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Ewa Laurance (aka Ewa Mataya aka the Striking Viking) was born on February 26, 1964 in Gävle, Sweden. She is a Swedish-American professional pool player, most notably on the Women's Professional Billiard Association nine-ball tour. She is also a sports commentator for ESPN.Laurance is playing pool since she was 14 years old in her native country and moved to the United States in 1983.She has authored three books related with pool i.e. The Ewa Mataya Pool Guide, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Pool and Billiards and Quick Start Guide to Pocket Billiards. She has also written monthly columns for the Pool & Billiard magazine.In 2004, she was inducted into the Billiard Congress of America's Hall of Fame.In 2005, Ewa Mataya Laurance bested three of her peers, WPBA tour members Allison Fisher, Dawn Hopkins, and Gerda Hofstatter, at the Women's Trick Shot Challenge held at the New York Hotel Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, pocketing $25,000 as the grand prize.
She has also done modeling for many brands.
Anna Chakvetadze was on born March 5, 1987 in Moscow, Russia. She is 5ft 7in tall professional Russian tennis player. She began playing tennis at the age of eight after being introduced to the sport by her mother, Natalia. On June 25, 2007, she reached her career-high pro singles ranking of #7 in the world.Chakvetadze debuted on the ITF circuit in 2001 and In 2002, she won her first ITF Juniors title at Istanbul, in her doubles debut with fellow Russian Irina Kotkina.In 2004, at her first ever Grand Slam appearance, and third WTA tournament appearance, she defeated the #3-ranked player in the world at the time, Anastasia Myskina, 7-6(3) 6-3 and reached the third round as a qualifier. With this result, she became tied for the second fastest player to defeat a world top 10 in WTA history, tying Serena Williams.In recently concluded Cincinnati Open where she played first time and was placed as the #1 seed. She defeated Sania Mirza of India in her semifinal battle and finally defeated Akiko Morigami of Japan in the final. With this final win she extended her finals streak to 5 matches, never losing a final.
Marion Bartoli was born on October 2, 1984 in Le Puy-en-Velay, Auvergne, France. She is a female professional tennis player from France. She is currently ranked 19 in the world in singles and 65 in doubles. She is ranked 3rd in France behind Amélie Mauresmo and Tatiana Golovin.In 2001, she won the junior US Open title, the Australian Hardcourt Championships and Victorian Championships.She reached her first career Grand Slam fourth round at the French Open 2004, defeating Elena Dementieva in the third round.Currently she is participating in Wimbledon 2007 where she secured her position for final round and will face Venus Williams who defeated Ana Ivanovic in another semifinal match. In this journey of Wimbledon 2007 she defeated Flavia Pennetta of Italy in first round, Olga Govortsova of Belarus in second round, Shahar Peer of Israel in third round, number three seed Jelena Jankovic in fourth round, Michaella Krajicek of Netherland in Quarterfinal round and finally in an interesting match she defeated number one seed Justine Henin Hardenne in Semifinal round.All the Best to Marion Bartoli for her final match clash with Venus Williams.
Venus Williams was born on June 17, 1980 in Lynwood, California, United States. She is a former World No. 1 ranked female tennis player and Olympic gold medalist who has won 13 Grand Slam titles, including 5 singles, 6 women's doubles, and 2 mixed doubles titles. Williams is the older sister of fellow former World No. 1 tennis player Serena Williams. Venus holds the record for the fastest serve ever recorded by a female player in a main draw match (128.8 mph).Apart from tennis ace Venus is also a businesswoman and CEO of her interior design firm V Starr Interiors located in Jupiter, Florida.Currently she is participating in ongoing Wimbledon 2007 where she beat the second seeded Maria Sharapova in a straight set 6-1 6-3 and secured her position for Quarterfinal round where she will face fifth seed Svetlana Kuznetsova.
Shahar Pe'er was born on May 1, 1987 in Jerusalem, Israel. She is a professional female tennis player with height as 1.71m (5' 7"). She achieved her highest WTA ranking of #15 on January 29, 2007 and became the highest ranked Israeli tennis player ever.
At the 2006 French Open, Pe'er defeated Elena Dementieva of Russia, 6-4, 7-5, but lost to Martina Hingis, 6-3, 2-6, 6-3, in their fourth-round match. At the 2007 Australian Open, Pe'er made history by becoming the first Israeli woman to reach the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam event where she was defeated by eventual champion Serena Williams 3-6, 6-2, 8-6. She is currently participating in Wimbeldon 2007 with Sania Mirza as partner in doubles team.
Serena Williams was born on September 26, 1981 in Saginaw, Michigan. She is an American former World No. 1 ranked female tennis player who has won eight Grand Slam singles titles and an Olympic gold medal in women's doubles. She is the younger sister of another former world no. 1 professional female tennis player, Venus Williams. When Serena was four and a half, she won her first tournament, and she entered 49 tournaments before the age of 10, winning 46 of them.
In 2005, Tennis magazine ranked her as the 17th-best player of the preceding forty years.
She was WTA Newcomer of the Year in 1998 succeeded by Kim Clijsters, WTA Most Improved Player in 1999 succeeded by Elena Dementieva and WTA Player of The Year in 2000 succeeded by Justine Henin. As on June 25, 2007 she is at eight position in list of women's top tennis player.
In 2007 she won Australian Open by defeating Maria Sharapova by 6-1, 6-2 in final.
Currently she is participating in Wimbledon 2007 and won her 3rd round defeating Milagros Sequera by 6-1, 6-0.
