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17
05
2013

Yanina Wickmayer Athletics Tennis Collection

Yanina Wickmayer is very proud to present her very own tennis clothing collection. In cooperation with Belgian sports brand Athletics a truly unique tennis collection was designed by and for tennis players. The result is a very inspiring, fresh and feminine clothing line. This high quality sports clothing is made for aspiring tennis players.
Yanina was heavily involved in the design and development process of the collection which includes skirts, t-shirts, shorts, a sports bra, a tennis dress and even a warm-up hoodie. The colour of the Yanina collection includes a very bright pink colour and some real fashionable details like Yanina’s autograph on some pieces of the collection.
Athletics designs their clothing in Antwerp, Belgium and everything is manufactured in Portugal, Europe to ensure the highest quality norm.
The Yanina Athletics collection is a must for every female tennis players. What do you think?
Take a look at the Yanina collection.

15
05
2013

Yanina Wickmayer vs. Kirsten Flipkens

During the first round of the WTA tournament in Rome Yanina Wickmayer (WTA-37) will play fellow Belgian Kisten Flipkens (WTA-22). Yanina has won all 3 previous encounters against Kirsten. The last game was in Auckland 2013 where Yanina won 6-3 6-4. De 27 year old Kirsten Flipkens may enter the top 20 during the tournament in Rome. Last year Yanina Wickmayer lost in the first round, so she isn’t defending WTA points this week.

23
10
2012

Yanina Wickmayer visits child hospital

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29
08
2012

Yanina Wickmayer vs Pauline Parmentier Match Preview

When Yanina Wickmayer takes on Pauline Parmentier in the second round of the US Open tennis championships, the World No.29 should be ready for a fight.
The Belgian has had a decent year so far with a win-loss record of 29-22 thus far. She started the year as the 26th ranked player in the World, and 2012 was suppose to be her breakthrough year. The World No. 29 however, couldn’t take her game to the next level and is hence still stuck at her present rank. He best performances this year have come on the hard courts, which is something that would give her confidence. She reached the semi-finals in Paris early in the year and also reached the semis in Stanford at the start of the American hard court season.
On the opposite side of court Parmentier is ranked 90 in the world and has a win-loss record of 23/24 so far. The Frenchwoman is yet to have a deep run into a tournament this year, and with the US Open crowd favouring the underdog, this could very well be that tournament for her.
These two haven’t played before and TennisEarth fancies an easy win for Wickmayer in this match.

22
08
2012

Dellacqua stuns Wickmayer in Dallas

Australia’s Casey Dellacqua stunned fourth seed Yanina Wickmayer 6-4 6-3 to move into the quarter-finals of the Texas Open in Dallas.
The world number 106 proved too strong for the Belgian, who is ranked 78 places above her, sealing a straight-set win to book a date with Aleksandra Wozniak in the last eight.

03
08
2012

Yanina Wickmayer arrives in Montreal

01
08
2012

Wozniacki dismiss Wickmayer to reach quarter finals OS

Caroline Wozniacki dismisses Yanina Wickmayer to reach pre-quarters – London Olympics 2012
Former world number one, Caroline Wozniacki, outfoxed the Belgian star, Yanina Wickmayer, in a three-set thriller at the London Olympics 2012 on Monday. She nudged up a 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 victory against the world number 31 to secure a spot in the round of 16 at Games of the XXX Olympiad in London, United Kingdom.
The eighth seed stayed focused throughout the battle to carve out the victory in their sixth encounter. After stealing the show, Wozniacki not only improved to a 6-0 lifetime in the head-to-head series against the Belgian but also progressed into the third round at this grass court event.
“Yanina went out there and played some very good tennis. I really had to dig deep to win that one,” the ecstatic Dane was quoted in a courtside interview after bagging the match. “I’m really pleased how I managed to come back in the third set and get a lead at the start and win that long game, which I think was 13 deuces. I think that really made the difference today.”
Wozniacki stepped into the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club with conviction. She drew the first …

14
07
2012

Wickmayer beats Marion Bartoli in Stanford

Belgian Yanina Wickmayer pounced on nine double-faults from ex-champion Marion Bartoli to knock the French second seed out in the quarter-finals of the WTA Stanford Classic 6-3, 6-2 on Friday.
The fifth-seeded Wickmayer will next play American Coco Vandeweghe, who reached the first WTA-level semi-final of her career with a defeat of Poland’s Urszula Radwanska 6-4, 6-4.
Bartoli, the 2009 champion and three-time Stanford finalist, was plagued by errors during her defeat in just under 90 minutes.
She double-faulted twice in what proved to be the final game when she lost serve for the fourth time.
Bartoli, who was beaten in the 2011 final by Serena Williams, saved her first match point but then Wickmayer followed with a winner Bartoli couldn’t get to.
It was world number 37 Wickmayer’s first win over the 2007 Wimbledon finalist and world number 10 in four meetings.
Bartoli considers the Stanford University campus one of her favourite venues, having played the event ten times.
Coming into the contest with Wickmayer, she had won 20 of her last 29 matches played in California.
Wickmayer, now into her fourth semi-final of 2012, kept Bartoli well off the top of her game.
“I was focused even when I was leading,” said the Wickmayer, who was runner-up …

01
07
2012

Yanina Wickmayer wins her 2nd round on Wimbledon

Yanina Wickmayer has won her match against the well-serving Galina Voskoboeva in 3 sets. After 2 hours and 27 minutes Wickmayer managed to force the decisive break. She won 4-6 6-3 8-6.
Voskoboeva, who defeated Wickmayer earlier this year in the first round of the Australian Open, started the match well. The match was tight in the first set. At the end of the set, Voskoboeva broke through the serve of Wickmayer to take the first set 6-4. The Belgian became frustrated.
In set 2 this frustration was turned into some good tennis. Yanina was the better of the two and took the set 6-3.
A third set had to decide the match. Voskoboeva was serving extremely well and hit no less than 8 aces in the final set. It was a tight match at 6-6 Wickmayer switched into a higher gear. She won 2 consecutive games to take the set after 61 minutes with 8-6.
Wickmayer is following the example of fellow Belgian, Kim Clijsters. Wickmayer will face Austrian Tamira Paszek in the third round. Paszek defeated Alize Cornet with 6-2 6-1. Paszek won the only encounter so far, in Auckland 2008, in 2 sets.

27
06
2012

Yanina beats Kuznetsova in first round

Yanina Wickmayer started off Wimbledon with quite an easy victory. With Svetlana Kuznetsova (WTA 35) she was facing seed no. 32 and it promised to become a tight match. However, at 3-2* Yanina manages to force a first break, what she repeated only 2 games later. She takes the first set with 6-2.
At the beginning of set 2 she continues how she finished the first. Quickly Wickmayer is leading 3-0 and 4-1. The Russian then breaks back and even comes back to 4-3 with chances to level the scores, but Wickmayer breaks through the serve and can serve for the match. With her third match ball she finishes it off. Final score: 6-2 6-3.
Yanina advances to round two, in which she will face the Kazakh Galina Voskoboeva (WTA 57). Voskoboeva won their last encounter at the Australian Open with 7-5 6-2.

24
06
2012

2012 Wimbledon: Wickmayer Vs. Kuznetsova

World No.35 Svetlana Kuznetsova squares off against World No.36 in the form of Yanina Wickmayer in the first round of Wimbledon. With both players looking to get some wins under their belt, The Championships is the perfect place to accumulate some valuable points and also some matches.
Kuznetsova has not had things going her way till now in 2012, a 16-12 win-loss record says it. The former Roland Garros champion has not reached deep into any tournament. A player of her caliber has the power to stun some of the top notches easily. Her ferocious forehands and a good mix of strokes make her even more dangerous. She comes into Wimbledon without any tournament on grass and only time will tell whether she faces any trouble on grass or not.
Wickmayer, on the other hand has also had a disappointing year so far with a 22-15 win-loss record. She, like Kuznetsova has the ability to play some amazing tennis and can really stun some big guns. Her game has a lot of strength behind it as she overpower her opponent with it. She has a tight match today and getting a win here would really boost her confidence.
The two have played thrice …

07
04
2012

Shvedova surprises Yanina in Charleston

Yaroslava Shvedova surprises Yanina Wickmayer in the second round – Family Circle Cup 2012
A stunning performance from the 24-year-old Kazakh competitor, Yaroslava Shvedova, was witnessed in the second round of the Family Circle Cup, surprising the 12th seed Belgian, Yanina Wickmayer. She outplayed the world number 30 in straight sets, 6-2, 7-6(2), to march into the third round of the WTA (Women’s Tennis Association) Premier tournament on Wednesday afternoon.
The contest was played on the outdoor clay courts of Charleston, USA, with the Kazakh qualifier dominating the superior-ranked Wickmayer in a convincing victory. Shvedova took one hour and 39 minutes to improve her year-to-date record by 18-5 and moving a step closer to the quarter-final draw of the star-studded event.
The 24-year-old was off to a ballistic start in the opening set, completely overpowering Wickmayer in every segment of the game to lead 1-0. The 12th seed Belgian made a fitting reply in the following set and went neck-to-neck with the belligerent Kazakh. She managed to drag the set into a tie-breaker round but utterly collapsed in the decider to let her opponent to an upset victory.
Shvedova had 72 per cent accuracy with her first serve in the match and clinched 32 …

25
03
2012

Yanina Wickmayer eliminated Kim Clijsters in Miami

Yanina Wickmayer on Saturday defended its current position as Belgian No.1 women’s tennis. The Flemish Brabant, 33rd in the WTA, was signed in the first 22 years of her career success against Kim Clijsters, the 37th World 3rd round of the tennis tournament in Miami.
Yanina Wickmayer has imposed two sets 6-4, 7-6 (7/5) at 1:30 in the first test of the WTA played on hard courts and endowed with 4,828,050 dollars.
Kim Clijsters, 28, who was making her comeback in Florida since her ankle injury in the semifinals at the Australian Open in late January, won the first game that had opposed Wickmayer.
She went back to the first round of the Eastbourne in 2010 (6-1, 6-1). Saturday, the Limburg saved two match points at 5-4 in the second set and extended the suspense back from 6/2 to 6/5 in the tiebreak, spreading new three match points before bowing out on the 6th.
Wickmayer, seeded N.23 in Miami, will face in the 1/8th final winner of the match must oppose later in the day Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark, former No.1 player in the world and now fourth in the Czech Petra Cetkovska (WTA 29/N.29).

14
03
2012

Tragical bus crash

Yanina Wickmayer, her management and family want to pay tribute to those who have been killed, their families and friends.
A bus carrying Belgian students returning from a ski holiday crashed into a wall in a Swiss tunnel, killing 22 Belgian 12-year-olds and six adults, in Sierre, Switzerland. 24 students were hospitalized with injuries. Some of them are still fighting for their lives.
We wish them all the best!

17
02
2012

World number one too good for Yanina

Yanina’s Doha run has come to an end in the quarterfinals. She was nowhere in the first set against an in-form Azarenka. She won barely two points on serve, leading to a logical 6-0 trashing by the world number one.
The score went up more evenly in the second set. Azarenka again took the lead by breaking Yanina’s serve for 3-2, only to lose her own serve right after. The players exchanged another break, but as Azarenka went up a break for the third time, some big serving in the next game assured her semifinal spot.
Yanina is now heading for Dubai.