No. 13 seed, Serena Williams of the USA, had a relatively easy win over No. 44 ranked, Tamira Paszek of Austria in the 1st round of the Australian Open in Melbourne on Tuesday. After an uneven start, the 30-year-old former No. 1, Williams, won the last 5 games of the match, serving 4 aces to
Unseeded No. 59 ranked Sorana Cirstea of Romania pulled off a big shocker over No. 6 seed Samantha Stosur of Australia with a straight sets win, 7-6 (7-2), 6-3 in the first round of the Australian Open at Melbourne Park. It took only 91 minutes for the Romanian to pull off the huge upset at
No. 3 ranked, Victoria Azarenka of Belarus defeated No. 5 ranked Na Li of China in the final of the WTA Apia International played in Sydney, Australia on Friday. Azarenka overcame a second-set lapse in the Australian warm-up tournament for a 6-2, 1-6, 6-3 win over last year's champion Li. After staying on serve until
World No. 1, Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark, was upset on Wednesday in a quarterfinal match at the 2012 WTA Apia International Sydney tournament by No. 7 seed, Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland. Wozniacki had a chance to serve out the match at 5-4 in the second set, but was broken, then lost four straight games leading
With the 2012 Australian Open just around the corner, the tournament withdrawals are mounting. Today, the No. 10 seed, Andrea Petkovic of Germany withdrew with a stress fracture in her lower back. The injury could keep her sidelined for two months. Petkovic lost 7-5, 6-4 to Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland in a second-round match at
Former World No. 1, Dinara Safina of Russia, says she has not made a final decision on her tennis future, contradicting her brother's announcement that she had retired. Safina told her followers on Twitter that she hasn't made any official announcement and asks her fans to please give her some time and she'll let everyone
Australian Open defending champion, Kim Clijsters, is planning to try to defend her title in Melbourne in 2012. Clijsters has not played much since winning her first Australian Open title last January. She has been hampered by foot, shoulder and abdominal injuries. She dropped out of the top 10 this week, marking the first time
Former World No. 1, Dinara Safina of Russia, appears to be calling it quits for her tennis career, according to her older brother, Marat Safin. "Dinara was injured two years ago, in Beijing, remember?" Safin was quoted by Russian Eurosport as saying at a press conference in Beijing, where he was promoting a match against
The former World No. 1, Serena Williams of the USA, and 2011 U.S. Open runner-up has pulled out of the China Open for a second year in a row. Serena was scheduled to play in Beijing, but the tournament website said the American star failed to show up on Friday, the day she was due
World No. 2 Maria Sharapova of Russia came down awkwardly after a serve in her quarterfinal match in Tokyo and fell to the court when her left ankle buckled. Just minutes later, the ankle was swollen to twice its normal size and the three-time Grand Slam champion had to be helped out of the locker
