A flashback of some exciting tennis moments
In glory of those WTA contesters who left it all on the courts of tennis and failed to triumph, here is a brief flash back of their efforts as well as victories during the French Open championship as well as the grass court Grand Slam tournament.
When the grass or smudge has fixed for another season on the courts of Wimbledon as well as Roland Garros, there must be some portion of a couple of players heart that desires it wasn’t over so quickly.
What do they actually do now? Assessing the scores from television? Finally see a World Cup match without looking back and ahead to Wimbledon reportage? Or, do they simply pull a Vera Zvonareva and have a fair cry?
There is no doubt about the fact that they are still floating in tender memories of grass as well as clay court, officials getting up from their seats to verify ball marks, and those wonderful early evening dwarfs, gliding across the grass surface of the All England’s Centre Court.
Nevertheless time moves on, and there always comes a stage where all the world think of is who triumphed in the championship, and the others go into some unknown void of minutiae where the print is so good that they can rarely even go through it.
So, the question is will the world going to remember after twelve years that Aravane Rezai and Nadia Petrova contested in one of the most exciting games in the French Open tournament 2010?
In the esteem of those dwindling memories, let’s take an instant to focus on some of the genuinely grand moments of the summer Slam tournaments in order to give them their appropriate due before they begin to disappear.
Elena Vesnina and Vera Zvonareva contributed in an amazingly terrific show of bravery by the unseeded Russian players in knocking down the most intimidating women’s teaming of this decade. In addition to it, they continued with it by taking out the daunting seeded fourth teaming up of Flavia Pennetta and Gisela Dulko.
Samantha Stosur, the clay enthusiast, she battled off a match point to knock down Serena in a close quarterfinal game, only few days after throwing out the queen of clay, Justine Henin, in the round number four. The final however didn’t go in her favour, but Stosur is surely performing quite well in order to put Australian women’s tennis back on the track.
Tsvetana Pironkova, prepare for prime time, An outstanding effort for the eighty two ranked player who is now listed number thirty five, the twenty two years old Tsventana, who thought that defeating former grass court Grand Slam finalist Marion Bartoli was not enough, she knocked down five times grass court Grand Slam champion Venus Williams thus repeating her wonderful exhibit of tennis.
Na Li, growing old like fine wine, The twenty eight years old player made her way into her second grass court Grand Slam quarterfinal, and probably would have gone for more if she hadn’t have been drawn in William’s quarter final match. According to the rankings, the China’s first top ranked player is now its second top ranked one.
Maria Sharapova, the girl was knocked down against Serena Williams in the round number four at the grass court Grand Slam Tournament as well as against Justine Henin in the round number three at Roland Garros, but every single clash showed just how good the three times Slam champion is. She may not be all the way there still, but it seems as if the girl is simply around the corner.
Rennae Stubbs, is one of the best doubles specialist in the game of tennis, Stubbsy, who is thirty nine years of age, made her nineteenth grass court Grand Slam participation count, with a run to the doubles quarterfinals stage along with her partner Lisa Raymond as well as a run to the mixed doubles semi finals match along with Marcelo Mello. The two times grass court Grand Slam champion is in no mood for quitting the game, and we should all be grateful for that.
Petra Kvitova, the talented lefty, a left handed tennis player from Czech in the grass court Grand Slam semis? It might not sound silly to you, but it has been as long as sixteen years since Martina Navratilova previously made the grass court Grand Slam final 4. Now Czech fanciers can look at Kvitova, who made a fabulous run through the draw, until she was ceased by the strong hands of world number one Serena Williams. She has made it into the top thirty rankings as career high number twenty nine in the Women Tennis Association rankings and she is just twenty years of age.
Jelena Jankovic, the shrewd veteran, an inspiring run in Paris was stumbled by Stosur in the semis, and she quit versus Zvonareva in the fourth round of grass court Grand Slam tournament but as far as the ratings are concerned there is certainly no doubt about the fact that the WTA’s ranked second player has placed herself pretty well for the rest of the season.
Jarmila Groth a Slovakian who is twenty three years of age who later turned Australian had never managed to cruise the third round of any Grand Slam event prior to this season’s French Open championship. Two strong round number four performances at the Wimbledon as well as French Open have climbed her rankings from number 107 to seventy six in the world.
Kaia Kanepi, back with a requital, Kaia succeeded two straight challengers then made her way into the French Open championship, where she was at last defeated by Jankovic in a close three set match in round number two. At grass court Grand Slam tournament, she once again made her way, then defeated Stosur in the round number one and reached all the way into the quarter finals. There, versus Kvitova, she had a lead of 4-0 in the third set of the match. However sadly, she defeated in the end but her loss should in no manner stifle her confidence about the phenomenal exhibit of tennis she has displayed this summer. She was listed number 118 in Paris. However, right after the grass court Grand Slam, she has jumped to number thirty eight in the ATP world ranking which itself is a prodigious stuff.
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