Penpix of women&#39; singles contenders
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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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Players on the women&#39;s tour will be scrambling for final points this week as they attempt to secure spots in lucrative season-ending WTA Championships.
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Let&#39;s start with handing a Player of the Week Award to Anastasia Myskina, who defended her Kremlin Cup title (beating Elena Dementieva in the final) and taking the doubles (with Vera Zvonareva).
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No. 1 is gone. So is No. 2. The French Open champion and the Wimbledon champion left days ago and the Williams sisters were done soon after that.
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With the Big Four in Justine Henin-Hardenne, Kim Clijsters and the Williams sisters alternating injuries this year, the No. 1 ranking has been up for grabs.
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The U.S. Open is set to come alive under the lights on Tuesday night when world number one Justine Henin and Serena Williams clash in the quarter-finals of a grand slam event for the third straight time.
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The big names in women's skiing are hitting form just in time for the start of next week's world championships, promising some fascinating battles.
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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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The United States women set themselves up as the team to beat at the world championships â and maybe next year in Beijing, too â with a razor-sharp and nearly mistake-free romp in qualifying yesterday in Stuttgart, Germany. They scored 245.025 points to take a 3.85-point lead over China.
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Venus Williams of the US returns a shot during a match against Elena Bovina of Russia at the Kremlin Cup tennis tournament in Moscow&#39;s Olympic Indoor stadium on Friday, Oct. 15, 2004.
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Venus Williams stretches for the ball during her first round match with Lisa Raymond at the Advanta Championships Tuesday, Nov 2, 2004 in Villanova.
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Lindsay Davenport will have an advantage over Vera Zvonareva when the pair meet in the final of the Western &amp; Southern Financial Group Women&#39;s Open in Cincinnati.
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Villanova, PA (Sports Network) - Russian women Maria Sharapova, Vera Zvonareva and Nadia Petrova moved into the semifinals at the $585,000 Advanta Championships with victories on Friday.
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NEW YORK The rivalry match at the United States Open fizzled, but the mismatch sizzled. After Lindsay Davenport defeated Venus Williams, 7-5, 6-4, in a match that was ho-hum until the last game, Nadia Petrova
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Look at the field at the WTA Championships, it looks more like the Kremlin Cup than a tennis tournament in Los Angeles. Wednesdayâs first day of action had four of the five
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The Wimbledon draw, which resembles a game of bingo with its grids and numbers drawn from a basket, has prescribed some interesting matchups including a possible Justine Henin-Serena Williams quarterfinal.
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Wimbledon champion Maria Sharapova beat Emmanuelle Gagliardi 6-1, 6-3 in the first round of the Hansol Korea Open on Tuesday. In other first-round matches, American Abigail Spears defeated Lenka Nemeckov, 6