Nadia Petrova sends Aravane Rezai home after 6-7 6-4 10-8 epic
The third round between Nadia Petrova and Aravane Rezai was suspended at 6-7(2) 6-4 7-7 on Friday due to darkness and both players went to sleep knowing they had blown three match points. The...
Maria Kirilenko dethrones Svetlana Kuznetsova at Roland Garros
Svetlana Kuznetsova may have survived four match points against Andrea Petkovic in the second round of the French Open, but the defending champion was not as lucky in the next round and fell on...
Venus and Serena advance on Day 6 of the French Open
It took top seed and world No.1 Serena Williams just 55 minutes to win her second round match against Julia Goerges 6-1 6-1 at the 2010 French Open. Serena made no double faults in...
Jelena Jankovic battles past Kaia Kanepi for French Open round three
Serbia’s Jelena Jankovic fought hard to avoid the fate of countrywoman Ana Ivanovic and survive the challenge of Estonia’s Kaia Kanepi to reach the third round of the 2010 French Open.
The fourth-seeded Jankovic cruised...
Kleybanova bagels Ivanovic and advances to French Open second round
Ana Ivanovic’s second-round match against Alisa Kleybanova was delayed by rain, but the inevitable was apparently waiting for Ivanovic and the former French Open champion lost with a stunning 6-3 6-0 score, with sets...
Andrea Petkovic almost sent Svetlana Kuznetsova packing in round two
Germany’s No.1 player Andrea Petkovic had four match points against defending champion Svetlana Kuznetsova, but the Russian scraped through the rain-affected match to reach the third round of the French Open. Kuznetsova had actually...
Henin advances, Date Krumm stuns Safina in round one
Four-time French Open champion Justine Henin was making her first appearance at the tournament since winning it in 2007 and defeated Tsvetana Pironkova 6-4 6-3 to reach the second round. The Belgian world No.23...
Caroline Wozniacki advances to round two of Roland Garros
Despite the ankle injury sustained in Charleston in April, which also forced her to withdraw from the Polast Warsaw Open last week, Caroline Wozniacki is playing the 2010 French Open and the Dane even...
Defending champion Svetlana Kuznetsova starts well at Roland Garros
Things were not looking good for holder Svetlana Kuznetsova at the beginning of her first-round match at the 2010 French Open against Romanian world No.34 Sorana Cirstea, when the sixth-seeded Russian lost the first...
Dinara Safina parts ways with coach Zeljko Krajan
Dinara Safina has ended her three-year partnership with Croatian Zeljko Krajan and her new coach will be 35-year-old Gaston Etlis from Argentina. The 35-year-old Etlis won four doubles titles in his career, was ranked...
