That Was The Year That Was: Part II

JULY

Both ranked outside the Top 60, Tsvetana Pironkova and Petra Kvitova are shock semifinalists at Wimbledon.

Serena wins Wimbledon for the fourth time, beating first-time Grand Slam finalist Vera Zvonareva in the final. It's her 13th major.

Vania King and Yaroslava Shvedova, playing just their third tournament together, win the doubles event at the All England Club.

As Caroline Wozniacki turns 20, Russia's Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova becomes the highest-reanked teen on tour.

Serena and Kim Clijsters play before a record tennis crowd of 35,681 in Brussels.

Former doubles No.1s Gigi Fernandez and Natasha Zvereva are inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.

Serena Williams withdraws from three summer tournaments after cutting foot on broken glass; duly misses rest of season.

Martina Hingis plays World TeamTennis for the New York Buzz - and holds three 'match' points against Venus Williams in the first-to-five games format.

Agnes Szavay wins back-to-back titles at Budapest and Prague.

Former world No.5 Anna Chakvetadze wins her first title in more than two years, at Portoroz.

Andrea Jaeger is among the former champions who help Stanford's Bank of the West Classic - the oldest women-only event on the tour - celebrate its 40th anniversary.

AUGUST

Mother of twoLindsay Davenport returns to play doubles at Stanford, and wins the title with Liezel Huber.

Popular San Diego is back on the WTA calendar, and Svetlana Kuznetsova wins her first title of the season there.

Having pocketed two International events earlier in the year, Maria Sharapova holds three match points in the final at Cincinnati, but is scuppered by a cyclone called Kim.

Justine Henin announces the elbow injury she sustained at Wimbledon will keep her off tour for the rest of 2010.

Tennis players fill five of Top 10 places on Forbes list of top-earning female athletes.

Wozniacki wins three of four tournaments leading into US Open, including Montreal and New Haven - and tops the Olympus US Open Series stakes.

In Canada, Chris Evert is inducted into the Rogers Cup Hall of Fame.

SEPTEMBER

In Serena's absence, Wozniacki enjoys her first top seeding at a major, but Clijsters defends her US Open title.

Proving Wimbledon had been no fluke, King and Shvedova win the US Open doubles.

WTA celebrates the 40th anniversary of the rebellious, tour-making stand taken by the Original Nine in Houston on September 23, 1970.

OCTOBER

Venus announces her season is over, due to a knee injury.

With a combined age of 73, Kimiko Date Krumm and Tamarine Tanasugarn play what is believed to be the 'oldest' tour final ever.

Wozniacki wins back-to-back titles at Tokyo and Premier Mandatory Beijing and rises to No.1 - the 20th player to do so since computer rankings began in 1975.

Ana Ivanovic wins her first title in two years, at Linz - where she also triumphed in 2008.

Victoria Azarenka wins her second title of the year at the Kremlin Cup, clinching the last spot at the season-ending championships along the way.

The new WTA logo is launched on the eve of the WTA Championships at Doha.

Zvonareva becomes the fifth Russian to crack the Top 2.

Samantha Stosur receives the WTA Diamond ACES Award for her efforts to promote women's tennis to fans and the media.

Wozniacki secures the year-end No.1 ranking during the round robin at Doha, the 10th player to do so.

Emotional scenes in Doha as Elena Dementieva announces her retirement after more than a decade among the elite.

Clijsters beats Wozniacki for a third WTA Championships title, having won in 2002 and 2003.

Gisela Dulko and Flavia Pennetta beat Kveta Peschke and Katarina Srebotnik in the final of the doubles at Doha.

NOVEMBER

Dulko replaces Liezel Huber as doubles No.1; with Pennetta at No.2, they end the season at the top-ranked team.

Ivanovic beats Alisa Kleybanova in the final of the Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions at Bali. In the process, she books her return to the Top 20.

Italy wins third Fed Cup title in five years, beating the US in final for second year in a row.

At 29, Srebotnik announces the end of her singles career and renewed focus on doubles.

Dulko replaces Liezel Huber as doubles No.1; with Pennetta at No.2, they end the season at the top-ranked team.

Ivanovic beats Alisa Kleybanova in the final of the Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions at Bali. In the process, she books her return to the Top 20.

Italy wins third Fed Cup title in five years, beating the US in final for second year in a row.

At 29, Srebotnik announces the end of her singles career and renewed focus on doubles.