Documentary movie about Jelena Jankovic will premier on November 12th in Belgrade.
The movie is called Jelena’s World. It portrays the world of professional tennis through the life of the current world No.1 herself.
Here you can see the photo gallery from the filming and the trailer, which is in Serbian, but you’ll get the idea).
I didn’t know Tatiana Golovin smoked!
Considering the current state of her tennis career, no wonder she resorted to vices. Let’s just mention that the 20-year-old Golovin started the 2008 season ranked 13th, and now she’s ranked 249th.
Or maybe the French tennis player started smoking because of her turbulent love life? Who knows. Read more »
You probably know about the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour’s Challenge Your Hero campaign and their video competition.
Yodhi Soemardjan won the first place with his Routine Hero video in which he is challenging Ana Ivanovic. Yodhi will have the thrilling opportunity to see his Heroes up close at the Sony Ericsson Championships in Doha next week.
There are also five second place winners who will be receiving Sony Ericsson mobile phones. Here you can see the second place winners' videos.
American Serena Williams is making her return to the Perth Hopman Cup in 2009, teamed up with James Blake, with whom she won the tournament in 2003.
Williams will make her third appearance at the Hopman Cup, where she has never lost a match. Last year, nine-time Grand Slam champion Serena Williams won the title in Perth, partnered with Mardy Fish, so she will be defending her title in 2009.
Here are the Hyundai Hopman Cup teams in seeded order:
(1) USA: Serena Williams and James Blake
(2) Russia: Dinara Safina and Marat Safin
(3) France: Alize Cornet and Gilles Simon
(4) Australia: Casey Dellacqua and Lleyton Hewitt
(5) Italy: Flavia Pennetta and Simone Bolelli
(6) Germany: Sabine Lisicki and Nicolas Kiefer
(7) Slovak Republic: Dominika Cibulkova and Dominik Hrbaty
(8) Winner Asian Hopman Cup (The Asian Hopman Cup will be played November 12-15 in Kazakhstan.)
The Hyundai Hopman Cup is the Official Mixed Teams Championship of the International Tennis Federation. The 21st one will take place at the Burswood Dome from 3 – 9 January 2009. (source: Hyundai Hopman Cup)
According to the readers of German newspaper Die Bild, Serbia’s Ana Ivanovic has the most beautiful body of any sportsperson – male or female.
The 20-year-old Ana scored 51% of all votes, beating fellow tennis player Maria Sharapova who took second place with significantly less votes, just 14% (if I understood this German article right - with my very limited knowledge of the language).
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