Laila Ali

Laila Ali was born on December 30, 1977 in Miami Beach, USA. She is the daughter of former heavyweight champion of World, Muhammad Ali. She is 5' 10" tall professional American boxer.

Anna Chakvetadze

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

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.

Leisel Jones

Leisel Jones was born on 30 August 1985 in Katherine, Northern Territory, Australia. She is an Australian swimmer with height 177cm . She participated in the 2000 Summer Olympics at the age of 15 only. She was part of Gold medal winning Australian team in the Women's 4 x 100 metre medley relay at the Athens Games in 2004. She is noted for employing a classical breaststroke technique, typified by a slow, but deeper stroke cycle.

Jones set a world record (2:22.96) in a meet in Brisbane, Australia but it was reclaimed by Amanda Beard at the US Olympic trials only a few days later.

In 2005, She was named as the Female World Swimmer of the Year by Swimming World magazine.

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 Peer

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

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.

Anjali Bhagwat

Anjali Bhagwat is a rifle shooter from India. She won four golds in the individual and pairs events of Air rifle and Smallbore Rifle in 2002 Commonwealth Games at Manchester. She was awarded the Arjuna award in 2000 and the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna jointly with Beenamol for 2002–2003 in India.

Natalie Gulbis

Natalie Anne Gulbis was born on January 7, 1983 in Sacramento, California. She is an American professional golfer who plays on the U.S. based LPGA Tour. Gulbis is considered to be the only LPGA sex symbol.

She played in her first LPGA tour event as an amateur at the age of 14. She placed in the top-10 in four consecutive major championships from the 2005 LPGA Championship to the 2006 Kraft Nabisco Championship.

Kim Clijsters

Kim Clijsters was born on June 8, 1983 in Bilzen, in Flemish Region of Belgium. She is a former World No. 1 ranked, in singles and in doubles, female tennis player from Belgium.

During her professional career, she won 34 WTA singles titles and 11 WTA doubles titles. She won the U.S. Open singles title in 2005 and the WTA Tour Championships singles title in 2002 and 2003. She won the French Open and Wimbledon women's doubles titles in 2003.

Clijsters' tour-best nine titles for the year, which she also achieved in 2005, is the most since Martina Hingis won 12 titles in 1997.

She announced her immediate retirement from tennis on her Web site on May 6, 2007.

Gabriela Sabatini

Gabriela Sabatini was born on May 16, 1970 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is a former professional tennis player from Argentina.

She was one of the leading players on the women's circuit in the late-1980s and early-1990s. She won the women's singles title at the US Open in 1990, the women's doubles title at Wimbledon in 1988, and a silver medal at the 1988 Olympic Games.

In 1989, she launched her own perfume, simply named "Gabriela Sabatini." Sabatini was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame on July 15, 2006.

Recently she was listed at top among the world's all time "Top 10 Tennis Beauties" by chinise media Xinhua News Agency.

Other player who figured in the list in order: Chris Evert, Steffi Graf, Anna Kournikova, Martina Hingis, Daniela Hantuchova, Mary Pierce, Maria Sharapova, Justine Henin-Hardenne and Sania Mirza.

Sania Mirza

Sania Mirza was born on November 15, 1986 in Mumbai and resides in Hyderabad, India. She is an Indian tennis player coached by her father Imran Mirza. She began playing tennis at the age of six, turning professional in 2003. She was the highest ranked female tennis player ever from India, with career high rankings of number 31 in singles and 26 in doubles.

She became the first Indian woman to reach the fourth round of a Grand Slam tournament at the 2005 US Open, defeating Mashona Washington, Maria Elena Camerin and Marion Bartoli. In 2004, she finished runner up at the Asian Tennis Championship. On February 12, 2005, she became the first Indian woman to win a WTA singles title defeating Alyona Bondarenko of Ukraine in the Hyderabad Open Finals.


Sania won the Wimbledon Championships Girls' Doubles title in 2003, teaming up with Alisa Kleybanova of Russia.

As of September 2006, Sania has notched up three top 10 wins against Svetlana Kuznetsova, Nadia Petrova and Martina Hingis.

She was 5th in the list of Top ten Asian female players as of October 2006.