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American Bethanie Mattek-Sands was one of only four opening-round winners Tuesday, as rain continues to wreak havoc at the hardcourt Malaysian Open tennis event.The wild card Mattek-Sands upset sixth-seeded Croat Donna Vekic 6-3, 4-6, 6-2.Third-seeded Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova was leading fellow Russian Vera Dushevina 2-6, 6-3, 2-1 when play was called for the day, as six matches were either suspended or postponed because of inclement weather.Fifth-seeded Japanese Misaki Doi leveled Italian Alberta Brianti 6-2, 6-3, while Austrian qualifier Patricia Mayr-Achleitner handled France's Claire Feuerstein 6-3, 6-4 and Czech Karolina Pliskova doused Aussie Casey Dellacqua 6-3, 6-2.Fourth-seeded Japanese Ayumi Morita was leading Turk Cagla Buyukakcay 5-1 when play was stopped.Rain wiped out all of Monday's schedule in Kuala Lumpur.Former world No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki is the top seed here and will face Chinese qualifier Qiang Wang on Wednesday.This week's second seed, Taipei's Hsieh Su-Wei, bea...
Sloane Stephens didn't just achieve her best Grand Slam result by reaching the semifinals of the Australian Open — she's also one up on her good friend Sam Querrey.S...
Top seeds Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci secured a berth in Friday's women's doubles final at the 2013 Australian Open.The Italian duo handled an unseeded Russian tan...
Former champion Maria Sharapova and seven-time Grand Slam winner Venus Williams both cruised in their first-round matches as play commenced at the Australian Open on...
Former champion Li Na advanced to the second round of the Sydney International with a 7-6 (2), 7-5 win over Christina McHale on Monday to continue her winning streak...
Sara Errani of Italy and China's Li Na were among the first-round winners Monday at the Sydney International, but Aussie favorite Samantha Stosur was shown another e...
Top-seeded Samantha Stosur was among the winners on the opening day of play Monday at the HP Open.Stosur cruised to a 6-4, 6-2 win over Japan's Erika Sema. It's been...
Top-seeded Samantha Stosur was a second-round winner Wednesday at the HP Open.The Australian Stosur rallied past Virginie Razzano of France by a 1-6, 6-2, 6-4 margin...
Serena Williams arrived at the Western & Southern Open with an Olympic gold medal and a chance to win another tournament she had never won before.Really, Serena, you...
Slovakia's Dominika Cibulkova advanced, but former Cincinnati champion Jelena Jankovic and ex-French Open titlist Francesca Schiavone were opening-round upset victim...
Germany's Angelique Kerber withdrew from the $220,000 Texas Open, a final U.S. Open tune-up.The top-seeded Kerber, who was Sunday's Cincinnati runner-up to China's L...
No. 4 seed Yanina Wickmayer of Belgium lost to Casey Dellacqua of Australia 6-4, 6-3 in the second round of the Texas Tennis Open on Tuesday.The hard-court tournamen...
Second-seeded Jelena Jankovic advanced to the Texas Open semifinals Thursday night, beating eighth-seeded Sorana Cirstea 6-2, 6-1 in the hard-court tournament.Jankov...
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Venus Williams reached the fourth round of the Australian Open after easing to a 6-1 7-6 victory over local hope Casey Dellacqua on Saturday.Th...
Petra Kvitova clinched a Fed Cup quarterfinal win for the Czech Republic with a three-set victory over Australia's Samantha Stosur on Sunday.Kvitova rallied for a 2-...
Petra Kvitova and Lucie Safarova both recorded straight-set singles victories on Saturday to give the host and two-time reigning champion Czech Republic a 2-0 lead i...
The 2013 opening-round Fed Cup tie between the host and two-time reigning champion Czech Republic and Australia will commence Saturday with a singles match between f...
Andy Murray has finally beaten Roger Federer at a Grand Slam.The U.S. Open champion beat 17-time major winner Federer 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-7 (2), 6-2 Friday at the A...
Runners-up a year ago, top seeds Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci were determined not to let another opportunity slip away.The Italian duo captured the Australian Open ...
Andy Murray was sucking in deep breaths, trying to recover from his exhausting win over Roger Federer. Pain was very much on his mind.The U.S. Open champion defeated...