On the Baseline Tennis News

Which Sony Ericsson WTA Tour player took top honors as the best female tennis player of the decade? Matt Trollope finishes his countdown at On the Baseline by unveiling his picks for the Top 5 players of this decade.

The volley is simultaneously one of the most difficult and also one of the most simple shots in tennis. How can it be both?

Noppawan Lertcheewakarn is an 18 year old with an accomplished junior career behind her, ready to leave the chrysalis and spread her wings as a professional.

Imagine a right-handed player hitting a one-handed backhand with his or her left hand just dangling during the entire shot.

Several women have built exceptional playing careers during this time and have entertained us with brilliant shotmaking, competitiveness, rivalries, comebacks and triumphs, taking women’s tennis to a level well above what it was 10 years prior.

Monday marks the final day of voting for the 2009 Baseline Awards presented by Rebounces.

If you have not yet voted for your favorite players and highlights of the 2009 Sony Ericsson WTA Tour tennis season, do it now!

Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova will be one of the players whose careers will be put under the unforgiving spotlight next season.

Ivanovic’s management announced on Wednesday that the 2008 Roland Garros champion has hired Australian Damian Prasad.

The BNP Paribas Open is held at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden and is the largest combined ATP World Tour and Sony Ericsson WTA Tour event in the world.

Serena Williams becomes Women’s Singles World Champion for the first time since 2002 after producing her best performances at the biggest events.

2009 was a very up-and-down season for the talented young German, but there is every reason to keep your eyes on her in 2010.

Justine Henin plans to play an ambitious schedule before arriving in Melbourne for the 2010 tennis season’s opening Grand Slam.

Henin, a three-time former champion in Sydney, has received a wildcard for next month’s Medibank International.

Over the next two weeks, join On the Baseline for our annual 2010 Players to Watch series.

For today’s Open Forum Friday, tell us who you think will be the players to watch in women’s tennis next season.

Instead of playing warm-up tournaments in Australia or New Zealand, Sharapova will begin 2010 with two exhibition events in Thailand and Hong Kong.

Six weeks after she originally entered the ASB Classic, Belgium’s Yanina Wickmayer has once again confirmed her entry into the Auckland tournament.

The International Tennis Federation officially lifted her suspension on Wednesday, giving Wickmayer the opportunity to resume her career in professional tennis.