Dane Princess Meets Aggie in Semis

Dane Princess Meets Aggie in Semis

Top remaining seed, Princess Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark is doing her best to uphold the integrity of tennis royalty at Indian Wells. It is full time job, which some of the top seeds and former world number ones, now struggling beauty queens, do not understand. The 19-year old has now finished two consecutive tight matches with convincing third set wins.


Chinese Tennis Torture

Chinese Tennis Torture

The eyes of China were fixed upon the women’s singles semifinals at the 2010 Australian Open. After two homeland heroes were dismissed on Thursday afternoon, the world’s most populous nation might not remain riveted to the rectangle inside Rod Laver Arena. When one considers the quality of the matchup that’s been established for Saturday’s women’s [...]


Chinese Challengers

Chinese Challengers

The 2010 Australian Open is the Major tournament of the South Pacific, and so it’s entirely fitting that in one of the world’s most ethnically diverse nations, just west of the international dateline, the women’s singles tournament has witnessed the rise of China. Before tonight’s women’s semifinals get underway at Rod Laver Arena, it’s worth [...]


The Slaying of the Semifinalists: Zheng, Schuettler fall on day three

Wimbledon 2009 25 Jun 2009

If some people on the planet still couldn’t appreciate the amazing nature of Roger Federer’s streak of 20 straight Grand Slam singles semifinals, those foggy-minded folks might finally see the light after the third day of play at the 2009 Wimbledon Championships. In a development that won’t grab headlines in the London tabloids, three of [...]


Czech-ing Out: Vaidisova’s tailspin continues with first-round defeat

Wimbledon 2009 24 Jun 2009

Three years ago, the future of women’s tennis had Nicole Vaidisova’s name written all over it. Today, a career that once held so much promise lies in tatters, reduced to the rubble of a first-round loss at Wimbledon. Vaidisova’s stay in England proved to be short-lived in 2009, as the Czech got bounced by Paraguay’s [...]