2007 TRA Nominees

The voting begins soon, and here are the preliminary nominee lists:

==PLAYER OF THE YEAR==
Cara Black & Liezel Huber
Anna Chakvetadze
Justine Henin
Ana Ivanovic
Jelena Jankovic
Svetlana Kuznetsova
Lisa Raymond & Samantha Stosur
Russian Fed Cup Team
Serena Williams
Venus Williams

(A brief note: this year, noting for POY will include the opportunity to vote for a 1st place winner, as well as multiple other players, in order... with the final results tallied on a descending point basis to produce the Tennisrulz readers' Top Players for 2007)

==RISER==
Marion Bartoli
Alona Bondarenko
Anna Chakvetadze
Yung-Jan Chan & Chia-Jung Chuang
Gisela Dulko
Tatiana Golovin
Daniela Hantuchova
Ana Ivanovic
Jelena Jankovic
Maria Kirilenko
Sania Mirza
Shahar Peer
Dinara Safina
Mara Santangelo
Elena Vesnina
Vera Zvonareva

==FRESH FACE==
Victoria Azarenka
Vasilisa Bardina
Kateryna Bondarenko
Alize Cornet
Vera Dushevina
Michaella Krajicek
Alla Kudryavtseva
Ayumi Morita
Ioana-Raluca Olaru
Tamira Paszek
Agnieszka Radwanska
Aravane Rezai
Lucie Safarova
Yaroslava Shvedova
Agnes Szavay
Caroline Wozniacki
Aleksandra Wozniak

==SURPRISE==
Sybille Bammer
Marion Bartoli
Naomi Cavaday
Sorana Cirstea
Casey Dellacqua
Sara Errani
Edina Gallovits
Tathiana Garbin
Julia Goerges
Angelique Kerber
Karin Knapp
Mariya Koryttseva
Alla Kudryavtseva
Yvonne Meusburger
Nika Ozegovic
Andrea Petkovic
Camille Pin
Virginie Razzano
Julia Vakulenko
Roberta Vinci
Zi Yan

==VETERAN==
Greta Arn
Sybille Bammer
Cara Black & Liezel Huber
Lindsay Davenport
Elena Dementieva
Tzipora Obziler
Amelie Mauresmo
Anabel Medina-Garrigues
Akiko Morigami
Nadia Petrova
Lisa Raymond
Patty Schnyder
Meghann Shaughnessy
Katarina Srebotnik
Venus Williams

==DISAPPOINTMENT==
Chinese Fed Cup Team
Elena Dementieva
Marta Domachowska
Anna-Lena Groenefeld
Martina Hingis
Jamea Jackson
Na Li
Olga Poutchkova
Anastasia Myskina
Maria Sharapova
Samantha Stosur
Nicole Vaidisova
Zi Yan & Jie Zheng
Jie Zheng

==COMEBACK==
Lindsay Davenport
Sania Mirza
Alicia Molik
Shuai Peng
Flavia Pennetta
Serena Williams
Venus Williams

==IMPROVED==
Sybille Bammer
Marion Bartoli
Anna Chakvetadze
Casey Dellacqua
Gisela Dulko
Yuliana Fedak
Tatiana Golovin
Angelique Kerber
Yvonne Meusburger
Shahar Peer
Camille Pin
Lucie Safarova
Julia Vakulenko
Zi Yan

==MISSED MOST==
Elena Bovina
Jennifer Capriati
Kim Clijsters
Jelena Dokic
Amy Frazier
Sesil Karatantcheva
Conchita Martinez
Anastasia Myskina
Martina Navratilova
Mary Pierce
Monica Seles
Anna Smashnova
Karolina Sprem
Mashona Washington

==TEAM OF THE YEAR==
Cara Black & Liezel Huber
Yung-Jan Chan & Chia-Jung Chuang
Alicia Molik & Mara Santangelo
Agnieszka Radwanska & Urszula Radwanska
Lisa Raymond & Samantha Stosur
Russian Fed Cup Team
Sacramento Capitals (WTT)
Katarina Srebotnik & Ai Sugiyama

==JUNIOR TO WATCH==
Lauren Albanese
Madison Brengle
Alize Cornet
Polona Hercog
Nikola Hofmanova
Bojana Jovanovski
Kristina Kucova
Ksenia Milevskaya
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
Anastasia Pivovarova
Urszula Radwanska
Evgeniya Rodina

==NATION OF THE RISE==
Austria
Belarus
Canada
China
Czech Republic
France
Poland
Romania
Slovakia
Taiwan (Chinese Tapei)
Ukraine

==TOP PERFORMANCE==
Hantuchova wins second Indian Wells title
Henin wins 3rd con. Roland Garros
Henin def. Venus/Serena, wins US Open
Mauresmo wins Antwerp diamond racquet
S.Williams def. 6 seeds, wins Australian
V.Williams wins fourth Wimbledon

==WORST PERFORMANCE==
China misinterprets rules, loses FC 1st Rd.
France loses to Italy in Fed Cup SF
Henin loses Wimbledon SF to Bartoli
Poutchkova goes on 2nd half losing streak
Sharapova crushed by Serena in Aust.Final
Sharapova loses in US 3rd Rd to Radwanska
S.Williams post-US Open loss press conference

==NEW 2008 TOP 10 PLAYER==
Victoria Azarenka
Alona Bondarenko
Tatiana Golovin
Maria Kirilenko
Sania Mirza
Shahar Peer
Agnieszka Radwanka
Lucie Safarova
Agnes Szavay
Vera Zvonareva


All for now.