Eleven-time Grand Slam champion Serena Williams has won her second ESPY Award, beating out world number one Dinara Safina and 2009 Roland Garros champion Svetlana Kuznetsova to receive the award.

Serena's first ESPY award was for Best Female Athlete in 2003, and now she has won the Best Female Tennis Player Award.

Besides Serena, tennis stars Venus Williams and Bethanie Mattek-Sands graced the ceremony at the Nokia Theater L.A. where the winners of the 2009 ESPY Awards were announced.

The Williams sisters presented former South African president Nelson Mandela the Arthur Ashe Courage Award. Mandela's daughter Zindzi Mandela and grandson Zondwa Mandela were at the Nokia Theatre to accept the award, which is presented annually to individuals whose contributions transcend sports.

The ESPYs, short for the Excellence in Sports Performance Yearly Awards, are US cable sports network ESPN's annual player awards. (source: Sony Ericsson WTA Tour)

Eleven-time Grand Slam champion Serena Williams was welcomed by President Barack Obama in the White House.

"I love President Obama; he has such an unbelievable presence, and he seems to be so normal — and he noticed my shoes. I think that was the highlight of the whole day, was he liked my shoes," said Williams who was wearing five-inch heels for the occasion.

Haha, is Serena completely replacing JJ and her funny statements?

The world No.2 also met Michelle Obama and the rest of the family.

"She had me cracking up and laughing. I knew she was a great person, but now I really understand how important this first family is to the United States. And the kids were just so cute and sweet, and the dog was nice," said Williams.

Hahaha, even the dog was nice, what a perfection! (source: ESPN, photo via Sony Ericsson WTA Tour)

New WTA Tour chairwoman and CEO Stacey Allaster touched the hot topic of women's world rankings right after being appointed on Monday.

"It's a 52-week ruling average and it's a combination of the Grand Slams and Tour events. Without question, based on the ranking system, with consistent performance at the Slams and at the Tours, Dinara Safina is the number one player," Allaster said.

"Every fan has their own (ranking) measure, what we know is that we have a system… (Safina) has had a great season and she will win a Grand Slam I have no doubt in my mind."

Therefore, those of you who find the rankings flawed, together with world No.2 Serena Williams, will not be satisfied soon.

Allaster came to the Tour on January 1, 2006 in the newly-created role of President, and has now succeeded Larry Scott, who was Chairman and CEO of the Tour for six years. (source: Reuters, photo via: Sony Ericsson WTA Tour)

Former world number one Monica Seles, 35, was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame on Saturday.

Seles’ career was marked by the stabbing in 1993, but as much as we associate Seles with that incident we always think of her more than impressive tennis career, and unfortunately of how much more successful it could have been had it not been for the incident in Hamburg.

The Yugoslavian-born American who officially retired from tennis last year, won nine Grand Slam singles titles, including four Australian and three French Opens. She is still the youngest French Open champion – when she won the trophy in 1990 she was only 16 years and six months old. Her final Grand Slam title came in 1996 at the Australian Open.

Seles won 53 singles titles and six doubles titles and spent a total of 178 weeks on top of the rankings. She finished 1991 and 1992 as world No.1. (source: Reuters, photo courtesy of Life)

Fourth-seeded Hungarian Agnes Szavay beat Tour veteran and top seed Patty Schnyder 2-6 6-4 6-2 to win the GDF SUEZ Grand Prix in Budapest.

Szavay is now a three-time singles titlist, with her previous two titles coming in 2007. Schnyder, whose best recent result has been a semifinal showing at Madrid, hasn’t managed to win her 12th career title in her 25th Tour final.

World No.37 Szavay, who was once ranked 13th, is working her way back to the top. In addition to winning the Budapest title, this year Szavay scored Top 10 wins over Ana Ivanovic in Miami, Victoria Azarenka in Madrid and Venus Williams at Roland Garros. (photo: Ralf Reinecke)

Unseeded Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez won her second WTA Tour singles title by beating birthday girl Caroline Wozniacki 7-5 6-4 in the final of the inaugural International tournament Collector Swedish Open Women.

Martinez Sanchez won the first set in 45 minutes, and rallied from 1-4 down in the second to win the tight first meeting with world No.9 Wozniacki, who is now 2-4 in finals this year. The 54-ranked Spaniard has scored her second Top 10 win – she had beaten then-No.10 Nadia Petrova at Rome in May.

To reach the final Martinez Sanchez defeated seed No.4 Kaia Kanepi in the first round, Angeluque Kerber in the second round, seed No.7 Carla Suarez Navarro in the quarterfinals and Gisela Dulko in the semifinals.

Martinez Sanchez was also playing doubles final at the Collector Swedish Open Women, and together with Nuria Llagostera Vives lost to Gisela Dulko and Flavia Pennetta 6-2 0-6 10-5. (via Sony Ericsson WTA Tour)

Despite all the drama, Indian tennis star Sania Mirza, 23, got engaged to childhood friend Mohammed Sohrab Mirza at the Hotel Taj Krishna in the city of Hyderabad on Friday.

Even though media were very excited about the engagement, they were not welcome at the private event, and only this one photo is available.

Sania was looking amazing, dressed in a dazzling Shantanu & Nikhil Swarovski-studded ghagra bought by the groom's family.

In front of close to 300 guests, the lavish celebration began with a ceremonial exchange of rings. The 23-year-old Sohrab broke hearts of millions of men and put a $205,000 diamond ring on Sania’s finger. He also offered jewelry to her family to express his affection.

According to Sania’s family the couple will not tie the knot soon, as the tennis star is planning to continue focusing on her career. (source: HCFoo's Tennis Blog)

Here are some entertaining videos featuring Elena Dementieva, Venus Williams and Caroline Wozniacki. The videos are part of the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour’s "Hero Challenge" Campaign.

I bet you want to serve like Elena Dementieva. No, it’s not a joke. Look at this accuracy!

Although I know you have never doubted Venus Williams’ powerful serve – take a look at how she destroys big American football players.

And check out Caroline Wozniacki playing against a pair of men, showing great speed and anticipation.

We still do not know officially whether Ana Ivanovic is dating golfer Adam Scott, but he was at Wimbledon supporting her, and she has been spotted this week accompanying him at the Scottish Open, Loch Lomond Golf Club.

Ana is tan, beautiful, and is wearing an absolutely gorgeous jacket, but I have to notice her facial expression is not promising. I hate to say this, but she reminds me of a widow. Ana we love you, don't be sad!

The first time Ana and Adam were seen together was in Australia in January. (source: HCFoo's Tennis Blog)

Indian tennis star Sania Mirza, ranked 85th in the world, is to get engaged to family friend Sohrab Mirza on Friday, and two men could not handle that.

On Wednesday, Mohammad Ashraf was arrested after threatening to kill himself if Mirza did not marry him. On Thursday, Ajay Singh Yadav told the police that he had been in love with Mirza for five years and also wanted to marry her.

Mohammed Ashraf, an engineering student, tried to enter Mirza's house in Hyderabad and threatened to commit suicide if her engagement was not cancelled. Ashraf fell in love with Mirza two years ago, watching her play in Bangalore.

Another student, Ajay Singh Yadav arrived in Hyderabad in the morning and rushed towards Mirza's house, saying he wanted to meet her. When he did not go away despite warnings, the police took him in to custody.

BTW: I thought Mirza has already been engaged. Apparently she was just planning to get engaged. (source: BBC, photo: Ralf Reinecke)