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Dinara Safina sobbed into her towel after retiring from yesterday's Sony Ericsson Championships match in Doha due to a lower back injury.

Defending champion Venus Williams completed her circuitous route to the final of the WTA Championships on Saturday, beating Jelena Jankovic 5-7 6-3 6-4. The weary-looking American will face sister Serena, who won the second semi-final against Caroline Wozniacki after the Dane pulled out with a stomach injury while trailing 6-4 0-1. Venus, who ...

TWO days after tearfully pulling out of the WTA Championships with a serious back injury which she thought could jeopardize her Australian Open campaign in January, Dinara Safina has entered the Brisbane International - a tournament scheduled two weeks ahead of the first Grand Slam of 2010.

Venus Williams reached the semifinals of the Sony Ericsson Championships on Friday with a little help from Svetlana Kuznetsova, and Jelena Jankovic also advanced by routing a tired Caroline Wozniacki.

The jury on Wednesday awarded a total of $850,000 in damages against Hillerich & Bradsby for failure to place warnings on the product.

Dinara Safina may be missing out on a large fan base because many in this part of the world are unaware she is a Muslim or simply don't care.

Russian Dinara Safina withdrew from the WTA Sony Ericsson Championships in Doha, Qatar, because of a back injury, handing the year-end No.

Dinara Safina pulled out of the Sony Ericsson Championships in Doha, Qatar, after only two games because of a serious back injury, handing the year-end No.

After withdrawing from the Sony Ericsson Championships in Doha, Dinara Safina has lost her number 1 world ranking to Serena Williams, reports BBC Sport .

Serena Williams opened with a win and Venus Williams with a loss Tuesday in the Sony Ericsson Championship -- the year's last event on the women's tennis tour.

By Martyn Herman Doha - Jelena Jankovic admitted her game needed a drastic overhaul after an error-strewn 6-2 6-3 defeat by Victoria Azarenka in the opening match of the WTA Championships on Tuesday.

Eds: APNewsNow. AP Photo LKW104, LKW107 DOHA, Qatar After months of debate about who is more deserving of the No.

Russia's Dinara Safina comes out of the Doha International Airport on Sunday night.

Svetlana Kuznetsova has eclipsed Venus Williams for the number three spot on the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour rankings.

Russiaa s Dinara Safina will replace Serena Williams as the No. 1 tennis player on the womena s tour after the American held the top spot for two weeks.

Qualifier Tsvetana Pironkova upset top-seeded Vera Zvonareva 6-0, 6-2 Thursday in the second round of the Kremlin Cup, sending Jelena Jankovic to the season-ending WTA Championships.

Reigning five-time champion Roger Federer and women's top-ranked star Dinara Safina have been installed as the top seeds for the U.S. Open, which will commence Monday in New York.

Women's world number two tennis player Dinara Safina of Russia is received by Qatar Tennis Federation tournament director Karim Alami at Doha International Airport on her arrival here yesterday.

Email your comments to: tennisfeedback@sportinglife.com Click here for our full Net Talk blog Dinara Safina's miserable summer hit its nadir this week with a shocking defeat to Shuai Zhang at the China Open.

Top seed Flavia Pennetta and second seed Agnieszka Radwanska have been dumped out of the Generali Ladies WTA tournament in Austria on Saturday after slumping to defeat in the semi-finals. Third seed Yanina Wickmayer of Belgium defeated Italian Pennetta 7-6 6-3, and unseeded Czech Petra Kvitova upset Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland 6-3 6-2. Pennetta's ...

BEIJING Soon-to-be world number one Serena Williams should know by year's end whether she will be barred from the Australian Open over her outburst at the US Open, the WTA's chief executive said Saturday.

Shamil Tarpischev gave an interview to Sport Express and commented on Dinara Safina's poor recent results and the coming Kremlin Cup, which will kick off on October 17 at Olympiysky sport complex.

He may have lost his match against Rafael Nadal, but Marat Safin was still king of the court at least for one more night.

Svetlana Kuznetsova cruised past Poland's Agnieszka Radwanska 6-2, 6-4 to capture the China Open title on Sunday.

Svetlana Kuznetsova of Russia and Poland's Agneiszka Radwanska were semifinal winners Saturday and will play for the title at the China Open.

Serena Williams was knocked out of the WTA/ATP event in a third set tiebreak. World number two Williams battled back several times but was unable to overcome Russian 13th seed Nadia Petrova, who fired 14 aces in a three-set victory, 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 . The loss means that the top three seeds - Dinara Safina, Williams and her sister Venus - have now ...

After upsetting world No. 1 Dinara Safina, Chinese wildcard Zhang Shuai didn't continue her top form as she crashed out of the 4.5 million U.S. dollars China Open WTA tournament on Thursday.

Next week, Serena Williams will regain tennis' world No. 1 ranking from Dinara Safina.

By Martyn Herman London - When Dinara Safina replaced Serena Williams at the top of the women's World rankings in April, the Russian said she had achieved a childhood dream.

The writing was on the wall before the match began. The word "think" appeared on the back blue wall of the China Open court, but a befuddled and frustrated Dinara Safina just can't quite seem to unite her mind and body in a concerted effort on court.

World number one Dinara Safina was upset 7-5 7-6 by local wild card Zhang Shuai in the second round of the $6.6 million China Open on Monday, leaving Serena Williams one match away from reclaiming the top spot in the rankings.

Svetlana Kuznetsova on Monday became the fifth player to qualify for the women's tennis season-ending singles tournament in Qatar later this month.

Russia's Dinara Safina began her China Open campaign with a scrappy 6-4 6-4 victory over Italian Roberta Vinci.

Emerging glamour girl Sabine Lisicki and world No.22 Philipp Kohlschreiber will team up for Germany at January's Hopman Cup in Perth.

Former world number one Maria Sharapova stormed into the Pan Pacific Open semi-finals by outfoxing Czech Iveta Benesova 6-4, 7-5 yesterday Former world number one Maria Sharapova stormed into the Pan Pacific Open semi-finals by outfoxing Czech Iveta Benesova 6-4, 7-5 yesterday.

Amazing upset, but she 'still needs to improve': Chang. Chang Kai-chen of Taiwan, previously unknown at the top of the world rankings, says that beating world number one Dinara Safina of Russia in the Pan Pacific Open has boosted her confidence.