Anna Chakvetadze takes third seed Li Na out of Kremlin Cup
Former world No.5 Anna Chakvetadze had lost her opening matches on her three previous appearance at the Kremlin Cup, but this time the Muscovite thrilled the home fans with a 6-4 6-2 upset of...
Venus Williams upset by Flavia Pennetta in Kremlin Cup first round
Sixth seed Venus Williams lost 6-4 2-6 6-4 to Italy’s Flavia Pennetta in the opening round of the Kremlin Cup in Moscow.
Pennetta and Williams exhanged breaks in the first set. The world No.18 Pennetta...
Francesca Schiavone wins Kremlin Cup for second singles title
Eighth seed Francesca Schiavone of Italy defeated Belorussian Olga Govortsova 6-3 6-0 in the final of the $1,000,000 Kremlin Cup to win her second and biggest Sony Ericsson WTA Tour singles title.
The 29-year-old Schiavone...
Jelena Jankovic, Elena Dementieva face health problems ahead of Doha
The season-ending Sony Ericsson Championships in Doha have already lost two of the elite eighth singles qualifiers, Serena and Venus Williams, and two other, Jelena Jankovic and Elena Dementieva, are suffering fitness scares just...
Anett Kontaveit edges Ekaterina Alexandrova to win Kremlin Cup
Ninth seed Anett Kontaveit squeezed past unseeded Ekaterina Alexandrova 4-6 6-4 7-5 to claim the VTB Kremlin Cup title, her third WTA trophy in two months.
The world No.21 Kontaveit was on the brink of...
Ana Ivanovic loses her opening match at Kremlin Cup to Dominika Cibulkova
This hurts! Still no winning streak for former world No.1 Ana Ivanovic. The Serb suffered yet another early loss, this time to Slovakian Dominika Cibulkova.
The fourth-seeded Ivanovic had a first round bye, and was...
Bartoli retires, Radwanska qualifies for Istanbul afterall
Marion Bartoli needed three things to take the last spot in the season-ending WTA Championships: to win Osaka - check!, to have Agnieszka Radwanska lose before the quarterfinals in Moscow - check!, to win...