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.

image: TSN

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Zvonareva Pulls Out of Wimbledon

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, which was double to total of Zvonareva’s.

“After a couple of games, I knew that the conditions were very difficult and it’s not going to probably change and I have to fight for every point, have to adjust my game,” Zvonareva said. “Even though I had some mistakes and some frustrating points with the wind, I was still trying to put as many balls as I can in the court, trying to concentrate.”

The weather conditions were definitely a struggle for both players, but Zvonareva was able to handle them better, which in the end gave her that much wanted victory.

Source: Tennis.com
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Vera Zvonareva Wins at Indian Wells

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 played first semifinal here today, so I’m pretty happy to be through this one,” Zvonareva said.

Ivanovic defeated Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova on Friday evening 6-2, 6-3. Who do you think will take Sunday’s Indian Wells title – Ivanovic or Zvonareva?

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Women’s Indian Wells Final

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:

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For Those Who Heart Maria Sharapova . . . A Bit Too Much