doha title. Like most of her fellow Russians, Myskina has a tidy game from the back of the court, and also boasts a neat touch at the net. However, her record against the likes of the Williams sisters, Justine Henin-Hardenne, Lindsay Davenport and Jennifer Capriati is poor. It is also time for Myskina to make an impact at Grand Slam level but her record in Paris is woeful, having never made the third round in four attempts. Anastasia turned professional in 1998, the year in which she broke into the WTA top 500. The very next year, she entered the top 100 and went on to end 2002 in the top 20 and 2003 in the top 10. On March 8, 2004, she was ranked no. 5 in the world. She has won 8 WTA tour singles titles in her career as of 2004, with the most recent being Roland Garros. She routed fellow Russian Elena Dementieva 6-2, 6-1 in the final to become the first Russian
woman to win a Grand Slam singles event.

Anastasia Myskina

Interview with Anastasia Myskina

Anastasia Myskina - Elvis Presley - I need your

love tonight

Elena Dementieva

Elena Dementieva Biography
The Russian pro tennis player, Elena Vyacheslavovna Dementieva, was born in Moscow in 1981. Elena's rise to a professional athlete started at the tender age of thirteen when she entered and won her first international tournament in France. Four years later she became a professional tennis player in 1998, and took a spot in the top 100 players in 1999. It was during 1999 when she represented her home country of Russia against Venus Williams in the Fed Cup.
However, Elena would face Venus again at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Australia. She ultimately lost the gold medal to Venus, but brought home the silver medal. Also in that year, Elena was named the Women's Tennis Association's Most Improved Player after ranking in their top twenty. The next year she once again made the top twenty ranking, beating Anna Kournikova out of her four-year position as the top ranked Russian tennis player. Shortly after achieving this ranking Elena injured her shoulder while in Australia, forcing her to change her serve in order to be able to continue playing.
Eventually her shoulder healed, and in 2003 she was able to play in the more tournaments than any of the other top ten ranked players, totaling twenty-seven for the year. That year she also won her first title with the Women's Tennis Association when playing at Amelia Island. That year while playing doubles in the Wimbledon Tournament she and her partner, Lina Krasnoroutskaya, beat Venus and Serena Williams and making it to the semifinals of the tournament. In 2004 Elena managed to rank at her highest in the singles category and was placed as the sixth best player in the world. Two other Russians also ranked in the top ten that year, making it the first time that three Russians have ever simultaneously appeared in the top ten rankings.
Elena has continued to play in tournaments with the Women's Tennis Association and has achieved high rankings along the way. Her skills and her serve almost always guarantee that she will make it into the quarterfinals or semifinals of whatever tournament she plays in.

Elena Dementieva

Russian Tennis player Elena Dementieva and the Danish

tennis player Caroline Wozniacki (Part 2)

Elena Dementieva Tennis Now Gear Update: Episode 13

Monday 27 February 2012

Kim Clijsters

Kim Clijsters Biography
Kim Clijsters was born on June 8, 1983 in Bilzen, Belgium. She was born to Lei a professional soccer player and Els. She was definitely born to be a star. She first picked up a racket at an age of five. She wanted to pursue tennis as her passtime hobby but it was not too late when she realized that this could be her career path too.
She easily entered the juniors and won a number of trophies. Along with this she also won 1998 French Open Juniors doubles title, and a runner-up title at the 1998 Juniors Wimbledon. She was now preparing for the WTA tour. Kim came to public notice in 1999 at Antwerp. Although she could not win yet she reached the quarter finals. At Wimbledon she definitely made her presence felt everywhere. She defeated Amanda Coetzer but lost in the 4th round. Her next show of talent came at the U.S. Open. She reached the 3rd round and faced the eventual champion Serena Williams.
Immediately after the U.S. Open, Clijsters was at the Seat Open in Luxembourg as a qualifier. At the all Belgian semifinal, Clijsters beat World No. 2 Belgian Sabine Appelmans, and in the unexpected final, she pounded World No. 1 Belgian Dominique Van Roost. Her ranking benefited too, and reached No. 47 as a result of winning her first WTA Tour title. She followed that tournament with a final showing at Bratislava. She lost to Amelie Mauresmo, but finished the year in the Top 50.
Kim has won 21 singles titles in her career so far. On a personal note she announced her engagement to long-time partner, Australian player Lleyton Hewitt in November 2003, but they split up in October 2004.

Kim Clijsters

Kim Clijsters Vs. Justine Henin 2010 Brisbane Final

Kim Clijsters v. Venus Williams | 2005 US Open

Yanina Wickmayer

Yanina Wickmayer Biography
Belgian professional female tennis player Yanina Wickmayer was born on 20 October 1989 in Lier, Belgium. She started her professional tennis career in 2004 and represent Belgium in WTA and ITF. Yanina has played in all the major Grand Slam Events but was knock out from the first round in all the events. She has manages to won 8 ITF singles title and 7 ITF doubles titles. Yanina currently rank World no. 73 in singles and World no. 147 in doubles.

Yanina Wickmayer

Guys Run Onto Court To Kiss Yanina Wickmayer

Tennis - Yanina Wickmayer Vs Sara Errani - 2012 WTA

Auckland - 2nd Round

Martina Hengis

Martina Hengis Biography
Born in Slovakia in 1980, Martina Hingis started playing tennis at a young age. At fifteen she was the youngest Grand Slam champion of all time, and she was the top women's tennis player in the world in the late 1990s. However, ankle injuries and a cocaine scandal cut her career short, and she retired from the sport in 2007.
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Tennis player. Martina Hingis was born on September 30, 1980, in Kosice, Slovakia. She was brought up in Switzerland and, playing for that country, in 1997 became the youngest singles Grand Slam tournament winner of the 20th century after her victory in the Australian Open, and the youngest-ever world number 1 when she replaced the injured Steffi Graf.
Winner of the 1996 and 1998 Wimbledon doubles title, she won the singles title in 1997 at the age of 16, and that same year won the U.S. and Australian titles, retaining the latter in 1998 and 1999. Her doubles titles include the Australian Open (1997, 1998, 1999), the US Open (1998), and the French Open (1998, 2000).
Injury forced her retirement in 2003, but she returned to competitive tennis at the start of 2006 and won the Australian Open mixed doubles title (with Mahesh Bhupathi) and the Italian Open. She received the Laureus World Sports award for comeback of the year in 2006.
In 2007, Hingis announced her retirement from tennis as well admitted that she tested positive for cocaine. In 2008, she was banned from tennis for two years, but has stated she would not come out of retirement.

Martina Hengis

Martina Hingis - Tennis Goddess

Martina Hingis-Queen of tennis!

Sunday 26 February 2012

Chirs Evert

Chirs Evert Biography
Born: 21 December 1954
Birthplace: Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Best known as: 1970s tennis champ dubbed "The Ice Maiden"
Name at birth: Christine Marie Evert
Chris Evert was a women's tennis champion between 1974 and 1986, famous for her poise on court and her powerful two-fisted backhand. Evert grew up playing tennis with her father in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. When she was 15 years old she landed in the spotlight with a win over the top-ranked woman in tennis, Margaret Court. The next year she made it to the semi-finals of the U.S. Open; she lost to Billie Jean King, but Chrissie's skill and maturity on the court made the tenacious teen a crowd favorite. Her cool demeanor on the court earned her the nicknames "Ice Princess" and "Ice Maiden," but her easy charm off the court made her famous beyond the sports pages. She had a two-year romance (1974-76) with tennis champ Jimmy Connors that only heightened her celebrity. Throughout the late '70s Evert was one of the sport's dominant players, and her charisma and a thrilling rivalry with Martina Navratilova helped popularize women's tennis (the two faced each other 80 times; Navratilova ended up with a 43-37 advantage). Retired since 1989, Evert occasionally does on-air commentary for NBC television. She holds 157 singles titles, 8 doubles titles and a career total of 18 Grand Slam singles titles. She won the French Open seven times, the US Open six times, Wimbledon three times and the Australian Open twice.
Extra credit: Evert holds a record 125 consecutive wins on clay courts, a streak broken in 1979 by Tracy Austin... In 1979 she married John Lloyd and began competing as Chris Evert Lloyd. She and Lloyd divorced in 1987. Evert married Olympic skier Andy Mill in 1988 and divorced him in 2006; they have three sons. In 2008 she married golfer Greg Norman and later that year told Vogue magazine that the two had had an affair while still married to their previous spouses.

Chirs Evert

Chris Evert d. Virginia Wade - 1977 World Team Tennis

Rosie Casals and Chris Evert practicing, Wimbledon 1976

Ashily Harkleroad

Ashily Harkleroad Biography
Born: 2 May 1985
Birthplace: Rossville, Georgia
Best known as:
The American tennis player who posed for Playboy
Tennis pro Ashley Harkleroad made a splash at age 16 when she appeared at the 2001 U.S. Open in extra-tight shorts and a flashy midriff-baring top. She lost in the first round, but the outfit and her long blonde ponytail earned her comparisons to another tennis heartthrob, Anna Kournikova. Earlier the same year she had teamed with Argentina's Gisella Dulko to win the girls' doubles title at Wimbledon, and in both 2000 and 2001 she reached the #1 ranking in U.S. women's 18-and-under tennis, so some saw her as the Next Big Thing for tennis. But her career never really took off and by 2006 she had faded in the world adult rankings, with 39th being her highest career rank. She did reach the third round of the Australian Open in 2007, and won two singles matches to lead the American team to a first-round victory over Germany in the 2008 Federation Cup. She took time off to have a baby in 2009, and has had few matches since.
Extra credit:
Ashley Harkleroad turned pro in the year 2000... In 2001 she signed a contract with shoemaker Nike... She married fellow tennis pro Alex Bogomolov, Jr. in 2004, when she was 19 and he was 21. They divorced in 2006... She married her coach, Chuck Adams, on 19 September 2009. They have a son, Charlie, born on 30 March 2009... Ashley Harkleroad posed nude for the August 2008 edition of Playboy magazine.

Ashily Harkleroad