Ovechkin's girlfriend named one of the best new WAGs of 2012

I will get back to this, but Washingon Capitals star Alex Ovechkin's tennis-talented girlfriend, Maria Kirilenko, was named in this Bleacher Report article as one of the "best new WAGs" (that's Wives And Girlfriends, for you uninformed folks) of the year 2012.

After watching Kirilenko and Petrova just handle the Williams sisters and escort them to the exits in the women's U.S. Open doubles, I decided to find out if this nomination of Kirilenko was merited.  I had heard of her in passing but hadn't really paid a lot of attention (most of my attention in tennis being paid recently to the back-in-form-except-when-she's-playing-Serena Maria Sharapova) until now.   So, I did some research...

... and I'll report the results shortly.  Feel free to do your own research, it's quite rewarding.