Martina Hingis Wedding Pictures

>> Monday, December 13, 2010

martina hingis wedding pictures

Martina Hingis wedding pictures were published in a German online publication on Monday - December 13, 2010. The SCHWEIZER-ILLUSTRIERTE Online website featured a photo gallery of Martina Hingis and her husband, Thibauld Hutin, some pictures of which were taken during their "secret wedding" in Paris. Hingis, at age 30 is six years older than her husband who is 24. She will retain her family name. They would like to start a family family in a year or two. The couple have indicated that they would like to settle in Switzerland.

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2010 Davis Cup Finals: Serbia wins 1st Davis Cup over France, 3-2

>> Sunday, December 5, 2010

2010 Davis Cup Finals - Serbia beats France 3-2 Photo from daviscup.com.

2010 Davis Cup Championship Tie - Belgrade, Serbia
Serbia beats France, 3-2; 2010 Davis Cup Finals - MATCH RESULTS:

Match 1 - G Monfils [FRA] bt J Tipsaveric [SRB] 6-1, 7-6(4), 6-0
Match 2 - N Djokovic [SRB] bt G Simon [FRA] 6-3, 6-1, 7-5
Match 3 - A Clement & M LLodra [FRA] bt N Zimonjic & V Troicki 3-6, 6-7(3), 6-4, 7-5, 6-4
Match 4 - N Djokovic [SRB] bt G Monfils [FRA] 6-2, 6-2, 6-4
Match 5 - V Troicki [SRB] bt M Llodra [FRA] 6-2, 6-2, 6-3

DECEMBER 5, 2010, Sunday - Latest Update: World #30 Victor Troicki beat higher ranked Michael Llodra of France 6-2, 6-2, 6-3 to help Serbia wins its first ever Davis Cup title in its first championship appearance. The host nation trailed 9-time Davis Cup champion France 1-2 after losing the doubles match in the second day of the tie. World #3 Novak Djokovic evened up the series with a victory over French #1 Gael Monfils earlier in the day. That result sent the Davis Cup championship tie into a decider and Troicki overcame youth and inexperience to win in straight sets and hand France it's seventh championship defeat in 16 trips to the finals.

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Countries with Most Players in Women's Tennis Rankings - Dec 2010

>> Saturday, December 4, 2010

The United States is the country with the most number of players in the top 1000 and top 500 of the WTA women's tennis rankings with Russia in close second in both sets of rankings. However, Russia is still the country to beat having the most players in both the top 200 and top 100. Russia is the only country to place either 1st or 2nd in all ranking sets. The United States was beaten by the Czech Republic in the #2 position for most players in the top 100. Australia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain were the other countries that were included in the top 10 for all ranking sets. See the lists below.

Countries with Most Players in Top 1000 of Women's Tennis Rankings
1.  United States  - 87
2.  Russia         - 81

3.  Japan          - 53
4.  Italy          - 52
5.  France         - 46
6.  Germany        - 41
7.  Australia      - 36
7.  Ukraine        - 36
9.  Spain          - 35
10. Romania        - 33
10. Czech Republic - 33




Countries with Most Players in Top 500 of Women's Tennis Rankings
1.  United States  - 48
2.  Russia         - 46
3.  France         - 26
4.  Italy          - 25
5.  Japan          - 23
5.  Ukraine        - 23
7.  Australia      - 21
8.  Germany        - 20
9.  Czech Republic - 18
9.  Spain          - 18

Countries with Most Players in Top 200 of Women's Tennis Rankings
1.  Russia         - 27
2.  United States  - 16
3.  Czech Republic - 12
4.  France         - 11
5.  Germany        - 10
6.  Italy          - 10
7.  Spain          -  9
8.  Australia      -  7
9.  Romania        -  7
10. Ukraine        -  6

Countries with Most Players in Top 100 of Women's Tennis Rankings
1.  Russia         - 27
2.  Czech Republic - 12
3.  Italy          - 10
3.  United States  - 16
5.  Romania        -  7
5.  Spain          -  9
7.  Belgium        -  4
7.  China          -  4
7.  Germany        -  4
10. Austria        -  3
10. Australia      -  3
10. Serbia         -  3
10. France         -  3

Google: Top 10 Most Searched Women Tennis Players for 2010

>> Thursday, December 2, 2010

A woman tennis player currently ranked #165 in the tennis rankings is the most searched woman tennis player in 2010 based on Google search volume index. Sania Mirza, India’s most famous sportswoman, beat out more accomplished tennis players such as 13-time Grand Slam titlist Serena Williams, WTA player of the year Kim Clijsters, and world #1 Caroline Wozniacki. Mirza was heavily searched during her April marriage to Shoaib Malik, the former Pakistan cricket captain, and the tumultuous build-up to the event. Pakistan, India, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Poland were the top 5 countries where Mirza was searched.

most searched women's tennis players

Last year’s most search woman tennis player, Serena Williams is in second spot behind Mirza. The former world #1 player barely played this year, but her searches peaked in January and July – when she won her 12th and 13th Grand Slam titles at the Australian Open and Wimbledon, respectively. Williams has not played a WTA tournament since Wimbledon due to a knee injury and has just announced recently that she will not defend her Australian Open title in Melbourne this coming January. Top countries searching for Serena Williams are India, United States, Australia, Belgium, and Canada.

3-time Grand Slam champion and advertising star Maria Sharapova is the third most search tennis player. Peak searches for Sharapova were during her Australian Open campaign (lost in the first round to Maria Kirilenko), her US Open campaign (lost to Wozniacki in fourth round), and her October
engagement to basketball player Sasha Vujacic. Top countries searching for Sharapova are Pakistan, the Philippines, India, Morocco, and Malaysia.

World #4 and 7-time Grand Slam champion Venus Williams and tennis glamour girl Anna Kournikova are the fourth and fifth most searched women tennis players. Venus was most searched in South Africa, the United States and Australia while Kournikova was most searched in India, Finland and Australia. Rounding out the top 10 most searched women tennis players are former #1 Ana Ivanovic (#6), current world #1 Caroline Wozniacki (#7), Chinese player Na Li (#8), WTA player of the year and US Open champion Kim Clijsters (#9), and WTA comeback player of the year Justine Henin (#10).

Top 10 Most Searched Women Tennis Players for 2010
Rank – Tennis Player – Google Search Volume Index relative to Mirza


 1 Sania Mirza           1.00
 2 Serena Williams       0.75
 3 Maria Sharapova       0.55
 4 Venus Williams        0.50
 5 Anna Kournikova       0.40
 6 Ana Ivanovic          0.35
 7 Caroline Wozniacki    0.30
 8 Na Li                 0.20
 9 Kim Clijsters         0.15
10 Justine Henin         0.15

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Which is more popular - Men's Tennis or Women's Tennis?

>> Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Google Trends is showing that based on Internet traffic, the ATP tour website is more popular than the WTA tour website. In the past 12 months, Google Trends data shows that the number of unique visitors to the www.atpworldtour.com website, the official website of the ATP Tour, is more than twice as much as the number of unique visitors to www.wtatour.com - the official website of the WTA tour. See graph below. Of course, one may argue that website visitors may not necessarily translate to actual popularity between the two tennis tours, but its nevertheless a good indicator. What's surprising is the discrepancy. A 25% to even 50% difference between website visitors sounds more plausible, but twice as much? Then again, the WTA Tour website has considerably less content and is definitely less interactive than the ATP Tour website.

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ATP Men's Tennis Career Prize Money Rankings - December 2010

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Roger Federer set another tennis record by becoming the first tennis player to earn more than $60 million in career prize money. In the latest ATP Career Prize Money Rankings released by the atpworldtour.com website, the Swiss #2, leads 7 active players in the top 20 list of career prize money earners in men's tennis. Federer also holds the record with the most number of Grand Slam titles by a male tennis player, having won his 16 Grand Slam title at the Australian Open in January.

American legend and 14-time major winner Pete Sampras is at #2 in the career prize money rankings with $43.28 million. His slot is being threatened by world #1 Rafael Nadal who has so far won $35.80 million. Nadal won more than $8 million in prize money this year, to go from #4 last year to #3. He now trails Sampras by less than $8 million and if he replicates his year-to-date earnings this year, he can surpass Sampras to claim the number two spot next year.

1 Federer,  Roger                     $60,060,358
2 Sampras,  Pete                      $43,280,489
3 Nadal,  Rafael                      $35,796,162
4 Agassi,  Andre                      $31,152,975
5 Becker,  Boris                      $25,080,956
6 Kafelnikov,  Yevgeny                $23,883,797
7 Lendl,  Ivan                        $21,262,417
8 Edberg,  Stefan                     $20,630,941
9 Ivanisevic,  Goran                  $19,876,579
10 Djokovic,  Novak                   $19,762,956
11 Chang,  Michael                    $19,145,632
12 Roddick,  Andy                     $19,026,697
13 Hewitt,  Lleyton                   $18,843,702
14 Kuerten,  Gustavo                  $14,807,000
15 Bjorkman,  Jonas                   $14,600,323
16 Safin,  Marat                      $14,373,291
17 Davydenko,  Nikolay                $14,187,891
18 Courier,  Jim                      $14,034,132
19 Murray,  Andy                      $13,467,298
20 Moya,  Carlos                      $13,443,970
21 Ferrero,  Juan  Carlos             $13,320,292
22 Stich,  Michael                    $12,595,128
23 McEnroe,  John                     $12,552,132
24 Muster,  Thomas                    $12,240,574
25 Henman,  Tim                       $11,635,542
26 Bruguera,  Sergi                   $11,632,199
27 Rafter,  Patrick                   $11,127,058
28 Enqvist,  Thomas                   $10,461,641
29 Korda,  Petr                       $10,448,900
30 Corretja,  Alex                    $10,411,354
31 Nalbandian,  David                 $10,391,107
32 Woodbridge,  Todd                  $10,095,245
33 Krajicek,  Richard                 $10,077,425
34 Santoro,  Fabrice                  $10,021,132
35 Haas,  Tommy                       $9,979,980
36 Ferreira,  Wayne                   $9,969,617
37 Rios,  Marcelo                     $9,713,771
38 Ljubicic,  Ivan                    $9,289,549
39 Ferrer,  David                     $9,250,842
40 Nestor,  Daniel                    $9,140,752
41 Rusedski,  Greg                    $8,944,841
42 Mirnyi,  Max                       $8,894,949
43 Robredo,  Tommy                    $8,732,363
44 Gonzalez,  Fernando                $8,731,544
45 Soderling,  Robin                  $8,699,288
46 Connors,  Jimmy                    $8,641,040
47 Woodforde,  Mark                   $8,571,605
48 Martin,  Todd                      $8,254,455
49 Grosjean,  Sebastien               $8,131,803
50 Wilander,  Mats                    $7,976,256
51 Youzhny,  Mikhail                  $7,889,433
52 Haarhuis,  Paul                    $7,749,011
53 Costa,  Albert                     $7,685,228
54 Novak,  Jiri                       $7,618,613
55 Bryan,  Bob                        $7,504,069
56 Kiefer,  Nicolas                   $7,480,465
57 Berdych,  Tomas                    $7,317,211
58 Bryan,  Mike                       $7,275,146
59 Schuettler,  Rainer                $7,193,528
60 Johansson,  Thomas                 $7,168,029
61 Verdasco,  Fernando                $7,090,545
62 Hrbaty,  Dominik                   $7,065,241
63 Blake,  James                      $7,044,262
64 Philippoussis,  Mark               $6,985,202
65 Pioline,  Cedric                   $6,921,029
66 Knowles,  Mark                     $6,873,103
67 Rosset,  Marc                      $6,812,693
68 Clement,  Arnaud                   $6,790,290
69 Del Potro,  Juan Martin            $6,775,148
70 Medvedev,  Andrei                  $6,721,560
71 Stepanek,  Radek                   $6,677,713
72 Lapentti,  Nicolas                 $6,313,898
73 Gaudio,  Gaston                    $6,064,696
74 Paes,  Leander                     $5,986,439
75 Coria,  Guillermo                  $5,915,620
76 Hlasek,  Jakob                     $5,895,293
77 Larsson,  Magnus                   $5,839,451
78 Damm,  Martin                      $5,721,417
79 Forget,  Guy                       $5,669,934
80 Melzer,  Jurgen                    $5,638,437
81 Llodra,  Michael                   $5,576,618
82 Gilbert,  Brad                     $5,509,060
83 Chela,  Juan Ignacio               $5,432,391
84 Bhupathi,  Mahesh                  $5,388,860
85 Jarryd,  Anders                    $5,378,067
86 Lopez,  Feliciano                  $5,366,816
87 Sanchez,  Emilio                   $5,339,395
88 Mantilla,  Felix                   $5,332,214
89 Canas,  Guillermo                  $5,285,575
90 Wheaton,  David                    $5,238,401
91 Pavel,  Andrei                     $5,225,028
92 Zimonjic,  Nenad                   $5,199,653
93 Schalken,  Sjeng                   $5,192,798
94 Black,  Byron                      $5,159,775
95 Tsonga,  Jo-Wilfried               $5,126,316
96 Kucera,  Karol                     $5,061,125
97 Spadea,  Vincent                   $5,012,880
98 Eltingh,  Jacco                    $4,926,864
99 Vilas,  Guillermo                  $4,923,882
100 Nieminen,  Jarkko                 $4,897,610

The ATP Career Prize Money Rankings is published by the atpworldtour.com website.

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Men's Tennis Rankings: 2010 Final Top 100

>> Tuesday, November 30, 2010

The 2010 tennis season has come to an end and Rafael Nadal of Spain is at the top of men's tennis. The Spaniard won 3 Grand Slam titles this year including the US Open where he completed a career grand slam. 16-time major champion Roger Federer of Switzerland is at #2. The Swiss maestro started and finished the year strongly by earning his 16th Grand Slam trophy at the Australian Open in January, and winning the year ending ATP Tour World finals in London last week where he beat Nadal in the finals. Novak Djokovic of Serbia ends the year at #3, while Andy Murray of the United Kingdom and Robin Soderling of Sweden round out the top 5.

Spain is the country with the most players in the top 100 with 14, followed by France with 11, and Germany with 10. Argentina has 7 players in the top 100 while Croatia, Italy, Russia and the USA have 4 players each.

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ATP Top 100 Career Prize Money Leaders - Active Players, Dec 2010

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World #2 Roger Federer of Switzerland pushed his career prize earnings to more than $60 million to top the list of ATP Tour's Top 100 Career Prize Money Leaders amongst active players. He has earned $6.68+ million dollars for this season alone. World #1 Rafael Nadal of Spain is ranked second with more than $35.8 million dollars. Current #3 ranked Novak Djokovic of Serbia is in third place with $19.76 million while former #1 players Andy Roddick of the United States and Lleyton Hewitt of Australia round out the top five with $19.03 million and $18.84 million, respectively.

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Federer beats Nadal to win ATP World Tour Finals

>> Sunday, November 28, 2010

Federer beats Nadal in 2010 ATP World Tour Finals
Roger Federer ended his 2010 tennis season with a dominating third set performance to beat rival and world #1 Rafael Nadal 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 in the finals of the Barclays 2010 ATP World Tour Finals. The win was the Swiss' fifth year-end championship title, while the Spaniard has still to win one. It also marked the 66th ATP title for Roger Federer.

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Barclays 2010 ATP World Tour Finals Results

World #2 Roger Federer of Switzerland beat world #1 Rafael Nadal of Spain in 3 sets to win the Barclays 2010 ATP World Tour Finals. It was the fifth ATP world tour finals title for Federer in six trips to the final. Nadal was playing in his first championship final. Despite the loss, Nadal still leads their head-to-head rivalry with 14 wins against 8 losses.

2010 ATP World Tour Finals Results
CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH Results

Sunday, 28 November, 2010

Championship Match Results:
[2] R Federer (SUI) d [1] R Nadal (ESP) 6-3 3-6 6-1

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Barclays 2010 ATP World Tour Semifinals: Nadal vs Murray

>> Saturday, November 27, 2010

World #1 Rafael Nadal will have his hands full if he wants to make it to the finals of the Barclays 2010 ATP World Tour finals in London. He will be going against the only player to have beaten him in the Grand Slams - world #5 Andy Murray. Murray also has the distinction as being the only player to have beaten Nadal twice this year. The Scot will certainly have the crowd backing him as well. Nadal still maintains an 8-4 advantage in their head-to-head match-up.

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Barclays 2010 ATP World Tour Semifinals: Federer vs Djokovic

World #2 Roger Federer will be going up against #3 Novak Djokovic for a place in the finals of the Barclays 2010 ATP World Tour finals in London. Federer currently leads the head-to-head rivalry 12-6, but Djokovic has scored the win in their latest Grand Slam encounter - a 5-set victory over the Swiss that prevented what many tennis fans have been hoping for this year - a Nadal-Federer match at a Grand Slam finals.

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Serena Williams withdraws from 2011 Australian Open

>> Thursday, November 25, 2010

Serena Williams, former world #1 tennis player and winner of 13 Grand Slam trophies, will not be defending her Australian Open title on January 2011. The American legend withdrew from the 2011 Australian Open due to a foot injury that also kept her from participating in any tournaments after she won her 13th Grand Slam title in Wimbledon last July.

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Top 100 ATP Men's Tennis Career Prize Money Leaders - Nov 2010

>> Thursday, November 11, 2010

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Roger Federer tops the current list of ATP Men's Tennis Career Prize Money Leaders. In the rankings released earlier this month, the 16-time Grand Slam champion from Switzerland is the top earner with almost $57.9 million. Retired American legend Pete Sampras is a far second with $43.3 million. Current world #1, Rafael Nadal of Spain is now at #3 with $34.9 million earned. Nadal dislodged Andre Agassi from the top 3 this year with the American slipping to #4. Agassi's career earnings is at $31.2 million, ahead of German champion Boris Becker who occupies the 5th slot with $25.1 million.

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Tennis Record set by Roger Federer

>> Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Another tennis record was set by Swiss world #2 and 16-time grand slam champion Roger Federer. Federer became the first player in this millenium to win 65 ATP tour titles when he beat world #3, Novak Djokovic of Serbia 6-4, 3-6, 6-1 in the final of the Swiss Indoors in Basel, Switzerland. It was sweet revenge for Federer as he lost to the Serb in the 2009 final. Federer, who was born in Basel, won his fourth tournament of the year. He earlier won at the Australian Open, Cincinnati, and Stockholm. He is now one tournament ahead of Pete Sampras, and solo fourth overall in this particular tennis record. He trails Jimmy Connors, Ivan Lendl, and John McEnroe in the most number of ATP titles won. All three players ahead of Federer have retired before the year 2000.

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Top 100 WTA Women's Tennis Career Prize Money Leaders - Nov 2010

>> Monday, November 8, 2010

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Despite playing in just six tournaments, American tennis superstar Serena Williams ended the 2010 season at the top of the women's tennis career prize money leader list. She has now earned more than $32.7 million. Her earnings for the year top $4.2 million dollars - majority of which came after winning her 12th and 13th Grand Slam titles at the Australian Open and Wimbledon Championships respectively. Serena's sister, Venus Williams remains at #2 in the women's tennis career prize money leader list. She currently has earned almost $27.7 million , $2.6 million of which was earned this year. The rest of the top 5 career prize money leaders are all retired players - Lindsay Davenport at #3 with $22.2 million, Steffi Graf at #4 with $21.9 million, and Martina Navratilova at #5 with $21.6 million.

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