By Tennis Guru on Apr 9, 2009 in Featured | 0 Comments
Belarussian teenager Victoria Azarenka achieved a career-high ranking of eight this week. However, this 19-year old phenom is setting her sights on the world’s top ranking in the near future. “That’s the goal. That’s the whole reason I’m playing. I think everybody’s goal is to try to be number one,” Azarenka said after winning the [...]
By Tennis Guru on Apr 9, 2009 in Davis Cup, Featured, Tennis Feature | 0 Comments
The International Tennis Federation (ITF) announced this week the official host countries with respective match venues for the Davis Cup World Group quarterfinal matches from July 10 to 12 this year. The remaining eight countries vying for the prestigious title are Argentina, Czech Republic, United States, Croatia, Israel, Russia, Spain and Germany. Here are the [...]
By Tennis Guru on Apr 9, 2009 in Featured, Tennis News, WTA | 0 Comments
With winds gusting up to 30 mph, players at The MPS Group Championships, a claycourt WTA event held at Ponte Vedra in Florida this week, had a tough time adjusting their gameplay in order to make it through the second round. Top seed Nadia Petrova of Russia progressed after defeating Olga Govortsova in two sets [...]
By Tennis Guru on Apr 9, 2009 in ATP, Featured, Tennis News | 0 Comments
The US Men’s Claycourt Championships this week won’t be seeing much singles action from the tournament’s top two seeds after both were bundled out in their first round matches. Top seed James Blake, last year’s runner up, was beated by world no. 113 Argentinian player Guillermo Canas in two sets (6-4, 6-4). Canas, despite his [...]
By Tennis Guru on Apr 9, 2009 in Featured, Tennis News, WTA | 0 Comments
Jelena Jankovic progressed to the second round of the inaugural Andalucia Tennis Experience on Tuesday, defeating Italy’s Francesca Schiavone in two sets (6-2, 6-1). Jankovic officially snaps her two consecutive second round defeats (after enjoying first round byes) at the premier hardcourt events in Indian Wells, California and Key Biscayne, Miami. The world number four [...]
By Tennis Guru on Apr 6, 2009 in ATP, Tennis News | 0 Comments
American world number 17 James Blake once again clinched the top seeding in this week’s U.S. Men’s Claycourt Championships, a $500,000 ATP Masters 250 event which is being held at Houston, Texas. Last year, Blake reached the finals of this event but lost to Marcel Granollers of Spain (then 7th seed). The Spaniard is back [...]
By Tennis Guru on Apr 6, 2009 in ATP, Tennis News | 0 Comments
World number 24 Igor Andreev gained the top seeding in this week’s Grand Prix Hassan II, a €450,000 ATP Masters 250 event held at Casablanca, Morocco. The qualifier slots have been filled already and the main draw matches will start today. Last year’s champion Gilles Simon of France elected not to defend the title. Here’s [...]
By Tennis Guru on Apr 6, 2009 in Featured, Tennis Feature, WTA | 0 Comments
After below-par performances at the Australian, Middle Eastern and U.S. hard courts, several top players – most notably Serbian player Jelena Jankovic – are looking forward to perform well in claycourt tournaments starting this week and rack up on those ranking points lost during the past few months. Andalucia Tennis Experience (WTA) After losing her [...]
By Tennis Guru on Apr 6, 2009 in ATP, Featured, Tennis News | 0 Comments
Andy Murray believed that his improved fitness program – including a pre-season training in Miami – paid off, earning himself his third career Masters title. The 21-year old Briton won the ATP Sony Ericsson Open title on Sunday, beating 2007 champion Novak Djokovic in two sets (6-2, 7-5). The Serbian was clearly not on his [...]
By Tennis Guru on Apr 5, 2009 in Featured, Tennis News, WTA | 0 Comments
Tennis experts have been keeping Belarusian teenager Victoria Azarenka under their radars ever since she won the Australian and US Open juniors championships in 2005. What better time to announce her entrance in the higher echelons of WTA Tour than beating the reigning world number one in a premiere tournament? Azarenka had just done both [...]
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