Beauty of a player is among the things taken into consideration when deciding on the court selection at Wimbledon and it has been confirmed by All England Club spokesperson Johnny Perkins.

"Good looks are a factor," said Perkins, and added that court selection is "a great big mixture of where the players are in the draw, who they're playing, what their ranking is".

Svetlana Kuznetsova was among those bewildered by the situation:

It's weird. If you look at the schedule, it's not only about me. It's about Dinara on Court No 2, Venus (Williams) on Court No 1 and the girls who are not very highly seeded they play on Centre. I respect them. They're great players for sure. But this is what's weird for me; what's their strategy, what's their plan of making the schedule?

Kuzzy, I’m illustrating this article with your photo!

Despite the frustrations of the supposedly less-pretty top players, BBC is benefiting from Wimbledon’s scheduling policy.

A BBC source said:

No one has heard of many of the women now, so if they are pretty it definitely gives them an edge. Our preference would always be a Brit or a babe as this always delivers high viewing figures.

(source Daily Mail via Down the Line, photo courtesy of Life)

The injury which made Ana Ivanovic quit Wimbledon 2009 in tears is luckily just a mild one.

The 21-year-old Ivanovic was forced to retire from her fourth-round match with Venus Williams yesterday, but fortunately, the prognosis of her injury is a good one: although very painful, her left-thigh injury is not serious, it is a micro-tear.

The Serbian world No.12 must rest for just a week or two, and hence her schedule is not supposed to be affected. She will next play Los Angeles. (source: Ana Ivanovic's official website, photo courtesy of Life)

Semifinal pairs are set at Wimbledon: twice defending champion Venus Williams will play top seed Dinara Safina, while last year’s finalist Serena Williams will face Elena Dementieva.

Five-time Wimbledon champion Venus Williams wasted little time in defeating 11th seed Agnieszka Radwanska. Williams raced to a 5-0 lead in 18 minutes and won the first set in just 27 minutes. Radwanska was coping better at the start of the second set and even got to 0-40 in game two, before converting her first chance to break. However, the third-seeded Williams wasn’t really threatened and broke two times in a row to get to 5-2 and soon after she sealed a 6-1 6-2 victory.

World number one Dinara Safina, who is not a fan of grass and has never before went further than the third round at Wimbledon, came back from a set down to overcome unseeded Sabine Lisicki 6-7(5) 6-4 6-1, the winner over ninth seed Caroline Wozniacki in the fourth round. Safina remained on course for a first Grand Slam title, despite her unconvincing game and 15 double faults.

Fourth seed Elena Dementieva crushed Francesca Schiavone 6-2 6-2 and advanced to the Wimbledon semifinal for the second year in a row. The last to join the semifinalist was second seed Serena Williams who beat eighth seed Victoria Azarenka 6-2 6-3.

It's the first time since 2006 that all four top seeded players reached the semifinals. (photos: Life)

Ana Ivanovic quit Wimbledon in tears after sustaining a thigh injury during her fourth-round match with Venus Williams.

The thirteenth-seeded Ivanovic lost the first set 6-1, and then injured her thigh when serving in the first game of the second set. Ivanovic received treatment and returned to win that one game, but then quit the match.

Ivanovic was far from the favorite to win the encounter with twice defending champion Venus Williams, but the way she lost the match hurts the Serbian former world number one the most and her exit was very emotional.

Other fourth-round matches of the day: top seed Dinara Safina overcame seed No.17 Amelie Mauresmo in three sets 4-6 6-3 6-4, Venus’ sister Serena Williams, seeded second, got past Daniela Hantuchova 6-3 6-1. Fourth seed Elena Dementieva defeated fellow Russian Elena Vesnina 6-1 6-3, No.8 seed Victoria Azarenka beat No.10 seed Nadia Petrova 7-6(5) 2-6 6-3, 11th seed Agnieszka Radwanska stopped Melanie Oudin from progressing further.

Also, there were two upsets: ninth seed Caroline Wozniacki was beaten by Sabine Lisicki 6-4 6-4, and No.26 seed Virginie Razzano lost to Francesca Schiavone 6-2 7-6(1). (photo: Life)

Lindsay Davenport’s two-year-old son Jagger got a sister as the tennis star gave birth to a baby girl on Saturday June 27. Little Lauren Andrus Davenport Leach was born at 11:04 in Newport Beach, California.

The former world number one returned to competitive tennis only three months after the birth of Jagger, and her comeback was more than successful since she won three of the first four tournaments she entered.

Davanport hasn’t played competitive tennis since the 2008 US Open, and there is still no news whether the 33-year-old mother of two will revive her career again. (source: Reuters, photo: Getty Images)

Handsome golfer Adam Scott was spotted in Ana Ivanovic’s box, watching her second-round match against Sara Errani.

"I met her in Australia. But I'm not going to say any more," Scott said after the match.

Asked whether he'd be back to see more of Ivanovic, he said: "I sure hope so."

Scott has skipped the Tiger Woods AT&T National to join Ivanovic at Wimbledon.

Whether they are dating we still don’t know, but remember that Ivanovic's ex-boyfriend Fernando Verdasco was also watching her play from the stands, prior to the confirmation of their relationship.

Earlier this year Ivanovic and Scott were seen hanging out at the beaches of Queensland. (source: HCFoo's Tennis Blog)

Jelena Jankovic, who was stunned by 17-year-old Melanie Oudin in the third round of Wimbledon, didn’t want to blame her own lack of quality for the defeat and even characterized her opponent’s game as mediocre.

From what I have seen, she can play if you let her play. But she cannot hurt you with anything. She doesn't have any weapons, from what I've seen. She's a consistent and quite solid player. She doesn't make so many mistakes. But she doesn't do anything either, so it's like she's depending kind of on you.

These statements seem especially unacceptable when you consider that Oudin made 38 winners to Jankovic's 13.

I'm a Jankovic fan but she should have shown respect for her opponent and accepted her own decline, despite the diziness that affecteed her during the match. (source: Tennis Head, photo: Life)

Fifth seed Svetlana Kuznetsova did not let sixth seed Jelena Jankovic hold the title of the biggest upset in the first week of Wimbledon for long, as she quickly followed her out by losing to Sabine Lisicki 6-2 7-5.

The world No.41 Lisicki won the first set in 37 minutes and established a 5-2 lead in the second. Kuznetsova then fought back and even served at 5-6, 40-love for the tiebreak, but Lisicki broke Kuznetsova and finished the match on her fifth match point.

Unseeded Lisicki reached the fourth round of a Grand Slam for the first time by beating Kuznetsova, who has today turned 24.

In the fourth round Lisicki will play ninth seed Caroline Wozniacki, who easily defeated 20th-seeded Spaniard Anabel Medina Garrigues 6-2 6-2. (photo courtesy of our reader Jacob)

Sixth seed Jelena Jankovic fell in the third round of Wimbledon 2009 to American world No.124 Melanie Oudin 6-7 (8) 7-5 6-2, while her fellow Serb Ana Ivanovic made a better showing than usual and advanced to the fourth round.

The former world No.1 Jankovic lost to qualifier Oudin in three sets, but even that first set she won in a tiebreaker could have easily went into the hands of Oudin who had four set points. The second set was equally intriguing. Oudin overcame a 5-4 deficit and since then the match turned into the biggest upset of the first week of Wimbledon.

Oudin has been making her Wimbledon debut this week, and before she had a 0-2 record in Grand Slam matches. After the tournament the 17-year-old will crack the Top 100 for the first time.

Ana Ivanovic had a much more difficult opponent in her third-round match, in the form of Roland Garros semifinalist Samatha Stosur, ranked 19th in the world. The 13th-seeded Ivanovic beat Stosur 7-5 6-2 and will next face the most difficult opponent, five-time Wimbledon titlist and defending champion Venus Williams.

Ivanovic took the Australian’s serve in the first game and marched on for a 4-2 lead. Stosur then leveled at 4-4, but Ivanovic broke again and served out for the set. In the second set Ivanovic raced to a 4-0 lead, and it was clear she would advance and finally show us she can still play solidly. (photo: Ralf Reinecke)

Serena Williams is joining millions of fans in shock over the death of music legend Michael Jackson.

"Words can't express my shock and horror," said the tennis star who had the honor of meeting the King of Pop. "He was just a complete icon."

"I think any celebrity who met Michael Jackson was completely awed. I know I was. I kept thinking, 'Oh my God, oh my God. It's him, it's him.' So for me he was the celebrity of all celebrities."

The ten-time Grand Slam champion is "always online" reading the latest news about Michael Jackon’s death. (source: ESPN, photo: Ralf Reinecke)