Jelena Jankovic getting married in summer?

Sina Sports today reported that Jelena Jankovic and boyfriend water polo player Mladjan Janovic are preparing for their 'secret' wedding scheduled in summer.

However the article did not state clearly whether if it's this year or 2010.

Jelena won't go wrong in a wedding dress on her big day. I hope.

Another article on Blic Online also mentioned about the wedding rumour.

Could this be real?

Jelena has denied it though.

“I’m still young to get married!"

"My career is still in the first place in my life and I want to devote myself to it. Of course I want to have a family one day, but not for now,” said Jelena yesterday to the Belgrade journalists at the Fed Cup press conference.

Mladjan Janovic has also denied the wedding plans.

“Jelena and I love each other, but it is still too early for marriage."

"When I decide to get married, I will first tell my family and friends, not the whole world,” Mladjan said.

Getting married or not, they are not going to keep the secret from us for long :D

(Image via Great Tennis Photos)

Jarmila Gajdosova marries Sam Groth; Who's next?

Jarmila Gajdosova, a Slovak pro tennis player who now plays for Australia, was married last weekend in Albury to Australian no.9 Samuel Groth.

Guess what is their wedding theme? Of course it's a tennis-themed wedding.

“It was good; it was fun. I think we’re actually a pretty good match on the court as well”, said the new bride Gajdosova.

The duo have been together since 2007 when they met at the Australian Institute of Sport for training.

They’ve been together ever since and have even formed an on-court partnership, playing in the mixed doubles event at the Australian Open for the last two years.

However there is little time for the 21-year-old newlyweds to honeymoon as they are both off to different events.

Jarmila will play in a tournament in Pattaya while Sam travels to Spain for training.

Now, whose wedding is next?

Yeps, all eyes on Andy Roddick and Brooklyn Decker!

(Image via sports.sina.cn)

Golliwog remark on Jo-Wilfried Tsonga is not a jolly good joke

BBC has fired Carol Thatcher, the daughter of former prime minister Margaret 'Iron Lady' Thatcher, from one of its shows after she referred a 'tennis player' as "golliwog" off-air.

Although a "golliwog" is a character found in 19th century children's literature inspired by a black-faced rag doll, the term is widely interpreted as racist.

A BBC spokesperson said there was a discussion about the Australian Open in the 'green room', and Carol referred one of the black tennis players (supposedly Jo-Wilfried Tsonga) as a golliwog.

Well, Carol should have targeted Andy Murray during his bad hair days instead.


(Via Reuters; Image via Anorak News)

Marcos Baghdatis walks in the footsteps of Nelson Mandela

Marcos Baghdatis had the opportunity to visit the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg on Tuesday to understand the history of South African and the legacy created by Nelson Mandela.

Baghdatis and his team were all labelled as either white or non-white prior to entering the museum and forced to enter through separate doorways.

“It’s weird you know, knowing that they separated people for everything."

"They had different toilets, black people had toilets, white people had other toilets, but it was not only that, it was everything, beaches, houses, taxi queues, entrances, bus stops and mainly the black people suffered a lot and that’s sad to hear.”

Then he was taken through a visual and physical explanation of the life of Nelson Mandala.

“I can understand now why he is a hero to so many people."

"The guy is an amazing person and whatever he wanted to and whatever he wanted to help those people he did it even if it meant death for him."

"He spent 30 years of his life in prison and he suffered a lot to maintain what he maintains today, and I have a lot of respect for him."

"I can understand now why people see him as a hero,” Baghdatis remarked.

During the tour Baghdatis was also asked to take the walk of freedom, an experience that saw him choose a series of coloured sticks which represent various characteristics of Nelson Mandela’s life.

Reflecting on his choice of sticks Baghdatis said “I chose loyalty because it’s always important to have loyalty to everything in life, courage I chose because showing courage is when you get the best out of you, and forgiveness because we have to forgive people that made mistakes and give them a second chance to make everything right for all the people that live this life and to leave a legacy that will not allow people to suffer like other people have”.

Finally the tour ended with Baghdatis signing the museum’s visitor book, the same book which Mandela signed when the museum opened in 2001.

Meanwhile at the SA Tennis Open, Baghdatis eased into the quarterfinals and he will meet David Ferrer.

(Via atpworldtour.com, SA Tennis Open website; Images by Reg Caldecott/SA Tennis Open)