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By Sports Network - The Sports Network Fourth-seeded Serbian Jelena Jankovic defeated French qualifier Alize Cornet in straight sets Sunday at the $1.34 million Italian Open, a clay-court French Open tuneup. Jankovic successfully defended a title for the first time in her career with a dominant...
Posted to the web 13 May 2008 Collin Matiza Harare CARA Black and Liezel Huber remained as the undisputed world women's tennis doubles champions when they lifted the German Open title in Berlin on Sunday. Zimbabwe's Black and her American partner Huber tightened their grip at the top of the world...
Tennis ATP $3.5 MILLION MASTERS At Rome Championship Singles Novak Djokovic (3), Serbia, def. Championship Doubles Bob and Mike Bryan (1), United States, def. Daniel Nestor, Canada, and Nenad Zimonjic (2), Serbia, 3-6, 6-4, 10-8 tiebreak. WTA $1.34 MILLIION GERMAN OPEN At...
Russian tennis player Dinara Safina beat compatriot Elena Dementieva 2-1 to snatch the title of German Open on Sunday. Safina, ranked 17th in the world, won 3-6, 6-2, 6-2 and took into pocket the top prize of nearly 200,000 U.S. dol ... ... Russian tennis player Dinara...
No Serena. No Venus. No Lindsay. And no spot in the Fed Cup final for the United States. ... No Serena. Defending champion Russia advanced to its fourth Fed Cup final in five years, clinching its semifinal match when Vera Zvonareva rallied to defeat Vania King 4-6, 6-3,...
Spain finished a surprisingly easy 4-1 win Sunday over China in a Fed Cup semifinal in Beijing. ... The rout was completed when Nuria Llagostera Vives downed Peng Shuai in straight sets 6-4 6-4. "We knew we could win the tie but we never expected to win three matches in...
Carla Suarez Navarro and Nuria Llagostera Vives gave Spain a surprising 2-0 lead over favored China Saturday in a Fed Cup semifinal in Beijing. ... Suarez Navarro started the day by beating Shuai Peng 6-3 7-6 (7-4) and Llagostera Vives, followed with a 6-3 6-4 win over...
Anna Chakvetadze and Svetlana Kuznetsova led Russia to a sweep of the opening singles Saturday and a 2-0 lead over the United States in the Fed Cup semifinals. ... Chakvetadze put Russia ahead with a 6-4, 7-5 win over Vania King before Kuznetsova defeated Ahsha Rolle...
TOKYO: Up-and-coming Japanese teenager Ayumi Morita will face off Saturday against former world number one Amelie Mauresmo of France for a place in ne ... xt season’s Fed Cup World Group. In the second singles match on Saturday at Tokyo’s Ariake Coliseum hard court,...
Defending champion Russia bids to reach the final of the Fed Cup by BNP Paribas for the fourth time in five years ... when it faces USA in Moscow in this weekend’s semifinals. The other tie sees China making its first appearance in the last four of the competition,...
