Anna Kournikova’s countrywoman Maria Sharapova has defeated Sabine Lisicki of Germany in the third round of the women’s tennis singles tournament of London Olympics. Lisicki had stunned Sharapova by defeating her in the fourth round of the Wimbledon Championship a few days back. But, Sharapova took her revenge and knocked the German player out of the Olympics. However, Lisicki fought hard and made Sharapova work hard for her points. Sharapova won the match by 6-7 (8/10), 6-4, 6-3 and secured a place in the quarter finals. Sharapova had to struggle for 2 hour and 47 minutes to win the match.
Lisicki broke Sharapova’s service in the very first game of the first set, but, Sharapova bounced back and got a breakthrough in the second game to level the score 1-1. Thereafter, both the players held their service in the next four games and the score was 3-3. But, Lisicki was able to break Sharapova’s service in the seventh game. She held his service in the next game to make the score 5-3. At the score of 5-4, when she was serving for the set, she couldn’t hold his service and Sharapova was able to level the score 5-5. Both the players held their service in the next two games and the score was tied at 6-6. But, in the tie breaker, the German player played sensibly and won the first set.
After losing the first set, Sharapova was under a lot of pressure. Lisicki continued to play well in the second set and broke the service of Sharapova in the seventh game. It seemed that the German player might upset Sharapova again. But, Sharapova made a comeback and broke Lisicki’s service in the eighth game to make the score 4-4. Sharapova again got a breakthrough in the 10th game to win second set by 6-4. In the third set, Sharapova played well and broke Lisicki’s service once to win the set easily by 6-3.
After the match, Sharapova admitted that she wasn’t at her best in the match. She said that she would like to play better in the upcoming matches. In the quarter final, Sharapova will play against Kim Klijsters of Belgium.
Anna Kournikova’s countrywoman, Nadia Petrova, has been defeated in the opening round of the Rogers Cup by Kiki Bertens of Netherlands. The match was very interesting and both the players tried hard, but, the Dutch youngster maintained her composure throughout the game and defeated Petrova after a long struggle of 2 hours and 20 minutes. Bertens, who has been ranked 80th in the official rankings of WTA, won the match by 3-6, 7-6(4), 6-4.
In the first two games of the first set, both the players broke each other’s service and the scores were leveled at 1-1. Thereafter, Petrova got two consecutive breakthroughs in the third game and the fifth game and won the next three games in a row to make the score 4-1. Read more »
Former tennis beauty Anna Kournikova and her Latin pop singer partner Enrique Iglesias have no plans of getting hitched at the moment, according to the pop star himself.
Speaking at an interview with an entertainment magazine, Enrique was quite open about his relationship with his partner of almost 10 years now, stating that they are quite happy with things as they are now, adding that they have not made any plans for marriage any time soon.
It was only a few months back that rumors about an impending marriage between the pair spread like virus in the social media circles and tabloid newspapers, some of which even claimed that Anna Kournikova might be pregnant with the first child of the couple. Read more »
Anna Kournikova is the former tennis player of Russia who had announced her retirement from the professional tennis 5 years back. But, even after her retirement from professional tennis, her popularity hasn’t decreased. She is still very famous among the tennis fans. After retiring from tennis, she focused on modeling. She took part in a lot of modeling events. She also acted in some television programmes.
Anna Kournikova was born in Russia, but, now, she has got the citizenship of America. Anna Kournikova was a very talented tennis player. She started playing tennis at a very young age. At the young age of 14, she had won the Orange Bowl. Orange Bowl is a very famous tournament played at the junior level. She had also won the ITF Junior World Championship in the later part of the same year. She played her first Grand Slam in 1996. In the US open of 1996, she played quite well, but was defeated in the fourth round. She started climbing the ladder of success pretty quickly. In 2000, she was positioned at no. 8 in the official rankings of World Tennis Association (WTA).
Kournikova won two grand slam doubles title playing with Martina Hingis. But, she had to suffer with a serious back problem due to which she had to leave tennis. During her career, she defeated many great players, but, unfortunately she could not win a grand slam singles title. Anna Kournikova was quite popular in media too. The media always used to speculate about her marriage and relationships. As far as Kournikova’s personal life is concerned, she is currently in a relationship with Spanish singer, Enrique Iglesias. But, on being asked about getting married, Kournikova said that she doesn’t have any plan of getting married in the near future. She said that she is quite happy being in a relationship.
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August 23, 2012 2:26 pm | 
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