Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Simona Halep Tennis Player Girls

Simona Halep  born 27 September 1991 is a Romanian professional tennis player who is currently ranked world No. 3. Halep first broke into the world's top 50 at the end of 2012, then into the top 20 in August 2013, and then top 10 in January 2014 (after reaching the Australian Open quarterfinal). She won her first 6 WTA titles in the same calendar year in 2013 (a feat that was last achieved by Steffi Graf in 1986 when she won her first 7), being named the WTA's Most Improved Player at its end, as well as being named ESPN Center Court's 2013 Most Improved Player. Halep reached the 2014 French Open final, her first Grand Slam final, where she played against Maria Sharapova. She lost this final in three sets. She also reached the final of the WTA Finals the same year, but lost to Serena Williams.

Simona Halep Tennis Player Girls

Simona Halep Tennis Player Girls

Simona Halep Tennis Player Girls

Simona Halep Tennis Player Girls

Simona Halep Tennis Player Girls

Simona Halep has self-described her playing style as being "an aggressive baseliner"  and "she models her game on Justine Henin". Henin herself said of Halep, "She has an intelligent game. There is a little something that reminds me of myself... it is offensive and aggressive." In 2010, before her breakthrough, New York Times columnist Michael Kimmelman described her as "a scrappy player from Romania, short but with potent ground strokes and a scrambler's talent."

By 2014, Louisa Thomas of Grantland was writing with admiration that "it turns out that [Simona] is astonishingly fast. She started to think ahead during points, she has uncanny anticipation. She became even faster her strokes became more simple: compact, beautiful, unreadable. she learned to disrupt the opposition’s rhythm and disguise her own. At her best, she does not play in patterns. She hits with surprising power. She covers the whole court. She hits balls with heavy power without making a sound.  Like Djokovic she has a talent for hitting winners from defensive positions. She is a defensive aggressor, an aggressive defender. She is becoming unclassifiable." After Halep finished runner-up in her first Grand Slam final against powerful hitter Maria Sharapova in Roland Garros in 2014, Eleanor Crooks of The Independent wrote that Halep "has a lovely fluidity of movement and superb balance that enables her to comfortably trade with more powerful players". Michael Beattie of Wimbledon.org also noticed that [Halep] "is free of the shrieks, tics and fist-pumps of her contemporaries." 

In terms of tennis strategy Halep is an aggressive counterpuncher. Her very fit body and athleticism provide her with very good all-court movement and she tends to make few errors; she also uses this agility to reach the ball earlier because of her wide back swings and sliding. At the same time she likes to control the rally and can hit very effective cross-court and down-the-line flat shots, generally producing winners.

Halep opened campaign defeating Eugenie Bouchard in straight sets. On 22 October 2014, Halep beat two-time defending champion Serena Williams 6-0, 6-2 at the WTA Finals, with the American's two games won equaling her career worst. The last time Williams managed to win just two games in a WTA Tour or Grand Slam match was in 1998 when she was just 16.[60] Halep lost the final match in the round robin group to Ana Ivanovic, but secured an appearance in the semifinals. Then she advanced to the final after beating Agnieszka Radwańska in straight sets. In the final match, she once again faced Williams, but this time lost to her in straight sets 6-3, 6-0.

Petra Kvitova Beauty Girls Tennis Player

Petra Kvitova was born March 8, 1990; age 24 years) is a professional tennis player from the Republic of Czech. On July 4, 2011 he was rated 7 world.

TOURNAMENT INFO: Wimbledon Championships Played: 7 Events Entered: Ladies' Singles Best Singles Performance: Champion (2011, 2014) Best Doubles Performance: 1st Round (2008, 2010, 2011







Petra Kvitová is a Czech professional tennis player. Known for her powerful left-handed shots and variety, she has won fourteen career singles titles including two Grand Slam titles at Wimbledon. She reached her career-high ranking of world no. 2 in October 2011, and is currently ranked no. 4 as of 24 November 2014.

During her breakthrough season of 2011, Kvitová won her first Grand Slam title at the Wimbledon Championships, becoming the first and currently the only Grand Slam event winner of either gender born in the 1990s. She also won the 2011 WTA Tour Championships, and helped lead the Czech Republic to victory in the Fed Cup final.

Kvitová claimed her second Major title at the 2014 Wimbledon Championships. She was also a semifinalist at the 2012 Australian Open and the 2012 French Open.

Kvitová began 2008 by upsetting Anabel Medina Garrigues in France and former world no. 1 Venus Williams in Memphis, reaching the second rounds of both tournaments.[8] She reached the fourth round of her first Grand Slam tournament, the French Open, in which she lost to Kaia Kanepi in three sets, having defeated Akiko Morigami, Samantha Stosur and then-World No. 12 Ágnes Szávay en route. She advanced to the quarterfinals of the 2008 Zurich Open as a qualifier, thus placing her in the top 50 for the first time.

Kvitová won her first career title in the 2009 Moorilla Hobart International, defeating Alona Bondarenko, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Virginie Razzano, and Iveta Benešová. After suffering consecutive first-round losses in the Australian Open (to Victoria Azarenka), the Open GDF Suez, and Dubai, she reached the third round in Indian Wells, losing to eventual champion Vera Zvonareva. She withdrew from the 2009 French Open due to an ankle injury and lost in the first round of Wimbledon. At the 2009 US Open, she defeated then-world no. 1 Dinara Safina in the third round in three sets, before losing to eventual semi-finalist Yanina Wickmayer in the fourth round. Kvitová was ranked 71 places lower than Safina at the time. At the Generali Ladies Linz, Kvitová reached her second final of the year, losing in straight sets to Wickmayer.

She reached the semifinals of the 2010 Cellular South Cup, and lost to eventual champion Maria Sharapova. She went on to reach the semifinals of the 2010 Wimbledon Championships, defeating Sorana Cîrstea, Zheng Jie, Victoria Azarenka, Caroline Wozniacki, and Kaia Kanepi, before losing to then-world no. 1, defending and eventual champion Serena Williams, in straight sets. She was then guaranteed to reach the top 30 for the first time. Following Wimbledon, she suffered five consecutive first round defeats in her next five tournaments before breaking a six-match losing streak at the 2010 US Open, when she defeated Lucie Hradecká, and Elena Baltacha, before losing to defending and eventual champion Kim Clijsters in the third round; having led 3–0 in the first set, Kvitová lost the next twelve games in a row.

Petra kicked off her 2015 campaign at the 2015 Shenzhen Open as the second seed behind world no. 3 Simona Halep. She won her opening match against China's Duan Yingying, overcoming her opponent in straight sets. She next faces Serb Bojana Jovanovski. Her next scheduled tournaments are the 2015 Apia International Sydney and the Australian Open.

Friday, September 5, 2014

Aleksandra Krunić Tennis Playing Fashion



Aleksandra Krunić (Serbian Cyrillic; born 15 March 1993) is a Russian-born Serbian professional tennis player, who was, as of 16 September 2012, ranked No. 126. Krunić has won six ITF events — five in singles and one in doubles.

On 25 April 2009 Krunić debuted for Serbia Fed Cup team in a doubles match versus Spain. She partnered Ana Jovanović against Lourdes Domínguez Lino and Nuria Llagostera Vives, but the match was cancelled. Krunić was the runner–up of 2009 Australian Open in Girls' Doubles, along with Sandra Zaniewska. She made her WTA Tour debut at 2010 Banka Koper Slovenia Open, playing doubles with World No. 2 Jelena Janković. Krunić made her WTA singles debut at the Poli-Farbe Budapest Grand Prix. In 2014 US Open, in her second main draw appearance at Grand Slam, Krunic won her first main draw match and then finished in top 16 at US Open, beating third seed Petra Kvitova in the process, but lost in three sets to Victoria Azarenka in fourth round.

Krunić was born to Bratislav and Ivana Krunić, Serbian immigrants to Russia, and has a sister named Anastasia. She was born on 15 March 1993 in Moscow, Russia, she currently resides after Moscow and Bratislava in Belgrade. Krunić speaks Serbian, Slovak, Russian and English fluently.

In January 2014, Krunić qualified for the PTT Pattaya Open, but lost to Nicha Lertpitaksinchai 6–3, 6–3 in the First Round.

At the 2014 US Open Krunic started campaign in qualifications. As it was last year at US Open, Krunic again qualified at the same Grand Slam tournament for her second main draw appearance. She beat Petra Martić, Denisa Allertova and tenth seed of qualifications Katerina Siniakova to qualify. In that final round against Siniakova, Krunic won in three sets. In the first round of the main draw she played against good friend Katarzyna Piter and won her first main draw match at a Grand Slam, in two sets. In the second round, 27th seed Madison Keys awaited. Although they finished the match with the same amount of points, Krunić won in three sets. Next she faced third seed and reigning Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova in the third round. And Krunic's fairytale run continued - she won in two sets. With that win, she was guaranted a world ranking in the top 100 for the first time. In the round of 16 Krunić lost to sixteenth seed Victoria Azarenka, in three sets. Eighteen time Grand Slam champion, Martina Navratilova, said during the match that she loves Krunic - what a find she is, what an athlete. During the whole tournament, Krunic's compatriots Jelena Jankovic, Ana Ivanovic and Bojana Jovanovski gave her advices and support.
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