Lena kicks ReRe’s injured ass to defend Sydney title

Well now, that’s just awesome! Elena Dementieva heavily defeated World #1 Serena Williams 6-3, 6-2 earlier today to successfully defend her Sydney title. The match was pretty interesting. One of the standouts in my opinion was Lena’s serve. Every tennis fan worth their salt knows that it’s normally a load of bollocks, but today, it was consistently [...]

If The AO Is Half This Crazy, Buckle Up

Thursday’s play (or in some cases, lack of play) in Sydney was full of more drama and upsets. Stan had to withdraw from his match against Julien because of a neck strain. Feli wasn’t able to play dubs because his partner, Jonathan Erlich had a “right rib” problem. Poor Feli, he’s not going to be [...]

Dina actually beats a Top Tenner; Sydney results

Well, would ya look at that. Dinara won a match against A-Rad earlier today, in what can best be described as a typical WTA shitfest. Dina’s serve was woeful, Aga served for the first set three times and failed everytime, and Radwanska’s attempts volleys were increasingly embarrassing.  On a positive note, Dinara hit a few clean winners, [...]

Suck It, ITF.

What’s this? The WTA all-Belgian week. Yanina Wickmayer beat Flavs in the Auckland final, 6-3, 6-2.  As you all must have heard and read, Yanina had her one-year ban (a fucking stupid ban) for anti-doping violations overturned.  She received a last minute Wild Card for Auckland and comes out with the title. Nice Story. Sad for Flavs and [...]

The WTA Saviors

You know that’s what you’re going to hear everywhere. Just like old times. Kim and JuJu met in a final that makes you go all warm and fuzzy inside. It was 2 hours and 24 minutes of great tennis and momentum swings, that finished in a 3rd set TB with both ladies saving match points. [...]

Yeah, Yeah. You Get Your Dream Final.

I expected so much more from this match, but this IS the WTA after all. The match was crap. Crap, I tell you. Anita played like shit, and so did JuJu. The small moments of brilliance from Juju won her the match. The “OMFG I’m playing Justine Henin” virus that Ana had was another big factor. [...]

Fist Pumps For Everybody

Look who won in straight sets. This girl. The best I’ve seen Anita play in a long, long time. The first serve was great, the forehand and the slice were working. Well, until she was serving for the match. She was up 5-3 in the second, then the nerves started to kick in. Pavs broke [...]

Flavia gets sh*t done!

HSM fave, and all-round BAMF, Flavia Pennetta of Italy, defeated American Jill Craybas in just 70 minutes to make it through to the next round of the ASB Classic in New Zealand. It was a thoroughly comprehensive 6-2, 6-4 victory for top seed Flavs, who impressed many with her performances last year. Girl looked to be [...]