Top Tennis Stars: September 2011

Sunday, September 25, 2011

Victoria Azarenka Sony Ericsson Open in 2009 and 2011

Viktoriya Fiodorovna Azarenka, also known as Victoria Azarenka Belarusian: Вікторыя Азаранка, Russian: Виктория Фёдоровна Азаренко; born 31 July 1989 is a Belarusian professional tennis player. Her career high and current ranking is World No. 3, which she first achieved on 12 September 2011. She became the highest-ranked Belarusian player ever, surpassing Natasha Zvereva by two spots.
Azarenka has won two mixed doubles Grand Slam titles – 2007 US Open with Max Mirnyi and 2008 French Open with Bob Bryan. She has won seven singles titles, including the Premier Mandatory Sony Ericsson Open in 2009 and 2011 and has made one Grand Slam semifinal appearance at the 2011 Wimbledon Championships and another five quarterfinal appearances overall.

Victoria Azarenka

Caroline Wozniacki Playing style

Playing style
Wozniacki's playing style centers "around the defensive aspects of tennis with her anticipation, movement, agility, footwork and defence all first-rate and key parts of her game." Her two-handed backhand is one of her best weapons as she is capable of turning defense into offense, most notably the backhand down-the-line. Her defensive playing style has her contemporaries label her a counter-puncher.[citation needed]
Career
2005
Wozniacki won several junior tournaments in 2005, including the Orange Bowl tennis championship.[8] She made her debut on the WTA Tour at Cincinnati's Western & Southern Financial Group Women's Open on 19 July 2005, losing to the top-seeded and eventual champion Patty Schnyder in the first round. In the Nordea Nordic Light Open, her other WTA tournament of the year, she lost to Martina Suchá in the first round.

Caroline Wozniacki

Maria Sanchez Lorenzo Spanish star

Maria Sanchez Lorenzo

Friday, September 23, 2011

maria sharapova Australian Open in three sets

2006
Sharapova started 2006 by losing in the semifinals of the Australian Open in three sets to Henin, also losing a rematch several weeks later at the Dubai Tennis Championships, having defeated former World No. 1 Martina Hingis and World No. 3 Lindsay Davenport in earlier rounds of the tournament. Sharapova claimed her first title in nine months at the Tier I tournament in Indian Wells, defeating Hingis in the semifinals and Elena Dementieva in the final. The following fortnight, she reached the final in Miami before losing to Kuznetsova.
Sharapova celebrating after winning the 2006 US Open.
Missing the entire clay court season with injury, Sharapova returned for the French Open. There, after saving match points in defeating Mashona Washington in the first round, she was eliminated by Dinara Safina in the fourth round.
On grass, Sharapova was unsuccessful in her attempt to win in Birmingham for the third consecutive year, losing instead in the semifinals to Jamea Jackson. Despite that, she was among the title favorites at Wimbledon, where the eventual champion Mauresmo ended up beating her in the semifinals.
Sharapova claimed her second title of the year at the Tier I Acura Classic, defeating Clijsters for the first time in the final. As the third seed at the US Open, Sharapova defeated top seed Mauresmo for the first time in the semifinals, and then followed up by beating second seed Justine Henin in order to win her second Grand Slam singles title.

maria sharapova

Friday, September 16, 2011

roger federer has always grasped the most

FOR all his unearthly talents, Roger Federer has always grasped the most enduring of tennis truisms - grand slam mortality spares nobody.

There are no exceptions, as evidenced by the funeral marches of a cavalcade of past champions.

The law of the tennis jungle is kind to none.

Inevitably, Federer also will meet his tennis maker.

The only question is when.

At 30, married and with twin daughters, Federer prophetically observed as much at the US Open.

His timing, as usual, was impeccable.

"Even as dominant as you can be, it can change very quickly," Federer said.

"That's why I take no match or tournament for granted.

"That's what I always said.

Every big tournament I was able to win, you don't know if it is your last, you know.

"That's why you always have to keep on improving, keep on working hard.

roger federer

Monday, September 12, 2011

Flavia Pennetta Unseeded Angelique Kerber

Unseeded Angelique Kerber of Germany defeated Flavia Pennetta of Italy, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, in a tense, hard-fought match that sent the German into the U.S. Open women’s semifinal, where she will face another surprise victor, Samatha Stosur of Australia.

Pennetta held four break points on Kerber’s serve in the eighth game of the final set but could not convert them. She jammed a backhand long to hand her opponent a chance to go up 5-3 in the deciding set.

When Pennetta, seeded 26th, sent an easy overhead over the baseline to yield the game, Kerber stood at the verge of an upset victory. Her forehand winner to one corner appeared to begin to seal the verdict. But then she hit a forehand into the net, survived a challenged call, but then could not keep the Italian from rushing to net for a winning volley.

Kerber held match point at 30-40 on Pennetta’s serve and drove a forehand at Pennetta’s feet to force a volley that flew wide and won the match.