From Steroid Nation:

The only female tennis player in history returns to competition as her suspension expired. Bulgaria’s Sesil Karatantcheva — the tattooed and juiced phenom — returned to action this season.Never been one to mince words when it comes to her tennis ambitions, Sesil Karatantcheva is letting her racquet do the talking as she.seeks to revive her career following a record two-year drugs ban. Karatantcheva, the only women’s tennis player suspended for steroids, took a step in that direction in Morocco on Monday by winning her first WTA match since November 2005. “Basically this is what I’m trying to do: Just kind of clean my name, and make people like me again,” the 18-year-old Bulgarian told the Palm Beach Post earlier this month.

Posted on May 1st, 2008 by Christopher M
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An Extreme Changeover Has Hingis Back in Game
By KAREN CROUSE

KEY BISCAYNE, Fla., March 22 — Across the net from Martina Hingis stood an opponent whose game she did not know well. This is a prosaic fact of Hingis’s comeback, for during her three-year retirement a whole new crop of players sprouted on the WTA Tour.

Hélio Castroneves, a two-time Indianapolis 500 champion, was in town for a race this weekend at Homestead-Miami Speedway, which is how he came to be on a practice court at Crandon Park on Wednesday waiting to receive a serve from Hingis, one of the headliners in the Nasdaq-100 Open.

The photo opportunity provided a snapshot of Hingis’s motivation for resuming her playing career. Hingis, 25, started out serving balls to Castroneves that landed as softly as balloons. Then he ran down a couple of balls during a rally to win a point.

Her next serve was a bullet that Castroneves could only wave at. “Wow,” he said. Chuckling, he added, “Thank God she’s not a racecar driver.”

Posted on March 27th, 2008 by Lori Braun
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