Nothing of this is confirmed, but here are some previews of what women's tennis players may be wearing at the start of the 2010 season. Apparently, the new season is just around the corner.

Ana Ivanovic will supposedly wear this orange adidas adilibria dress, which has a yellow version as well.

Jelena Jankovic may be looking like a lemon and strawberry ice-cream if this is really her new ANTA outfit.

Dinara Safina will stick with classic adidas look. Read more »

Our dear reader Teerin is contributing to Women's Tennis Blog once again, this time by creating a countdown of the best moments in the 2009 tennis season.

Teerin would like to have been able to include more memorable situations, but YouTube videos can't be more than 10 minutes long. Which WTA moments would you add to Teerin's Top 10? I would include the emotional retirement of Ai Sugiyama and also, I would put Kim Clijsters' US Open win on top of the list.

Teerin, thank you so much for your continuous and active support of Women's Tennis Blog.

As promised, Women's Tennis Blog is continuing its tradition of revising on-court outfits from the season behind us. This year's retrospections will start with the best-dressed WTA player – Nike-clad Maria Sharapova.

Sharapova started the season late, because of her career-threatening shoulder injury, playing her first match of 2009 at the BNP Paribas Open in March. She was introducing herself to competitive tennis slowly, playing doubles first, but her style had to be spot-on from the very beginning, and it was.

People argued that Sharapova’s Roland Garros dress had too much fabric, but I liked it, and I especially favored the blue color against the red clay. Read more »

Venus Williams and Maria Sharapova will welcome the New Year by playing an exhibition in Thailand on January 2, 2010.

The exhibition event is called the Hua Hin Centennial Invitation, as it will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the beach resort.

After the encounter in singles, Williams and Sharapova will play mixed doubles with local starts Paradorn Srichaphan and Danai Udomchoke.

Additional info: Sharapova will celebrate New Year’s Eve at the new InterContinental Resort. (source: Tennis Week, photos: Colleen, Ralf Reinecke)

It’s true: Maria Sharapova is in a relationship with Sasha Vujacic.

A few days ago Matt Cronin tweeted about Sharapova dating the Lakers player, and the picture of them holding hands proves it was not only a gossip. (via Forty Deuce)

According to Matt Cronin's tweet Maria Sharapova is now dating Slovenian-born Sasha Vujacic, the #18-wearing guard for the LA Lakers. So, Charlie Eberson is history now? Hey, their relationship didn't even get the chance to be confirmed.

Sasha resembles Charlie a bit! Don't you think? (source: Down the Line, photo of Sasha via Life.com)

On Tuesday Maria Sharapova had played a three-hour match against ninth seed Victoria Azarenka and recovered from a 5-2 down in the third set to win the match. That marathon took its toll, and to the delight of the home crowd China's Peng Shuai followed up her upset of defending champion Jelena Jankovic in the second round with a 6-2 6-4 victory over Maria Sharapova in the third.

World No.53 Peng got to lead 6-2 5-2 against Sharapova, and although the Russian almost pulled off one of her trademark comebacks, closing to 6-2 5-4 and getting to deuce, there was no more fuel in her tank and she fell on Peng's third match point.

"My energy level was not where it should have been … there've been occasions where I've been able to fight back, today was just not one of those days unfortunately," said the world No.15 Sharapova, who claimed her first title since returning from injury in Tokyo last weekend.

"She played really solid and really aggressive and did all the right things to win the match." (source: Reuters, photo via Sony Ericsson WTA Tour)

Maria Sharapova claimed her first title since April 2008 when Jelena Jankovic retired during the first set of their Toray Pan Pacific Open final.

The unseeded Russian, ranked 25th in the world, was leading 5-2 in the first set when the seventh-seeded Serb withdrew because of a right wrist injury.

The 2009 Toray Pan Pacific title is Sharapova’s first since her comeback from a shoulder injury in May. The Russian had been out for nine long months.

"To go from not knowing whether you'll ever play the sport again to holding a trophy, it's an unbelievable feeling," said the 22-year-old Grand Slam champion. (via Sony Ericsson WTA Tour)