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Sanex WTA Tour 2001 Player Calendar Features the Many Faces of Women's Tennis

STAMFORD, CT.  The Sanex WTA Tour is proud to announce the 2001 Player's calendar featuring the many faces and personalities that have made the Sanex WTA Tour the most popular women's sport in the world.  This 16-month calendar contains black-and-white portraits of many of the Sanex WTA's top players and rising stars, including Martina Hingis, Lindsay Davenport and Serena Williams, Kim Clijsters and Elena Dementieva who most recently reached the semifinals of the US Open. In addition to pictorials, the 2001 calendar consists of player birthdays, tournament dates and international holidays.

The 2001 Player Calendar is currently available on the Sanex WTA Tour's official website, www.sanexwta.com.  Beginning the first week of October, the Tour's calendar will be sold at Barnes & Noble and Calendar Club nationwide for $12.99 U.S., $18.99 Canada.

The world's leading sports and fashion photographers, including the Sanex WTA Tour's official photographic agency, Allsport, took pictures for the 2001 Player Calendar.  Allsport is the world's largest sports photographic agency, with offices in New York, Los Angeles, London, Sydney and Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1968, Allsport also owns the most comprehensive single collection of sports photography in the world, with a library totaling over 10 million images in 150 different sports dating back to 1896. Allsport photography USA is a division of Getty Images, Inc. the leading international provider of visual content to both professional and consumer markets.

The Sanex WTA Tour Presented by lucy.com is the premier women's sporting circuit in the world, composed of 58 events, including four Grand Slams and the Federations Cup, in 27 countries over an 11-month schedule, concluding with the CHASE CHAMPIONSHIPS in mid-November at Madison Square Garden in New York. Over 1,000 players representing 76 nations compete for more than $45 million in prize money before more than 3.5 million fans in person and another 6.1 billion homes worldwide via television. The Tour website address is www.sanexwta.com.