I decided to revisit the topic of Venus Williams' boyfriend not only because of the newly-launched WTA Players and their Boyfriends/Husbands series, but also because I haven't completely followed up on the news regarding Venus' love life. What I'm saying is that we did write about Venus' long-time pro golfer boyfriend Hank Kuehne, but we [...]
Carlos Rodriguez, who we are identifying with the now retired seven-time Grand Slam champion Justine Henin, will start to coach Li Na on a trial basis as of August 16 and according to the current plans their cooperation will last until the end of the season. Rodriguez will travel full-time with the 30-year-old Chinese. For the most [...]
In the first round of the Olympic Tennis Event and on the first day in 100 years that rain sent the Olympic tennis indoors, Julia Goerges upset second seed Agnieszka Radwanska 7-5 6-7(5) 6-4. En route to the victory, Goerges fired 56 winners, including 20 aces, 17 forehand winners, 12 backhand winners and 5 volley winners. [...]
Bojana Jovanovski clinched her first WTA title at the Baku Cup in Azerbaijan to become the first Serbian women's tennis player to lift a trophy this season, even though the start of the Olympics was stealing the attention from the International-level tournament. In the final, the 97th-ranked Jovanovski defeated Julia Cohen 6-3 6-1, who had [...]
Grand Slams are an excellent platform for sportswear brands to raise the bar and showcase their best designs. Focus is usually on the sports fashion industry leaders, but at the recently-finished Wimbledon a new name from the tennis apparel world attracted a lot of attention – Denise Cronwall and her lace dress worn by young Italian [...]
The Olympic Games are just around the corner and all the tennis players who have qualified are excited about joining the biggest sporting event in the world, while those left behind are dreaming about being able to play the next time. Now I'd like to ask you: Do you think the Olympic Tennis Event is [...]
During the 2012 French Open Croatian Petra Martic attracted the most attention so far in her career by reaching the fourth round of a Grand Slam for the first time and ousting a Top 10 player, Marion Bartoli, for the first time. Following the claycourt Grand Slam, Martic ascended to a career-high of No.42 in [...]
Fila has revealed the Olympic collection, containing different outfits for each country: Serbia, Russia, Kazakhstan, Spain, Romania, Italy, Belgium, Slovenia, New Zealand, etc. Serbian Jelena Jankovic will wear a predominantly red Essenza Dress, with touches of the other two colors from the Serbian flag – blue and white. On the chest, besides the Fila logo, there [...]
With the Olympic Games approaching fast, occasion is perfect to enrich our WTA Players and their Boyfriends/Husbands series with the information about a couple of a women's tennis player and an Olympic medalist – Hungarians Greta Arn and her famous boyfriend Zsolt Nemcsik. The 33-year-old Arn is the winner of two WTA titles (Auckland and Estoril) and her highest [...]
In their first meeting in almost four years, second seed Dominika Cibulkova defeated good friend and top seed Marion Bartoli 6-1 7-5 in the final of the Mercury Insurance Open for her second WTA title and second Premier one. Before their encounter in the final, Bartoli said: Dominika and I love to practice with each other. We've practiced [...]