Jelena Jankovic of Serbia crushed Caroline Wozniacki to enter the WTA semi-finals.Jelena Jankovic of Serbia registered a 6-2, 6-2 straight set win over Caroline Wozniacki to advance into the semi-finals of the WTA Championships.From 2-2 in the first set Wozniacki broke back once late in the second set but eventually lost the match. The US Open finalist must now wait for the result of the final White...
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Jelena Jankovic and Venus Williams entered the semi-finals of the Sony Ericsson Championships with the luck of the draw on their side.Jankovic, last year's number one and now standing eighth, found fortune as fitness failed Denmark's Caroline Wozniacki in a 6-2, 6-2 group defeat.Holder Williams came through, thanks to a victory by Svetlana Kuznetsova over fellow Russian Elena Dementieva 6-3, 6-2 which...
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reach the semi-finals of the WTA Championships while American holder Venus Williams [On a day when calculators were needed to work out the various permutations in the two groups of four, Wozniacki deservedly also survived for the weekend.] hopes ended in tears when she retired injured in the third set of her match against stand-in Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland.], a class apart so far this week, will...
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Doha: The Williams sisters could be headedfor a final matchup at the Sony Ericsson Championships afterVenus advanced to the knockout rounds along with JelenaJankovic and Caroline Wozniacki.Venus, the defending champion, lost her first two groupmatches but advanced on a countback of sets thanks to SvetlanaKuznetsova's 6-3, 6-2 win over Elena Dementieva. Venus joinedunbeaten sister Serena Williams in...
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PETERSBURG: Ukraine’s Sergiy Stakhovsky reached the final of the St. Petersburg Open ATP tournament, beating Marat Safin in the semifinal here on Saturday.At Doha, Serbia’s Jelena Jankovic crushed leg-weary Caroline Wozniacki to enter the semifinals of the WTA championships.In the semifinals, Serena Williams will face White Group runner-up Wozniacki, while sister Venus plays Jankovic.Agnieszka Radwanska...
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DOHA: Venus Williams advanced to her second straight Sony Ericsson tennis championships final on Saturday after rallying to a 5-7, 6-3, 6-4 win over Jelena Jankovic.Williams broke the former top-ranked Serb three times in a row en route to a 5-3 lead in the decisive set. The defending champion then sealed the win with a forehand that bounced in off the netcord.It was the ninth three-setter in 10 meetings...
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newsTORONTO: Elena Dementieva defeated fellow Russian Maria Sharapova in straight sets to claim the WTA Rogers Cup in Toronto.Sharapova came into the Rogers Cup tournament unseeded. But she defeated number seven seed Vera Zvonareva, number 10 seed Nadia Petrova and number 14 seed Agnieszka Radwanska at the Rogers Cup. The tournament marked Sharapova’s first final appearance since returning to theAshes...
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Doha, Oct 31 : Jelena Jankovic and Venus Williams entered the semi-finals of the Sony Ericsson Championships with the luck of the draw on their side.Jankovic, last year's number one and now standing eighth, found fortune as fitness failed Denmark's Caroline Wozniacki in a 6-2, 6-2 group defeat.Holder Williams came through, thanks to a victory by Svetlana Kuznetsova over fellow Russian Elena Dementieva...
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