Serena Williams knocked out by Sybille Bammer in Cincinnati
Second seed Serena Williams has again beaten herself, as she likes to say, following her older sister Venus out of the Western and Southern Financial Group Women’s Open in Cincinnati by falling to unseeded...
Dinara Safina ends Flavia Pennetta’s winning streak to reach Cincinnati finals
World No.1 Dinara Safina of Russia ended Flavia Pennetta’s 15-match winning streak in just 56 minutes, defeating the Italian 6-2 6-0 in the semifinals of the Western & Southern Financial Group Women’s Open.
Pennetta, who...
Clijsters makes Kuznetsova her third Top 20 victim, Venus Williams upset in Cincinnati
Wildcard Kim Clijsters is still doing impressively well in her comeback after a two-year-long break and a child birth, scoring her third Top 20 victory in three matches she played since returning to competitive...
Kim Clijsters upsets Marion Bartoli in Cincinnati for a stunning return to tennis
Former world number one Kim Clijsters couldn't have marked her comeback to tennis better – the mother of a year-and-a-half old girl upset world No.13 Marion Bartoli 6-4 6-3 in the first round of...
Maria Sharapova eliminates Svetlana Kuznetsova from Cincinnati
Maria Sharapova defeated San Diego champion Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-4 1-6 6-2 in the first round of the Western & Southern Financial Group Women's Open in Cincinnati.
Players had to deal with extreme heat and humidity,...
Ana Ivanovic moves further in Cincinnati + declines Rogers Cup wildcard
World No.62 Ana Ivanovic followed up her first round upset of Victoria Azarenka with a 6-1 7-5 victory over Yaroslava Shvedova at the Western & Southern Financial Group Women's Open in Cincinnati. It’s Ivanovic’s...
Hradecka exhausts Serena but loses at Cincinnati
In the beginning it seemed Serena Williams would cruise to a quick victory over world No.49 Lucie Hradecka in the first round of the Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati, as the American stormed...
Wozniacki loses to McHale, second straight opening match defeat
Caroline Wozniacki’s form ahead of the US Open is becoming worrying – the Dane suffered her second straight loss in an opening match and not even the presence of her rumored boyfriend Rory McIlroy...
Petrova upsets Ivanovic in the second round of Cincinnati
Nadia Petrova started both sets against Ana Ivanovic with a deficit, but the early advantage wasn't enough for the Serb to end up victorious and the Russian won 6-3 7-6(4) at the Western &...
Venus through to her first semifinal of 2012, Serena’s winning streak stopped
Unexpectedly, it was Venus Williams who continued to progress at the Western & Southern Open, while Serena Williams fell in the quarterfinals, ending her 19-match winning streak with only her fourth defeat of the...
