Eugenie Bouchard, Serena Williams and Caroline Wozniacki have certainly been busy in the weeks following the Australian Open. All three are amongst the tennis stars taking over Sports Illustrated.

They’ve hit the beach recently to be part of the magazine’s world famous swimsuit edition.

OMG ??? so honored to be in @SiSwim pic.twitter.com/9HgivK45Rq — Genie Bouchard (@geniebouchard) February 15, 2017

Eugenie Bouchard

Eugenie will be looking to get back into the Top 10 and showed some positive signs with some good tennis in Brisbane and Melbourne in January.

Finally got my hands on the mag! @SiSwim pic.twitter.com/u89XMzkkhI — Genie Bouchard (@geniebouchard) February 15, 2017

Serena Williams

Serena has been doing even better. At 35 she is playing some of the best tennis of her career.

A post shared by Serena Williams (@serenawilliams) on Feb 15, 2017 at 9:46am PST

Nobody could go close to stopping her at the Australian Open, where she won her 23rd Grand Slam title.

Caroline Wozniacki

Former world number 1 Caroline Wozniacki was also part of the popular tennis edition. Caroline is quite a regular at the Sports Illustrated photoshoots though. Last year she was part of the body paint swimsuit edition.

For Wozniacki it’s been a mixed year after a public spat with her ex-fiancee golf star Rory McIlroy.

The new @si_swimsuit is on the stands today!!! So excited and honored to be included in the issue for the third straight year! Thank you @mj_day for believing in me and for making every shoot memorable and for making me part of the #SISwim family!!! Love you!!! ?? ? @emmanuelle.hauguel A post shared by Caroline Wozniacki (@carowozniacki) on Feb 15, 2017 at 5:06am PST

Maria Sharapova

One player who didn’t appear in the issue was Maria Sharapova. Maria is no doubt focusing on her tennis as she prepares for her return from a drug ban.

There are talks that she may be offered a wild card to play at Wimbledon, which we believe will almost certainly happen. It will be interesting to see if Sharapova can return to her form of old and give Serena a run for her money.

Tennis stars taking over Sports Illustrated

The SI magazines will be hitting the news stands this week. In the meantime, here’s a behind the scenes look at the tennis stars’ photoshoots.

by Michael T. Lynch – contributor