An ankle injury forced Vera Zvonareva to withdraw from Wimbledon before her third-round match against France’s Virginie Razzano today.  Ironically, the seventh-seeded Russian was sidelined for two months after injuring her ankle while playing against Razzano in April. 

Earlier this month, Zvonareva played in the grass-court tournament at Eastbourne and didn’t complain about the injury but I’m guessing it was either never fully healed or she reinjured it in London this week.  Either way, it’s really unfortunate.
Razzano will battle against whomever wins the match between France’s Marion Bartoli and Italy’s Francesca Schiavone.
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Vera Zvonareva of Russia defeated Ana Ivanovic of Serbia 7-6 (5), 6-2 to take home the Indian Wells Tennis Tournament title . The wind was also very gusty for their match, getting all the way up to the 40 mph range.
Zvonareva also won the doubles title with partner Victoria Azarenka . She now joins Lindsay Davenport as the only woman to win both the singles and doubles match at Indian Wells. Davenport won in 1997 and 2000.

Quite a few errors caused Ivanovic caused her the tie breaker and also the second set. She made a total of 46 unforced errors, …read more

Anna Ivanovic of Serbia and Vera Zvonareva of Russia will play each other in the Indian Wells Tennis Tournament for the title.
Zvonareva advanced to the finals after defeating her doubles partner Victoria Azarenka 6-3, 6-3. Azarenka had a tough match full of four double faults. She wasn’t on her game that day and she knew it.
“It was only unforced errors for me,” said Azarenka. “Vera played good. I didn’t do even 10% of my game today.”
This will be Zvonareva ’s first Indian Wells final , which will be played on Sunday, March 22nd.
“It’s my first final here, and I …read more

In honor of Maria Sharapova’s 6-1, 2-6, 6-0 win over Vera Zvonareva at the Qatar Open, we’ve decided to give the people what they want: A Maria montage.
The first one we posted is—darn YouTube!—no longer available. You would have loved it.  It was a Maria slideshow-lovefest to Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On.” Seriously. It was awesome in a let’s-point-and-laugh-at-the-guy-who-made-it kind of way.
But if you still want your Maria fix, check out this 5m, 41s almost (but not quite) as over the top as the other one we mentioned.  Here’s “perfect” Maria in all her bikini-clad glory: