Victoria Azarenka lost to Serena Williams in the Wimbledon 2009 quarterfinals. Azarenka was the eighth seed. Azarenka is ranked No. 8 in WTA singles and has two tournament titles in '09.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Victoria Azarenka
Victoria Azarenka lost to Serena Williams in the Wimbledon 2009 quarterfinals. Azarenka was the eighth seed. Azarenka is ranked No. 8 in WTA singles and has two tournament titles in '09.
Agnieszka Radwanska
Agnieszka Radwanska got the boot at Wimbledon 2009 in the quarterfinals. Seeded 11th, she lost to third-seeded Venus Williams.
Monday, June 29, 2009
Caroline Wozniacki
Caroline Wozniacki was the ninth seed at Wimbledon 2009, but she's out of the tournament now. Wozniacki was beated in the fourth round by Sabine Lisicki, 6-4, 6-4.
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Ana Ivanovic
The showdown at Wimbledon 2009 between two former world No. 1s turned out to be not much of a showdown. Venus Williams easily dispatched Ana Ivanovic 6-1 in the first set, then Ivanovic withdrew with an injury one game into the second set.
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Saturday, June 27, 2009
Melanie Oudin
The biggest upset on the women's singles side at Wimbledon 2009 through the third round is that of Melanie Oudin beating No. 6 seed Jelena Jankovic. Oudin beat Jankovic, the former world No. 1, 6-7, 7-5, 6-2.
Oudin, a 17-year-old American, was selected for Fed Ex Cup play earlier this year. She had to win three qualifying matches to get into this Wimbledon, but will move into the Top 100 singles rankings regardless of what she does after this.
Kirsten Flipkens
A pose of repose by Kirsten Flipkens, who went out in the third round of Wimbledon 2009. Flipkens, from Belgium, was beaten by No. 1 seed Dinara Safina 7-5, 6-1.
Friday, June 26, 2009
Dominika Cibulkova
Dominika Cibulkova made it to the third round at Wimbledon 2009, but, alas, that's as far as she made it. Cibulkova, the 14th seed, lost to Elena Vesnina, 5-7, 6-4, 4-6. See more Dominika Cibulkova pics.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Maria Kirilenko
Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Maria Kirilenko was another second-round victim at Wimbledon 2009. See more Maria Kirilenko pics on Tennis Babes.
Rossana de los Rios
Rossana de los Rios lost in the second round of Wimbledon 2009 to top-seeded Dinara Safina. That came after de los Rios beat Nicole Vaidisova in the first round. De los Rios is from Paraguay and entered Wimbledon 2009 at the No. 100 player in the world.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Gisela Dulko
This is the tennis player who eliminated Maria Sharapova from Wimbledon 2009 today - Gisela Dulko of Argentina. Dulko beat Sharapova in a second-round match, 6-2, 3-6, 6-4. Dulko is No. 45 in the WTA singles rankings. She has no tournament wins in 2009, but has reached the quarterfinals in three tournaments.
More Gisela Dulko pictures on Tennis Babes
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Julia Goerges
Julia Goerges was a first-round loser at Wimbledon 2009, but she's always a winner with us. Goerges, from Germany, entered Wimbledon with a WTA singles rank of No. 93. She was beaten in the first round by the sixth seed and former world No. 1 Jelena Jankovic, 6-4, 7-6.
Monday, June 22, 2009
Jie Zheng
China's Jie Zheng was a winner on Day 1 of the 2009 Wimbledon, but she had to work for it. Zheng, the No. 16 seed, defeated Kristina Barrois 7-6 (7-2), 7-6 (7-4).
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Magdalena Rybarikova
It was career win No. 1 in WTA singles for Magdalena Rybarikova at the Edgbaston Classic in London. Rybarikova, from Slovakia, defeated Li Na in the final, 6-0, 7-6, after knocking off Maria Sharapova in the semifinals. Rybarikova was ranked 58th entering the tournament and will move up in the new rankings - perhaps moving past her previous best ranking of No. 46.
Saturday, June 6, 2009
Svetlana Kuznetsova
Your 2009 French Open champion, Svetlana Kuznetsova. Kuznetsova, the No. 7 seed, defeated the top-seeded Dinara Safina, 6-4, 6-2. It's her second Grand Slam singles title; she also won the 2004 U.S. Open.
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Dominika Cibulkova
Dominika Cibulkova put an end to Maria Sharapova's Grand Slam return, slamming Masha 6-0, 6-2 in the French Open quarterfinals. Cibulkova is the No. 20 seed at the French, and she moved on to her first-ever Grand Slam semifinals appearance.
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Monday, June 1, 2009
Sorana Cirstea
Sorana Cirstea gained one of the biggest wins of her young career at the French Open in the fourth round. The Romanian teen defeated former world No. 1 Jelena Jankovic,
3-6, 6-0, 9-7, to move into the quarterfinals. Cirstea is a clay court specialist ranked No. 40 in the world.
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