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An outdoors grass tournament is next on the WTA Tour calendar, the first WTA Tournament of June, and is is going to be held in Birmingham, Great Britain. The prize purse is $220,000 for the AEGON Classic, an International Level tournament on the tour, and the Road to Bali heats up as these players get ready for this grass court tournament June 7^th through the 13^th. Get your membership at the links on this page and watch live right from your computer with access to our member's area, where you can watch all the professional tennis you can handle.

 

 

There have been fifteen different winners for the sixteen different events that are needed for these ladies to qualify for the Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, and the AEGON Classic is one of two events needed to quality that are played on grass. However, there are also two Premier level events that are played on grass this month, making grass the surface of every single tournament in the month of June. Last year, Magdalena Rybarikova won her first ever WTA Tour singles title with the AEGON Classic defeating Li Na who was the fourth seed.

 

 

Some of the players that will be competing in this year's AEGON Classic indlude Aravane Rezai, Yanina Wickmayer, Sara Errani, Roberta Vinci, Elena Baltacha, Regina Kulikova as well as Japanese player Ayumi Morita and Julie Coin from France, Also competing are India's Sania Mirza and American Jill Craybas. If you want to watch the AEGON Classic on the WTA Tour then get your membership at the banners on this page and watch the tournament in high quality video right from your computer screen.

 

Posted: 8th May 2009

 

The AEGON Classic will come to you from Birmingham, England June 8^th through the 14^th. The women of the WTA will be competing for a whopping $220,000 in prize money, and you won't want to miss this tournament. It's played on outdoor grass, and begins the day after Roland Garros ends. This tournament prepares the women for Wimbledon later this month.  You can watch this tournament live by getting your membership at any of the links on this page, and you'll have a full year's access to our network of live feeds and streams from the game.

 

 

In 2007, the final match took place between Jelena Jankovic and Maria Sharapova, and in the first set, Sharapova was able to dominate, ending the set 6-4, but then Jankovic came back with some force in the second set and ended up winning 3-6. Jankovic and Sharapova went into a third set for the decider or the WTA Birmingham, and after a total tournament time of one hour and fifty five minutes Jankovic was able to take the lead and the final set ended up 7-5. Jankovic holds the record for the third best grass court win-loss ratios, right behind Martina Navratilova and Steffi Graf.

 

Last year, the final was between Kateryna Bondarenko and Yanina Wickmayer, with Bondarenko having a 0 for 6 record in the quarters. Wickmayer had just recently gotten her first top ten earlier in the week , and the final tournament was a grueling two hours and forty eight minutes. The first set was close, with Wickmayer getting the 7^th point near the end, the final set score being 7-6. Then Bondarenko came back and won 3-6 in the second set, then won the third with a tiebreaker to take home the title for 2008.

 

 

This tournament will take place from June 8^th through June 14^th and you can watch it live by clicking on the links on this page and getting your membership. You'll have complete access to our entire network of the highest quality streams and feeds available on the internet. You'll be able to watch the event directly from courtside as these women compete for $220,000 and you'll see a hint of what could happen in Wimbledon the end of June. Don't miss the AEGON Classic from Birmingham, England June 8^th through the 14^th.

 

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