Newsday (N.Y.): Marion Bartoli wins Wimbledon women's crown

July 06, 2013 by Art Spander in articles, tennis

By Art Spander
Special to Newsday

WIMBLEDON England — It was a mismatch more than a match, a women's final that given all that happened during a strange, bewildering Wimbledon turned out be perfectly imperfect and painfully one-sided.

Marion Bartoli is a champion with a past here, having returned to the All England finals six years after a one-sided defeat, and on a warm Saturday afternoon inflicted her own one-sided defeat on an overwhelmed Sabine Lisicki, 6-1, 6-4. In reverse order those were the same scores Venus Williams defeated Bartoli in the 2007 final.

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Newsday (N.Y.): Marion Bartoli, Sabine Lisicki advance to Wimbledon women's final

July 05, 2013 by Art Spander in articles, tennis

By Art Spander
Special to Newsday

WIMBLEDON, England — Marion Bartoli caught up with her past. Agnieszka Radwanska was caught up by the future. So the most unpredictable Wimbledon of recent times will offer a women's final matching a 15th seed against a 23rd seed.

Bartoli, 28, of France, the 15th seed, needed only 62 minutes on a blue-sky day to defeat Kirsten Flipkens of Belgium, 6-1, 6-2, in the first semifinal on Centre Court yesterday.

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Newsday (N.Y.): Serena Williams stunned by Sabine Lisicki at Wimbledon

July 01, 2013 by Art Spander in articles, tennis

By Art Spander
Special to Newsday

WIMBLEDON, England — The winner, the stunning winner, was in tears. The loser in a state of acceptance.

"It's not a shock," Serena Williams insisted after she, and all of tennis, indeed were shocked Monday by Sabine Lisicki's 6-2, 1-6, 6-4 victory.

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Newsday (N.Y.): Maria Sharapova loses to Sabine Lisicki at Wimbledon

July 03, 2012 by Art Spander in articles, tennis

By Art Spander
Special to Newsday

WIMBLEDON, England -- They call it Manic Monday here. Think of it as a tennis version of March Madness. Everyone remaining is scheduled in a fourth-rounder. The next thing you know, a favorite is defeated, and the survivors are tiptoeing to the quarterfinals.

As Serena Williams will be. As Maria Sharapova will not be.

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Los Angeles Times: Maria Sharapova falls at Wimbledon, but she'll always have Paris

July 03, 2012 by Art Spander in articles, tennis

By Art Spander
Special to The Los Angeles Times

WIMBLEDON, England — The way Maria Sharapova was talking, discussing her French Open victory last month as opposed to her Wimbledon loss Monday ("I'll have that for the rest of my career"), it was easy to think of the film "Casablanca."

"We'll always have Paris," Humphrey Bogart says in that familiar line. So will Sharapova.

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