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Serena Williams breaks WTA season prize money mark

AP News 5 days ago

Serena Williams tops $6.5M in prize money in '09, breaking single-season WTA record Serena Williams has set the record for single-season prize money in women's tennis by topping $6.5 million in 2009. Williams broke the WTA mark of slightly under $5.5 million, ...

Family man Federer returns to headline at home

AFP Global Edition 6 days ago

Roger Federer returns after six weeks off resting and easing into his new role as a father of twin girls when he headlines at his home event, the Swiss Indoors, starting on Monday. The world number one opted out of the recent ...

Serena cruises past Venus to take WTA Championships title

AFP Global Edition 6 days ago

Serena Williams won her second career WTA Championships title on Sunday with a commanding 6-2, 7-6 (7/4) victory over sister Venus, a triumph which earned her a cool 1.55 million dollars. Serena, who will finish the season as world number one, also ...

Agassi says he took what he believes to be speed

AP News 6 days ago

In an excerpt from upcoming book, Andre Agassi says he took what he believes to be speed Andre Agassi says in an excerpt from his soon-to-be-released autobiography that he swallowed a pill given to him by his father — apparently when he ...

Serena beats Venus in WTA championships final

AP News 6 days ago

Serena Williams beats sister Venus in final of season-ending WTA championships in Doha Serena Williams bested big sister Venus again Sunday, winning 6-2, 7-6 (4) in the season-ending Sony Ericsson Championships final. Serena broke twice in the first set and lost just ...

Agassi admits mane was a wig

AFP Global Edition 7 days ago

Former tennis star Andre Agassi has admitted the lion mane-style hairstyle he sported during the 1990s was actually a wig, in extracts from his autobiography published in British newspapers Saturday. Agassi said he wore a hairpiece held together with pins in his ...

Safina battles for Australian Open fitness

AFP Global Edition 10 days ago

Dinara Safina faces a desperate Australian Open fitness battle after suffering a crippling back injury at the WTA Championships which also forced her to tearfully surrender her world number one ranking. The 23-year-old Russian, who said she had been plagued by inflammation ...

'I hate tennis': Agassi's book adds to his tale

AP News 10 days ago

Image is everything: Agassi's book adds plenty of new, unexpected visuals, including drug use So much of Andre Agassi's life has been spent in the public eye — the various highs and lows, on and off the court, during his transformation from ...

Andre Agassi revelations leave sport in state of shock

Reuters US Online Report Top News 10 days ago

DOHA (Reuters) - Eight-times grand slam winner Andre Agassi left the tennis world in a state of shock on Wednesday when he admitted using the recreational drug crystal meth and lying to men's governing body the ATP to escape a ban. In ...

Tearful Safina loses world top spot, Serena eclipses Venus

AFP Global Edition 10 days ago

Russia's Dinara Safina hobbled out of the WTA Championships here on Wednesday, surrendering the year-end world number one ranking to Serena Williams in the process. Williams then celebrated the landmark by beating sister Venus 5-7, 6-4, 7-6 (7/4), sending the defending champion ...

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