Justine Henin took yet another step towards retaining her French Open title by defeating Serena Williams in the quarterfinals yesterday. She inflicted a defeat on Serena, arguably her strongest opponent in the tournament till date, with a score line of 6-4, 6-3. Henin, a two-time defending champion at the Roland Garros, adopted an aggressive strategy [...]
The semifinals at French Open had different fates in store for top two seeds of the tournament. While Maria Sharapova was beaten by Ana Ivanovic, Justine Henin stormed into the finals. Amidst all this, the dream of an all-serbian clash in the finals was over. In the first semifinal, 19-year old Anna Ivanovic – who [...]
Jelena Jankovic is one of the brightest talents around in the WTA circuit at the moment. Not only she is physically fit but also her mental concentration is comparable to world number one Justine Henin. Jankovic continuing her flawless tennis defeated Maria Sharapova in a tight three setter 4-6, 6-3, 7-5 to win grass court [...]
As expected, Roger Federer and Justine Henin have been given the top seedings in the men’s and women’s singles respectively at this year’s Wimbledon tennis championship. Britain will have its hopes pinned on 20-year-old Andy Murray who has been seeded eighth in men’s singles. Murray’s participation, however, remains shrouded in a cloud of uncertainty as [...]
Jelena Jankovic almost fell by the wayside before the third seeded Serbian staged a brilliant comeback to scrape past Lucie Safarova in a see-saw third round match in Wimbledon. Swiss miss and former world number one Martina Hingis, however, was not as lucky as Jankovic and Hingis bowed out of the event with a defeat [...]
Justine Henin reasserted her position as the number one female tennis player by overcoming a stiff challenge posed by Serbia’s Jelena Jankovic to win the Roger’s Cup in Toronto. The Belgian defeated Jankovic in straight sets 7-6 7-5, however, it was a very hard fought one. The first set was very tightly competed for and [...]
“She played unbelievable. She fought well. She deserved to win.” – her opponent Serbian Jelena Jankovic. Recently chosen as one of People’s Magazine’s annual 100 Most Beautiful People in the World, Venus Ebone Starr Williams, a 5 time grand slam winner has kept the nations chances alive in her home grand slam the 2007 US [...]
