Dinara Safina Out of Los Angeles WTA Tournament

World no. 1 Dinara Safina failed to reach the last eight of the Los Angles WTA tournament. The top seed Russian was handed a shocking defeat by Chinese star Zheng Jie who won the three-set match 7-5 4-6 6-4. With this victory Zheng reached the quarter final of the tournament and is now ready to face rising Australian star Samantha Stosur in the last eight of the tournament.

Zheng Jie started the game pretty well winning the first set 7-5, but faced huge challenge from the Russian who won the next one 6-4 pretty easily. In fact, Safina was on course of winning the match when she was leading 4-2 in the third and the deciding set. However, Zheng Jie had something different in her mind as she won the next four sets to clinch an excellent victory.

Safina has not been in good form since attaining the top place in WTA ranking. The Russian failed to reach the final of Wimbledon 2009 and now has failed to reach the quarterfinal in Los Angles. However, despite Safina’s fall, Russian tennis fans have something to cherish on as former world no. 1 Maria Sharapova reached the last eight of the tournament winning over Alona Bondarenko in a three-set game, even though she started the game losing the first set.

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Venus Williams face Marion Bartoli in the final round of WTA Bank of the West Classic tournament

Venus Williams is perhaps one of the leading female tennis players at her time. She plays a dominant role in tennis court. She is always top favorite team and most of the time we see her in the final round. It seems that final round is a secured place for her in any tournament. However, at the WTA Bank of the West Classic tournament, she moves in the final round. In the final round, she will face Marion Bartoli of France. She beats Elena Dementieva by 6-0, 6-1 and secured her position. Now, she needs one more victory to be the champion of this tournament. Marion Bartoli bet Samantha Stosur in the second round 6-3, 1-6 and 6-1.

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Stanford Tennis: Samantha Stosur Defeated Top Seed Serena Williams

Top seed Serena Williams suffered a shocking at the hands of Australian Samantha Stosur. Thus, Serena’s nine-match winning steak has been ended. With the 6-2, 3-6, 6-2 victory, Stosur has ensured her semi-final progress at the Stanford Tennis competition. The Aussie would face Marion Bartoli in the semi final as the French defeated Jelena Jankovic to make her way to the last four. Stosur is naturally very much delighted after such a big victory. The 25-year-old admitted that it was one of her best victories of her career. Now, she wants to make it to the final by winning the semi final match.

Samantha Stosur started off very well against Serena Williams who was underperformed in the game. Stosur took the first set 6-2, but the American bounced back in the second set strongly to win it by 3-6. However, Samantha Stosur once again showed her skill and talent to outperform Serena Williams in the third set 6-2, and thus, ensuring an excellent victory. Meanwhile, Serena’s elder sister Venus Williams defeated former world no. 1 Maria Sharapova in another quarter final match.

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Pete Sampras: I am Unbeatable on Grass in My Prime

Pete Sampras has said that he could have beaten current world no. 1 Roger Federer in his prime. The former world no. 1 feels that Federer, who surpassed Sampras’ 14 grand slam title to become the highest grand slam singles winner in male tennis, does not pose any threat on grass with his big serve.

Pete Sampras believes that he could have put huge pressure on Federer thanks to his serve and volley game. However, the American tennis great admits that Federer could have been very hard to break, considering his ability to clinch aces.

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Rafael Nadal will be recovered soon?

Former world number one tennis player Rafael Nadal is facing doubt about his presence in the ATP world tour. This veteran player is now suffering from knee injury since the French Open. Due to his injury, he could not attend in the Wimbledon 2009. However, second seeded player Roger Federer got his 15^th Grand Slam titles in this tournament. It is thought that his absence allowed Federer to get the victory and made a world record in this venue. Nadal had to go under surgery. Now, he is waiting to come back and recover as early as possible. Now, fans of this super star are expecting to see him as soon as possible. He played his last match in 31^st May against Robin Soderling of Sweden in the fourth round of f Roland Garros tournament.

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Roger Federer and Mirka have had twins’ baby

Roger Federer is the world best tennis player. We have seen him caught media attention for his best achievement. Now, this time Swiss star has become the main media attention for his twins’ baby. Roger Federer and his wife Mirka have just had twins baby and this thing has made double joy for this couple. Federer informed in his personal website that the twin girls were born last night in Switzerland. I hope that he will be inspired to do much better in tennis court for his twins’ baby. You will get much information in his website. If you want you can visit the link which is given in below-

http://www.rogerfederer.com/en/

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Who can stop Roger Federer?

Tennis fans will be fear of thinking about who can stop the Swiss star Roger Federer in the upcoming US Open which will start from August this year. I know your answer should be Rafael Nadal. Yes, he is obviously a good player. He stopped Federer five times. So, we can expect such kind of performance from him. But it should not be an easy task for this top-seeded player. Roger Federer has made a world record of 15-Grand Slam title in Wimbledon tournament. He got his maiden title in French Open. No doubt, he has become a big threat for men’s tennis game. In the final round of Wimbledon, Andy Roddick tried his best to get win but failed against Federer. Some tennis legends Pete Sampras, Rod Laver and Bjorn Borg came to watch this movie.

Some of you can say that the absence of Rafael Nadal made his path clear to reach the destination. So, we can say that Nadal’s return in the tennis court is necessary.

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