PORTOROZ, Slovenia(AP) Dinara Safina reached the second round of the Slovenia Open on Monday by beating Tadeja Majeric 6-0, 6-4. Safina - the first No. 1 woman to compete in Portoroz - was playing her first match since losing in the Wimbledon semifinals to Venus Williams. Majeric, an 18-year-old Slovenian

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates(AP) Shahar Peer has upset top-seeded Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark 6-2, 7-5 to reach the quarterfinals of the Dubai Championship, a year after she was refused a visa to play in the tournament. The Israeli had at least one break opportunity on each of Wozniacki's 10 service

PERTH, Australia (AP) American Bethanie Mattek-Sands topped world No. 7 Francesca Schiavone 6-4, 6-4 to give the U.S. a 1-0 lead over Italy at the Hopman Cup on Wednesday. Mattek-Sands wasted little time in applying pressure to the French Open champion Schiavone, breaking to go 3-2 ahead in the opening

HONG KONG (AP) Venus Williams lost to China's Li Na 6-3, 7-6 (3) at the Hong Kong Classic exhibition tournament, completing her only warmup event for the Australian Open with two losses. The American, who is returning from a left knee injury, lost her serve in the eighth game and

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) Andy Roddick overcame a slow start before powering home with 32 aces to beat Robin Haase 2-6, 7-6 (2), 6-2, 6-2 and move into the fourth round of the Australian Open. The eighth-seeded Roddick is seeking his second Grand Slam title nearly seven years after his first

PARIS (AP) Tenth-seeded Mardy Fish of the United States lost to No. 18 Gilles Simon of France 6-3, 6-4, 6-2 in the French Open's third round Saturday, leaving the United States without a player in the men's or women's singles draws. The last U.S. woman in the tournament, Vania King,

BAD GASTEIN, Austria (AP)—Third-seeded Lucie Hradecka lost to Sandra Zahlavova 7-5, 6-3 on Monday and No. 4 Iveta Benesova retired with a knee injury in the first round of the Gastein Ladies. The 42nd-ranked Hradecka, who won the French Open doubles title in June, had eight double-faults, including one on

BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) Vera Zvonareva won her second title of the year and 12th of her career Sunday, beating Ksenia Pervak 6-1, 6-4 in an all-Russian final at the Baku Cup. The seventh-seeded Pervak was playing her first career WTA tour final, and despite the defeat is expected to break

BANGKOK (AP)—Fifth-seeded Ivan Dodig of Croatia and No. 6 Fabio Fognini of Italy both lost Monday in the first round of the Thailand Open. Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria upset Dodig 6-2, 7-5, while Thailand’s Danai Udomchoke overcame Fognini 6-4, 3-6, 6-2 on an opening day of surprises in Bangkok. Dodig

LONDON (AP) Roger Federer finished the group stage at the ATP World Tour Finals with a perfect record after beating Mardy Fish 6-1, 3-6, 6-3 Thursday for his third win at the season-ending tournament. Federer started the match with the same kind of ruthless efficiency that helped him beat Rafael

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NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Top-ranked Simona Halep has withdrawn from the Connecticut Open, citing a sore right Achilles tendon. The Romanian was scheduled to play Tuesday in New Haven, but says in a statement her Achilles is sore from "two weeks of many matches and I need to recover

Hubert Hurkacz continued a stellar season on Sunday, winning his third APT Tour singles title of the year. Except, that’s not all. Along with taking down Pablo Carreno Busta at the Moselle Open final, the 24-year-old also won the doubles title a few hours later.

On Saturday, Sofia Kenin and Iga Swiatek will face each other in the Roland Garros final. After almost two weeks of wild action, these two women have made it through to the end. Kenin, the 2020 Australian Open champion, is banking on her Grand Slam experience. While she has struggled

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NEWPORT, R.I. (AP)—American Mardy Fish has advanced to the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships final by beating Richard Bloomfield of Great Britain 7-6 (5), 6-4 Saturday. The fifth-seeded Fish will play in his second ATP tour final of the season. He lost to Sam Querrey at Queen's Club last month.

GSTAAD, Switzerland (AP)—Unseeded Brazilian Thomaz Bellucci upset top-seeded Janko Tipsarevic of Serbia, 6-7 (6), 6-4, 6-2 in the Swiss Open final on Sunday. Bellucci, ranked No. 60, got his third career title and second at Gstaad. He won the clay-court event as a qualifier in 2009. Tipsarevic was denied a

Tennis fans may have not heard of Malek Jaziri yet. He has never made it to the second week of a Grand Slam and he's ranked a modest No. 61. But in the round of 16 at the China Open, the 34-year-old Tunisian pulled off arguably the greatest win of

Another disappointing Grand Slam has passed for Serena Williams. After defeating fellow American Kristie Ahn in the first round, the 39-year-old pulled out of Roland Garros, making this the third year without a major for Williams. An Achilles injury, picked up during her US Open semifinal loss against Victoria Azarenka,

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