Anastasia Myskina gave birth to son Zhenya on Monday evening in Moscow (date: April 28). The identity of the father is still a secret. Myskina refuses to reveal it, although he is believed to be her former boyfriend, Russian hockey player Constantine Korneyev. Reports indicate he is currently with the Russian national team in Quebec City, where the World Hockey Championships are being held.

Myskina has been out of action on the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour for almost a year now, and she has not made any announcements on whether or not she will return to the Tour. The Muscovite, who turns 27 this summer, has 10 career Tour singles titles. She was the first Russian woman to win a Grand Slam singles title at the French Open in 2004. Her highest singles ranking was No.2. (via Tennis.com)

Wimbledon has announced that the Men’s and Ladies’ Singles Champions will each receive £750,000 ($1.48 million), an increase of 7.1% over 2007 (£700,000).

The total prize money will increase by 4.7% to £11,812,000 from £11,282,710 in 2007, while prize money for each of the Men’s and the Ladies’ Doubles events will exceed £1 million for the first time.

Still, the winners of this year's French Open singles will get the most of any Grand Slam, 1 million euros each ($1.56 million). Roger Federer and Justine Henin won $1.4 million each by taking the singles titles at last year's US Open. The US Open purse for this year hasn't been announced. This year's Australian Open champions, Novak Djokovic and Maria Sharapova, each won A$1.37 million ($1.28 million).

Reminder: Last year marked the first time women and men earned equal prize money at Wimbledon. (via Bloomberg)

Former world No.4 Jelena Dokic, now unranked after missing two years with injuries, on Tuesday made her first WTA Tour main draw appearance since January and lost in straight sets in the first round.

Dokic had to go through qualifying to reach the main draw of the Grand Prix de SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem, but she didn’t go further than the first round when she lost 6-4 6-2 to Hungary’s Greta Arn. Dokic had won both her previous meetings with Arn, the last six years ago. On Tuesday, she double-faulted 11 times and converted only one of four break chances.

Before this Tier IV event, Dokic played only once this year in the main draw of a WTA tournament, when she qualified at Hobart, Australia (her first main draw in two years).

Dokic has won five WTA Tour titles in her career, and was a Wimbledon semifinalist in 2000. (via SI.com, photo via miccah)

Most successful Serbian tennis players, including women’s tennis stars Ana Ivanovic and Jelena Jankovic, have been featured on the stamps specially created for the upcoming 2008 Olympic Games. However, there was a misunderstanding in the process. Ana Ivanovic and Jelena Jankovic were protesting because not all the stamps have the same value, and that was why they didn't attend the promotion of the stamps. Janko Tipsarevic's stamp is worth 20 dinars, Jelena Jankovic's and Nenad Zimonjic's 30 dinars, Ana Ivanovic's 40 dinars, and Novak Djokovic's 46 dinars. Haha, who cares about the value of the stamps? Read more »

Serena Williams helped to unveil Nike's 2008 Women's Fall Line in Venice, California. The presentation included a full range of sports apparel including track suits, t-shirts, tank tops, shorts, gym bags, sneakers, and accessories.

Additional info: Serena is said to have a $55 million dollar deal with Nike. Read more »

Ana Ivanovic recovered from the fever that prevented her from playing on the opening day of the Fed Cup World Group II Play-Off with Croatia in Zagreb. On the second day, the Serb was able to compete and faced Croatia's Nika Ozegovic.

World No.2 Ivanovic defeated Ozegovic, ranked 150th, 7-5 6-1 and gave Serbia an unassailable 3-0 lead for a promotion into the World Group II.

When illness forced Ivanovic to skip her Saturday's match, she was replaced by much less experienced Ana Jovanovic who managed to score the first point for Serbia. Later in the day, world No.5 Jelena Jankovic also defeated her Croatian opponent.

After the dead rubbers, the final score was that Serbia defeated Croatia 3-2. (image via Great Tennis Photos)

Maria Sharapova, Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Development Program, will visit Chernobyl this summer in order to draw attention to problems that regions hit by the nuclear disaster still face.

Sharapova was born in Siberia a year after her parents were forced to leave the city of Gomel in Belarus, which was one of the areas most affected by radiation from the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in neighboring Ukraine.

"A lot of families were moving, but not a lot of them could because they didn't really know where to go," said the three-times Grand Slam champion, who has never been to Chernobyl. "My mom's dad happened to be working in Siberia, so that's why we had a sense of direction."

Shortly after taking on her Chernobyl role last year in February, Sharapova donated $100,000 to youth projects in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine, former Soviet republics where the after-effects of the disaster are still felt. (via RIA Novosti, photo via Maria Sharapova's official site)

Russia and Spain eased past their semifinal opponents on Sunday, and will face each other in September's Fed Cup final.

Russia and Spain quickly finished off the job they started on Saturday, with Vera Zvonareva beating U.S. player Vania King 4-6 6-3 6-2 to give Russia an unassailable 3-0 lead in the tie and Nuria Llagostera Vives overcoming China's Peng Shuai 6-4 6-4 to do the same for Spain. Read more »

Serbia’s world No.2 Ana Ivanovic wasn’t able to play the opening singles of the Fed Cup tie against Croatia due to viral infection.

However, her much less experienced compatriot, Ana Jovanovic, ranked 268th in the world, managed to defeat Croatia’s world No.152 Jelena Kostanic-Tosic 6-4 7-5. The second singles on Saturday included Serbia’s world No.5 Jelena Jankovic and Croatia’s world No.150 Nika Ozegovic. The Serb won 6-1 6-2.

This means that Serbia leads 2-0 against Croatia after the opening day. (image via Great Tennis Photos)

Defending champions Russia won both singles rubbers against the United States in Moscow and came closer to their fourth Fed Cup final in five years, while five-time winners Spain made just as successful start in their semifinal against China in Beijing.

In Moscow, Anna Chakvetadze beat Vania King 6-4 7-5 before Svetlana Kuznetsova saw off Fed Cup debutant Ahsha Rolle 6-2 6-1. In Beijing, Carla Suarez-Navarro upset Peng Shuai 6-3 7-6 (7-4) while Nuria Llagostera Vives cruised past Zheng Jie 6-3 6-4.

Russia and Spain are now one win away from meeting each other in September's final. (via BBC, photo from Fed Cup)