It took eight years for Sugarpova to rule as sexiest female player.
For the first time in seven years, Maria Sharapova has won the TennisReporters.net Readers’ Poll for Sexiest Female of the Year. Sharapova
Time for the 8th TennisReporters.net Readers’ Poll
December 22, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Readers: Vote for your top and sexiest players in the annual TennisReporters.net Readers’ Poll.
Rafa put a dent in Federer’s GOAT label.
It’s the eight annual TennisReporters.net Readers’ Poll, designed for our readers to sound off on their preferences.
Our most popular categories are Male and Female Players of the Year and, of course, the Sexiest Players. We’re allowing comments on the polls for the first time ever.
Sexiest Female Player Award is named after Ana Ivanovic after she won for five straight years. Sexiest Male Player Award is named after Marat Safin after he was also a five-time winner.
Last year’s winners included Novak Djokovic and Petra Kvitova for Players of the Year along with Rafael Nadal and Carolina Wozniacki as the sexiest. Last year’s voting can be found by clicking here.
TennisReporters.net editors do not necessarily support the results of the vote, especially in the Player of the Year categories. We realize that many readers will vote for their favorites as opposed to the players who have had better results.
Polls are open for one week to Saturday, Dec. 29 with results posted on Sunday, Dec. 30.
The TR Year-End Top 50s: The Women, Nos. 11-20
December 11, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Thus continues our review of the top 50 singles players on the ATP and WTA Tours. We resume with the women ranked Nos. 11 -20.
11. Marion Bartoli
It was another fairly productive year for France
Fed Cup, Monte Carlos semis preview
April 21, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Ivanovic and Jankovic will try and lead Serbia to its first final.
WORLD GROUP SEMIS
RUSSIA v SERBIA
Even though Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova has a 3-0 record against Jelena Jankovic, I
Wozniacki revives a little; Radwanska gets her claws out
February 24, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Julia will go for 3 straight over Caro.
On Friday, Caroline Wozniacki will see whether or not she can get revenge from the two beatdowns that Julia Goerges threw at her last season clay when they face off in sparsely attended Dubai. A match up against current No. 1 Victoria Azarenka would have been a bit more spicy, but the Belarusian pulled out with an ankle injury before her second match, so the chips fell where they did with Wozniacki taking out an erratic Ana Ivanovic 6-3 7-5?, and Goerges hitting through Daniela Hantuchova late 4-6 6-3 6-4, Goerges, who was pretty much a disaster on hard courts last year, seems to have found away to get her big forehand working on faster courts. Wozniacki played steady enough to best Ivanovic, who looked so unsettled once again in what was a winnable match. Even with coach Nigel Sears around, she still panics too much. Wozniacki cannot back off against the German and let her get confident. If “Caro” happens to win the tournament it will be her first real burst since New haven late last summer. She badly needs a title run.
The suddenly very outspoken Agnieszka Radwanska clubbed a sick Sabine Lisicki 6-2 6-1? and will face Jelena Jankovic, who ran past Samantha Stosur 6-4 6-2?. After the match, Radwanska criticized Azarenka for over exaggerating her ankle injury when they faced off in the Doha semis last week, which was pretty quick win for the new No. 1. I was a bit taken aback by Radwanska
Who can stop another Serena vs. Venus Wimbledon final?
June 18, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Maria is looking for that 2004 magic.
TOP HALF, FIRST QUARTER
Even though she won Copenhagen on indoor hard the week after Roland Garros, No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki is not expected to do much at Wimbledon
Nadal marches on, Goerges stuns Wozniacki
April 24, 2011 by Leave a Comment
While Sunday in Barcelona was business as usual for clay court dominator and No. 1 Rafa Nadal, it wasn
Another Masters shield for Nadal
April 18, 2011 by Leave a Comment
MONDAY, APRIL 18 – Even though Rafael Nadal looked tired for part of the week in Monte Carlo, he still managed to win his seventh straight title with a 6-4, 7-5 defeat of David Ferrer. Neither man played his best on the day, but Nadal was more ambitious and self-assured on the big points, while Ferrer was fairy erratic. Still only 24, Nadal remarkably won his 19th ATP World Tour Masters 1000 crown, two ahead of Roger Federer and Andre Agassi
“Rafa is incredible on clay. I mean, he’s everywhere at the same time. He’s the best player on clay in history,” said Ferrer of his compatriot, who won his 30th title on dirt, the same number that the great Bjorn Borg won. Two other former Roland Garros titlists are head of him as Guillermo Vilas is first with 45 clay-court titles and Thomas Muster owns 40. Nadal said he would play Barcelona next week and he
Are six-tournament weeks needed?
February 16, 2011 by Leave a Comment
This is a six-tournament week, one of the primary reasons why non-hardcore tennis fans get confused about hat the hell is happening in the sport. While there are reasons to be holding tournaments on four different continents (it