http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/tennis/columns/story?columnist=garber_greg&id=4039731

Good article on Victoria Azarenka.

thank you very much

Vika has just won Miami. I am happy about that, though, it wasn't a good match. I had expected more, but no long rallies, few ventures to the net. Vika had a great winner when running to her forehand side and hitting it down-the-line, and then they had a fun rally with both players at the net, but other than that, it was mostly Serena hitting errors.

It's been an amazing run for Azarenka this year. She had never even been in an important WTA final before this year and now she has three titles (and two doubles titles). What's depressing is that it's still very clear that the media has little desire to try and make her a new star. The commentary on CBS was very Serena-centric, pushing Azarenka to the background. They almost made it out that this was a "Serena slipped on a banana peel and lost in a fluke way, but we all know she's way way better than what's her name." The headline on the NBC story covering this is "Serena Williams upset in Key Biscayne final." Azarenka's name is not even mentioned in the first paragraph of the AP story covering the match. To most of the establishment media covering tennis (maybe not the hardcores covering it on the internet), there's an elite club of real stars and everyone else. And unless your name is Williams, Sharapova or Ivanovic (maybe Jankovic), you aren't in it.

officially safina will become on 20th april ranks new No 1
who would have thought this exactly one year ago

Is that because Serena's not entering Charleston and won't defend her points?

Thanks Christina for the comfirmation. That kinda sucks that Charleston got down-graded...Safina as no.1-just doesn't seem right...mind you Safina's got a hell of a lot of points to defend coming up...

all 2008 points were doubled during the first week of January to be more close to the 2009 points, so Serena will lose 860 points.

Azarenka interview:

thanks