On the Baseline Tennis News

ESPN Classic will air live coverage of the special exhibition matches at Wimbledon on Sunday.

A Centre Court Celebration will feature tennis legends Andre Agassi, Steffi Graf, Tim Henman and Kim Clijsters.

Five seeded players lost in the first round on Sunday at the Mutua Madrilena Madrid Open.

World number one player Dinara Safina won her first title of the 2009 Sony Ericsson WTA Tour tennis season on Saturday in Rome.

Dinara Safina, Serena Williams, Elena Dementieva and Jelena Jankovic are the top four seeds at the mandatory Premier tournament in Madrid, Spain.

Belgium’s Yanina Wickmayer defeated Ekaterina Makarova on Saturday for her first Sony Ericsson WTA Tour title.

World number one tennis player Dinara Safina won her first title of the 2009 Sony Ericsson WTA Tour season on Saturday.

Safina, the top seed at the Internazionali BNL d’Italia in Rome, defeated her countrywoman Svetlana Kuznetsova in the singles final 6-3, 6-2.

Top seed Dinara Safina will play seventh seed Svetlana Kuznetsova on Saturday for the 2009 Internazionali BNL d’Italia singles title.

Russian sixth seed Ekaterina Makarova will face Belgian’s Yanina Wickmayer in the women’s final at the Estoril Open on Saturday.

The 2009 Internazionali BNL d’Italia women’s singles final will be an all-Russian affair on Saturday in Rome.

Top seed and reigning world number one Dinara Safina will play her countrywoman and seventh seed Svetlana Kuznetsova for the title.

Is Serena Williams’s passion for fashion, Hollywood and celebrity stardom hurting her tennis game? Can she really do all those things AND be the best tennis player in the world?

Tell us your opinion in this week’s edition of Open Forum Friday!

Defending Roland Garros champion Ana Ivanovic has been forced to withdraw from next week’s mandatory Mutua Madrilena Madrid Open in Spain.

The 21-year-old is suffering from inflammation in her right knee and doctors have ordered her not to play competitively for one week.

Third seed Jelena Jankovic was beaten by seventh seed Svetlana Kuznetsova on Thursday in Rome.

Second seed Maria Kirilenko lost on Thursday to Ekaterina Makarova and later in the day fourth seed Sabine Lisicki retired with a shoulder injury.

Tennis coach Joe Dinoffer concludes his Mythbusters series at On the Baseline with a look at punch volleys.

Jelena Dokic’s agent issued a formal statement on her behalf Thursday regarding the arrest of the tennis player’s father, Damir.

Damir was detained by Serbian police after threatening to fire a rocket at the Australian ambassador’s automobile.