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Results Friday from the Forest Hills Classic, a $74,800 WTA Tour event on hardcourts at The West Side Tennis Club : Singles Semifinals Peng Shuai, China, def.

Singles - Semifinals Lucie Safarova d. Iveta Benesova 62 64 Peng Shuai d. Carla Suarez Navarro 61 62 Order of Play - Saturday, August 23, 2008 Stadium 1. Singles Final: Peng vs.

After a heart-breaking Olympics [ Images ] debut in Beijing [ Images ] , Sania Mirza [ Images ] A pulled out of the US Open on Thursday, as she is yet to recover from a nagging wrist injury.

Czech Lucie Safarova and Chinese Shuai Peng will square off in Saturday's final at the $74,800 Forest Hills Tennis Classic, a final U.S. Open tune-up. The unseeded Safarova upended third-seeded fellow Czech ...

Third-seeded Czech Iveta Benesova and fourth-seeded Spaniard Carla Suarez Navarro were a pair of quarterfinal winners Thursday at the $74,800 Forest Hills Tennis Classic, a final U.S. Open tune-up. Benesova ...

Third-seeded Czech Iveta Benesova was among Tuesday's opening-round winners at the $74,800 Forest Hills Tennis Classic, a final U.S. Open tune-up. Benesova edged out Russian Elena Vesnina 6-1, 6-7 , 7-5 on the ...

A tearful Sania Mirza retired from the Olympic singles tournament with a right wrist injury on Monday, shattering her "dream" to play here and dealing a blow to Indian hopes.

There's no truth to the rumor that the paperwork requesting a spot in the upcoming Pilot Pen Tennis tournament was filed by Nicole Vaidisova's representatives as the former top 10 player was contesting match ...

Beijing, August 12: American sisters Serena and Venus Williams powered on towards a likely gold medal showdown with easy second-round wins in the Olympic singles on Tuesday.

Agence France-Presse BEIJING - The Williams sisters blitzed their second-round Olympic opponents here on Tuesday to confirm their status as among the hot favorites for gold in the women's singles.

For Serena Williams, the only misstep at the Olympics today came after her match.

Things just have not gone Sania Mirza's way at the Beijing Olympics. After being in the centre of the dress controversy -- as she wore trousers for the Opening Ceremony Marchpast -- Sania was forced to concede ...

India's new sporting icon, shooter Abhinav Bindra sent the nation into delirious celebrations by bagging the country's first-ever individual gold medal at the Olympics.

India's Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi will look to rework their old magic in their quest for the elusive Olympic medal in men's doubles when they take on talented Gael Monfils and Gilles Simon of France in ...

A tough Olympic draw pitted Sania Mirza against her Czech nemesis Iveta Benesova in the first round and even if she clears this hurdle, greater danger awaits the Indian in the second round where former world ...

Andy Murray beat a weary Novak Djokovic for the second time in two weeks 7-6 , 7-6 in the final at the Masters Series-Cincinnati. Murray will rise to a career-high No.

Caroline Wozniacki and Anabel Medina Garrigues each dropped just one game Thursday in second-round wins at the $145,000 Nordic Light Open in Sweden.

Third-seeded Katarina Srebotnik of the Czech Republic and 2007 finalist Vera Dushevina of Russia had straight-set wins Friday to set up a semifinal meeting at the Nordic Light Open.

Anabel Medina Garrigues and Virginia Ruano Pascual won in straight sets over qualifiers Thursday to reach the quarter-finals at the Nordic Light Open.

Stockholm: India's Sania Mirza opened her singles campaign in the $145,000 Nordea Nordic Light Open on a winning note, defeating French veteran Emilie Loit in straight sets here on Wednesday.