Samantha Stosur News

China's Li Na began her grass season with just six days left before the start of Wimbledon, with the sixth seed beating Alize Cornet 6-2, 6-4 to reach the second round of the Eastbourne International on Tuesday.

Rising Australian tennis star Ashleigh Barty has missed out on a spot in the main draw at Wimbledon after crashing out in the first round of qualifying.

Samantha Stosur made a strong start to her 2013 grass court campaign with a 6-2 6-3 win over eighth seed Nadia Petrova in Eastbourne on Tuesday.

Bernard Tomic will attempt to salvage something from a worrying Wimbledon build-up at the grass-court event at Eastbourne this week.

Twenty spots in the 28-player singles field for the 2013 Bank of the West Classic set for Stanford University next month have been filed, with two top-four players committed for the event.

Maria Sharapova and Jelena Jankovic, who have been rivals since they were youngsters, and have both come through Nick Bollettieri's Florida production line, are set to duel it out again, this time for a spot in the French Open semi-finals on Wednesday.

New Zealand tennis No 1 Marina Erakovic and her doubles partner, Zimbabwean Cara Black, are through to the quarterfinals at the French Open.

Paris: She has beaten the world's top tennis player to make the semi-finals of a Grand Slam tournament.

Samantha Stosur's season of frustration continues after crashing out in the French Open third round at the hands of Jelena Jankovic.

Samantha Stosur plays a forehand in her last match against Jelena Jankovic at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart.

Approaching the second week of the French Open, one of her favorite tournaments, the Australian Samantha Stosur made a surprising comment: she used to hate clay.

Spectators take cover under umbrellas as rain interrupts matches at the French Open tennis tournament, at Roland Garros stadium in Paris, Thursday, May 30, 2013.

Former finalist Samantha Stosur and three-time semi-finalist Jelena Jankovic beat torrential Paris rain to reach the French Open third round Thursday.

The Philippe Chatrier and Suzanne Lenglen courts were covered at 1230 local time with Australian ninth seed Samantha Stosur 6-4 4-1 up against France's Kristina Mladenovic and Bulgarian 26th seed Grigor Dimitrov leading French teenager Lucas Pouille 6-1 7-6 . A close up shows Lucas Pouille of France holding tennis balls during his men's singles ... (more)

With the tournament back on schedule after Tuesday's postponements, here are six second-round matches worth viewing during Thursday's action at Roland Garros.

Kristina Mladenovic vs. Samantha Stosur : Her opening victory over Kimiko Date-Krumm looked impressive on paper with the loss of just two games.

JAPAN'S Kimiko Date-Krumm says her husband has helped her to take things less seriously and go out and enjoy the twilight of her career.

Ashleigh Barty took another giant step in her development on a day when Australia's two most exciting tennis prospects were on show at Roland Garros.

Rain was the big story of Day 3 at Roland Garros, but after a lengthy delay the action commenced and some of the world's top players advanced to the second round.

BERNARD Tomic declared his dad John will "always be my coach" as he has quit his French Open first round match with an injury.