Elena Dementieva News

WORLD No 5 Elena Dementieva, after a successful season on the WTA Tour, is expected to shine in the Showdown of Champions 2009 -- Asia versus Russia -- at the Malawati Stadium in Shah Alam on Dec 19-20. The Russian started the year by winning singles titles in Auckland and Sydney ahead of the Australian Open, before earning her 14th WTA Tour win in ...

Published: Thursday, November 26, 2009 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 at 6:32 p.m. What do Roger Federer, Kim Clijsters, Andy Roddick, Maria Sharapova, Anna Kournikova, Ana Ivanovic, Marcelo Rios, Jelena Jankovic, Guillermo Coria, David Nalbandian and Elena Dementieva all have in common? Well.

There will be no player out of the top draw of women's tennis but January's Auckland Open promises to be one of the more evenly contested tournaments of recent times.

EDENHOPE tennis player Oscar McDonald has been selected to represent Country Victoria in a national junior event in January.

French Open champion Svetlana Kuznetsova will launch her 2010 Australian Open campaign at the Sydney International.

Email your top clashes to: tennisfeedback@sportinglife.com Click here for full Net Talk blog The year-long debate about the 'real' number one on the WTA Tour proved a little tiresome but also helped highlighted lack of quality at the top of the women's game.

Ilya Kovalchuk walks to work every day with a safety boot on his broken right foot, takes it off and shoves his sore extremity into a skate boot.

This article was originally to have been one of a pair, written in collaboration with Long John Silver.

American teenager Melanie Oudin, who had a storybook run to the quarterfinals in this year's U.S. Open, will play in February's Cellular South Cup, the annual Women's Tennis Association event at The Racquet Club.

Elena Dementieva of Russia returns a shot to Samantha Stosur of Australia during their quarter-final match at the Rogers Cup tennis tournament in Toronto August 21, 2009.

Tennis diplomacy on the table in Bali By Muhammad Cohen NUSA DUA, Bali - In 2006, Indonesia refused to send its top female tennis players to Israel for a match in the Fed Cup, an international team tennis competition for women.

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Serena and Venus Williams discuss strategy during their doubles semifinal loss to Nuria Llagostera Vives and Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez at the WTA Championships.

Elena Dementieva of Russia hits a return to Venus Williams of U.S during their WTA Tour Championships tennis match in Doha October 27, 2009.

Defending champion Venus Williams reached the semi-finals of the WTA Championships without hitting a ball on Friday as organisers avoided potential embarrassment over the event's scoring system.

Venus Williams of the US hits a return to Elena Dementieva of Russia during their WTA Tour Championships match in Doha, Qatar, on Tuesday.

Elena Dementieva battled to a resilient 3-6 7-6 6-2 win over defending champion Venus Williams to open her account at the WTA Championships in Doha.

Serena Williams rarely backs down in a scrap but she was spared a fight for the honor of ending the year as world No 1 on Wednesday when her rival Dinara Safina quit the WTA Championships with an injury.

Dinara Safina overtook Serena Williams for the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour's world number one tennis ranking on Monday.