Yanina Wickmayer on Serena Williams, Skiing, and Dancing
Yanina Wickmayer at the Sony Ericsson Open (Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images)
Current world #33 Yanina Wickmayer broke through the ranks at the 2009 U.S. Open escalating herself into the tennis spotlight. The Belgian tends to shy away from press but I had a chance to chat a few interesting topics with her at the Sony Ericsson Open this week. Did you know she has never met Serena...
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March 24, 2012
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March 24, 2012
CAS sets date for Wickmayer, Malisse appeals
Belgian tennis players Yanina Wickmayer and Xavier Malisse will have their cases heard at the Court of Arbitration for Sport in May to decide if they broke anti-doping rules.
CAS says on May 30 it will hear the appeals involving the players, the World Anti-Doping Agency, the Flemish Tennis Federation and the Flemish Doping Tribunal.
Wickmayer and Malisse are challenging one-year...
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March 22, 2012
Wickmayer, Malisse get date for CAS appeal
Belgian tennis players Yanina Wickmayer and Xavier Malisse will have their cases heard at the Court of Arbitration for Sport in May to decide if they broke anti-doping rules.
CAS says it will hear the appeals involving the players, the World Anti-Doping Agency, the Flemish Tennis Federation and the Flemish Doping Tribunal on May 30.
Wickmayer and Malisse are challenging one-year...
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March 22, 2012
Belgium leads Serbia 2-1 in Fed Cup
Yanina Wickmayer beat late substitute Aleksandra Krunic 6-1, 6-0 on Sunday to give Belgium a 2-1 lead over Serbia and bring it within one win of the Fed Cup semifinals.
Krunic was brought in to replace Jelena Jankovic, the former top-ranked player who was forced to withdraw after injuring her left thigh during Saturday's win over Kirsten Flipkens.
At just 18, the 198-ranked...
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February 05, 2012
Mattek-Sands, Wickmayer advance at Hobart
Bethanie Mattek-Sands recovered from an early break to beat 15-year-old Wimbledon junior champion Ashleigh Barty 6-2, 6-2 on Monday to advance to the second round of the Hobart International.
Mattek-Sands, who played for the United States at the Hopman Cup last week and was a finalist here last year, will next play Romania's Soran Cirstea.
Top-seeded Yanina Wickmayer of Belgium...
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January 09, 2012
Kim Clijsters Pulls Off Epic Prank, Tells Fans To Kiss Yanina Wickmayer To Win A Car (Video)
Previously on Outside the Boxscore, we have seen some classic pranks pulled off by athletes but nothing comes close to the prank that tennis star Kim Clijsters pulled during an exhibition match.
The exhibition doubles match pitted Clijsters and her sister Elke against Yanina
Wickmayer and Caroline Wozniacki.
During the match, Kim stopped it to announce to the crowd that...
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December 21, 2011
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December 21, 2011
Best Tennis Prank Ever (Video)
Via - During an exhibition womens’ doubles tennis match featuring Kim
Clijsters and her sister Elke Clijsters facing off against Yanina
Wickmayer and Caroline Wozniacki, Clijsters actually stops the game to
announce that the first person to kiss Yanina Wickmayer will win a car.
So clearly a bunch of random guys charged the court and kissed Wichmayer. This made the security...
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December 16, 2011
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December 16, 2011
Guys Run Onto Court To Kiss Yanina Wickmayer In Order To Win Car
During an exhibition womens’ doubles tennis match featuring Kim Clijsters and her sister Elke Clijsters facing off against Yanina Wickmayer and Caroline Wozniacki, Clijsters stops the game to announce that the first person to kiss Yanina Wickmayer will win a car. I have seen some good pranks in my life, but this is just incredible. A few guys were bold enough to make...
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December 16, 2011
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December 16, 2011
Monica Seles Thinks This Idea Is Terrible
My Google alerts must be messed up, because normally my women’s tennis exhibition match news is the first thing that greets me each morning. But in a recent exhibition doubles match*, Kim Clijsters decided to have a little fun with one of her opponents, Yanina Wickmayer. Sadly, it involved neither pillows nor pudding.
Clijsters took the microphone from the chair umpire in the middle...
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December 14, 2011
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December 14, 2011
Kim Clijsters Invites Fans to Crash Court, Kiss Yanina Wickmayer
Belgium -- The recent goofiness of women's tennis hit an all time high recently when Kim Clijsters grabbed a microphone and announced, "To all the men here, the one who kisses Yanina first,wins that...
Full story at Bob's Blitz ~ http://www.bobsblitz.com
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December 14, 2011
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December 14, 2011
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