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AFP/File – Italy's Flavia Pennetta eyes the ball as she plays against Russia's Anna Chakvetadze during their … by Barnaby Chesterman Barnaby Chesterman – 10 mins ago REGGIO CALABRIA, Italy (AFP) – Italy will head into the Fed...
MOSCOW: Defending champion Jelena Jankovic of Serbia advanced to the second round of the Kremlin Cup on Tuesday by beating Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan 6-4, 5-7, 6-1. In the men’s tournament, Wayne Odesnik of the United...
MOSCOW, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Third seed Mikhail Youzhny eased into the second round of the Kremlin Cup with a 6-1 7-6 victory over Argentina's Horacio Zeballos on Monday. The Russian world number 30 claimed seven consecutive...
Oct 19 (Reuters) - Kremlin Cup women's first round results from Moscow on Monday (prefix denotes seeding, * new result): * Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez (Spain) beat 7-Dominika Cibulkova (Slovakia) 6-2 6-2 * Olga Govortsova...
LONDON (AFP) Dinara Safina insisted nobody could now question her world number one status as she made it into the Wimbledon semi-finals. The Russian, who has never won a Grand Slam title, has now reached at least the...
By MIKE ANTHONY The Hartford Courant Each year, Pilot Pen tournament director Anne Worcester goes to Wimbledon, makes her pitch and returns to Connecticut to play the waiting game. This year, the good news rolled in almost...
Mind and body were both frazzled by the heat at Wimbledon yesterday, especially during Victoria Azarenka's tense three-set win over Nadia Petrova. Playing under the midday sun Azarenka boiled over while her Russian opponent had...
Published Date: 30 June 2009 JUST as the roof over Centre Court was beginning to look like one of the largest white elephants in British sport, the weather intervened. The No1 seed Dinara Safina was 4-1 up in the second set of...
Andy Murray may be wishing he’d never raised his nationality – but the worlds of tennis and politics often clash. 1 In 2008, the Williams sisters declared their enthusiasm for Barack Obama but surprisingly declined to vote for...
It seemed fitting, somehow, that two-time major champion Marat Safin's always-turbulent relationship with Wimbledon would end this way. A first-round departure. Against the unheralded Jesse Levine, a 133rd-ranked qualifier from...
