Looks like Women's Tennis Blog's Kiddie Pics section inspired the theme of the ITF's Olympic Book, aiming to promote the 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic Tennis Events. Aspire, Inspire: Celebrating Tennis at the Olympics 2012 includes 36 world's leading players posing with photos of themselves as a child and talking about their heroes. Of course, there are other features such as players talking about their expectations from the upcoming Olympics and words of wisdom from tennis legends.

The commemorative book is not for sale, but you can win a signed copy and ahead of the Olympics an online version will be available. There is a 20-day competition already at large at the ITF website. Your task is to give a correct answer to whose childhood photo is in the picture and you could be one of the lucky winners. Every day a new photo is presented. Hint for today: Gael Monfils (photos via HCFoo's Tennis Blog)

Gold dress for golden performance. Serena Williams, the 2012 Wimbledon champion in both singles and doubles, attended the Wimbledon Championships 2012 Winners Ball at the InterContinental Park Lane Hotel in London on Sunday.

Wearing a knee-length figure-flattering dress with see-through neckline and sleeves, the 30-year-old American showed off the curvaceous body that impressively produced 102 aces en route to the Venus Rosewater Dish. Read more »

The 2012 Wimbledon final was predicted to be one-sided, but the collected Grand Slam final debutante Agnieszka Radwanska didn't melt away and even came back from 6-1 4-2 down to win the second set. However, her fightback was bound to be short-lived given Serena Williams' superb level at this Wimbledon and the American got hold of her fifth Venus Rosewater Dish and her 14th Grand Slam trophy in singles.

Radwanska quickly lost the first set and found herself trailing 4-2 in the second, but then she converted the first break point she earned to level at 4-4, and then in the twelfth game of the second set she converted the second one to spice up the final with the third set. But even though Radwanska's conversion of break points was a perfect 100%, she earned just those two chances, while Serena earned 15 and converted five, including two in the 37-minute third set to record a 6-1 5-7 6-2 victory.

The big difference between Agnieszka and Serena was also in the department of winners – Agnieszka hit 13 to Serena's 58, and 14 unforced errors to Serena's 36.

Serena's Wimbledon 2012 run will definitely be remembered by her serve. She finished the tournament with a total of 102 aces, while only in the semifinal against Victoria Azarenka she scored 24 without making double faults. In today's championship match, Acerena won the fourth game of the third set with four straight aces!

Agnieszka produced a good final, especially given her respiratory problems and runny nose, but Serena's serve is unbeatable right now. In the post-match on-court interviews, Agnieszka said how these were the best two weeks of her life, while Serena made reference to the time she was hospitalized and how it's a miracle that she's back winning the biggest tennis title.

These are the players Serena defeated this fortnight: Barbora Zahlavova Strycova, Melinda Czink, Zheng Jie, Yaroslava Shvedova, defending champion Petra Kvitova, Victoria Azarenka and finally the 2005 junior Wimbledon champion Agnieszka Radwanska.

Serena will shortly get back to Centre Court and with sister Venus try to win the women's singles doubles title against Andrea Hlavackova and Lucie Hradecka. (photo via Wimbledon)

I can't believe we're already approaching the last Grand Slam of the season! Sneak peeks of tennis outfits for the US Open started appearing and we already get to see both the day and night Nike dresses from Maria Sharapova's collection. The day dress is liquid pink and the night version is solid dark. What do you think?

For all the fans of Sharapova's fashion, enjoy the complete overviews of her on-court outfits in the past five years:

• 2011 – All the 2011 dresses of tennis fashion queen Maria Sharapova
• 2010 – Maria Sharapova's Nike looks throughout 2010
• 2009 – Maria Sharapova's on-court fashion in 2009
• 2008 – All Maria Sharapova's 2008 Nike outfits
• 2007 – Retrospection of Maria Sharapova's 2007 outfits

(source: Tennis Outfits via The Slice)

Last year fashion was the topic of Wimbledon with Bethanie Mattek Sands' tennis-ball jacket and Venus Williams' awkward zipper-outfit, but this year tenniswear is in the safe zone, except for Serena Williams' color challenge. Let's have a closer look.

Serena Williams challenged the White Clothing Rule by pairing the Nike Women's London Statement Baseline Dress with cerise shorts/knickers and a matching headband, while Wimbledon requires the outfits to be without solid mass of coloring and little or no dark or bold colors. Nike was not pushing the boundaries with defending champion Petra Kvitova, who was traditionally wearing a sporty, ordinary outfit.

Maria Sharapova, the fresh proud owner of a career Grand Slam, is always fully-prepared for fashion scrutiny, thinking out her outfits in detail from head to toe with the Nike team. For the touch of color that the white Wimbledon allows, Sharapova chose liquid lime. Here you can see how the Nike Women's Maria Slam Statement Dress looks from the back.

My favorite of the tournament is Maria Kirilenko in the Adidas Adipure line. The white dress with a pleated skirt features craft emerald contrasting stripes. Read more »