The dress we showed you in November will definitely be the one Maria Sharapova will wear at the 2010 Australian Open.

The two-layer blue dress is the first piece from the Maria Sharapova Collection produced in collaboration with Nike. Seven dresses and a number of tank and skirt combinations will make their debut during 2010.

Other WTA players such as Taiwan's Kai-Chen Chang, Germany's Julia Goerges, Russia's Anastasia Pirovarova, and American Madison Keys will wear the collection throughout the season.

Here’s a nice video of Maria Sharapova showing the dress and explaining everything about it in detail.

Accompanying the dress will be the Tiffany & Co. Paloma Picasso gold drop earrings and the Nike shoes pictured below.

(sources: Down the Line, Tennis Served Fresh)

Women's Tennis Blog is back from vacation. I spent more than two wonderful weeks in China and now it's time to resume posting. Thank you all for being so supportive and not minding the long break without women's tennis news here.

First of all, I would use this opportunity to once again thank all of you for voting for Women's Tennis Blog in 2009 Baseline Awards, as thanks to you my blog won the in the Best Tennis Blog category.

Secondly, I missed quite a few tennis events and stories during my time off, and I would like to do a little wrap-up of what happened while I was away. The Brisbane International and the ASB Classic are over and here's what happened there.

Brisbane saw an all-Belgian epic final, with Kim Clijsters defeating Justine Henin 6-3 4-6 7-6(6). En route to victory Clijsters saved two match points and wasted three.

Just after the Brisbane final, Henin withdrew from the Sydney International because of the left leg injury sustained in that title match. Henin wanted to make sure she was healthy for the upcoming Australian Open.

The other WTA tournament I skipped to cover was the ASB Classic in Auckland. The titlist at the event was Yanina Wickmayer who defeated top seed Flavia Pennetta 6-3 6-2 in the final. The victory was the best moment of Wickmayer’s career as she entered the Auckland draw after a court overturned a year's ban imposed by the Belgian doping authority.

The most exciting off-court piece of news is that Nike signed an eight-year, $70-million endorsement deal with Maria Sharapova. In addition, the Russian will be getting a percentage of sales from the line she'll help develop. Wow! And by the way, Sharapova beat Venus Williams 6-3 6-4 at an exhibition event in Thailand.

Feel free to mention in the comments some stories that I missed to write about that you find interesting. I would love you to enrich this post by your links and perspective on the past two weeks. (photos via Sony Ericsson WTA Tour)

Maria Sharapova has announced which tournaments she's planning to play in 2010, up until Wimbledon.

Her preparations for the Australian Open will be no WTA tournaments, but two exhibition events in Thailand and Hong Kong.

After the first Grand Slam of the season, Sharapova will travel to the United States and participate in the Regions Morgan Keegan Championships & the Cellular South Cup in Memphis, while the rest of the top players will probably be in Dubai. The Russian three-time Grand Slam champion will then participate in Indian Wells, California, before a mandatory stop in Miami, Florida.

The next tournaments in her schedule are Charleston and Madrid, which should warm her up for the French Open. Then, as usual, Sharapova will play Birmingham ahead of the grass-court Grand Slam Wimbledon. (photo: Stephane Martinache)

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.