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The 20 Hottest Female Tennis Players In The Game

intern — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:12:19 +0000

Meet Ashley Harkleroad, the #3 seed in our ranking.

Green grass, short skirts, loud grunts, and all white apparel are the sure signs that Wimbledon 2009 is beginning to heat up. While not all of us may be huge tennis enthusiasts, the on-court eye-candy is more than a good enough reason for us to tune in this weekend. Sure, Gabriela Sabatini, Jennifer Capriati and Anna Kournikova changed the aesthetics of the game, but there’s a new batch of stunners who we’d like to take down in straight sets. Before the next round in in Wimbledon starts, enjoy our countdown of the 20 Hottest Female Tennis Players in the Game. Game.Set.Match…

#20 DOMINIKA CIBULKOVA
NATIONALITY: Slovak
AGE: 20
RANKED: 13
FUN FACT: Her lucky number is 9.

#19 JELENA JANKOVIC
NATIONALITY: Serbian
AGE: 24
RANKED: 6
FUN FACT: Her dad’s name is Veselin.

#18 NICOLE VAIDISOVA
NATIONALITY: Czech
AGE: 20
RANKED: 67
FUN FACT: She speaks three different languages, and NYC is her favorite city.

#17 IVETA BENESOVA
NATIONALITY: Czech
AGE: 26
RANKED: 35
FUN FACT: Her favorite movie is Forest Gump.

#16 ANNA CHAKVETADZE
NATIONALITY: Russian
AGE: 22
RANKED: 30
FUN FACT: She hasn’t cut her hair in 5 years.

#15 VOJISLAVA LUKIC
NATIONALITY: Serbian
AGE: 22
RANKED: 1089
FUN FACT: She only has 518 friends on MySpace.

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Worldwide Wednesday: The 9 Hottest Russian Women

jerwin — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:50:45 +0000

Most of the time when we think of Russia, we’re thinking nuclear missiles (ayo) or dudes with lots of fur on their heads (ayo!) or beef stroganoff (aaayyyyyyooooo!). But then some Ruskie beauty like Kseniya Sukhinova goes and wins Miss World, and we remember that the land of beet soup (ok, enough already) has some of the hottest women on the planet too.

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Grunting With Maria Sharapova And Top Spin 3

bfred — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:17:16 +0000

Tennis, like golf, is a country club sport that we end up playing more of on Xbox than in real life. The sport is perfectly simple for the format'if you think about it, even the first video game, Pong, was basically a tennis sim. Our friends at 2K Sports invited Complex to Miami to preview Top Spin 3, and take loads of pictures of Maria Sharapova. We gladly obliged. See the highlights of our trip after the jump.

To help promote the game, 2K brought cover girl Maria Sharapova, who looked in person every bit the punishingly sexy Russian she is on TV. “The motion of the strokes impressed me,” said Maria. We suppressed it then, so we'll say it now: PAUSE!

The very smiley James Blake was also in the building. He says his current favorite songs are John Mayer's “Say,” Flo Rida's “Low,” and Usher's new one. One out of three ain't bad…we guess.

Top Spin 3 is coming out in May for every console, but the Wii version seemed to get the most love. James and Maria played a Wii match (as themselves) for the adoring press. For the record, Maria got stomped.

James and Maria were nice and all, but Complex has a new favorite tennis player now'Monsieur Gael Monfils. The 6'4″ Frenchman got way less attention than the other pros, but he seemed the most excited to be there. He said he plays Call of Duty 4 online (gamertag: “lamonf,” FYI) and dreamed about being in a video game when he was young.

Gael's kicks. We told you he was Complex, right?

We played a few Top Spin 3 matches on the 360 and the Wii'the game is fun but the controls have a definite learning curve. Is it better than Virtua Tennis 3? Eh…we'll wait for the finished product. Thanks 2K!