Famous Sports Women

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.

Famous Sports Women News

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CLIFTON, N.J. -- Annika Sorenstam ignored her notes and spoke from the heart. One of golf's greatest players was leaving the game, and she handled her retirement announcement the way she would a 10-foot birdie putt with a tournament on the line. With ...

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Sorenstam's tour coming to an end - Chicago Sun-Times

I am delighted to see steadily increasing numbers of women are getting into what so many of us klutzes used to believe was reserved for males only: fishing, hunting and target shooting with pistols or archery equipment. Why not think of including the ...

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Hunting, fishing for women promoted - The Washington Times

CLIFTON, N.J. -- Annika Sorenstam ignored her notes and spoke from the heart. One of golf's greatest players was leaving the game, and she handled her retirement announcement the way she would a 10-foot birdie putt with the tournament on the line ...

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Citing other priorities, Sorenstam to retire at end of season - ESPN.com

JACKSONVILLE, Florida : Annika Sorenstam will retire after the season, ending a career in which she has won 72 tournaments on the U.S. LPGA Tour to date and became the first woman in 58 years to play against men on the U.S. PGA Tour. "I think I've ...

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Sorenstam to make 2008 her last, end career in which she dominated ... - International Herald Tribune

CLIFTON, N.J. - Annika Sorenstam ignored her notes and spoke from the heart. One of golf's great players was leaving the game, and she handled her retirement announcement the way she would a 10-foot birdie putt with a tournament on the line: with ...

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