WTA Tour Championships women&#39;s tennis update - November 13
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Mauresmo and Sharapova advanced to the semifinals in the Black Group...Kim Clijsters beat Mauresmo in last year&#39;s final...Davenport won this tournament in 1999 and was the runner-up in 1994, 1998 and 2001...Seventh- seeded Serena Williams was the 2001
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_Top seed Amelie Mauresmo reached the quarterfinals of the US$585,000 (euro483,255) Generali Ladies Open at the Intersport Arena on Thursday, beating Poland&#39;s Marta Domachovska 6-4, 6-0.
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Q: Congratulations, Annika. 56 wins, eighth win of the season, LPGA win, and your third ADT Championship. A tricky ending there with the playoff.
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Lindsay Davenport of the US returns a shot during a match against Francesca Schiavone of Italy at the Kremlin Cup tennis tournament in Moscow&#39;s Olympic Indoor stadium on Friday, Oct. 15, 2004.
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Description: NPR&#39;s Robert Siegel talks with Jon Wertheim of Sport&#39;s Illustrated about the Friday&#39;s semifinal women&#39;s matches at the US Open tennis tournament in New York, where two American women take on two Russians for spots in Saturday&#39;s final.
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Svetlana Kuznetsova has lined up a  second million-dollar payday this season by qualifying for  November's WTA Championships.
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names Lindsay Davenport rallied for a 3-6, 7-5, 6-1 victory over Serena Williams in the WTA Championships in Los Angeles yesterday, but she failed to reach the semifinals and her No. 1 ranking is in jeopardy. Davenport owns a 351-point lead over No. 2 Amelie Mauresmo , who could regain the top spot if she wins the tournament. Mauresmo defeated ...
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It&#39;s either going down as the match where young Russian Maria Sharapova earned her stripes as one of the top players on the tour, or it&#39;s the one where Serena Williams showed
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Mason, OH (Sports Network) - Top-seeded Lindsay Davenport and number-two seed Vera Zvonareva will meet in Sunday&#39;s title match at the inaugural Western &amp; Southern Financial Group Women&#39;s Open.
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Los Angeles, CA (Sports Network) - World No. 1 American Lindsay Davenport earned a three-set win over compatriot Serena Williams in round-robin action Saturday at the season-ending WTA Championships.
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Zurich, Switzerland (Sports Network) - Former world No. 1 Venus Williams advanced on Thursday and will now meet Wimbledon champion Maria Sharapova in the quarterfinals at the $1.
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Following are short biographies of the leading contenders in the women&#39;s singles at the US Open tennis championships. Prefix number denotes seeding.
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Serena Williams beats Anastasia Myskina in the WTA Tour Championships.
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Mauresmo was a runner-up in Moscow and a winner in Philadephia last year while Davenport didn&#39;t play at all due to injury. According to the new standings released today Mauresmo has 4395 points to Davenport&#39;s 4380.
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Werner Eschauer of Austria and the qualifier Steve Darcis of Belgium advanced to the final of the Dutch Open yesterday in Amersfoort, Netherlands. Neither one has played for an ATP title before. Darcis, ranked 297th, upset the second-seeded Mikhail Youzhny, 4-6, 6-0, 7-5, and Eschauer defeated Robin Haase, 6-4, 6-4, in the semifinals.At the clay-court Palermo Open in Italy, the 18-year-old Agnes Szavay reached her first career final by beating Sara Errani, 7-6 (0), 6-1, in the semifinals. Szavay, seeded eighth, will face the second-seeded Martina MÃ¼ller in the final today. MÃ¼ller defeated Karin Knapp, 6-4, 4-6, 6-1.At the Western & Southern Financial Group Womenâs Open in Mason, Ohio, Akiko Morigami earned her second berth in a final in three years by outlasting the qualifier Akgul Amanmuradova, 6-7 (8), 6-4, 6-3. She will play the top-seeded Anna Chakvetadze in the final today. Chakvetadze advanced with a 6-2, 5-7, 6-3 win over the third-seeded Sania Mirza.
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Up today at Wimbledon are the women&#039;s quarterfinals. Top-seeded Amelie Mauresmo goes against Anastasia Myskina, and 2004 champion Maria Sharapova faces Elena Dementieva. And third-seeded Justine Henin-Hardenne takes on French qualifier Severine Bremond, and No. 2 Kim Clijsters plays Li Na, the first Chinese player to get this far at a Grand Slam.
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Serena Williams is in love - with her new attacking game and herself. Williams moved a step closer to salvaging her season with a 4-6, 7-6 (2), 6-4 semifinal victory over Amelie Mauresmo in the WTA Championships on Sunday.