There were many speculations as to who would be Ana Ivanovic’s new coach, and the latest news is that the Serbian world No. 17 is on a trial with Antonio van Grichen, former coach of Victoria Azarenka and briefly Vera Zvonareva.

Portuguese van Grichen is currently training with Ivanovic and they will be working together through the Australian part of the season. Marija Lojanica will continue to be Ivanovic’s fitness trainer (their cooperation started after Wimbledon 2010). (source: Ana Ivanovic's official website, photo: © Neal Trousdale)

Check out this latest video of Maria Sharapova multitasking – that is, hitting human targets and answering quiz tennis questions, all in order to show us how Google Voice Search can be handy. The phone she’s using is Sony Ericsson Xperia X10.

Many brands found their place in our yearly retrospections of WTA players' outfits, most of them even a lot of times, but we had never featured K-Swiss. Their representative, Vera Zvonareva, was doing really good this year – the Russian reached her career-high ranking of No.2 and played two Grand Slam finals (US Open and Wimbledon), therefore it's the perfect time to have a closer look at the sportswear brand of K-Swiss.

As you can see, Zvonareva wore several different outfits during the season, but most of them had a few versions: long sleeves, short sleeves, straps, just a different skirt or a different top, and she constantly diversified in that way.

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Dear readers,

For the third time in a row the Baseline Awards have nominated Women’s Tennis Blog in the Best Tennis Blog category.

Those of you that have been with us for more than a year know that Women's Tennis Blog is sort of defending its title now, as it was voted the best tennis blog of 2009, thanks to your votes of course. So, if you still like Women's Tennis Blog, take action and vote HERE now to give us a nice present for the start of the 2011 season. Online voting is open until January 3rd, 2011.

Other nominees in the Best Tennis Blog category are: Peter Bodo’s Tennis World / Steve Tignor’s Concrete Elbow / Straight Sets Blog by The New York Times / Tennis Talk, Anyone? / Open Court with Stephanie Myles / ZooTennis / Tennis Served Fresh / Forty Deuce.

The winners will be announced on January 5th, 2011 at On the Baseline.

Of course, there are other categories as well, such as: Player of the Year, Newcomer of the Year, Fan Favorite of the Year, Best Tennis Writer, Doubles Team of the Year, and many more.

Martina Hingis confirmed her relationship with French showjumper Thibault Hutin last month, and two days ago, on Friday, the couple got married in the presence of close family in Paris. Their wedding feast is supposed to take place next summer.

"Our wedding came as a surprise for many, but it has been in planning long in advance," Hingis said to Swiss celebrity magazine Schweizer Illustrierte.

On Monday, the magazine will publish the wedding photos of the 30-year-old Hingis and her six years younger husband. (source: Yahoo)

The 2010 season was all in the shades of gray and filled with riffles for Caroline Wozniacki, but the person behind her on-court fashion, Stella McCartney, decided to be more generous to the world No.1 in the next year – Tennis Identity shared great photos of Stella’s new tennis collection and revealed that Caroline will have a different outfit for every Grand Slam in 2011.

There is this white Ballerina Dress with neon underwear, the trend of contrast Stella McCartney started towards the end of the last season with Tennis Performance Dress. Interestingly, the Ballerina Dress will be available only in Europe.

The international market will see other pieces of the adidas by Stella McCartney Spring/Summer 2011 collection for tennis: a ruffle tank in blueprint, a pleated skirt in white or blueprint, tank in infrared or white, a big gray tennis bag, and so called eileithyia tennis sneakers.

Additional info: The collection is part of the adidas Better Place Program, meaning that the process of making the collection, as well as the clothes themselves, are green.

It seems that my fashion overviews are hitting the mark. I woke up this morning and saw a message from reader DeShawn Besabella on Twitter that Nike Tennis shared Women's Tennis Blog's review of Serena Williams' 2010 Nike outfits on their Facebook page which has almost 92000 fans.

The overview didn't go unnoticed. As you can see, in ten hours 84 people hit "like" and that's not all. I got an email from another reader, Sam, who told me that he saw how I was advertising Women's Tennis Blog on Nike's Facebook page. Of course, it is not an advertisement, Nike just recognized my overview of their tennis clothes as a good marketing and thought it would be good for their brand that as many people as possible see it.

In an exhibition match of two Belgian superstars that took place in Antwerp, Kim Clijsters defeated Justine Henin 6-1 3-6 10-5.

Their meeting at the GDF SUEZ Diamond Games exhibition in Belgium was Henin’s first tennis match since the fourth round of Wimbledon in June, when she also played Clijsters and lost. The rest of the season Henin had to miss because of an elbow injury and her appearance in front of 14,000 fans at the Belgian exhibition was a nice test before the start of the 2011 season, which she plans to open with the Brisbane International, but only after playing the mixed doubles event in Perth. Clijsters will also begin her 2011 with an exhibition, but in Thailand, and then she will play the tournament in Sydney.

Another interesting piece of information regarding Clijsters and Henin is circulating the media – they are discussing competing at the 2012 London Olympics together, as a doubles team. Nothing is certain, but it definitely is a possibility. (source: ESPN Star, photo: Twenty90seven)

The word is out that Serena Williams might postpone her comeback until spring 2011 and the tennis star is trying to make the best of a bad situation, personally decorating her cast with Swarowski crystals.

"I hope to be out of the cast and back on the court by spring," Serena said at YSL and Vogue's fashion party in Miami on Saturday night.

Serena hasn't played tennis since Wimbledon 2010 due to a foot injury, and will certainly not going to defend her title at the 2011 Australian Open.

Sam, thanks for pitching me to share this piece of news! (photo via New York Media)

Aravane Rezai has earned the honor of being featured in our retrospections of WTA players' yearly outfits (thanks you, Marine, for this wonderful suggestion!). The Frenchwoman, even though a Top 20 player, doesn't have a well-known clothing sponsor, and neither is she famous for her great on-court style, but there is one thing that sets her apart – her crazy outfits with outrageous details that she actually wears perfectly! So, let the fun begin!

My research took me to the website which says that French clothing brand Schedya is responsible for Rezai's style. Schedya, owned by Rezai's friend, is "dedicated to cultural diversity". Schedya means "feeling good" in Persian and their logo, which can be read both in English from left to right and in Persian from right to left, is meant to signify the unity of Eastern and Western cultures. Read more »