Victoria Azarenka
Victoria Azarenka lost to Serena Williams in the Wimbledon 2009 quarterfinals. Azarenka was the eighth seed. Azarenka is ranked No. 8 in WTA singles and has two tournament titles in '09.
Agnieszka Radwanska
Agnieszka Radwanska got the boot at Wimbledon 2009 in the quarterfinals. Seeded 11th, she lost to third-seeded Venus Williams.
Vanessa Rousso
Vanessa Ashley Rousso is a French American law student and a casino pro poker player who is known as Lady Maverick. She holds dual citizenship between France and the United States and is a member of Team PokerStars and a spokeswoman for GoDaddy.com.
Rousso has been in the money since 2005 and has amassed career earnings in excess of $2.1 million, landing her among the top five women on the all-time money winners list in pro poker history. She has also gained not only casino bonus but fame with her 2009 stint in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, appearing in a Swimming With Sharks ad.
Vanessa graduated from Duke University with an economics degree and is married to Chad Brown, an actor, poker player and color commentator. She is attending the University of Miami in pursuit of a law degree, but still manages to juggle a very successful pro poker career.
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Caroline Wozniacki
Caroline Wozniacki was the ninth seed at Wimbledon 2009, but she's out of the tournament now. Wozniacki was beated in the fourth round by Sabine Lisicki, 6-4, 6-4.
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Ana Ivanovic
The showdown at Wimbledon 2009 between two former world No. 1s turned out to be not much of a showdown. Venus Williams easily dispatched Ana Ivanovic 6-1 in the first set, then Ivanovic withdrew with an injury one game into the second set.
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Melanie Oudin
The biggest upset on the women's singles side at Wimbledon 2009 through the third round is that of Melanie Oudin beating No. 6 seed Jelena Jankovic. Oudin beat Jankovic, the former world No. 1, 6-7, 7-5, 6-2.
Oudin, a 17-year-old American, was selected for Fed Ex Cup play earlier this year. She had to win three qualifying matches to get into this Wimbledon, but will move into the Top 100 singles rankings regardless of what she does after this.
Kirsten Flipkens
A pose of repose by Kirsten Flipkens, who went out in the third round of Wimbledon 2009. Flipkens, from Belgium, was beaten by No. 1 seed Dinara Safina 7-5, 6-1.
Dominika Cibulkova
Dominika Cibulkova made it to the third round at Wimbledon 2009, but, alas, that's as far as she made it. Cibulkova, the 14th seed, lost to Elena Vesnina, 5-7, 6-4, 4-6. See more Dominika Cibulkova pics.
Jennifer Leigh
Jennifer Leigh was introduced to poker by Robert Boyd years after they met each other on Internet Relay Chat. Leigh built up from playing $5 SNG online casino poker tournaments to playing $100/$200 limit hold'em cash games. She also cashed in the $1,000 limit hold'em event of the World Championship of Online Poker.
Leigh's nickname "Jennicide" was her alias on hacking bulletin boards when she was younger. She was at one time involved in beige boxing. (Leigh has described herself as a nerd, with knowledge of Linux and C# programming.)
Whilst Leigh is best known for playing online poker at PokerStars under the screen name "Jennicide," she was also involved in the Poker Royale: Battle of the Ages series. She won two preliminary heats and went on to finish 5th in the Grand Final. She finished in the money in the World Poker Tour (WPT) 2006 Caribbean Poker Adventure.
Whilst Leigh is best known for playing online poker at PokerStars under the screen name "Jennicide," she was also involved in the Poker Royale: Battle of the Ages series. She won two preliminary heats and went on to finish 5th in the Grand Final. She finished in the money in the World Poker Tour (WPT) 2006 Caribbean Poker Adventure.
Leigh has been romantically involved with several young poker professionals. She has indicated that she finds it difficult to maintain a relationship whilst playing poker
Jennicide loves free online casino games, more especially video games and recently blogged about reaching level 70 on World of Warcraft. She also played the MMORPG EverQuest. Leigh has also posed for FHM Online in 2007, and appeared in the May 2008 issue of Playboy. As of 2008, her live tournament winnings exceed $61,000.
Jennicide loves free online casino games, more especially video games and recently blogged about reaching level 70 on World of Warcraft. She also played the MMORPG EverQuest. Leigh has also posed for FHM Online in 2007, and appeared in the May 2008 issue of Playboy. As of 2008, her live tournament winnings exceed $61,000.
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Maria Kirilenko
Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Maria Kirilenko was another second-round victim at Wimbledon 2009. See more Maria Kirilenko pics on Tennis Babes.
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Cecilia Nordenstam
Cecilia Nordenstam is most known for her appearances in the European Casino Poker Tour and World Poker Tour. During the Five Star World Poker Classic series (WPT Championship) she had four cashes and the next year during the same series she had another cash for a total recorded career winnings of $47,585.
After being born in Stockholm she currently resides in Gotheburg, Sweden. She got her first taste of poker as being a dealer for Casino Cosmopol, after she graduated from a Swedish college. From there she learned the game and started play small stakes poker and it’s where she met Alexander Stevic who introduced her to bigger land based and free online casino games.
She then joined a Swedish group of poker players that includes Martin de Knijff, Ken Lenaard and several others. The team travels all over the world playing circuits and high stake tournament buy-ins. There has not been any recent news of Cecilia or has she had any major tournament scores in the past couple of years.
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Gisela Dulko
This is the tennis player who eliminated Maria Sharapova from Wimbledon 2009 today - Gisela Dulko of Argentina. Dulko beat Sharapova in a second-round match, 6-2, 3-6, 6-4. Dulko is No. 45 in the WTA singles rankings. She has no tournament wins in 2009, but has reached the quarterfinals in three tournaments.
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Julia Goerges
Jie Zheng
Gayatri Patel
Gayatri Patel was born on September 21st in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. She is an Indian actress who started her Bollywood career with recently released Hindi movie Let's Dance.
She holds the title of Miss India Georgia and participated in Miss India USA and became first runner up.
Gayatri Patel is also nick named as Dancing Tornado for her breathtaking dance steps in movie Let's Dance.
She holds the title of Miss India Georgia and participated in Miss India USA and became first runner up.
Gayatri Patel is also nick named as Dancing Tornado for her breathtaking dance steps in movie Let's Dance.
Liz Lieu
Liz Lieu. Simply saying her name will elicit an appreciative sigh from any male casino poker player in the vicinity. Smart, generous, adorable and a killer at the felt, Liz is a breath of fresh air in a casino poker world dominated by men who smell like stale sweat.
Lieu was primarily a limit Texas hold 'em cash games player for a number of years, before embracing tournament play at the 2005 World Series of Poker. When John Phan encouraged her to enter the $1500 no-limit hold'em event, she ended up in fifth place with over $168,000 in prize money. She went on to place 12th in the $5000 no-limit hold'em event the same year and cashed in the $3000 tournament as well.
The next stop was the Bellagio's 2005 Festa Al Lago tournament, where she placed fourth in the $2500 no limit hold'em event and 16th in two other top tournaments in the series, taking home more than $80,000 for less than a week's worth of work. She went on to finish in the top ten spots at the World Poker Finals, Five Diamond World Poker Classic, and the Gold Strike World Poker Open.
Lieu's first tournament win came at the 2006 L.A. Poker Classic at Commerce Casino, where she won the $1000 limit hold'em event. Her second tournament win came when she won the same event in 2007.
Lieu's first tournament win came at the 2006 L.A. Poker Classic at Commerce Casino, where she won the $1000 limit hold'em event. Her second tournament win came when she won the same event in 2007.
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Shana Hiatt
Shana Hiatt (born 1975) is a model, presenter and casinos online poker player, who has appeared in several magazines.
While Hiatt was a non-player prior to her job with the World Poker Tour, she is now an avid online casino poker player who occasionally plays in casinos. She is formerly the host of Poker After Dark and the National Heads-Up Poker Championship, both on NBC. Shana left the shows in 2008 due to pregnancy. She was replaced by Marianela Pereyra in Poker After Dark and by Leeann Tweeden in National Heads-Up Poker Championship.
After leaving the World Poker Tour in 2005, Hiatt sued the producers in order to get a restraining order to prevent them from keeping her from working on a rival poker show on NBC, Poker After Dark. The WPT argued a non-compete clause was part of her contract, but Hiatt countered that she never signed it. The suit additionally revealed Hiatt left the WPT over a "hostile working environment" involving her husband, movie producer Todd Garner whom she married in October 2005. Hiatt was previously married to James Van Patten, brother of World Poker Tour co-host Vincent Van Patten.
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Jennifer Tilly
Jennifer Tilly is the epitome of a casino poker hottie, as she’s both an Oscar-nominated actress and World Series of Poker bracelet winner. Having been voted one of the “25 Sexiest Women in Hollywood” by Celebrity Sleuth, the curvy Tilly is equally famous for her little girl voice, impressive cleavage and outstanding land-based and online casino poker skills.
Tilly has appeared in the GSN Poker Royale series. She appeared in the third season of Poker Superstars but was eliminated in the preliminary round. Tilly played in the Celebrity Poker Showdown which aired June 14, 2006, on Bravo. Tilly was knocked out in third place by Bravo’s casinos online poker champion Ida Siconolfi (the first non-celebrity to appear on the show) when her A♣ K♥ failed to improve against Ida's starting hand of K♣ K♠. Tilly appears as a celebrity, rather than a poker pro, in ESPN's Pro-Am Poker Equalizer.
In a television interview, Tilly stated that at this point in her career she is more interested in pursuing poker than acting. As of 2008, her live tournament winnings exceed $450,000. Tilly also appears in the World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions 2007 Edition video game (along with current boyfriend, Phil Laak) that was released in 2007 by Activision. As of December 2008, Tilly retired from the pursuit of poker as a career. In the December, 2008, edition of Bluff Magazine she says: "I love poker but greatness in poker is an elusive dream. There are too many variants. Trying to find validation in poker is like trying to find a virgin in a whorehouse. I’m not giving up poker entirely — free online gambling is an addiction after all. I’m just going to treat it more like a hobby and less like a career."
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Magdalena Rybarikova
It was career win No. 1 in WTA singles for Magdalena Rybarikova at the Edgbaston Classic in London. Rybarikova, from Slovakia, defeated Li Na in the final, 6-0, 7-6, after knocking off Maria Sharapova in the semifinals. Rybarikova was ranked 58th entering the tournament and will move up in the new rankings - perhaps moving past her previous best ranking of No. 46.
Vaishali Desai
Vaishali Desai is grand niece of film director, late Manmohan Desai. She was born on December 18, 1986 and brought up in Bangalore. She is an Indian model and actor who has worked in several ads and commercials for Ponds, Tanishq, Compaq, Indian Oil and Raymonds. She was the third runner up in Femina Miss India contest and became the title holder of Miss India International 2005.
Vaishali made her Bollywood debut as lead actress in Vashu Bhagnani's Hindi film Kal Kissne Dekha opposite debutant Jacky Bhagnani. Abhishek Bachchan, Juhi Chawla, Lara Dutta, Sanjay Dutt, Bhairavi Goswami, Akshay Kapoor, Rishi Kapoor, Archana Puran Singh and Rachna Shah are also part of this film.
Her younger sister Jaituni Desai is also a model and was a contestant in Miss India contest in 2006.
Carrie Prejean
Caroline Michelle Prejean (aka Carrie) was born on May 13, 1987 in San Diego, California, USA. She is 5ft 11in tall American model with green eye and beauty pageant from Vista, California who held the title of Miss California USA 2009. She was first runner up in the Miss USA 2009 pageant.
On 10th June 2009, She was dethroned of Miss Cailfornia USA title citing continued breach of contract issues as the reason which includes her semi nude photos and her answer to a question about same-sex marriage.
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