Sports and Beauty

Maren Brinker

2011-08-19T22:36:00.000-07:00

Maren Brinker (born July 10, 1986 in Leverkusen) is a female volleyball player from Germany, who plays as a wing-spiker for Bayer Leverkusen. She represented her country in the FIVB World Grand Prix 2009.

Margareta Kozuch

2011-08-19T22:32:00.000-07:00

Margareta Kozuch pol. Małgorzata Kożuch (born October 30, 1986 in Hamburg) is a German female volleyball player of Polish origin, who plays for Atom Trefl Sopot, and previously played for as a wing-spiker for TuS Berne Hamburg, CVMJ Hamburg, TV Fischbek who changed their name to NA Hamburg, and Unicom Starker Kerakoll Sassuolo. She was Hamburg's sportswoman of the year in 2005. She represented the German women's national volleyball team in the FIVB World Grand Prix 2009. She was German sportswoman of the year in 2010.

Russian volleyball player - Yulia Merkulova

2010-11-16T08:06:00.000-08:00

Yulia Merkulova (born February 17, 1984) is a Russian volleyball player. Standing at 203 cm, she plays as a middle blocker. On club level, she plays for Dinamo Krasnodar, and is also a current player of the Russian national team.

Alexa Glatch

2009-06-09T08:10:00.000-07:00

Alexa Glatch (born on September 10, 1989) is a professional American tennis player. As of June 8 2009, she is the 6th highest ranked American in the WTA Tour Rankings at No. 106. She is coached full-time by Kevin O'Neill and part-time by Robert Van't Hof (former coach of Lindsay Davenport).

Stephanie Dubois

2009-06-09T08:06:00.000-07:00

Stéphanie Dubois (born October 31, 1986 in Laval, Quebec) is a Canadian female tennis player.

Michelle Larcher de Brito

2009-06-09T08:02:00.000-07:00

Micaela Larcher de Brito also known as Michelle Larcher de Brito or Michelle Brito (born 29 January 1993 in Lisbon) is a Portuguese tennis player. Michelle's family moved to the United States when she was nine years old so she could attend the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy in Bradenton, Florida. She was coached by Nick Bollettieri until the end of 2007. Currently she is training full time with her father, António Larcher de Brito. she achieved a career high rank of no. 90, achieved on June 8, 2009.

The Beauty of Pole Dance

2009-05-30T01:24:00.000-07:00

Reiko Shiota's Smile

2009-05-13T11:15:00.000-07:00

Top 7 Most Beautiful Tennis Stars

2009-04-19T09:32:00.000-07:00

Top 7 Most Beautiful Tennis Stars - The best home videos are here

Japanese golfer - Kumiko Kaneda

2009-03-01T05:57:00.000-08:00

Danica Patrick

2009-02-28T22:50:00.000-08:00

Danica Sue Patrick (born March 25, 1982 in Beloit, Wisconsin) is an American auto racing driver, currently competing in the IndyCar Series. She was raised in Roscoe, Illinois. Patrick was named the Rookie of the Year for both the 2005 Indianapolis 500 and the 2005 IndyCar Series season. In May 2006, she published her autobiography, Danica: Crossing the Line. With her win in the 2008 Indy Japan 300, Patrick became the first woman to win an Indy car race. She also has an equity stake in her #7 team.

Carolina Kostner

2009-02-18T08:51:00.000-08:00

Carolina Kostner (born February 8, 1987) is an Italian figure skater. She is the 2008 World silver medalist and the 2007 & 2008 European champion and the 2007-08 & 2008-09 Grand Prix Final Bronze Medalist. As of November 2008, Kostner is ranked first in the world.

Jessica Ennis

2008-12-19T19:17:00.000-08:00

Jessica Ennis (born 28 January 1986 in Sheffield) is a British athlete, competing in the heptathlon.

Rachel Unitt

2008-12-12T08:25:00.000-08:00

Rachel Unitt (born Junem 1982) is a football player and England national team member.

Sabine Lisicki

2008-11-20T09:56:00.000-08:00

Sabine Lisicki (born September 22, 1989 in Troisdorf, Germany) is a German professional tennis player. She achieved her career high rank of #49 on October 13, 2008.

Pretty pole-vaulting Aussie: Melanie Adams

2008-11-09T03:15:00.000-08:00

Caroline Wozniacki

2008-11-02T09:33:00.000-08:00

Flavia Pennetta

2008-10-31T10:45:00.000-07:00

Flavia Pennetta (born February 25, 1982 in Brindisi, Puglia) is an Italian professional tennis player.

Dominika Cibulkova

2008-10-31T04:56:00.000-07:00

Dominika Cibulková (born May 6, 1989 in Piešťany, Czechoslovakia, now Slovakia) is a Slovak professional tennis player. Her career-high ranking of World No. 19 was achieved on August 11, 2008. She is also a former World No. 3 at the junior level, achieving that ranking in May 2005.

Ashley Harkleroad

2008-10-24T10:52:00.000-07:00

Ashley Harkleroad (born May 2, 1985), is an American tennis player. Born in Rossville, Georgia, Harkleroad reached a career-high ranking of No. 39 on June 9, 2003. She is currently ranked 91 in singles and 168 in doubles, as well as 68 in the Race to the Sony Ericsson Championships. Her career prize money to date is $927,881

Sania Mirza

2008-10-23T02:53:00.001-07:00

Sania Mirza (born November 15, 1986) is an Indian tennis player.

Maria Kirilenko

2008-10-19T09:30:00.000-07:00

Profile:

Name: Maria KIRILENKO

Residence : Moscow, Russia

Date of Birth : January 25, 1987

Birthplace : Moscow, Russia

Height : 5′ 8” (1.73 m)

Weight : 127 lbs. (57.6 kg)

Plays : Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Coach : Eric Van Harpen

Manager : Octagon
Interests : reading, music, computer gaming, basketball, football

Favorite players : Jennifer Capriati, Yevgeni Kafelnikov

Tatiana Golovin

2008-10-10T08:07:00.000-07:00

Tatiana Golovin (born January 25, 1988) is a French professional tennis player of Russian descent (born in Moscow as Татьяна Головина).

Bia & Branca Feres

2008-10-05T05:09:00.001-07:00

Bia Feres and Branca Feres (born 22 February, 1988) are Brazilian synchronized swimming twins.

Gisela Dulko

2008-10-01T10:40:00.000-07:00

Gisela Dulko (born on January 30, 1985 in Tigre, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina) is an Argentine female tennis player. On November 21, 2005 Dulko reached her career-high singles ranking: World No. 26.

Anna Kournikova

2008-09-30T23:32:00.000-07:00

Anna Sergeyevna Kournikova (born 7 June 1981) is a semi-retired Russian professional tennis player and model.

Svetlana Kuznetsova

2008-09-06T10:46:00.001-07:00

Svetlana Aleksandrovna Kuznetsova (Cyrillic: Светлана Александровна Кузнецова born June 27, 1985) is a Russian professional tennis player.

Michelle Wie

2008-09-06T10:40:00.001-07:00

Michelle Sung Wie (Korean Wie Seong-mi Hangul: 위성미 Hanja: 魏聖美, born October 11, 1989) is an American professional golfer. In 2006, she was named in a Time magazine article, "one of 100 people who shape our world."

Chinese tennis player: Yan Zi

2008-09-04T09:44:00.000-07:00

Yan Zi (simplified Chinese: 晏紫), born November 12, 1984 in Chengdu, Sichuan province, is a Chinese professional tennis player.

Shawn Johnson

2008-08-21T21:38:00.000-07:00

Shawn Machel Johnson (born January 19, 1992) is an American artistic gymnast. She is the 2008 Olympic women's balance beam gold medalist, the individual all-around silver medalist, the 2007 all-around World Champion, and the 2007 and 2008 U.S. all-around champion.

Nastia Liukin

2008-08-21T06:56:00.000-07:00

Anastasia "Nastia" Valeryevna Liukin (Russian: Анастасия "Настя" Валерьевна Люкина; born October 30, 1989) is a Russian-American artistic gymnast.

Russian volleyball player: Ekaterina Gamova

2008-08-19T07:01:00.001-07:00

Ekaterina Gamova (born October 17, 1980 in Chelyabinsk) is a Russian volleyball player. She was a member of the national team that won the gold medal at the 2006 FIVB Women's World Championship, and the silver medal in both the Athens 2004 and Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. She is 2.04 metres (6 ft 8 in) tall, making her one of the tallest female athletes in the world. Current club - Dinamo (Moscow).

Chinese Volleyball player: Zhao Ruirui

2008-08-19T06:48:00.000-07:00

Zhao Ruirui (Chinese: 赵蕊蕊; born 8 October 1981 in Nanjing, China) is a Chinese volleyball player who competed on the 2003 Volleyball World Cup winning side and made an initial appearance with the 2004 Gold Medal winning side before refracturing her right leg.

At 196cm Zhao plays a middle blocker.

Chinese volleyball player: Xue Ming

2008-08-19T06:45:00.001-07:00

Xue Ming (Chinese: 薛明, born 1987-02-23 in Beijing) is a female Chinese volleyball player. She was part of the gold medal winning team at the 2005 Asian Championship.

Australian swimmer: Stephanie Rice

2008-08-15T11:08:00.001-07:00

Stephanie Rice (born 17 June 1988 in Brisbane, Queensland) is an Australian swimmer. She currently holds the world record in the 200 m and 400 m individual medley as of August 13, 2008, and won three gold medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

Rice is trained by Michael Bohl from the St Peters Western Swimming Club in Brisbane.

Dinara Safina

2008-07-20T00:17:00.000-07:00

Dinara Mikhailovna Safina , born April 27, 1986, is a Russian professional tennis player of Tatar ethnicity. She was born in Moscow, Russia. She is the younger sister of former world number one men's player, Marat Safin.

Victoria Azarenka

2008-07-15T06:46:00.000-07:00

Victoria Azarenka (Belarusian: Вікторыя Азарэнка, Азаранка, Russian: Виктория Азаренко; born July 31, 1989) is a tennis player from Minsk, Belarus, who became junior world champion in 2005. She won the 2007 U.S. Open mixed doubles title with her partner Max Mirnyi, and also finished runner-up at the 2007 Australian Open with him. She currently resides in Scottsdale, Arizona and trains in Marbella, Spain. On June 9, 2008, she reached a career high of No. 16 in singles.

Japanese professional golfer: Momoko Ueda

2008-07-05T10:19:00.000-07:00

Momoko Ueda (上田桃子, Ueda Momoko, born 15 June 1986) is a female professional golfer who in 2007 at the age of 21 became the youngest player in the history of the Japan LPGA Tour (JLPGA) to finish first on the money list. She is currently playing on the United State-based LPGA Tour.

Zheng Jie

2008-07-01T06:25:00.000-07:00

Zheng Jie (simplified Chinese: 郑洁; traditional Chinese: 鄭潔; pinyin: Zhèng Jié; born 5 July 1983) is a Chinese professional female tennis player. She was born in Chengdu, Sichuan province. She made her WTA rankings debut in 2000. She turned professional in 2003 and ended the year for the first time in the top 100.

Jelena Jankovic

2008-06-06T21:57:00.001-07:00

Jelena Janković (Serbian: Јелена Јанковић) is a Serbian professional female tennis player born on February 28, 1985. She entered the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) top 15 in September 2006 when she reached the semifinals of the U.S. Open. In early 2007, she broke into the top 10 and subsequently entered the top 3 when she reached the semifinals of the 2007 French Open. She won the mixed doubles title at Wimbledon in 2007 with partner Jamie Murray.

Marion Bartoli

2008-05-01T00:06:00.001-07:00

Marion Bartoli (born October 2, 1984) a French professional tennis player. She has won three WTA titles, and was runner-up at the 2007 Wimbledon Championships. She has been ranked as high as #9 in the world, and as of March 24, 2008, is the number one female French player.

Ana Ivanović

2008-03-21T19:24:00.000-07:00

Ana Ivanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Ана Ивановић) born November 6, 1987, in Belgrade) is a Serbian professional tennis player. She is currently ranked World No. 2 and is the top ranked Serbian player, just in front of compatriot Jelena Janković. At the 2007 French Open, Ivanović reached her first Grand Slam singles final, losing to Justine Henin. She also reached the semifinals of Wimbledon and the Women's Tennis Association Tour Championships in 2007. At the 2008 Australian Open final, she was defeated by Maria Sharapova.

Alicia Molik

2007-12-24T23:18:00.000-08:00

WTA Tour Championships winner (2007): Justine Henin

2007-11-16T08:28:00.000-08:00

Henin retains WTA Championships title after epic struggle against Sharapova

2007-11-12T08:55:00.000-08:00

Nathalie Dechy

2007-08-09T10:17:00.000-07:00

Nathalie Dechy (born on February 21, 1979 in Les Abymes, Guadeloupe) is a French professional tennis player. She is a two-time doubles Grand Slam champion, winning the 2006 U.S. Open ladies title with Vera Zvonareva and the 2007 French Open mixed doubles title with Andy Ram. Her biggest singles achievement is reaching the semifinals of the 2005 Australian Open, where she was just two points away from the final, before eventually losing to Lindsay Davenport.

Tang Li (唐莉)

2007-08-07T14:00:00.000-07:00

Tang Li (Chinese: 唐莉; Pinyin: Táng Lì; born July 27, 1982) is a Chinese professional Go player.

Tang started learning Go when most kids in China did, at the young age of 6. It wasn't until 1998, when Tang was 16, that'd she'd become a professional. In that same year she won 2nd place at the National Youth Women tournament, along with 2nd place at the National Sports Meeting tournament. She is considered one of the most beautiful Go players in the world, along with Umezawa Yukari.

Anastasia Andreyevna Myskina

2007-07-16T05:29:00.000-07:00

Anastasia Andreyevna Myskina (Анастасия Мыскина; (born July 8, 1981, Moscow, Russia) is a professional tennis player from Russia.

Myskina is one of the better baseline players in the game today, as shown with her French Open title in 2004. Despite this she prefers faster court surfaces, although having all the hallmarks of a genuine clay court champion (fast feet, stamina, all court play, deft touch and court smarts). Her game is characterized by a combination of consistent rallying and aggressive baseline points. Known as one of the smartest players on the tour, Myskina often out-thinks her opponents, toying with them, thus forcing them into error. Her backhand is her best shot, as her forehand tends to break down during matches. She is adept at using the 'angles' of the court to exploit slower opponents, and is able to mix the pace of her groundstrokes during a point. The major weaknesses in her game are her second serve, her forehand, and occasional inconsistency.

Daniela Hantuchová

2007-06-03T09:35:00.000-07:00

Daniela Hantuchová (born April 23, 1983 in Poprad, Slovakia (pronounced: HAHN-too-khoh-vah) is a Slovak professional tennis player. She is currently working with a number of coaches who work under the Sanchez-Casal Academy. Her WTA Tour mentor in the Partners for Success program was Martina Navratilova, who was her doubles partner for a brief period in early 2005. As of May 21, 2007, Hantuchova ranks at No. 13 in singles.

Victoria Azarenka

2007-05-01T07:57:00.000-07:00

Mary Pierce

2007-04-09T07:48:00.000-07:00

Mary Pierce (born on January 15, 1975, in Montreal, Canada) is a professional tennis player. She has appeared in six Grand Slam singles finals during her career — winning two of them — and also claimed two Grand Slam doubles titles. With her tall, lanky frame, Pierce has also had a secondary occupation as an occasional fashion model.
Pierce was born in Montreal while her French mother and American father were on a trip to the city. She was raised in the United States and lives in Sarasota, Florida. Thus, she has had or has been eligible for United States, Canadian, and French citizenship, and she has represented France in international tennis competitions many times. She speaks English and French fluently.

Elena Dementieva

2007-03-18T03:56:00.000-07:00

Elena Vyacheslavovna Dementieva born October 15, 1981, Moscow), better known as Elena Dementieva, is a professional tennis player from Russia.

Dementieva played and won her first international tournament, Les Petit As, in France at the age of 13. In 1997, she entered the WTA top 500. She turned professional in 1998 and entered the top 100 in 1999.

Official Website: http://eng.dementieva.ru

Maria Sharapova

2007-02-27T06:20:00.000-08:00

Maria Yuryevna Sharapova (born April 19, 1987) is a Russian professional tennis player and the current World No. 1. At the end of 2006, she was the world's highest-paid female athlete.
Sharapova has won two Grand Slam singles titles. She is the reigning U.S. Open champion, having defeated Justine Henin in the final of the 2006 U.S. Open. Two years earlier, she defeated Serena Williams in the final at Wimbledon.

Justine Henin

2007-02-27T05:06:00.000-08:00

Justine Henin (born June 1, 1982 in Liège) is a Belgian professional tennis player and a former World No. 1. She is currently the second ranked female tennis player in the world.

Henin is from the Walloon (French-speaking) region of Belgium. Her mental toughness and her one-handed backhand, a stroke which John McEnroe has called among the best backhands of any male or female player, are reasons she is one of the world's best players. As of November 2006, she has won five Grand Slam singles titles, including three French Open singles titles, as well as a gold medal in singles at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

Caroline Wozniacki

2007-02-19T05:59:00.000-08:00

Caroline Wozniacki (born July 11, 1990, Odense) is a Danish tennis player. As of February 5, 2007. Being born to Polish parents, she is trilingual, fluent in Polish as well as Danish and English.