Tennis Players Give Dining and Shopping Picks in New Zagat Guide

Some of the world’s best-heeled and well-traveled athletes, such as Serena Williams, Maria Sharapova, Venus Williams, Dinara Safina, and Caroline Wozniacki, offer shopping and dining suggestions in the third annual Best of The Sony Ericsson WTA Tour 2010 Zagat® Guide, a must-have guide to the best of shopping and dining in 24 of the top tournament cities around the world.

The Best of the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour 2010 Zagat Guide is full of player recommendations and covers it all, from five-star restaurants in world capitals to small yet distinguished boutique shops in such Tour destinations as Miami, Moscow, Rome, Dubai and Doha.

Italian and Japanese cuisine continues to be high on the players’ lists (Serena and Venus Williams frequent Rome’s Alfredo while Maria Sharapova and Ana Ivanovic stick to Nobu in Melbourne), yet the stars of the world’s most global sport surprise with their favorite hometown choices. Russia’s Vera Zvonareva and Elena Dementieva place Moscow’s Café Pushkin high on the list, while Agnieszka Radwanska offers her hometown Polish cuisine expertise.

One thing is for sure, since crisscrossing the globe for ten months straight doesn’t leave a whole lot of tennis-free days, the stars of the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour definitely know how to make the best of their time away from the court.

Whether looking for a behemoth department store in New York (Svetlana Kuznetsova recommends Saks Fifth Avenue) or a small antique jewelry shop in Rome (Venus Williams will send you to Piazza di Spagna), the stars of the Sony Ericsson’s WTA Tour have a recommendation handy.

The 2010 guide covers the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour premier event destinations, spanning from Bali to Indian Wells, along with Grand Slam cities of London, New York, Paris and Melbourne.

The Best of the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour 2010 Zagat Guide is one of the unique elements of Dubai Duty Free’s partnership with the Tour.