It is my pleasure to announce the winners of our latest giveaway - Magda Sawczuk and Rhonda Costa! Congratulations!

Among 65 people who liked Women's Tennis Blog's new Facebook page, Magda and Rhonda got selected in a random selection process. Since Magda was the first to pass through, she had the advantage of picking the autograph she prefers and she chose Yanina Wickmayer. Therefore, Rhonda will receive Shahar Peer.

Thank you all who participated! There will be more contests in the future, so make sure to stay tuned. And John Bolan, thank you for providing me with the autographs.

In the meantime, do click "Like" on Women's Tennis Blog's Facebook page!

It's been a while since our loyal reader and contributor John Bolan sent me signed photos of Israeli Shahar Peer and Belgian Yanina Wickmayer. I feel that the occasion of Roland Garros is a perfect time to make my readers additionally happy and send them the WTA autographs, so I'm organizing a small contest and two people will be winners.

HOW TO ENTER? VERY SIMPLE!

Over the weekend I played with Facebook a bit and I created Women's Tennis Blog's "Like" page. For a chance to win one of the autographs, just click "Like" on the page and you're in. From all the people who liked the page, I will randomly pick two winners and contact them via Facebook. In case you don't have a Facebook account, you can ask a friend to do it for you.

The contest closes on Saturday, the moment women's singles final at the 2012 French Open is finished.

Good luck!

Not looking troubled by health problems, world No.1 Victoria Azarenka dominated Shahar Peer in the late night match at the Italian Open. But soon after advancing to the third round with a 6-1 6-2 victory earned in just 55 minutes, Azarenka surprised with a withdrawal from the tournament, stating a right shoulder injury. Oh, it seems that another clash of Azarenka and Radwanska was really not meant to be.

Azarenka’s pullout gives the 14th-seeded Dominika Cibulkova an easy way into her first Rome quarterfinals. (photo: © Neal Trousdale)

Seed No.18 Flavia Pennetta was the highest seed to fall on the first day of the 2011 French Open. The Italian's errors piled up and despite winning the second set and saving four match points, she lost to American Varvara Lepchenko and her mummified knees 6-3 2-6 6-3. Lepchenko's next opponent will be fellow American, Bethanie Mattek Sands, who toughed it out against Arantxa Parra Santonja (as for Bethanie's outfit, well, it's disappointingly conservative this time). Read more »

The WTA calendar and the United States have a new event – the International-level tournament called the Mid-Atlantic Women's Tennis Championships. It will take place from July 25th to July 31st and will be held at the Tennis Center at College Park, Washington DC.

Israeli Shahar Peer will headline the field this year. Also participating will be Lucie Safarova, former No.4 Jelena Dokic and Americans Melanie Oudin and Sloane Stephens.

The official website of the tournament is www.midatlanticwtc.com, though it's not rich in information yet.