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    Have your say: Leave the grunting women alone!

    By lflint | Published: 30.01.12

    Sportsister’s Lizzie is a former professional tennis player. Now she focuses her spare time on running but she still follows the tennis circuit regularly and has plenty to say, when it comes to the most recent debate in the women’s game. This weekend saw the close of the first of this year’s Grand Slam event, [...]

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    Is this the year for women’s tennis?

    By lflint | Published: 13.01.12

    Since the retirement of Virginia Wade in 1986, Britain has struggled to find a high level of success in tennis on the women’s side of the game. While on the men’s side fans have had at least one player to cheer into the second week of a Grand Slam event with Greg Rusedski, Tim Henman and [...]

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    5 minutes with Laura Massaro

    By JessicaW | Published: 04.01.12

    It’s been a season of success for squash supremo Laura Massaro, and one that has recently been capped by the news of her reaching a career high ranking of world number 3.

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    Are you a badminton beginner?

    By JessicaW | Published: 21.12.11

    Badminton is the fastest racket sport in the world, with shuttles travelling at speeds faster than a Formula One car (that’s 421kph)!

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    4 stars 5 questions

    By rrashford | Published: 21.11.11

    We ask four stars the same five questions. See what Katarina Johnson, Montell Douglas, Leah Crane and Jordanne Whiley have to say.

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    Behind the scenes with a Wimbledon umpire

    By Louise Hudson | Published: 04.07.11

    Sportsister talks to up-and-coming tennis umpire, Kelly Thomson, who has just finished at Wimbledon and gives some advice for other young women who want to follow in her footsteps.

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    Cool on the court

    By Danielle Sellwood | Published: 01.07.11

    Have you been gripped to your TV screens for the past two weeks watching the world’s best tennis players battle it out for the Wimbledon title? Well now it’s your turn, and with kit this great you’ve got no excuses.

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    4 stars, 5 questions

    By JessicaW | Published: 28.04.11

    We ask four of our favourite sportswomen the same five questions. See what Jo Healy, Heather Watson, Helen Jenkins and Katy McLean all have to say.

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    Squash: Laura Massaro, Britain’s new squash supremo

    By JessicaW | Published: 07.03.11

    Laura Massaro is Britain’s new squash supremo after lifting the title at the National Squash Championships for the first time earlier this month.

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    Rackets: Women break into the boys’ club

    By weatherfairy | Published: 22.02.11

    History is set to be made this weekend (February 26/27) as Queen’s Club hosts the inaugural Neptune Women’s British Open Rackets Championship. For more than two centuries an all-male sport, rackets is finally opening its doors to women.

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