For the fourth annual edition of my WTA and LPGA money list countdown I will focus on the dynamic dozen from each tour, the top 12 on the money lists. For the WTA, singles, doubles and mixed are combined for total earnings. Here are the #1 players for 2016: Angelique Kerber (WTA) and Ariya Jutanugarn … Continue reading
Tagged with Medal …
Fairways and Forehands 2016 WTA and LPGA Top 12 Year In Review: #2 Serena Williams and Lydia Ko
For the fourth annual edition of my WTA and LPGA money list countdown I will focus on the dynamic dozen from each tour, the top 12 on the money lists. For the WTA, singles, doubles and mixed are combined for total earnings. Here are the #2 players for 2016: Serena Williams (WTA) and Lydia Ko … Continue reading
Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina Win Women’s Double Gold At 2016 Rio Olympics; Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Jack Sock Bring Mixed Doubles Gold Home To America
Just a quick dropshot post giving congratulations to the ladies taking doubles and mixed doubles Gold Medals home from the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics. Elena Vesnina continued a resurgent year by pairing with longtime doubles partner Ekaterina Makarova to bring Golden glory to Russia in women’s doubles. Elena won mixed doubles with Bruno Soares at … Continue reading
Samantha Stosur Reflects On Her Results In 2012
It was a pretty good year for Samantha Stosur in 2012. Of course, coming off 2011 when she won the US Open singles title, going winless in 2012 is a bit of a letdown. But as great as she is, she does “only” have 3 career singles titles. She’s reached 12 WTA singles finals but … Continue reading
Polish Olympian Zofia Noceti-Klepacka To Auction Bronze Medal To Raise Money For 5-Year Old Girl With Cystic Fibrosis
Zofia Noceti-Klepacka went to the 2012 London Summer Olympics with the hopes not only of winning a medal for herself, but for a very dear neighbor. The 26-year old Polish windsurfer was competing for her neighbor, 5-year old Zuzia, who suffers from cystic fibrosis, a serious and fatal disease that causes infections in the lungs … Continue reading
The Redeemed Team: USA Wins Gold In 2012 London Olympics Women’s Soccer
This was the game…against the team…that the United States Women’s National Soccer Team had been waiting and wanting for 389 days. It was that length of time ago that Team USA stood on a podium in Germany tearfully resigning themselves to a 2nd place finish in the 2011 Women’s World Cup, vanquished by a Japanese … Continue reading
Serena Williams Golden At 2012 London Olympics; Maria Sharapova Takes Silver, Victoria Azarenka Takes Bronze
If it had been a fight they would have stopped it. I’ve been sick the past few days and missed covering the semis and am late covering the final of the 2012 London Olympics Tennis competition. But nothing like the sick beatdown Serena administered to Maria Sharapova in the final. I thought her brushing aside … Continue reading