It is my pleasure to announce the winners of the third and last contest celebrating Women's Tennis Blog's sixth birthday – Djordje and Bróna are the lucky winners of signed photos of WTA stars Julia Goerges and Maria Kirilenko. Congratulations! I will contact you shortly to ask for your mailing address and to see who would like to receive which photo

I would like to thank all of you who participated and if you didn't win anything this time, don't worry, just stay with us and there will be many more contests on Women's Tennis Blog.

Now I'd like to round up the celebration by once again thanking Denise Cronwall for providing the $85 gift certificate for her designer tennis clothes, Emily Austin for giving a wonderful crystal necklace, John Bolan for sending me these two autographs and I would especially like to thank all of you who keep reading and supporting Women's Tennis Blog. I hope you enjoyed how I marked the sixth year of Women's Tennis Blog's existence.

The lavish celebration of Women's Tennis Blog's sixth birthday is approaching its end. Having awarded the $85 gift certificate for the extraordinary tennis clothes of Denise Cronwall and the beautiful hand-made crystal necklace by Emily Austin, here's the last contest of our online festivities: you can win an autograph of Julia Goerges or Maria Kirilenko (courtesy of our generous reader John Bolan). I decided to make two winners and not to reward both the autographs to one person. Therefore, your chances for the prize are greater now

HOW TO WIN A MARIA KIRILENKO OR JULIA GOERGES AUTOGRAPH?

Just like in the previous contest, your only task is to spread the word about this giveaway. Simply mention this contest along with sharing a link to this page on any social networking website (some tennis Facebook group (or even our Women's Tennis Fans group), Twitter, Pinterest, etc.) and in the comments below this article give me the link to your mention as a proof of your engagement. Of course, it's preferable for your share to be creative and to mention Women's Tennis Blog's 6th birthday celebration, even though the winners will be chosen randomly.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask me in the comments or via the contact form. The contest closes on Wednesday, 10 p.m. CET.

Good luck!

Maria Kirilenko appears in the April 2013 edition of InStyle Russia, posing in various settings inspired by theater and dance.

The Russian is known for her love of classical music: Vivaldi, Mozart, Bach and Beethoven, while of contemporary names she enjoys Russian cellist and conductor Mstislav Rostropovich. She practiced ballet as a child and although she would still love to dance, for the lack of time, she can only afford to enjoy watching ballet.

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Dear readers,

I am excited to announce that six years ago on this day I launched Women's Tennis Blog and it has grown into one of the best online places covering professional and private lives of the WTA stars, most importantly, it has evolved into a friendly platform gathering numerous fans of women's tennis. I would like to use this opportunity to express my gratitude to all of you who came across Women's Tennis Blog and decided to make it a go-to place for WTA stories, many of you have been with me for half a decade and I really appreciate your support.

Blogging has brought me many extraordinary experiences, successes and contacts, but this time I would like to draw attention to the lovely fact that the community here has always been overall understanding and supportive, both among its members and towards me, verbal conflicts have been minimal here and that is something quite rare online and I consider the fact that Women's Tennis Blog radiates friendliness and warmth one of my biggest achievements.

Therefore, as every year, I would like to thank you guys for being with me throughout the years and over 3,000 posts I've written by offering valuable prizes courtesy of generous Denise Cronwall, Emily Austin and John Bolan. Starting from today, you will have an opportunity to win:

• A $85 gift certificate for shopping the lovely tennis clothes designed by Denise Cronwall

• A unique and hand-made tennis necklace by Emily Austin

• Autographs of Maria Kirilenko and Julia Goerges provided by our faithful reader and contributor John Bolan

Nice prizes, aren't they? Stay tuned! The first contest, the one for Denise Cronwall designed garments, is about to be launched! (photo by Marija Veljkovic)

Maria Kirilenko is enjoying a wonderful week in Indian Wells, where she is awaiting her biggest career semifinal against Maria Sharapova, having reached it with two Top 10 victories (over Agnieszka Radwanska and Petra Kvitova). Therefore, now is a nice occasion to share with you cute childhood photos of Kirilenko that she's recently shared on her once-again-active Twitter account.

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