Tennis: Women’s Top 25 after Wimbledon 2012

Victoria Azarenka of Belarus has taken over the No.1 spot in the women’s rankings with her semifinal appearance at Wimbledon.  Losing finalist Agnieska Radwanska of Poland now sits at No.2. Both players leapfrogged over former No.1 and French Open winner Maria Sharapova.  Wimbledon winner Serena Williams is now ranked No.4.

 

Rank	Prev.	Athlete	Nation	Points	Tourn.
1	2	Azarenka, Victoria		8800	19
2	3	Radwanska, Agnieszka		8530	23
3	1	Sharapova, Maria		8370	17
4	6	Williams, Serena		7360	15
5	5	Stosur, Samantha		6195	22
6	4	Kvitova, Petra		5275	19
7	8	Kerber, Angelique		5170	20
8	7	Wozniacki, Caroline		4091	20
9	10	Errani, Sara		3410	23
10	9	Bartoli, Marion		3400	27
11	11	Li, Na		3245	17
12	14	Ivanovic, Ana		3190	21
13	12	Zvonareva, Vera		3160	21
14	19	Kirilenko, Maria		2635	24
15	13	Cibulkova, Dominika		2625	25
16	16	Kanepi, Kaia		2514	16
17	17	Pennetta, Flavia		2305	23
18	15	Lisicki, Sabine		2297	21
19	18	Petkovic, Andrea		2260	14
20	21	Jankovic, Jelena		2220	26
21	20	Petrova, Nadia		2105	20
22	26	Schiavone, Francesca		2050	24
23	22	Safarova, Lucie		2040	22
24	24	Goerges, Julia		1945	27
25	27	Zheng, Jie		1910	25

 

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Tennis: ATP Rankings after Wimbledon 2012

After winning the 2012 Wimbledon Tournament Roger Federer is World No.1 again Men’s Tennis.  He leads former No.1 Novak Djokovic by a mere 75 points.  Spain’s Rafael Nadal drops to No.3 after an early exit at Wimbledon. Germans Philipp Kohlschreiber and Florian Mayer made good strides in the rankings after reaching the quarterfinals at Wimbledon.

Here are the Top 25 as of July 9, 2012:

Rank & Player (Previous Rank)	Points	+ / –	Tourn.
1     Federer, Roger (3)	11,075	+2	20
2     Djokovic, Novak (1)	11,000	-1	19
3     Nadal, Rafael (2)	8,905	-1	20
4     Murray, Andy (4)	7,460	0	20
5    Ferrer, David (5)	5,430	0	23
6    Tsonga, Jo-Wilfried (6)	5,230	0	24
7    Berdych, Tomas (7)	4,515	0	23
8     Tipsarevic, Janko (8)	3,215	0	28
9     Del Potro, Juan Martin (9)	3,180	0	22
10   Almagro, Nicolas (11)	2,605	+1	28
11   Isner, John (10)	2,520	-1	24
12   Simon, Gilles (13)	2,480	+1	28
13   Fish, Mardy (12)	2,355	-1	22
14   Monaco, Juan (14)	2,130	0	23
15   Cilic, Marin (18)	1,825	+3	23
16   Verdasco, Fernando (16)	1,810	0	25
17   Monfils, Gael (15)	1,715	-2	22
18   Nishikori, Kei (20)	1,680	+2	21
19   Dolgopolov, Alexandr (21)	1,620	+2	27
20   Gasquet, Richard (19)	1,600	-1	22
21   Kohlschreiber, Philipp (30)	1,570	+9	28
22   Mayer, Florian (29)	1,545	+7	27
23   Raonic, Milos (22)	1,540	-1	22
24   Granollers, Marcel (23)	1,530	-1	27
25   Wawrinka, Stanislas (24)	1,470	-1	23

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Wimbledon 2012 Winners

Here are this year’s winners at Wimbledon:

2012 champions
Women’s singles: 
Serena Williams

 

 

Men’s singles:
Roger Federer

 

 

Women’s doubles:
Serena and Venus Williams

 

Men’s doubles:
Jonathan Marray and Frederik Nielsen

Mixed doubles:
Lisa Raymond and Mike Bryan

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Sharapova’s hitting partner is Fil-am Cecil Mamiit

A Filipino is part of team Sharapova who helped the Russian complete her career grand slam. Cecil Mamiit, a many time Philippine representative in competitions like SouthEast Asian Games, Davis Cup, and Asian Games, is the hitting partner of the once again Women’s World No.1 tennis player Maria Sharapova.

It is great achievement for one of the Philippine’s best national player in recent years. Mamiit has done his part for the country by winning four gold, six silver and five bronze medals in his several stints at the SEA Games.  He also won two bronze medals at the Asian Games and he lead the Philippines to Davis Group I after languishing in lower divisions before he came. Another big impact on Cecil’s arrival is that not he improved the games of the locals but he has opened doors for Fil-Americans to represent the country.  He has done his part and he will surely be a big asset for the country in the coming years as a coach or a consultant. Good job, Cecil!

Mamiit with Sharapova from Zimbio

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Sharapova Completes Career Grand Slam

Russian Maria Sharapova easily defeated Italian Sara Errani, 6-3, 6-2, in another anti-climactic Women’s final at the French Open to complete a career grand slam. Not only that she will the No. 1-ranked WTA player when the next ranking are released.  The last time Sharapova was No.1 was 4 years ago.

A shoulder injury almost ended her career a few years ago.  At one point she was ranked 126th in the world.  Her comeback is complete as she finally captured the elusive trophy at Roland Garros.  In 2004 as a 17 year old lass, Sharapova had a sort of coming out party after making it through the quarterfinals at French Open. A month later, she won her first grand slam title at Wimbledon.  After 2 years, she won the US Open and in 2008, she captured the Australian Open. Now it comes to a full circle as she won in red clays of France to become the 10th woman to complete a career grand slam.   She joined the likes of Martina Navratilova, Chris Evert, Billie Jean King, Steffi Graf, and Serena Williams.

Sharapova, now a Queen of Clay (Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP/Getty Images)

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Roger Federer ties Pete Sampras

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Roger Federer won the Stockholm Open to tie the legendary Pete Sampras for his 64th career title. He beat German Florian Mayer in straight sets 6-4. 6-3. He will need another 13 titles to tie John McEnroe who had 77 titles. The Stockholm Open victory is just the third title won by Federer this year.  It has been a year full of challenges for him as he lost his grip on his No. 1 ranking to Spain’s Rafael Nadal. His victory was also his 50th win of the year making him the first player since Sampras to have 50 wins in the tennis tour for 9 straight seasons.

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Djokovic beats Federer, to face Nadal in US Open Finals

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Novak Djokovic spoiled another dream finals between World No.1 Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer.   He came back from the jaws of the defeat to stun Federer 5-7, 6-1, 5-7, 6-2, 7-5 in the semifinals.

Nadal easily beat Mikhail Youzhny to enter his first finals of the U.S. Open. He can complete his career Grand Slam if he beats Djokovic. Rafa hasn’t lost a set in this years U.S. Open.

caloycomment: It would have been great to see the dream match-up in the finals but Novak deserves his place in the finals. Hopefully he can be competitive enough to show the people that he has what it takes to deny Rafa, who looks set to dominate tennis for years. Rafa in 4 sets… unless, Novak quits in 2.😉

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