Sun, 11/07/2010 - 21:25 by harsheeb
Bali -- Ana Ivanovic won her second WTA title in three weeks with a set win over Alisa Kleybanova at the Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions in Indonesia.
Ivanovic lost her serve only once in defeating Kleybanova 6-2, 7-6 (7-5).
She's won 13 of her last 15 matches with the win in Bali coming after an Oct. 17 title at the Generali Ladies Linz tournament in Austria. She's now won 10 tournaments in her career.
Kleybanova fell to 2-1 in tournament finals this year.
Ivanovic had seven aces and won a healthy 73 percent of the points on serve. She saved six of the seven break points she faced and finished with three service breaks.
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Thu, 11/04/2010 - 23:30 by Prince damin
Bali, Indonesia -- Kimiko Date Krumm and Ana Ivanovic pulled off upsets Thursday in the first matches of the WTA's Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions in Indonesia.
Date Krumm eliminated top-seeded Li Na in a seesaw 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 match while Ivanovic routed No. 3-seeded Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-0, 6-1. Date Krumm and Ivanovic will meet in the tournament semifinals Saturday.
Date Krumm and Li combined for 13 service breaks in 29 games, with a Date Krumm break in the 10th game of the third set deciding the match.
Date Krumm managed to hold serve just once in the second set and twice in the third but she won because she had a slight edge in the return game.
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Fri, 10/22/2010 - 07:12 by Prince damin
Luxembourg -- No. 4-seeded Ana Ivanovic rolled through a second-round victory Thursday at the Luxembourg Open tennis tournament.
Ivanovic dumped Arantxa Para Santonja 6-4, 6-1, running her current match winning streak to seven after her tournament win last week in Austria. She's won 10 of her last 11 matches.
She'll go against eighth-seeded Julia Goerges in the quarterfinals Friday. They are the only seeded players left in the field.
Part of the reason for that was Polona Hercog's walkover win over No. 1-seeded Elena Dementieva, who said she couldn't play her second-round match because of foot inflammation.
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Mon, 10/18/2010 - 07:13 by Prince damin
Linz, Austria -- Ana Ivanovic won her first WTA title in two years Sunday with a straight-set victory over Patty Schnyder at the Generali Ladies Linz WTA tournament in Austria.
Ivanovic, seeded seventh, won nine consecutive games in one stretch in taking a 6-1, 6-2 decision over Schnyder. It was her first WTA title since she won the Linz event in 2008. She has nine tournament titles overall.
Ivanovic made short work of Schnyder, who had knocked off three seeded players and dropped just one set on the week in making the Linz finals. Ivanovic recorded the second of her six service breaks in the fourth game and won the next eight games before dropping serve while up 5-0 in the second set.
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Sat, 05/08/2010 - 10:15 by Rakhi
Rome -- Fifth-seeded Svetlana Kuznetsova was beaten Monday in a second-round match at the $2 million Italian Open in Rome.
Kuznetsova fell 6-2, 3-6, 6-4 to Maria Kirilenko in the only second-round match Monday of the clay-court tournament. Kuznetsova blasted 10 aces but also had nine double faults and was kept on the defensive much of the match; Kirilenko forced Kuznetsova into 21 break-point situations, winning seven.
Kuznetsova, No. 5 in the world, has lost three of her last four matches.
No. 16-seeded Shahar Peer was among four players who won first-round matches as she took out Corinna Dentoni 6-2, 6-1 in 67 minutes.
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Tue, 08/11/2009 - 11:20 by preet_20
Mason, Ohio Aug. 10: Kim Clijsters returned to competitive tennis Monday with a win in the $2 million Western and Southern Financial Group Women's Open in Cincinnati.
Clijsters, 26, posted a 6-4, 6-3 victory over France's Marion Bartoli in the first round. It was the first WTA Tour match for Clijsters, a former world No.1 player, since the spring of 2007.
She gave birth to a daughter since she retired to start a family and become injury-free.
Clijsters, who earned her lone major title at the 2005 U.S. Open, owns 34 singles titles and was ranked No. 1 for a total of 19 weeks in her prime.
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Fri, 08/07/2009 - 11:49 by preet_20
Los Angeles, Aug. 7: Zheng Jie pulled off one of the most significant wins of her career Thursday, upsetting world No. 1 Dinara Safina in the third round of the Los Angeles Open.
Zheng, a semifinalist at Wimbledon last year, won the final four games of the third set to defeat Safina 7-5, 4-6, 6-4. Safina earned a service break to take a 4-2 lead in the final set.
In the quarterfinals, Zheng will take on Samantha Stosur, who recorded a 6-3, 6-2 win over sixth-seeded Ana Ivanovic. Stosur surprised Serena Williams last week in Stanford before losing in the quarterfinals.
No. 2 seed Vera Zvonareva survived an upset bid when she got past Yanina Wickmayer 7-6 (7-5), 4-6, 6-4.
Zvonareva will face Flavia Pennetta, who was a 6-3, 6-3 winner over Nadia Petrova.
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Wed, 08/05/2009 - 12:01 by preet_20
Carson, Calif. Aug. 5" Ana Ivanovic held off hometown heroine Vania King 6-4, 4-6, 6-1 Tuesday to advance to the second round of the LA Women's Tennis Championship.
The former No. 1-ranked Serbian was far from sharp as she scrambled to defeat King, who hails from Long Beach, just across the Interstate 405 freeway from the tournament venue in Carson, Calif.
"Vania's serve was getting me frustrated, but otherwise I felt happy the way I was moving and playing," said Ivanovic, currently ranked No. 11 in the world and playing for the first time since Wimbledon. "I really feel like I have lots of possibilities to build up from this."
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Sat, 05/30/2009 - 12:17 by preet_20
Paris -- World No. 3 Venus Williams was ousted by 29th-seeded Agnes Szavay in straight sets Friday in third-round play of the French Open in Paris.
Williams committed 23 unforced errors, including 14 in the first set when she didn't win a game as Szavay posted the first big upset of the tournament with a 6-0, 6-4 victory. The first set took just 30 minutes and, while the second was more competitive, Szavay finished off two service breaks to take the set and the match.
Dinara Safina continued her dominant play, racing by Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-2, 6-0 on Friday. Safina has lost just four games in her three matches in Paris and three times and she's 17-1 since taking over the world No. 1 ranking.
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Mon, 05/25/2009 - 09:42 by Salinder Kumar
Paris -- Defending champion Ana Ivanovic of Serbia eliminated Italy's Sara Errani Sunday in the first round of the French Open, winning in straight sets.
Ivanovic fought to a 7-6 (7-3) win in the opening set and finished the match 6-3 in the second.
Last year's French Open title was Ivanovic's only win in a Grand Slam event. She is seeded eighth in this year's open.
Ninth-seeded Victoria Azarenka ousted Roberta Vinca 6-4, 6-2.
Eleventh-seeded Nadia Petrova of Russia moved on with a 6-1, 6-2 win over American Lauren Embree.
China's China's Li Na, the 25th seed, defeated Marta Domachowska of Poland 6-4, 6-2 and No. 27 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia topped Ioana Raluca Olaru, 6-3, 6-2.
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