top sports stars: August 2011

Sunday, August 7, 2011

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Sania Mirza (Urdu: ثانیہ مرزا , Telugu: సానియా మీర్జా, Hindi: सानिया मिर्जा) (born 15 November 1986, in Mumbai) is a professional Indian tennis player. She began her tennis career in 2003 and is well-known for her powerful forehand ground strokes. She is the first ever Indian to break into the top 30 WTA rankings. Mirza has defeated many top players, including Svetlana Kuznetsova and Martina Hingis.

In 2004 she was awarded the Arjuna award by the Indian Government. In 2006, Mirza was awarded a Padma Shri, India's fourth highest honour for her achievements as a tennis player In March 2010, The Economic Times named Mirza in the list of the "33 women who made India proud
1 Early life
2 Career
2.1 2003–2007
2.2 2008
2.3 2009
2.4 2010
2.5 2011
3 Personal life
4 Controversy
5 Major finals
5.1 Grand Slam events
5.1.1 Doubles finals: 1 (0 titles, 1 runner–up)
5.1.2 Mixed Doubles: 2 (1 titles, 1 runner–up)
6 Career finals
6.1 WTA Tour singles finals: 4 (1–3)
6.2 WTA Tour women's doubles finals: 17 (12–5)
6.3 Non-international tournaments
6.3.1 Singles
6.3.2 Doubles
6.3.3 Mixed Doubles
7 Timeline in Doubles and Singles
7.1 Singles performance timeline
7.2 Women's doubles performance timeline
8 References
8.1 Sources
9 External links
Mirza was born to Imran Mirza, a sports journalist, and his wife Nasima in Mumbai, Maharashtra. She was brought up in Hyderabad in a religious family Mirza began playing tennis at the age of six, turning professional in 2003. She was trained by her father. She attended NASR school in Hyderabad and later graduated from St. Mary's College

In April 2003, Mirza made her debut in the India Fed Cup team, winning all three singles matches. She also won the 2003 Wimbledon Championships Girls' Doubles title, teaming up with Alisa Kleybanova of Russia.

Mirza is the highest ranked female tennis player ever from India, with a career high ranking of 27 in singles and 11 in doubles. She is the first Indian woman to be seeded in a Grand Slam tennis tournament. She was the first Indian woman to reach the fourth round of a Grand Slam tournament at the 2005 U.S. Open, defeating Mashona Washington, Maria Elena Camerin and Marion Bartoli. In winning, with Mahesh Bhupathi, the mixed doubles event at the 2009 Australian Open, she became the first Indian woman to win a Grand Slam title.

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Thursday, August 4, 2011

Caroline Wozniacki 2011 mages Tennis Pictures french player

Caroline Wozniacki (born 11 July 1990) is a Danish professional tennis player. She is the current World No. 1 on theTour. As of 1 August 2011, she has held this position for 42 weeks She is the first Danish tennis player to hold the top ranking position and 20th overall

Since her WTA debut in 2005, she has improved her year-end ranking each year until finishing on top in 2010. She has won 17 singles titles as of June 2011, three in 2008, three in 2009, six in 2010 (the most since Justine Henin's ten in 2007) and five in 2011. She was runner-up at the 2009 US Open and the 2010 Tour Championships in Doha to Kim Clijsters. She won the 2006 Wimbledon Girls' Singles, but has yet to win a Women's Grand Slam title. She also holds two WTA titles in doubles.
1 Early life
2 Playing style
3 Career
3.1 2005
3.2 2006
3.3 2007
3.4 2008
3.5 2009
3.6 2010
3.7 2011
4 Personal life
5 Career statistics
5.1 Grand Slam finals
5.1.1 Singles: 1 (0–1)
6 Singles performance timeline
7 Awards
8 References
9 External links
Wozniacki is the daughter of Polish immigrants, Piotr and Anna Wozniacki Her mother played on the Polish women's national volleyball team,and her father played professional football. The couple moved to Denmark when Piotr signed for the Danish football club Boldklubben 1909 Wozniacki's older brother Patrik is a professional footballer for Hvidovre IF in Denmark.

Wozniacki's playing style centers "around the defensive aspects of tennis with her anticipation, movement, agility, footwork and defence all first-rate and key parts of her gameHer two-handed backhand is one of the best in the game due to her ability to turn defense into offense. Her defensive playing style has her contemporaries label her a counter-puncher.

Wozniacki won several junior tournaments in 2005, including the Orange Bowl tennis championship. She made her debut on the Tour at Cincinnati's Western & Southern Financial Group Women's Open on 19 July 2005, losing to the top-seeded and eventual champion Patty Schnyder in the first round. In the Nordea Nordic Light Open, her other WTA tournament of the year, she lost to Martina Suchá in the first round.
In 2006, she was the top seed at the Australian Open (junior girls' singles), but lost the final to eighth-seeded Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia. She was seeded second with partner Anna Tatishvili in the doubles tournament, but the pair was knocked out in the semifinals by the French-Italian pair of Alizé Cornet and Corinna Dentoni, who were seeded eighth.

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