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Vote for the 2006 Tennisrulz Awards
Name Email Country
Riser of the Year:
Select Nadia Petrova Ana Ivanovic Jelena Jankovic Dinara Safina Tatiana Golovin Marion Bartoli Samantha Stosur Vera Zvonareva Anna-Lena Groenefeld Alona Bondarenko Jie Zheng Na Li Daniela Hantuchova Anabel Medina-Garrigues Tiantian Sun Kararina Srebotnik Marta Domachowska Aiko Nakamura Elena Vesnina Mara Santangelo Jelena Kostanic Sofia Arvidsson Roberta Vinci Kaia Kanepi Julia Vakulenko Martina Muller
Fresh Face of the Year:
Select Nicole Vaidisova Anna Chakvetadze Shahar Peer Olga Poutchkova Victoria Azarenka Michaella Krajicek Jamea Jackson Lucie Safarova Vania King Tszvetana Pironkova Agnieszka Radwanska Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova Tamira Paszek Aravane Rezai Romina Oprandi Caroline Wozniacki Jarmila Gajdosova Viktoriya Kutuzova Timea Bacsinszky Anna Tatishvili Yung-Jan Chan Agnes Szavay Aleksandra Wozniak Marina Erakovic Raluca Olaru Lauren Albanese
Surprise of the year
Select Severine Bremond Tszvetana Pironkova Mara Santangelo Kaia Kanepi Vania King Shenay Perry Bethanie Mattek Sybille Bammer Iroda Tulyaganova Maria Elena Camerin Angelique Kerber Lourdes Dominguez Lino Stephanie Dubois Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez Maret Ani Karin Knapp Marie Eve Pelletier Anne Schaefer Tzipora Obziler Urszula Radwanska Ivana Lisjak
Veteran of the Year
Select Martina Hingis Lisa Raymond Francesca Schiavone Meghann Shaughnessy Patty Schnyder Martina Navratilova Cara Black/Rennae Stubbs Anna Smashnova Severine Bremond Virginia Ruano-Pascual Paola Suarez Kveta Peschke Eleni Daniilidou Ai Sugiyama Iroda Tulyaganova Jill Craybas Tamarine Tanasugarn Brenda Schultz-McCarthy Meilen Tu Tzipora Obziler Lilia Osterloh
Disapointing Player of the Year
Select Venus Williams Serena Williams Sesil Karatantcheva Mary Pierce Lindsay Davenport Anastasia Myskina Gisela Dulko Sania Mirza Maria Kirilenko Shuai Peng Jelena Dokic
Comeback player of the year
Select Daniela Hantuchova Ashley Harkleroad Martina Hingis Svetlana Kuznetsova Brenda Schultz-McCarthy Iroda Tulyaganova Vera Zvonareva
Upsets of the Year
Select Jackson def Sharapova on grass (25 match streak on grass over) Pironkova def VWilliams (Aus Open) Craybas def Clijsters (Miamia) Vaidisova def Mauresmo (French Open) A. Radwanska def Myskina (Warsaw) Hingis def Sharapova (Tokyo) Dubois def Clijsters (Montreal) Italy def France (Fed Cup 1st round) Jackson def Groenefeld (Fed Cup) Poutchkova def Ivanovic (Bali)
Performance of the year
Select Sharapova wins US Open Mauresmo wins Wimbledon Justine reaches all 4 slams finals, YEC and Fed Cup Petrova wins back to back in Amelia Island & Charleston Chakvetadze wins Moscow Kuznetsova def 3 #1 players in Miami Navratilova ends career with doubles title in Montreal and mixed in US Open Raymond/Stubbs win four straight tier 1 doubles titles Ivanovic wins Montreal tier 1 event, US Open series
Most improved in 2006
Select Sybille Bammer Marion Bartoli Alona Bondarenko Kateryna Bondarenko Severine Bremond Maria Elena Camerin Anna Chakvetadze Lourdes Dominguez-Lino Jamea Jackson Jelena Jankovic Kaia Kanepi Bethanie Mattek Shenay Perry Dinara Safina Mara Santangelo Samantha Stosur Tiantian Sun Julia Vakulenko
Most likely to enter top 10 in 2007
Select Anastasia Myskina Marion Bartoli Daniela Hantuchova Lindsay Davenport Jennifer Capriati Anna-Lena Groenefeld Shahar Peer Na Li Tatiana Golovin Mary Pierce Serena Williams Venus Williams
Team of the year
Select Black/Stubbs Dechy/Zvonareva Hantuchova/Sugiyama Hingis/Bhupathi Italian Fed Cup team Navratilova/B.Bryan Navratilova/Petrova Peschke/Schiavone Raymond/Stosur Ruano-Pascual/Suarez Srebotnik/Zimonjic Yan/Zheng Zvonareva/Ram
Player of the year
Select Kim Clijsters Justine Henin-Hardenne Martina Hingis Italian Fed Cup team Svetlana Kuznetsova Amelie Mauresmo Nadia Petrova Lisa Raymond/Sam Stosur Maria Sharapova Nicole Vaidisova Yan/Zheng
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