The Women's Tennis Association, is also known as the WTA Tour, and is to women's tennis what the ATP is to men's tennis. In 2005 the WTA changed its name into The Sony Ericsson WTA Tour.

The Women's Tennis Association was begun in Houston, Texas when the inaugural Virginia Slims event was won on 23 September 1970. Billie Jean King was a major figure in the early days of the WTA.

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SPRINGFIELD -- The area's oldest professioinal sports franchise, the Springfield Lasers, open their 14th season on Thursday night at 7 at the Cooper Tennis Complex against the Philadelphia Freedoms. On Wednesday night at the Doubletree Hotel, the ...

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Springfield Lasers are set for new season; Kournikova visits soon - KYTV

After 10 days of watching Serena Williams sail majestically through the draw, her semi-final against Elena Dementieva produced the result that everyone had expected. What took everyone by surprise was the way she was forced to go about getting it ...

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Serena forced into titanic scrap - Official Web Site of Wimbledon

ASK any one of the 40,000 spectators who pass through the All England Club gates today to tell you something about Dinara Safina and chances are they will say she is the younger sister of Marat Safin. If they were paying attention yesterday as the ...

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SAFINA'S AT FAULT FOR DISMAL SHOW - FOXSports.com

11:12 a.m. ET: Go figure: Serena is making her debut on Centre Court at this year's event, while Azarenka played her third-round match here last week. Have a question for Kamakshi Tandon, who is tracking all the latest happenings at Wimbledon? E-mail ...

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