Two of the famous names in women’s tennis Justine Henin and Maria Sharapova will be joining one of the world’s largest women’s tennis event, no other than the Acura Classic this coming July 28 to August 5, scheduled at the La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, California. The Acura classic will for sure make its mark because this 24th time will be the last time it will be held since Promotion Sports. Inc, already sold it to the WTA for $1.34 million. So having these two tennis greats will be a treat for spectators in the Acura Classic.

Earlier this week Serena Williams & Justine Henin met for the finals of the Sony Ericsson Open.
The match started off for the advantage of Henin, she was on fire winning the first set 6-0! An hour later Williams put that fire out & got her own fire back ... Winning the next two sets 7-5, 6-3.

Serena Williams & Justine Henin will fight for the title at the finals of the Sony Open.
The two haven't met since the 2003 Wimbeldon Semifinals.
Thursday, American Williams beat Israeli Shahar Peer 7-6 (4), 6-1.
As for Justine Henin, this is the first time she reaches the finals at Key Biscayne, after she beat Anna Chakvetadze 6-2, 6-3.
Williams says this about Henin: "Justine has been playing some of the best tennis on the tour. She’s doing awesome. This will be a real test of my game.

Serena Williams won her eighth Grand Slam today! She beat Top-seeded Maria Sharapova in the Australian Open finals 6-1, 6-2 ! Ouch! That must have been a hard slap on the face for Sharapova!
Winner Williams said: "It was an awesome win, because I had so many critics.

The big match is only hours away ... Who will be the winner of the Australian Open? ... Will it be top-seeded Maria Sharapova or unseeded Serena Williams?
The two players admitted that they both have butterflies, but the butterflies will fly away as the match begins!

Victory! Tennis beauty Maria Sharapova won the US Open setting aside claims that she had already gone as far as she could.
The 19-year-old Russian star is now the highest-earning tennis player in the world. It's ironic because even though she lost five successive Grand Slam semi-finals she still gains more money than Roger Federer, as well as David Beckham and Ronaldo!!

Maria Sharapova will play Slovenian Katarina Srebotnik in the semifinals of the Zurich Open after both secured straight-set victories.

The tennis beauty easily beat Swiss hopeful Timea Bacsinszky, winning 6-4 6-3, and Srebotnik defeated Russia's Maria Kirilenko 6-3 6-2.

Andre Agassi gets ready for his last tournament!
Yes, the tennis legend is getting ready to retire & the 2006 US Open will be his last.
In 1994, Agassi won his first US Open, & now in 2006 he will call it a day for good!
About this last tournament, Agassi says: I have yet to prepare myself properly for the emotions throughout this whole sort of summer and most of the year, but in this case, I'm sure I'm underestimating everything I'm going to feel and experience.

Russian tennis players Anastasia Myskina and Nadia Petrova unexpectedly made early second-round exits Wednesday night at the Rogers Cup, which commenced last August 12 and will end on the 20th. Sixth seeded Myskina yielded to No. 25 Israeli player Shahar Peer who surprisingly finished her off with a 7-6 (8-6), 5-7, 6-4 win. Myskina, the 2004 French Open champion, was also unexpectedly defeated by the 3rd seeded Chinese player Zheng Jie, 6-4 6-1, in the Nordic Light Open final last Sunday in Sweden.

It was announced last Sunday that former world number one tennis player Maria Sharapova won’t make it to the Rogers Cup finals due to fatigue. She joined Wibledon champion Amelie Mauresmo, Justine Henin-Hardenne and former number one tennis player Venus Williams in the list of Roger Cup’s no-shows. Because of this Women’s Tennis Association decided to withhold $150,000 from Sharapova’s bonus given at the end of the season.

Friday was an emotional day for Agassi and his fans as Chile’s pride, third seed Fernando Gonzalez defeat him 6-4, 3-6, 7-5 in the Countrywide Classic quarterfinals held at UCLA. Fifth seed Agassi is the defending champion and a four-time winner in the LA tournament, dominating the LA hardcourts back in 1998, 2001 and 2002. This is going to be the last LA tournament for Agassi as he plans to retire after the 2006 US Open, which will begin next month.

It seems like former world no. 1 tennis player Serena Williams never took a break in playing tennis for several months after showing us her focus and impressive strength last Tuesday in the Western & Southern Financial Group Women's Open when she defeated no. 2 seed Anastasia Myskina 6-2, 6-2 in the first round of the tournament. Serena finished the game in barely an hour, which was really remarkable considering that it’s her first match in six months.

Anna Kournikova was born in Moscow in 1981 and started playing tennis at age 5 with friends in a weekly children's sports program. And now is one of the most famous Professional Tennis players in the world.
She is also a beauty and has become a model because of that!

Anna Kournikova newest swimsuit photos.

The 18-year-old russian tennis player Maria Sharapova launches her bid to become world No.1 next year at the Australian Women's Hardcourts event.

World No.4 Maria Sharapova won three titles this year - Tokyo, Doha and Birmingham - but failed to add any Majors to go with her 2004 Wimbledon crown.

She was in striking distance of being world No.1 but ultimately finished fourth, her lowest ranking of the year, and is out to improve on that in 2006.