Svetlana Kuznetsova

Ford: Henin's retirement puts crimp in WTA hierarchy

Mark Renders/Getty Images The sudden retirement of incumbent No. 1 Justine Henin left the WTA Tour in anarchy. Jelena Jankovic finished the year at No. 1 and won four tournaments but no majors. Venus Williams earned her fifth...

Forget Cristiano Ronaldo - Michelle Larcher de Brito is Portugal's next pop idol

The 15-year-old tennis starlet is making steady progress up the WTA rankings. Cristiano Ronaldo may bed the pin-up boy of Portuguese sport right now, but there's a young girl on the horizon who will be challenging soon as the...

Watch out Jankovic - Safina looks hot to grab your No.1 spot!

The battle to rule the women's tennis world has changed hands no fewer than six times in 2008. Expect much of the same in 2009... There have been a few surprises on the WTA tour this year, but none more than the amazing battle...

Jon Wertheim: The real women's rankings, Tsonga's blunder and Fed's best shot

Since there has been a lot of chatter about who's really No. 1 in women's tennis, I took everyone who finished the year in the top 10 and divided their total number of points by the number of tournaments they played. Here are...

Jankovic finished on top, while Williamses won some more majors

Grade: B+Let's shift gears.In what started out to be a promising season for Maria Sharapova, it turned out to be an injury-shortened one for the glamorous Russian.Sharapova got off to a fast start by winning the Australian...

Slumping Ivanovic feels Moscow chill

French Open champion Ana Ivanovic slumped to another dispiriting defeat on Wednesday when she was knocked out of the Kremlin Cup by unseeded Slovakian Dominika Cibulkova. Serbian golden girl Ivanovic, who rose to the world No 1...

Venus seals first Tour finale win

Venus Williams won the WTA Tour Championships for the first time in her career with victory over Russia's Vera Zvonareva in Doha on Sunday. The American won 6-7 (5-7) 6-0 6-2 to claim her 39th career title and first at the...

Sports Minute: Leaf under investigation...Quinn in the NFL spotlight...Co-leaders at Disney World

Associated Press - November 6, 2008 3:53 PM ET DALLAS (AP) - Police in the Texas Panhandle are investigating a minor drug allegation made against Ryan Leaf, the former NFL quarterback who has been placed on leave from his job...

Sports Shorts: Nets' rookie out with sprained knee

New Jersey Nets rookie guard Chris Douglas-Roberts will be sidelined up to a month with a sprained right knee. The former Memphis star who was the 40th pick overall in the NBA draft was hurt in practice on Wednesday. He will be...

Tennis-WTA Championships women's singles result and standings

Nov 6 (Reuters) - WTA Championships women's singles result and standings from Doha on Thursday (prefix denotes seeding) White Group 1-Jelena Jankovic (Serbia) beat 6-Svetlana Kuznetsova (Russia) 7-6(6) 6-4 White Group P W L F A...

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