Ashley Harkleroad might have never won much on the on the women’s professional tennis tour, but she likely now has more fans than perhaps even the sexy, yet professional tennis challenged, Anna Kournikova who retired just to focus solely on being hot.

Harkleroad broke into professional tennis when she was 15-years old and was hailed as the next and biggest thing.  She failed to live up to expectations.  The highest ranking she has achieved since turning pro is #39.  Her career singles record is 201-128.

She can now be seen on the August 2008 cover of Playboy (seen above) and the extremely revealing photo spread inside Uncle Hugh’s mag.

You can view the NSFW (it’s Playboy you know) photo spread HERE.

Here is a complete list of the winners from the 2008 ESPY Awards.  It is always anti-climatic when an award show is filmed several days before it is set to air. To top that off ESPN.com, on their front page, tells everyone who won every single award from last night’s 2008 ESPY Awards. The ESPY’s will air July 20th on ESPN.

Special Awards

• Arthur Ashe Courage Award: John Carlos and Tommie Smith, 1968 Olympic medalists
• Jimmy V Award for Perseverance: Kevin Everett, former Buffalo Bills TE
• Best comeback: Josh Hamilton, Texas Rangers

Best in Sport

• Best Female Athlete: Candace Parker, Tennessee Basketball/Los Angeles Sparks
• Best Male Athlete: Tiger Woods, Golf
• Best Moment: “Great Sportsmanship” (Central Washington University’s Mallory Holtman and Liz Wallace, Western Oregon University’s Sara Tucholsky)
• Best Team: Boston Celtics
• Best Coach/Manager: Pat Summitt, Tennessee Women’s Basketball
• Best Game: New York Giants over New England Patriots at the Super Bowl
• Best Championship Performance: Tiger Woods, 2008 U.S. Open
• Best Play: New York Giants Eli Manning’s pass to David Tyree at the Super Bowl
• Best Finish: Western Kentucky over Drake in the first round of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, winning on a buzzer beater by Ty Rogers
• Best Upset: New York Giants over New England Patriots at the Super Bowl
• Best Breakthrough Athlete: Adrian Peterson, Minnesota Vikings
• Best Record Breaking Performance: Brett Favre, Green Bay Packers
• Best Sports Movie: Semi-Pro
• Best Male College Athlete: Tim Tebow, Florida Football
• Best Female College Athlete: Candace Parker, Tennessee Basketball
• Best Male Athlete With a Disability: Ryan Kocer, Wrestling (Wagner, SD)
• Best Female Athlete With a Disability: Shay Oberg, Softball (Montana State-Billings)
• Best International Male Athlete: Rafael Nadal, Tennis
• Best International Female Athlete: Lorena Ochoa, Golf

Individual Sports

• Best Baseball Player: Alex Rodriguez, New York Yankees
• Best NBA Player: Kobe Bryant, Los Angeles Lakers
• Best WNBA Player: Lauren Jackson, Seattle Storm
• Best NFL Player: Tom Brady, New England Patriots
• Best NHL Player: Sidney Crosby, Pittsburgh Penguins
• Best MLS Player: David Beckham, Los Angeles Galaxy
• Best Male Action Sport Athlete: Shaun White, Skateboarding/Snowboarding
• Best Female Action Sport Athlete: Gretchen Bleiler, Snowboarding
• Best Bowler: Norm Duke
• Best Driver: Jimmie Johnson
• Best Fighter: Floyd Mayweather, Boxing
• Best Golfer: Tiger Woods
• Best Jockey: Kent Desormeaux
• Best Outdoor Athlete: Captain Scott Smiley, Mountain Climber
• Best Male Tennis Player: Roger Federer
• Best Female Tennis Player: Maria Sharapova
• Best Track and Field Athlete: Tyson Gay

Rafael Nadal won a classic final over Roger Federer to win his first Grand Slam tennis championship at Wimbledon.

Federer battled back from down two sets to prolong the match to five sets and a historic victory in one of the best finals in tennis history.  But Nadal gathered his composure and proved to Roger that he can win on a surface other than the French clay.

It would have been the sixth straight Wimbledon championship for Federer.   Nadal had opened Federer at the French Open but had never beat him at Wimbledon.

Federer was 10-0 at Grand Slam finals outside of the French Open heading into Sunday, but Nadal brought that streak to an end.

The match lasted 4 hours 48 minutes and ended after 9:17 pm local time in London.

Nadal beat Federer 6-4, 6-4, 6-7, 6-7, 9-7

Venus Williams won the battle of the Willams sisters on Saturday to win her 5th Wimbledon singles tennis title.  She beat her sister Serena Williams 7-5, 6-4 to win in just one hour and fifty-one minutes.

Venus will play with Serena for the doubles title later on today against Lisa Raymond and Samantha Stosur.

Venus won $1.49 million dollars for taking home the grass title.

Belgium tennis player Justine Henin is retiring from the game today to have more time to travel and work on her education. She is just 26 and is currently the #1 ranked women’s tennis player in the world. She has been on top of the rankings for 61 straight weeks.

Henin, who is 26 next month, won no new fewer than 10 titles in 2007, and has already won two this season, but she has in the past mentioned her wish to return to studying.

She said: “I also want to travel, to get away from the pressure, and to do many things I can never do.”

The Belgian has won 41 career titles, including seven Grand Slams and an Olympic Gold medal in Athens, with the grass court title at Wimbledon the only major prize to elude her.

Her retirement could be temporary as she is likely burnt out of her days and nights being consumed by tennis since she was a little girl.