Sports Tiger: August 2011

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Mallory Blackwelder

Mallory Blackwelder

Mallory Blackwelder

Nicole Maree "Nikki" Garrett (born 8 January 1984) is an Australian professional golfer.

Garrett turned professional in late 2005, and qualified for the 2006 Ladies European Tour (LET). She did not win a tournament in her rookie season, but she had four top-ten finishes, ended up 12th on the Order of Merit standings with €99,445 in earnings, and won the 2006 Ryder Cup Wales Rookie of the Year award. In 2007 she collected back to back LET titles at the Tenerife Ladies Open and the Open de Espana Femenino

Nikki Garrett

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Maria Sharapova Tennis

Maria Sharapova Tennis

Maria Sharapova Tennis

Maria Sharapova

Maria Sharapova

Country Russia

Residence Bradenton, Florida, USA

Born April 19, 1987 (age 24)

Nyagan, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union

Height 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)[1]

Turned pro April 19, 2001

Plays Right-handed (two-handed backhand)

Career prize money $16,428,154[2]

Singles

Career record 408–100 (80.31%)

Career titles 24 WTA, 4 ITF

Highest ranking No. 1 (August 22, 2005)

Current ranking No. 4 (August 22, 2011)[3]

Grand Slam results

Australian Open W (2008)

French Open SF (2007, 2011)

Wimbledon W (2004)

US Open W (2006)

Other tournaments

Championships W (2004)

Doubles

Career record 23–17

Career titles 3 WTA

Highest ranking 41 (June 14, 2004)

Grand Slam Doubles results

Australian Open 2R (2003, 2004)

US Open 2R (2003)

Maria Yuryevna Sharapova(born April 19, 1987) is a Russian professional tennis player and a former World No. 1. A US resident since 1994, Sharapova has won 24 WTA singles titles, including three Grand Slam singles titles at the 2004 Wimbledon, 2006 US Open and 2008 Australian Open. She has also won the year-end invitational WTA Tour Championships in 2004.

The Women's Tennis Association (WTA) has ranked Sharapova World No. 1 in singles on four separate occasions. She became the World No. 1 for the first time on Aug 22, 2005 and last regained this ranking for the fourth time on May 19, 2008. She is currently ranked World No. 4. She has been in 5 Grand Slam finals. Her Grand Slam final record is 3–2.

Sharapova made her professional breakthrough in 2004 when, at age 17, she upset two-time defending champion and top seed Serena Williams in the 2004 Wimbledon final for her first Grand Slam singles title. She entered the top ten of the WTA Rankings with this win. Despite not winning a major in 2005, Sharapova briefly held the number one ranking, and reached three Grand Slam semifinals, losing to the eventual champion each time. She won her second major at the 2006 US Open defeating then-World No. 1 Amélie Mauresmo in the semifinals and World No. 2 Justine Henin in the final. Sharapova's 2007 season was plagued with a chronic shoulder injury, and saw her ranking fall out of the top 5 for the first time in two years. She ultimately won her third Grand Slam at the 2008 Australian Open, defeating Henin in the quarterfinals and Ana Ivanović in the final. After reclaiming the number one ranking in May 2008, Sharapova's shoulder problems re-surfaced, ultimately requiring surgery in October and forcing her out of the game for nearly ten months. Sharapova returned in May 2009 and was ranked No. 126 in the world due to her extensive lay-off. Since her comeback, Sharapova has won 5 singles titles (bringing her career total to 24) and improved her ranking to within the top 5.

Sharapova's public profile extends beyond tennis, as she has been featured in a number of modeling assignments, including a feature in Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. She has been featured in many advertisements including those for Nike, Prince and Canon and is the face of several fashion houses, most notably Cole Haan. Sharapova was the most searched-for athlete on Yahoo! in both 2005 and 2008.Since February 2007, she has been a United Nations Development Programme Goodwill Ambassador, concerned specifically with the Chernobyl Recovery and Development Programme.

In June 2011, she was named one of the "30 Legends of Women's Tennis: Past, Present and Future" by Time.

Maria Sharapova

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Sania Mirza

Sania Mirza

Sania Mirza

Monday, August 15, 2011

Rafael Nadal Girlfriend

Xisca Perello was born in Palma, Mallorca, Spain on July 7th, 1988, to Bernat Perello a constructor and Maria Pascual, Xisca has no siblings.

They have been inseparable ever since, Xisca still is very close to the Nadals and specially to his grandmother, for some time her relationship remained private actually for almost three years, but soon media found out who was Nadal’s girlfriend. Now this days she can be spotted cheering on his matches with Ana Maria Nadal or relaxing on her man’s arms in Mallorca.

Andy Roddick

andy roddick

>Date of Birth
30 August 1982, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Birth Name
Andrew Stephen Roddick
Nickname
Little Roddick
A-Rod

Height
6' 2" (1.88 m)
Mini Biography
Andrew Stephen Roddick was born on August 30, 1982 in Omaha, Nebraska to Jerry and Blanche Roddick. He has 2 older brothers, Lawrence and John. His family moved from Omaha to Austin, Texas when Andy was 4 years old and then to Boca Raton, Florida when he was 11. Andy picked up his first racquet at age 4 and became pro at age 18 in 2000. He is know for his killer serve (153mph record). His friend and fellow pro Mardy Fish lived with the Roddick family in 1999 for a year. He won his first grandslam at the US Open in 2003 and soon became one of the youngest #1's.