MELBOURNE, Australia(AP) Top-seeded Jelena Jankovic has advanced to the third round of the Australian Open with a tougher-than-expected win over Kirsten Flipkens of Belgium. Jankovic, bidding for her first Grand Slam singles title, beat Flipkens 6-4, 7-5 on Wednesday. The 23-year-old Serbian player lost last year's U.S. Open title to

WIMBLEDON, England(AP) Former champion Maria Sharapova has reached the third round of Wimbledon after a straight-sets victory over Romania's Ioana Raluca Olaru. The 16th-seeded Sharapova, the only champion in the women's draw other than the Williams sisters, advanced Thursday with a 6-1, 6-4 win. The 2002 champion, who won 20

PARIS (AP)—Serena Williams advanced to the fourth round at the French Open by beating Sorana Cirstea 6-0, 6-2 Friday. Williams, a 15-time Grand Slam champion, seeks her first French Open title since 2002. She hasn't reached the semifinal since 2003. Ranked No. 1, Williams has won a career-best 27 consecutive

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ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament, Rotterdam, First Round Gael Monfils (FRA) – UTR 15.48, ATP No. 33 David Goffin (BEL) – UTR 15.48, ATP No. 21 You'll be hard-pressed to find a first-round matchup with as much natural talent as this one. Goffin and Monfils make professional tennis look way

LOS ANGELES(AP) Jesse Levine beat fellow American Bobby Reynolds 6-2, 6-3 on Monday in the opening round of the L.A. Tennis Open. Levine won for the sixth time in nine matches, and will face top-seeded Tommy Haas in the second round on Wednesday. `I felt I played well,'' Levine said.

NEW YORK (AP)—Andy Roddick found it infuriating that a lineswoman who called him for a foot fault was wrong about which of his shoes touched the line. The 2003 U.S. Open champion had much bigger problems Wednesday night at Flushing Meadows, though, and bowed out in the second round with

LONDON -- Former U.S. Open champion Sam Stosur lost her first-round match at Wimbledon on Monday, beaten 6-3, 6-4 by former U.S. Open semifinalist Yanina Wickmayer. The loss continued the Australian's poor run at Wimbledon, where she has never advanced past the third round and where she has lost in

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) Ivo Karlovic moved into the second round of the Memphis Open with a 7-6 (7), 6-3 victory over Lukas Lacko on Tuesday. Sam Querrey also advanced to the second round by upsetting No. 7 seed Benjamin Becker 4-6, 6-2, 6-1. Querrey, the 2010 champion, won his first

BRUSSELS (AP) French Open champion Francesca Schiavone reached the second round of the Brussels Open, one of five seeded players to advance Tuesday in the clay-court tuneup for the French Open. Schiavone, seeded third, beat Tsvetana Pironkova of Bulgaria 6-2, 7-5. Also winning first-round matches were No. 4 Jelena Jankovic

Katarina Srebotnik has defeated Varvra Lepchenko 6-7 (2), 7-5, 6-3 in three hours and 10 minutes in the first round of Rome. Kimiko Date Krumm went three minutes longer in the first round of Estoril, winning 6-7 (4), 7-5, 7-6 (2) against Petra Martic.

ISTANBUL (AP)—Anastasija Sevastova of Latvia has defeated second-seeded Petra Kvitova of Czech Republic 6-2, 0-6, 6-4 in the first round of the Istanbul Cup. Third-seeded Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia easily advanced to the second round Tuesday by beating Poland’s Marta Domachowska 6-1, 6-0, while No. 5 Tsvetana Pironkova of Bulgaria

NEW YORK (AP)—Andy Roddick celebrated his 28th birthday with a 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 win over Stephane Robert of France in the first round of the U.S. Open. The ninth-seeded American had eight aces. He has reached the second round five straight years. The 2003 U.S. Open champion had been slowed

MARSEILLE, France (AP) Nikolay Davydenko had nine aces and didn't face a break point in a 6-1, 7-5 win Tuesday over Andreas Beck of Germany in the second round of the Open 13. Davydenko broke Beck's serve three times in the match. The Russian will face fourth-seeded Juan Martin del

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France overcame a sluggish start to beat Guillermo Garcia-Lopez in four sets and advance to the third round of Wimbledon. The fifth-seeded Tsonga, who defeated Roger Federer on his way to the semifinals at the All England Club last year, hit 40 winners in

BANGKOK -- Philipp Petzschner advanced to the second round of the Thailand Open by beating Peerakiat Siriluethaiwattana of Thailand 6-1, 6-2 on Monday. The 107th-ranked Petzschner took less than an hour to win the only singles match of the day. The four top-seeded players -- Janko Tipsarevic of Serbia, Richard

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Skipping over Venus’ first round is quite easy to do, especially when given a true gem as in her second round match against 40-year old Kimiko Date-Krumm. Edging her veteran opponent, Venus came out the victor 6-7(6), 6-3, 8-6. Next up on Friday for the No. 23 seed is Maria-Jose

Rafael Nadal survived a third round epic victory against youngster Alexander Zverev, 4-6, 6-3, 6-7 (5-7), 6-3, 6-2. While that was pretty incredible, Nadal now has the challenge of facing Gael Monfils in the round of 16. The head-to-head between these two is lopsided in Nadal's favor with Monfils only

NEW YORK (AP)—Fifth-seeded Robin Soderling has won his second-round match at the U.S. Open, defeating Taylor Dent 6-2, 6-2, 6-4. Soderling, who has reached the final at the French Open for two straight years, needed five sets for his first-round victory at Flushing Meadows but had a much easier time