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Two-time Grand Slam champion and former world No. 1 Amelie Mauresmo leads an impressive list of 23 players who have made early commitments to the 2008 Western & Southern Financial Group Women's Open.

Amber Liu showed flashes of why she was a four-time All-American for Stanford in her first-round match with No.

STADIUM COURT 11 a.m. session: Nadia Petrova vs. Dominika Cibulkova, followed by Shahar Peer vs.

Venus Williams vs. Elena Dementieva It doesn't seem to matter how Venus plays before Wimbledon, because once she steps on the grass her whole outlook changes.

General manager Jeff Launius bristles when it’s mentioned that the Explorers missed the World TeamTennis playoffs last year by one match.“One match?” Launius said the other day from his office ...

JAMIE MURRAY kept up the defence of his mixed doubles title at Wimbledon after a hard-fought, three-set victory yesterday.

Defending champion Venus Williams held off a determined challenge from fifth seed Elena Dementieva to advance to her seventh Wimbledon final on Thursday.

For the first time in Wimbledon ladies Singles history none of the First 3 seeds had made it to the quarter final stage of the tournament, and indeed the top seed left was the number5 seed Elena Dementieva of ...

Showdown Looming for Venus, Serena? Record, The; Bergen County, N.J. WIMBLEDON, England When Serena Williams sits in the stands watching big sister Venus play, she's not just cheering for her sibling.

CEREAL KILLER: If they are to face each other in the finals on Saturday, the younger Williams said she would sabotage her sister by eating all her Wheaties STAFF WRITER, WITH AP, WIMBLEDON, ENGLAND Thursday, ...

Elena Dementieva was barely breaking a sweat. Firing forehand winners from all areas of the court, the fifth-seeded Russian was up 6-1, 5-1 against compatriot Nadia Petrova in charting a commanding course for a ...

Roger Federer already has dispatched the last player to win Wimbledon before he started his five-year winning run. Next up is the last player to beat him here.

Federer has cruised into the quarterfinals without dropping a set, beating 2002 champion Lleyton Hewitt in the fourth round Monday 7-6 (7), 6-2, 6-4 for his 63rd consecutive win on grass and 38th in a row at the All England Club.

'I'm just happy the way I'm playing,' he said. 'No real problems so far.'

Federer's next opponent on Wednesday will be Mario Ancic, who came from two sets down to overcome Fernando Verdasco in a five-set marathon, 3-6, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 13-11.

Serena Williams couldn't have been in better humor Monday. Nothing, not even an assignment to the over-dramatized graveyard Court 2, was going to ruin this day.

She needed only one hour and nine minutes to dispose of Boca Raton 's Bethanie Mattek 6-3, 6-3, then laughed her way through a 10-minute meeting with reporters.

'You don't have to nod your head that vigorously,' she said, cracking up at a newsman as she acknowledged that her sister, Venus, hits harder serves.

About two hours earlier, Venus Williams had been nearly as efficient as she banished Alisa Kleybanova 6-3, 6-4 in one hour and 23 minutes.

ANDY Murray's brother Jamie, 22, stunned fans yesterday when, after months of resistance, he shaved off his John McEnroe-style mullet.

Ask Venus Williams about playing Jelena Jankovic in the quarterfinals on Wednesday. Or ask Jankovic about playing Williams. They'll deliver the standard line about taking things one round at a time.

But on this middle Sunday with all players having a day of rest, it wouldn't be astonishing if both will cast eyes on the second-week draw and see that they're now one win away from reprising a Wimbledon match that Williams would love to erase from her memory bank.

It was 2006 and Jankovic, then only 21 and never into the second week of a Grand Slam, upset defending champion Williams 7-6 (8), 4-6, 6-4 on the fourth match point of an extremely tense third-round match.

Marshall propels West Indies to victory in 11-over slog BRIDGETOWN: Australia lost their unblemished Caribbean tour record as the West Indies completed a seven-wicket victory in a rain-affected Twenty20 ...

SAMANTHA Stosur kicked off Australia's Wimbledon campaign with a comfortable win over Ioana Raluca Olaru on the opening day of The Championships.

Agnieszka Radwanska won her fourth career title by beating Nadia Petrova 6-4, 6-7 , 6-4 Saturday in the final of the Eastbourne International Women's Open.

Nadia Petrova defeated Samantha Stosur 6-3, 6-3 Friday to reach the final of the Eastbourne International Women's Open.

Australian Samantha Stosur stretched her comeback from illness with a charge into the semi-finals of the Eastbourne Championships 7-6 , 6-4 over Caroline Wozniacki.