Flavia Pennetta

Tennis: Classic field gets better

The ASB Classic continues to attract top-line players with news French Open semifinalist Dominika Cibulkova will play.The 20-year-old Slovakian is ranked 29th in the world but was as high as 12 in July after her great run to...

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Pennetta confirmed for ASB Classic (Newstalk ZB)

Newstalk ZB November 18, 2009, 8:33 am World number 12 Flavia Pennetta has been confirmed as the ASB tennis Classic's top seed. The Italian has won two tournaments this year and reached the quarter-finals of the US Open in...

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Top Italian confirmed for ASB Classic (NZPA)

Italian Flavia Pennetta will follow up a successful year on the professional women's tennis circuit with a first appearance in January's ASB Classic at Auckland. The world No 12 was today confirmed as the latest addition to the...

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Fed Cup victory puts Italians in the limelight

REGGIO CALABRIA, Italy (Reuters) - When Italy won the Fed Cup final last weekend, the screaming crowds and the buzzing media covering the event showed just how much tennis has moved up on the public radar in the soccer-mad nation.

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USTA doubles Heart Award donation

The United States Tennis Association (USTA) has announced that it will double the prize for Melanie Oudin, who became the inaugural winner of the Fed Cup by BNP Paribas Heart Award last week. Oudin received the award at the Fed...

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Italy shuts out young U.S. team to win Fed Cup

Sarra Errani and Roberta Vinci capped the win, edging Liezel Huber and Vania King Flavia Pennetta (above) beat U.S. Open quarterfinalist Melanie Oudin to give the Italians a 3-0 lead. The Williams sisters were conspicuous by...

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Jon Wertheim: Djokovic strong at season's end

Here in November, Novak Djokovic's still going strong, playing as well as anyone Flavia Pennetta and Francesca Schiavone led Italy to the Fed Cup title We've recently witnessed two extremes in the sport's anti-doping policy...

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Briefs: Djokovic tops favorite Federer on home court

Top-ranked Roger Federer lost his hometown tournament Sunday, falling 6-4, 4-6, 6-2 to Novak Djokovic in the Swiss Indoors final. Djokovic earned his fourth title of the season with a victory that ended Federer's run of three...

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Murray beats Youzhny to win Valencia Open

Andy Murray won his sixth title of the season on Sunday in his first tournament back from a wrist injury, beating Mikhail Youzhny of Russia 6-3, 6-2 in the Valencia Open final. Novak Djokovic took Roger Federer's hometown title...

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UPDATE 1-Tennis-Italy v United States - Fed Cup result

Nov 8 (Reuters) - Fed Cup final result between Italy and United States from Calabria, Italy on Sunday (prefix denotes seeding, * new result). 3-Italy beat 4-U.S. 4-0 * Sara Errani/Roberta Vinci (Italy) beat Liezel Huber/Vania...

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