A month ago Gisela Dulko officially retired from tennis with a letter posted on the WTA Tour's website and now the women's tennis star from South America confirmed in an interview for Argentine TV that she is expecting a baby with her husband, Argentine footballer Fernando Gago. Dulko and Gago crowned their two-year relationship on July 27th, 2011 and now they are about to become proud parents.

On her Twitter Dulko thanked all the people who congratulated her:

Thanks so much for all your messages in this beautiful moment for us, we are so happy! ♥

Women's Tennis Blog wishes Dulko a cheerful pregnancy and a joyous baby! (photo: Ralf Reinecke)

In mid-July Karolina Sprem crowned her two-year relationship with fellow tennis player Marcos Baghdatis with marriage and the couple has now welcomed a baby girl in their family. Karolina gave birth to little Zahara on October 20 in Zagreb, Croatia, while her husband was playing a semifinal in Stockholm. The delivery was a week premature, so Marcos didn’t even know his wife was in labor. Read more »

In the beginning of the 2012 season our contributor John Bolan wrote an article predicting how the year-end WTA rankings would look like and we asked you to join him, promising the reader whose predictions turn out the most accurate one Top 10 WTA autograph. You know that Women's Tennis Blog always keeps promises and now the time has come to announce the well-deserved winner.

About 30 of you participated with Top 10 season-ending ranking predictions and the best predictor was James of Moo's Tennis Blog! Congratulations, James! Both John and me picked James (without knowing each other's winners). It was not an easy decision between James and Justin, though, since they both got eight of the 2012 year-end Top 10 members right and both placed one player at the exact same ranking position at which the player ended the year.

Read more »

This month we got a nice addition to our WTA Players and their Boyfriends/Husbands series when South African Chanelle Scheepers married her long-time friend and former coach Roger Anderson on November 10th, 2012 in their home country. The wedding ceremony took place at Lythwood Lodge in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands, as the couple wanted to gather family and friends, who all live in South Africa. The South African No.1 and world No.60 wore a Justin Alexander wedding dress adorned with Swarovski crystals.

After three weeks spent in South Africa, the newlyweds flew to the United Stated for a honeymoon in Napa. Following the vacation, the 28-year-old Scheepers will start preparations for the 2013 season, which she opens with the Hopman Cup in Australia. (source: WTA Tour)

What a lovely occasion to add doubles specialist Liezel Huber and her husband Tony Huber to our series of WTA Players and their Boyfriends/Husbands – they became parents, adopting a baby boy, Joshua Jacob, who was born early morning on Thursday, September 27.

Liezel and Tony have been married for 12 years. Their wedding took place on February 19, 2000, in Durban, South Africa, Liezel's birthplace which she left at the age of 15 to follow her dream of becoming a tennis player. She came to Van der Meer’s tennis academy in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina and there she met Tony, who started coaching her full time in 1999. Liezel became American citizen on July 25, 2007. (photo via WhatsUpUsana)

Jurgen Melzer has never been a stranger to dating fellow tennis players, most notably Dominika Cibulkova, but the girl that he tied the knot with is Iveta Benesova.

The wedding picture was shared by Michaella Krajicek on Twitter, and according to her hashtag "Laxenburg", we can conclude that the wedding took place in Laxenburg, Austria. It is near Vienna, Melzer's birthplace. Read more »

Paul Alteri from Bob’s Watches, an online exchange for used Rolex watches, would like to introduce you to his two favorite Rolex models at the moment: the Rolex Daytona and the Rolex President.

In today’s world, the Rolex watch is a commodity that continues to grow in value on a variety of levels. The cost of new Rolex watches continues to rise by 5 to 7 percent each year, which in-turn increases the value of pre-owned Rolex watches. Two such models that have caught the eye of Rolex collectors around the world are the Rolex Daytona "Paul Newman" and Rolex President. They are without a doubt two of the hottest models on the pre-owned Rolex market for women, with their classic yet innovative styling. Because of their versatility and unforgettable designs, tennis players and fans have had a love-affair with both Rolex watches both on and off the court. Many women can now be seen wearing men’s watches like the Men’s Rolex Daytona in Rose gold as worn by tennis great Ana Ivanovic.

Polona Hercog of Slovenia lost the first seven games of the Sony Swedish Open final against world No.83 Mathilde Johansson, but revived, took the second set and survived her opponent's surge from 1-5 to 5-all in the third to eventually win 0-6 6-4 7-5, thus defending her Bastad title, where she had won her first and by today only WTA title.

The success is reviving Hercog's 2012 season, in which she hadn't won a match in two and a half months. Many first-round losses and withdrawals due to a back injury caused Hercog's slump in the rankings by 50 spots, to her current No.86.

En route to the title, before Johansson in the final, Hercog defeated Alexandra Panova in the first round, seed No.2 Julia Goerges in the second, Tsvetana Pironkova in the quarters and seed No.7 Mona Barthel in the semis.

The claycourt Bastad title has brought Hercog $37,000. (source: WTA Tour, photo via Swedish Open)