23rd seed Alisa Kleybanova has withdrawn from the French Open because
of illness. Lucky loser Anastasia Pivovarova has replaced Kleybanova in
the draw.
Marion Bartoli hopes to be able to play her French Open first round on
Monday. She had to retire in the Strasbourg final today because of a
thigh injury.
The Brisbane International tournament has been upgraded to Premier status.
ESPN.com recently posted a poll so that people could vote for who they think is the greatest tennis player of all time. All of the players listed were men. So instead of asking "Who is the greatest male player of all time?" ESPN just went with the usual sexist approach of presuming that "tennis players" are male and "great" tennis players are male. Big surprise.
Babolat is the official ball of the 2011 French Open. Defending champion Francesca Schiavone will be using a customized version of the Babolat AeroPro Drive.
Jillian Michaels is leaving the cast of NBC's "The Biggest Loser," but there's "good" news: Anna Kournikova is joining the cast.
2 comments:
Interesting read.
Disappointed to note about ESPN.
Ladies Tennis are so widely followed - How could ESPN mess it up?
Catch my thoughts at French Open 2011
ESPN messes it up just like every other media outlet--no worse. Women's sports "don't count."
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