Arantxa Parra News

Anabel Medina Garrigues, seeded third, outfought Arantxa Parra Santonja Monday in the opening round of the Luxembourg Open.

Third-seeded Anabel Medina Garrigues of Spain and sixth-seeded Sabine Lisicki of Germany were a pair of first-round winners Monday at the $220,000 Luxembourg Open.

Julia Goerges of Germany beat sixth-seeded Sorana Cirstea of Romania 6-3, 6-3 Tuesday in the opening round of the Generali Ladies.

Arantxa Parra-Santonja beat Alexandra Dulgheru 6-4 6-3 to win the Open GDF Suez de Bretagne in Saint Malo, France Thomas Enqvist beat Michael Chang 6-4 7-6 to win the Trophee Jean-Luc Lagardere in Paris, France Jim Courier beat Pete Sampras 2-6 6-4 10-8 to win the Breezeplay Championships in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA SAYING "A flame I thought ...

Top-seeded Anabel Medina Garrigues of Spain beat Japan's Kimiko Date Krumm 6-1, 4-6, 7-5 on Tuesday to advance to the second round of the Guangzhou Open.

Serena Williams serves during her doubles match against Arantxa Parra Santonja and Julia Goerges Thursday at the U.S. Open.

From Matt in Swansea, via text on 81111: "Re 2015. Mr Blobby was pink and yellow i think so no not a good combination." 2110: Querrey did take that third set in the end, he leads 2-1, and him and Kim are with serve at 3-2 in the fourth.

Venus Williams' sore left knee was still heavily taped during her first-round doubles match with sister Serena on Thursday.

Serena Williams offered a new, tongue-in-cheek explanation for why she plays so much better at Grand Slam tournaments than other events.

Top-seeded Italian Flavia Pennetta posted a quarterfinal victory, while second-seeded Swiss Patty Schnyder exited the draw Friday at the Palermo International tennis tournament.

New Swedish Open champion Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez of Spain ousted third-seeded Alize Cornet of France 6-2, 6-2 in the first round of the Palermo Open on Tuesday.

The scale of the task so bravely essayed by Laura Robson on Monday was put in encouraging perspective yesterday when Daniela Hantuchova beat last year's semi-finalist, Zheng Jie, 6-3, 7-5. Zheng's run here last year had seemed to offer fleeting hope that there was more depth to the women's tour than tends to appear the case.

Wimbledon's international television audience was dealt a savage blow on Wednesday afternoon when Zheng Jie, the darling of millions of Chinese fans, was ejected from the ladies' singles tournament by Daniela Hantuchova.

Thursday, June 25, 2009 LONDON: Centre court queen Maria Sharapova, the 2004 champion, was sensationally dumped out of Wimbledon on Wednesday losing 6-2, 3-6, 6-4 to Argentina's Gisela Dulko in the second round.

London: India's Sania Mirza and Chia-Jung Chuang of Chinese Taipei defeated American Jill Craybas and Carly Gullickson 6-4, 6-2 in the first round of the women's doubles at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships here Thursday.

Game on: Ai Sugiyama, the unseeded Japanese, arrives at Court 18 ahead of her second-round women's singles match with Arantxa Parra Santonja of Spain on the third day of the Wimbledon Championships Picture: GETTY IMAGES http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/picturegalleries/5623611/Wimbledon-2009-day-three.html

Ai Sugiyama of Japan reacts after beating Patty Schnyder of Switzerland 6-4, 6-4 at the Wi... Japanese veteran Ai Sugiyama finally rediscovered her form to beat Patty Schnyder at Wimbledon on Monday, but compatriot Ayumi Morita made an early exit with defeat to Aravane Rezai in the women's singles first round.