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Your favourite WTA moment in 2012?

Throughout the entire year, there have been many amazing moments on the WTA Tour.  Starting with Victoria Azarenka’s stunning victory over Maria Sharapova to win the Australian Open, Serena Williams does another comeback in singles tennis and even at the end of the tour, we saw another upset when the Czech...

Stepanek claims Davis Cup for Czech Republic

The Czech Republic have pulled off an amazing upset, defeating defending champions Spain to claim the 2012 Davis Cup. Heading into the 100th final of the oldest team tournament still played today (in any sport), Spain where hot favourites to claim a 3rd consecutive title, but after an amazing performance by Radek...

Hana Mandlíková

Hana Mandlíková is a former Czech professional tennis player from Czechoslovakia and later Australia. During her career, she won four Grand Slam singles titles – two at the Australian Open, one at the French Open, and one at the US Open. She was the runner-up at four Grand Slam singles events and won one Grand...

Martina Navratilova

Martina Navratilova is a retired Czech American tennis player and a former World No. 1. Billie Jean King said about Navratilova in 2006, “She’s the greatest singles, doubles and mixed doubles player who’s ever lived.” Navratilova won 18 Grand Slam singles titles, 31 Grand Slam women’s...

Ivan Lendl

Ivan Lendl is a former world no. 1 professional tennis player. Originally from Czechoslovakia, he became a United States citizen in 1992. He was one of the game’s most dominant players in the 1980s and remained a top competitor into the early 1990s. He is considered to be one of the greatest tennis players of...

Petr Korda

Petr Korda is a former professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. He is best known for winning the Australian Open in 1998 and for testing positive for the banned substance, nandrolone, following a match at Wimbledon that same year. Career Korda was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. He first came to the tennis...

Tomas Berdych

Tomáš Berdych is a professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. His most notable achievements are reaching the final of the 2010 Wimbledon Championships, and the semifinals of the 2010 French Open. He defeated the Croatian player Ivan Ljubičić in five sets to win the Paris Masters (which is a part of the...