Australian Open 2017 Players Party

Some of the biggest names in tennis were missing from the weekend's 2017 Australian Open players party at Crown in Melbourne, Australia. Nevertheless it was very refreshing to see some of the most familiar faces in tennis below all dressed up in their casual outfit to the party. The tournament has officially kicked off today and we're looking forward to exciting tennis as well as upsets over the course of the next two weeks.

Garbine Muguruza

Kei Nishikori

Agnieszka Radwanska

Stanislas Wawrinka

Gael Monfils

Bryan brothers

Images via zimbio

2015 Final Rankings - Women

In a world where Serena Williams is head and shoulders above the competition, it’s not a question of which tennis player is going to finish first in the WTA rankings at the end of the year, it’s which player will be second.

Serena defeats the competition as easily as Jack Hammer outsmarts the desperate Evil Dr. Wüten in the classic online slot game by NetEnt casinos. In fact, this and other slot games you can play on your mobile are both an entertaining way to pass the time, but also give you an insight into how Serena feels when she sends her opponents packing.

1. Serena Williams

This is the third year in a row that Serena is number one on the WTA rankings. She was off to a flying start at the beginning of the season and defeated Sharapova at the Australian Open. This was Sharapova’s 16^th consecutive defeat at the hands of the American, and she is surely having nightmares just at the thought of Serena.

Williams then went on to announce that she is going to stop the boycott towards the Indian Wells Masters tournament, which has been going on for 14 years before that.  She got to the semis there, but had to forfeit the match due to problems with her knee.

At the Miami Open she won her eighth title there, and managed to take her winning run to 21 consecutive matches without a loss. The Miami title was followed by the French Open one, and the French Open one was followed by the Wimbledon title. In doing so, Serena completed the ‘Serena Slam,’ meaning that she won all 4 majors in a row. That was the second time she had achieved to do that.

However, she didn’t succeed in winning the ‘Grand Slam’. At the US Open she reached the semi-final and had to face Roberta Vinci, who was a huge underdog before the match. During the match though, Vinci outplayed the American and recorded one of the biggest surprises in 2015.

2. Simona Halep

Halep had a great 2014, and this year she has kept the same level of performance. At the Australian Open she managed to reach the quarter-final round where she suffered a surprise defeat by the tenth-seeded Ekaterina Makarova.

At the Indian Wells Masters, Halep capitalized on Serena Williams’ injury and withdrawal in the semi-final, and progressed to the final where she defeated Jelena Jankovic 2-1 in the most important match of her career and her highest point of the season.

Her lowest point of the season however, was her first round elimination at Wimbledon at the hands of Jana Cepelova. She did manage to recover from that defeat though, and reached the semis at the US Open later in the season.

3. Garbine Muguruza

The Spanish, slash, Venezuelan tennis player should no longer be considered as a star in rising. She has already risen and is currently number 3 at the WTA rankings. She’s still only 22 and has the tennis world at her feet.

The undoubted highlight of this season for her was her participation in the Wimbledon final. There, she sent several high profile players home early. Kerber, Wozniacki, Bacsinszky and Radwańska were all dispatched with style by the talented youngster on her way to the final and the match-up with Serena Williams. She lost in straight sets, but her road to the final was enough for her to get in the Top 10 for the first time in her career.

4. Maria Sharapova

What is so remarkable about Sharapova’s season is that even though she missed four months of competitive matches, she still managed to finish 4^th at the end of the year. Basically, had she stayed fit until the end of the season she could have claimed 2^nd place in the WTA rankings.

At the start of the season she reached the final at the Australian Open, where she expectedly lost to Serena. Regardless of the loss though, the year ahead looked promising for the Russian. However, a poor run of form, and several injuries, resulted in a less than impressive year for Sharapova, who is now 5^th in the rankings, behind Agnieszka Radwanska.

5. Agnieszka Radwanska

The Pole didn’t start the season impressively and had to part ways with her coach Martina Navratilova. Radwanska’s first title of the season was at the 2015 Toray Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo, and it was won in late September. If there was ever a strong finish to the season, this was it.

Before that, she managed to return to the Top 10 in the rankings by reaching the semi-finals at Wimbledon. It was her third appearance in four years. Unfortunately for her though, she was eliminated by the talented Garbine Muguruza in three sets.

However, her biggest achievement of the season and her career in general, was when she defeated Petra Kvitova and won her first WTA Finals title in Singapore. Because of the strong finish to the season, and defying the odds Radwanska finished as number 5 at the rankings last year.

Agnieszka Radwanska gets high fashion makeover

How do you know when a tennis player is already up there? When she is winning back to back titles and getting a high fashion makeover.

This is obviously happening to Agnieszka Radwanska who is currently ranked no.4 in the world.

Radwanska recently launched a new website and it features some interesting photos of the Polish player. Hope there will be more to come.

(Images via Agnieszka Radwanska's official website)

Serena wins 5th Wimbledon title, 14 Grand Slams in total

After losing her first round match at the French Open, no one would guess that Serena Williams could come this far to win the Wimbledon. 

Williams wins the championship for the fifth time after defeating Polish Agnieszka Radwanska 6-1, 5-7, 6-2 today in a dramatic match.

Serena with father Richard and sister Venus

This is her 14th Grand Slam titles and becoming the first woman over 30 to win Wimbledon since Martina Navratilova in 1990.

(Images via zimbio.com)

Weekend winners

Agnieszka Radwanska wins the WTA Brussels Open.

Nicolas Almagro poses with his trophy after winning the Nice ATP tennis tournament.

 

Francesca Schiavonne holds her trophy after winning the Strasbourg WTA tennis tournament.

Serbian Team, Nenad Zimonjic, Janko Tipsarevic, Miki Jankovic and Viktor Troicki celebrate after winning the final of the World Team Cup tennis tournament against Czech Republic at the Rochus club in Duesseldorf, Germany.

(Images via Yahoo! Sports)

Singapore Women’s Tennis Exhibition 2011: Stosur, Radwanska, Pennetta, Hantuchova among to play this December

Singapore Women’s Tennis Exhibition (SWTE) is set to bring 6 WTA tennis players for an exciting 3-day knock-out tournament, on 16th to 18th December 2011.



They are US Open Women’s Single Champion Samantha Stosur, world no. 8 Agnieszka Radwanska, Italian favourite Flavia Pennetta, hottie Daniela Hantuchova, Spanish player Anabel Medina Garrigues and Asia’s Peng Shuai.

The tickets are available for purchase from SISTIC.

The last time Singapore organised a women's tennis exhibition was back in 2007 that featured Maria Sharapova and Anna Chakvetadze.

Australian Open 2010 Players Party

We love players' party!

There were two events reported last weekend, the Crown's Players Party and another one at the Long Room.

The Crown's has more star players appearance - Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Maria Sharapova, Anastasia Pivovarova and Jelena Jankovic (photos in sequence).

Meanwhile, players who attended the Long Room party were Agnieszka Radwanska, Nikolay Davydenko and wifey Irina, Tommy Robredo, Anabel Medina Garrigues, Jarkko Nieminen, and Samuel and Jarmila Groth.

(Images via zimbio.com, Australian Open website)

Shopping for X'mas yet?

X'mas and New Year are coming soon!

Have you started shopping for the holiday season?

Well, the Radwanska sisters did.

Agnieszka and her younger sister Urszula recently shopped for the needy people back in their homeland in Krakow, Poland.

The sisters are shopping at *you know where*.

Shopping can be a really tough job for some people.

Is this food tray earth friendly? (HCFoo: It's not a food tray, isn't it?)

Agnieszka looks away and expects lil's sis Urszula to foot the bill.

Agnieszka quickly grab a bag of chips before they leave.

(Via interia, Images via tennisforum)

Off season getaway photos: The Fab Four, JJ & BF, Tipsy & marriage

I'm not sure if it's just me. Looks like there are more vacation photos this year.

Here are more photos from Mauritius where Caroline Wozniacki, Agnieszka Radwanska, Urszula Radwanska and Angelique Kerber switched into relaxation mode during their off season holiday.

For more pictures, click here.

Meanwhile, Serbian Janko Tipsarevic took a big leap in his relationship with TV host girlfriend Biljana Sesevic by proposing to her during their romantic vacation in Maldives.

Yes, she has agreed to marry Tipsarevic.

Fellow Serbian Jelena Jankovic and boyfriend Mladjan Janovic also took the off season opportunity to spend a romantic weekend together in Cannes last week.

However there is no marriage announcement from the couple yet.

(Via menstennisforums.com; tennisforum.com)

Wozniacki, Radwanska caught sunbathing in Mauritius

Caroline Wozniacki, Agnieszka Radwanska, Urszula Radwanska and Angelique Kerber recently spent their off season holiday in Mauritius.
Not only that the girls were caught on bikini shots, Wozniacki and Agnieszka were also caught sunbathing on the beach!

Don't you wish you were that hand? :P

Check out the following picture. It would not surprise me if Wozniacki appears on Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue next year.

(Images via Gototennis, Forty Deuce)

Marvel superheroes photoshoot in Linz

This is not the usual WTA Superheroes marketing campaign you normally see.

Recently some WTA players and Austrian player 'Crazy' Daniel Köllerer took part in a 'Marvel Superheroes' photo shoot during Generali Ladies Linz tennis tournament.

Here's the outcome.

Daniel Köllerer

Tamira Paszek

Babsi Schett

Agniezska Radwanska and Timea Bacscinszky

Anna-Lena Grönefeld and Andre Petkovic

(Images via laola1.at)