SANIA MIRZA "A INDIAN TENNIS STAR".

Sania Mirza
born 15 November 1986, is an Indian tennis player. She started her tennis career in 2003. In 2004 she was awarded the Arjuna award by the Indian Government .Sania Mirza (born November 15, 1986, Mumbai, India resides in Hyderabad, India) is a professional female tennis player from India. Coached by her father, Imran Mirza, Sania began playing tennis at age six. She turned professional in 2003. She became the first and only Indian woman to reach the 4th round of a Grand Slam tournament at the 2005 US Open. She is now the highest ranked female tennis player ever from India (She had a rank of 42, her highest ever, by end of August 2005).

Early life

Mirza was born to a sports journalist, Imran Mirza and her mother Nasima in Mumbai. She was brought up in Hyderabad in a religious Muslim family. Mirza began playing tennis at the age of six, turning professional in 2003. She was trained by her father, as well as her other family members. She went to Nasr school in Hyderabad and later graduated from St. Mary's College.

She has earned a large fan following in India as she is one of the very few young women from the country to have done well at the highest levels of sport. In 2005, she was awarded the Arjuna award in tennis for the year 2004. She has defeated two top 10 players, Svetlana Kuznetsova and Nadia Petrova. She is a devout Muslim, who began playing tennis at the age of six.

Career

In April 2003, Mirza made her debut in the India Fed Cup team, winning all three singles matches. Mirza won the 2003 Wimbledon Championships Girls' Doubles title, teaming up with Alisa Kleybanova of Russia.

She is the highest ranked female tennis player ever from India - ranked 31 in singles and 109 in doubles by mid-October 2005. Her original goal had been to enter the top 100 by the end of 2005, but she revised this to entering the top 50 after good performances at the beginning of the year. As of October 2005, she also ranked 2nd among Asian women. She became the first Indian woman to reach the 4th round of a Grand Slam tournament at the 2005 US Open, defeating Mashona Washington, Maria Elena Camerin and Marion Bartoli. Having secured a wild card entry to the 2005 Australian Open Mirza reached the third round, losing to eventual champion Serena Williams.


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THE DEFINATION OF "CHAMPION" .

Pete Sampras (born August 12, 1971) is a retired American tennis player and former World No. 1. During his 15-year career, he won 14 Grand Slam men's singles titles, and had a 203–38 win-loss record over 52 Grand Slam singles tournament appearances.^[2]He is considered as one of the greatest players of all time.

He debuted on the professional tour in 1988 and played his last top-level tournament in 2002 when he won the US Open, defeating longtime rival Andre Agassi in the final.He was the year-end World No. 1 for six consecutive years (1993–1998), a record for the open era and tied for third all-time. His seven Wimbledon singles championships is a record shared with William Renshaw. His five US Open singles titles is an open-era record shared with former World No. 1 player Jimmy Connors and Roger Federer.

TENNIS:-growing up in palos california ,pate started tennis at the age of seaven and grew up idolizing the play of the great roa laver by age 11 pate would have the chance to pratice with by idol .under the tutelege of early coach fischer ,pate made a name of himself as an up and coming star while competing inthe junior against the likes of david wheaton , andrre agassi , jim courier and michel chan . pate joined the professional tour at age of 16 in 1988 , won his first pro tournament on feb. 12 , 1990 at philadelphia and reached the no-1 ranking for the first time in his career on april 12 , 1993.

Early life and career

Pete Sampras was born in Washington, D.C., and is the third child of Sammy and Georgia Sampras. His mother immigrated from Sparta, Greece, while his father was born in the United States to a Greek immigrant father and a Jewish mother.^[6][7] Greek culture played a big role in his upbringing. Pete attended regular services of the Greek Orthodox Church on Sundays.

Rivalry with Andre Agassi

Sampras won 20 of the 34 matches he played against Agassi.^[28]

The 1990 US Open was their first meeting in a Grand Slam tournament final. Agassi was favored because he was ranked World No. 4 compared to the World No. 12 ranking of Sampras and because Agassi had defeated Sampras in their only previously completed match. However, Agassi lost the final to Sampras in straight sets.

Playing style

Sampras was an all-court player who would often serve-and-volley. In the early years of his career, when not serving, his strategy was to be offensive from the baseline, put opponents in a defensive position, and finish points at the net. In his later years, he became even more offensive and would either employ a chip-and-charge strategy; just chip back the return and run up to the net, waiting for a volley or try to hit an offensive shot on the return and follow his return to the net.

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Akshay Kumar's match-point at Wimbledon.

He strolled into centre court over the week-end to catch up on a tennis duel between Andy Roddick and Andy Murray which was eventually won by the latter. Soaking the traditional strawberries and cream atmosphere, Akshay was quizzed by anchor Nikki Bedi for a Radio show on BBC. people is know the akshay "action star " and akshay kumar is always like the sports such as football , cricket , watching tennis . when akshay study in the college of delhi then a good footbal player in college team so akshay resting time is watching and playing sports .
Besides following up on the football World cup, Akshay Kumar is in London currently watching the action at Wimbledon. He strolled into centre court over the week-end to catch up on a tennis duel between Andy Roddick and Andy Murray which was eventually won by the latter. Soaking the traditional strawberries and cream atmosphere, Akshay was quizzed by anchor Nikki Bedi for a Radio show on BBC.This was the first time a Bollywood actor was seen and interviewed live from London according to Kuljinder Singh Editor, The Nikki Bedi Show on BBC Asia Network. It was a light hearted chat held at the side of the court, and Akshay was at his witty best speaking about Wimbledon and Bollywood. "The atmosphere and the weather out here is absolutely great bright and sunny.Not surprising still he has signed a 21 crore deal with Reliance wherein he can select the script and the directors of his choice, a la Tom Cruise in Hollywood. Even the endorsement stakes are getting higher for this new Superstar. And adding credence to his ascendancy is the fact that soon after the success of PHIR HERA PHERI his next release JAANEMAN has been getting record breaking offers for the various territories even when compared to the years' biggest releases with biggest banners and star cast.


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William Sisters Battle Each Other At Wimbledon Finals 2009

WIMBLEDON - She walked into the interview room after the match with a T-shirt that read across her chest, "Are you looking at my titles?" Serena Williams has 11 major championships now, and really there is nobody in the sport who can ignore that collection of trophies anymore.

It’s going to be an All-American final at Wimbledon today as the William sisters clash against each other with the elder sister Venus, hoping to win the title for the third consecutive time.

The Williams rivalry (on court) has been observed a lot in the past. Nine years ago they faced each other in the finals which was penned down as an uncomfortable one. Since then both the sisters have evolved, showing maturity every time they were pitted against each other. Expressing her views on the finals, Serena Williams said, “The more we play, the better it gets. You know, when we play our match on Saturday, its for everything.” The final will mark the sisters fourth meet in a Wimbledon final and eighth in a grand-slam title.

Serena took that away from her, and in the process moved into a different category of athlete.

"Now I'm looking at the next goal of someone like Billie Jean King, who is completely my idol," Serena said. "To get to her level and have 12 would be even better."

"This is one of the few times I didn't expect to come out with the win," said Serena, who has won three of the last four majors and later teamed up with Venus Saturday night to win their fourth Wimbledon women's doubles title, the fourth seeds beating No. 3 Rennae Stubbs and Samantha Stosur of Australia, 7-6 (4), 6-4. "I felt like I had to go out there and do my best, just stay even, because she's such a good player. When I won that first set, I was, like, 'Wow! This is great!'".

Prior to the final, both the sisters won in a contrasting fashion. Two time Wimbledon title holder, Serena Williams defeated Elena Dementieva 6-7, 7-5, 8-6 in a 2 hour 49 minutes match putting it down in the history books as the longest woman’s match in a Wimbledon semi-final since 40 years. On the other hand, five time Wimbledon Championship holder Venus defeated Dinara Safina 6-1, 6-0 in order to place her berth in her eighth Wimbledon final. The match with Dinara lasted for a mere 51 minutes.

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Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum

Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum (The) is a museum concerned with the sport of tennis located at the All England Lawn Tennis Club in Wimbledon in South London, the venue of the Wimbledon Championships. The collections include items dating back to 1555. The museum, inaugurated at the centenary event in 1977, is open all year round and reopened in new premises on 12 April 2006. Visitors may take a guided tour of the All England Club, which includes admission to the museum in the ticket price.

About Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum

On the 12th April 2006, H.R.H. the Duke of Kent declared the brand new Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum open to the public.

The state of the art museum features exhibits and artifacts never seen before, as well as audio guides in eight different languages. this museum is so large and attractive and huge people is every day watching of this museum . this museum is the symbol of tennis history .the main purpose to made a museum to clearly introduced tennis to our tennis fan club and another is main purpose to increasing the tennis knowledge .

Highlights of the new Museum include:

• Fantastic New Cinema
  Within the walls of the new Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum is a remarkable cinema. The Cinema features a 200° screen that immerses the viewer into the world of The Championships by showing a film about the science of tennis.
• McEnroe's Ghost Sighted at the New Museum
  Bringing together an old technique called 'Pepper's Ghost' with new projection and filming technology, the museum is able to create an exciting way to view a scene from Wimbledon's past.

The Whites of Wimbledon
The fashions of Wimbledon continue to be a point of attention and significance to the story of tennis and the new Museum will house an extensive collection of Wimbledon attire. Everything from outfits worn in the 1880s to Rafeal Nadal's dri-fit 'pirate' trousers are on display.




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MARIA SHARAPOVA "A TENNIS BEAUITY".

Maria Yuryevna Sharapova (Russian: , Mariya Yur’evna Shara'pova born April 19, 1987) is a formerly World No. 1 Russian professional tennis player and three time Grand Slam champion. In 2004 at the age of 17, she won Wimbledon, defeating Serena Williams in the final. She has since won the 2006 US Open, defeating Justine Henin in the final, and the 2008 Australian Open, defeating Ana Ivanović in the final. A another advantage of maria is so quiet so maria is spend more other time in modeling and advertisement in world product. world establish company is wants that maria support my company product and achieving a higher position of our enterprise. maria sharapova is only one player to beat the william sister in 2004 Wimbledon then william sister performance is down and people thinks different to the williams sister ,now people is believes that william sister be lose the game.

Starting in 2007, Sharapova began to suffer from a right shoulder injury. She underwent surgery and as a result did not play a professional singles match from August 2008 to May 2009. Because of her inability to play because of injury, she was unable to defend her ranking points. As a result, she was ranked #102 on May 18, 2009. She is currently ranked World No. 60 as of June 21, 2009.

Playing style

Sharapova is a power baseliner, with power, depth, and angles on her forehand and backhand.Instead of using a traditional volley or overhead smash, she often prefers to hit a powerful "swinging" volley when approaching the net or attacking lobs.Sharapova is thought to have good speed around the court, especially considering her height. the back hand service of maria so strong and also service is so good so that a maria is achieving highest position in the world tennis tournament .

Career

2001–03: Professional debut

Sharapova turned professional in 2001 but played just one tournament that year. The following year, the 14 year-old Sharapova became the youngest female to reach the final of the junior Australian Open , before reaching the final of the junior Wimbledon Championships later in the year.^{[citation needed]} She also won three titles on the International Tennis Federation Circuit and played her first matches on the main Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Tour, winning a match at the Pacific Life Open in Indian Wells, California, a Tier I event, before losing to former World No. 1 Monica Seles in the second round.

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MOVIE ON WIMBLEDON

THE STORY OF MOVIE:-Britain’s Peter Colt (PAUL BETTANY) has never quite lived up to his dreams of tennis stardom. Once ranked as high as number 11 in the world, the journeyman veteran has watched his number slip to 119 as his confidence on the court slowly ebbs away. At one time having faced some of the best players in the world, Peter Colt is now about to face voluntary retirement, a job at a club and a bevy of aging women awaiting tennis instruction in between facials and afternoon drinks.American Lizzie Bradbury (KIRSTEN DUNST), the rising star/bad girl of the international tennis set, is the promising new hotshot playing at her first Wimbledon. Focused, driven and pushed to a level of superlative playing by her equally driven, overprotective coach and father, Dennis (SAM NEILL), Lizzie lets nothing get in her way of the win—not a bad call, not an unexpected return and certainly not a short-lived romance with fellow rising American champ Jake Hammond (AUSTIN NICHOLS).

ABOUT THE PRODUCTION:-

The long history of the Lawn Tennis Championships at Wimbledon, regarded as the world’s leading tennis tournament, began with a “Gentlemen’s Singles” match in 1877. For the record, Spencer Gore won from a field of 22 players; around 200 spectators were charged one shilling to watch the final.
The not so long history of the Working Title Films romantic comedy Wimbledon began around 120 years later in the late 1990s, when screenwriters Jennifer Flackett and Mark Levin came up with the idea of a love story set amidst the world of professional tennis.
Balancing all of the elements present in the story would prove a challenge for the filmmaker who would ultimately occupy the director’s chair—someone adept at handling the romantic, comedic and dramatic aspects, as well as someone who could capture the sport filmically, presenting it in a way that would “open up” the expected and stereotypical back-and-forth nature of the game.


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