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

Tennis Warehouse Interview: Ashley Harkleroad

Ashley Harkleroad - Yung-Jan Chan Tennis 2

Anne Keothavong

Anne Keothavong Biography
Anne Viensouk Keothavong (born 16 September 1983) is a British
professional tennis player. She is a former long-standing British number 1,
however she is the current British number 2, behind Elena Baltacha and is ranked 71st in the world (as of 7 November 2011). So far in her career she has won a total of 19 International Tennis Federation singles titles, 8 ITF doubles titles and reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 48 (achieved 23 February 2009). She has also reached the semifinals of four International tournaments on the main tour and the semi-finals of one Premier tournament.
Born 16 September 1983 (1983-09-16)
Country Great Britain
Residence Hackney, London
Hackney, London
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Turned pro 2001
Retired Active
Plays Right-handed (two-handed backhand)

Anne Keothavong

Lao-British (Anne Keothavong) @ Wimbledon 2011

Anne Keothavong - Fed Cup

Venus Williams

Venus Williams Biography
Born: 17 June 1980
Birthplace: Lynwood, California
Best known as: Sister of Serena Williams and five-time winner of Wimbledon
Venus Williams dominated women's tennis in 2000, winning singles titles at Wimbledon, the U.S. Open and the Sydney Olympics, and winning doubles titles at Wimbledon and Sydney with her younger sister Serena. (Her victory at Wimbledon made her the first black female champion there since Althea Gibson in 1957 and 1958.) Williams was already a famous figure in tennis for her size (6'1"), overpowering strength, and unusual tennis background: she and Serena learned to play on public courts in tough Compton, California, coached by their self-taught father Richard. After her breakthrough 2000 campaign she was named Sportswoman of the Year by Sports Illustrated magazine. In 2001 she repeated as Wimbledon and U.S. Open champion (defeating Serena in the U.S. Open finals) and she won again at Wimbledon in 2005, 2007 and 2008.

Venus Williams