Bethanie Mattek

Bethanie Mattek won't be part of the Australian Open 2009 because she just got married.Mattek's husband is Justin Sands, the head of the Arizona office of a Pennsylvania-based company called the Specht Insurance Group. He enjoys "hunting, fishing and watching tennis tournaments," his bio says. More on Bethanie Mattek Bethanie Mattek at the US Open Bethanie Mattek at the East West Bank Classic Stephanie Myles has more details about Bethanie Mattek husband so Click here to check it out...Read Full Story

Richard Pagliaro from tennis Week had the chance to talk with Bethanie Mattek after her wedding and she talks about how his husband proposed in Paris and at Wimbledon... and other things about her new life... check it out... Tennis Week: Bethanie, congratulations on your marriage, it's exciting news. How did you meet your husband and how did he propose to you?Bethanie Mattek: We actually have a mutual doctor out in Pennsylvania, which is how we met. Justin was training for football and he had...Read Full Story

So the rumors of Bethanie Mattek's marriage to JPS Insurance President Justin Sands are true and you know what? Here are the pics to prove it!The marriage took place on Saturday, November 29, 2008 at Edgewater Beach Resort in Naples, FL.In typical style, B's wedding was far from traditional (I mean FAR) and it seems "zebra" was the theme of the day: she worked an all-black Romona Keveza wedding dress and Marciano zebra print stilettos and wore a 5.5 carat custom engagement ring paired with a...Read Full Story

Here are two things I haven't written about in a while: Nicole Vaidisova + Reebok. Why you may ask? Well, Nicole had been on a 6-match losing streak and Reebok hasn't been worth writing about until now.The Czech finally broke the curse with a 6-1, 6-3 first round win over Frenchie veteran Natalie Dechy at Birmingham and won her next match against Ekaterina Makarovato to make the quarterfinals. But, alas, the good times weren't meant to last as Nicole was blasted today 6-3, 6-0 by fashionably...Read Full Story

The Williams bandwagon rolls on. After Venus coasted to a straight sets victory over Alisa Kleybanova, her sister Serena followed her onto No. 2 court and made light work of Bethanie Mattek, brushing aside her fellow American 6-3, 6-3. A repeat of the 2002 and 2003 all-Williams finals is still very much on course.Mattek’s presence this deep into a Grand Slam tournament came as something of a surprise, particularly in the light of her ranking less than three months ago when she was languishing...Read Full Story

Thanks to Stephanie Myles who reported Bethanie Mattek's wedding we are able to see some pictures from Bethanie's big day... I like the dress somehow but I don't like her hair...Bethanie wore a Romona Keveza dress and Marciano zebra print stilettos (zebra - of course!). Her 5.5 carat custom engagement ring was paired with a wedding band resembling zebra stripes, 3.5 carats of black and white diamonds. The intimate wedding of just 40 guests in attendance consisted of friends and family who all...Read Full Story

Bethanie Mattek reached her first WTA final after scoring a 7-6 (7-4) 6-3 victory over Aleksandra Wozniak in Quebec.Though the Canadian No. 1 came up short here, Wozniak has plenty of reason for optimism heading into 2009. She has soared from 147th to 37th in the rankings over the course of this year and won her first WTA singles title in Stanford.Mattek was already having the best season of her career prior to Saturday’s accomplishment. Ranked 43rd, she cracked the top 50 for the first time...Read Full Story

Ukraine's Kateryna Bondarenko beat Marina Erakovic of New Zealand 6-3 6-2 to reach the final of the Edgbaston Classic, where she will face fellow WTA tour final debutant Yanina Wickmayer.Bondarenko, the 12th seed, will battle it out with Wickmayer for the title after the Belgian recorded a 7-5 7-6 win over American Bethanie Mattek."It's my first final and I'm really excited," Wickmayer said. "I'm going to go out there and have some fun."The 18-year-old Wickmayer has climbed more than 300...Read Full Story

American Bethanie Mattek reached the second semifinal of her career, upsetting third-seeded Nicole Vaidisova 6-3, 6-0 in the DFS Classic quarterfinals on Friday.Mattek, a 23-year-old from Miami, next plays teenager Yanina Wickmayer, who defeated Briton Melanie South 6-4, 6-3 in their quarterfinal match. The only other semifinal for Mattek was at Cincinnati in 2005, and she has not won a WTA tournament.Vaidisova, ranked 19th in the world, failed to convert two break chances while trailing 5-3...Read Full Story

Bethanie Mattek just launched a new website featuring all the usual stuff we've come to expect from B (read: bad hair, worse fashion).It's good to see her back on court too after getting married and dealing with injury. However, I'm not loving the red/orange/copper crap dye job at all - icks - though it's not quite a hairy situation yet.But with B I've come to learn to expect the worse but prepare for hilarity. It's just a matter of time.(via Great Tennis Photos, images via bmattek.com, getty)Read Full Story