Women Who Serve

Recently retired Tathiana Garbin plans to work with the Italian Tennis Federation, and she will also do some television work. I learned ...

Until today, Alize Cornet of France had never won a Fed Cup match. In fact, a few years ago, she asked to be removed from second day play be...

Jarmila Groth, currently ranked number 40 in the world, has won the Moorilla Hobart International. Groth defeated Bethanie Mattek-Sands 6-4,...

Hopman Cup competition is supposed to be relaxed event. It has nothing to do with either tour, but is a season-opening tradition which fans ...

Elena Dementieva has accepted the position of vice president of the Russian Tennis Federation, which can be only a good thing for Russian te...

Jarmila Groth won her first tour title today. Groth defeated Alla Kudryavtseva 6-1, 6-4 to claim the Guangzhou International Women's Ope...

Qualifier Tamira Paszek advanced to the Bell Challenge final today, with a 6-2, 6-2 win over Christina McHale. In the final, she will play B...

Sania Mirza's comeback was cut short today by Zhang Shuai, who defeated her 6-4, 1-6, 6-4 in the Guangzhou quarterfinals. Meanwhile, top...

If Maria Sharapova were hoping for a good first-round warmup at the U.S. Open, then her hopes have probably been realized, for she will play...

3rd seed Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova defeated Jarmila Groth 7-6, 2-6, 7-5 in the Istanbul semifinals today, setting up a final against Elena Ve...

The Kansas City Explorers are the 2010 World Team Tennis champions. It is the first championship for the team. Jarmila Groth was named the ...

Petra Kvitova has always been a good hitter, but has tended to be careless. She has steadied herself at Wimbledon, however, and today added ...

5th seed Melinda Czink and 6th seed Magdalena Rybarikova were both upset today at the Estoril Open. Stephanie Voegele defeated Czink 6-4, 6-...

The Asian wild card into the Australian Open has been given to Sesil Karatantcheva, and the other remaining one has been given to Australian...

Alexa Glatch will not be competing for a wild card into the Australian Open main draw, after all. The latest contenders announced are Juli...

After she defeated Jarmila Groth today--6-2, 0-6, 6-3--in the Estoril Open quarterfinals, 7th seed Shahar Peer had to obtain crutches in ord...

Yesterday, in her Estoril blog , number 1 seed Iveta Benesova remarked that she had played poorly in her first round. Whatever was wrong, sh...