Maria Sharapova’s bid to reach the third round of the Aegon Classic was delayed by rain on Wednesday, with the former Wimbledon champion leading American teenager Alexa Glatch 6-3, 5-4 before a downpour halted play. Sharapova twice held match point but was unable to close out and play was suspended for the day with 19-year-old [...]

Amanda Ray Beard (born October 29, 1981 in Newport Beach, California), is an Olympic-level swimmer and model from the United States of America. Beard participated in the 1996 Summer Olympics, 2000 Summer Olympics, 2004 Summer Olympics, and 2008 Summer Olympics, capturing a total of seven medals, the most recent in the 2004 games. She held [...]

Olympic pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva will compete at the London Grand Prix as a final preparation for the defence of her world title. Russian Isinbayeva has signed up to compete at Crystal Palace on 24 and 25 July, when sprint star Usain Bolt will also be in action. “I want to make sure I [...]

It took Svetlana Kuznetsova just 74 minutes to clinch the women’s French Open title on Saturday, but this was a triumph that was more than a year in the making. The Russian seventh seed blew away world No.1 Dinara Safina 6-4, 6-2 on Court Philippe Chatrier to secure a triumph that owes everything to her [...]

Alison Stokke, who normally rises over the pole-vaulting bar, rose to Internet Fame when a picture of her when she was 17 at a track meet was posted on the Internet. Soon, more pictures would surface, millions of new fans would stare at her gazingly, and this future California Bear Field Star, would find unexpected, [...]

Nigeria’s 2008 Olympic bronze medalist Blessing Okagbare of University of Texas, El Paso (UTEP) is one of four track and field women athletes nominated for the Collegiate Women Sports Award presented by Honda to the top NCAA Division I female athletes in their sport. Okagbare becomes the first UTEP athlete to be nominated for the [...]