It's Lacoste time! So far in our retrospections of the WTA player outfits we've covered Nike on Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova, EleVen on Venus Williams, Fila on Kim Clijsters, Adidas by Stella McCartney on Caroline Wozniacki and now let's see what Slovakian Dominika Cibulkova wore on the tennis courts throughout 2012 as the most prominent representative of Lacoste.

In past two years, the most famous face of Lacoste was Samantha Stosur, but in the beginning of 2012 she switched to Asics.

REMINDER of how Samantha Stosur worked Lacoste:

• Retrospection of all Samantha Stosur's Lacoste outfits in 2011
• In pictures: Samantha Stosur wearing Lacoste throughout 2010

Lacoste tennis clothes always have clean lines and not more than two or three colors. Collars are very common in their designs. If you are a fan of classic style, than Lacoste is perfect for you.

The creator of the Lacoste brand was René Lacoste, a French tennis player nicknamed "the Crocodile" for his tenacity on the court. The above photo from 1926 is the first known appearance of René with the crocodile logo embroidered on his blazer. Read more »

After enjoying a bye in the first round of the Kremlin Cup, Caroline Wozniacki went past Urszula Radwanska, the younger and lower ranked Radwanska sister, to advance to the quarterfinals.

The third-seeded Dane converted all three of her break chances to win the first set of the second-round encounter and in the second set she quickly established a pretty commanding lead, but needed quite a bit of time to finish the match, wasting four match points at 5-2 and closing out on the fifth match point in the following game. Final score: 6-1 6-3.

Urszula's 2012 season has seen her gradually climb up the rankings, from No.102 at the start of the year to No.29 earlier this month, while now she's No.30. In the previous round of the Kremlin Cup she took out Grand Slam champion Francesca Schiavone, who has lost six of her last seven matches. Unlike Urszula, Caroline has had a disappointing season, failing to qualify for the WTA Championships for the first time since 2008 and spinning from the top of the rankings at the end of the 2011 season to No.11.

The last month's Seoul title did end the year-long title drought, but it can't erase the overall discouraging feel of 2012. Some of the reasons for the slump are, according to Wozniacki herself, numerous obligations towards sponsors and the media: Read more »

Last year Dominika Cibulkova won her first WTA title at the Kremlin Cup and now she’s through to the second round after a 2-6 6-4 6-2 victory over Ekaterina Makarova, this month’s addition to the Top 20.

The fifth-seeded Cibulkova lost four consecutive games to give away the first set, before taking the second set by virtue of the crucial break in the tenth game and winning the decider quite easily. Tsvetana Pironkova, who beat Varvara Lepchenko 6-0 7-6(3), now awaits the defending champion.

The Premier-level Moscow tournament has no WTA Championships singles qualifiers in the field, but both the alternates are there, as top two seeds, fighting for the position of the definite first alternate: No.1 Samantha Stosur and No.2 Marion Bartoli. They both had a bye in the first round. (via Tennis.com, photo: © Neal Trousdale)

Grand Slam are always the most exciting venues for tennis glamour and the US Open is the unofficial fashion queen of all the four majors, so let's see what the best brands put on their brightest WTA stars.

Let's start this fashion overview with maybe not the biggest fashion star, but definitely the player who marked this US Open – Kim Clijsters, whose inspiring career has come to a close at her favorite tournament where she had lifted the trophy three times. To honor the Belgian's last event, her clothing sponsor Fila produced a special collection with a symbolic star pattern.

Ana Ivanovic (who reached her first Grand Slam quarterfinal since her title win at Roland Garros 2008), Angelique Kerber (last year's semifinalist) and Laura Robson (besides Clijsters, the biggest story of the tournament) were all sporting Adidas Adizero. The bright yellow Adidas outfits may have ruled the US Open courts, and the three players mentioned here all played the fourth round, but the next brand we'll cover is clothing all the four semifinalists!

Of course, it's Nike! Champion Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova traditionally have both day and night dresses. Serena wore navy and pink with lime details, while Sharapova went for more subtle tones – liquid pink and solid dark without many loud contrasts.

PREVIOUS US OPEN FASHION OVERVIEWS

2011 - A look at the beautiful colors at Flushing Meadows
2010 - Fashion hits and misses of tennis in New York

Victoria Azarenka and Sara Errani prefer separates. The world No.1 is popping in a yellow and black combination, while the Italian, sharing the look with Julia Goerges, wore a pleated navy skirt with pink and yellow stripes and a tank. Read more »

Third seed and four-time defending champion Caroline Wozniacki advanced to the semifinals of the New Haven Open at Yale with a 6-2 6-1 victory over sixth seed Dominika Cibulkova, but the Dane's future at her perfect tournament could be affected by a sharp pain in her right knee that troubled her during the quarterfinal.

However, Wozniacki was not the only one affected by the injury, Cibulkova was also distracted by it, especially by Wozniacki calling the physio during Cibulkova's service game:

I was paying too much attention to her. When you ask for a physio like this, I was serving, it was my game, it was during the game, it doesn’t happen often. When you do it, it has to be serious. You really either cannot move or you cannot continue or something like that.

Should Wozniacki give up the chance to become only the fourth WTA to win five consecutive titles at a single tournament in order to save herself for the US Open? There still are no news on her decision, but she did say that risking a long-term injury is not an option. Read more »