Elena Dementieva News Archives

When the popular former manager of Israel's most famous basketball team killed himself last week, it seemed like a sad tale of a heartbroken man who couldn't adjust to life after sports.

DOHA // Elena Dementieva braced herself for another humbling experience when her name came out alongside that of defending champion Venus Williams in the draw for the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour Championships.

Russia's Dinara Safina hobbled out of the WTA Championships today, surrendering the year-end world number one ranking to Serena Williams in the process.

Andre Agassi's upcoming autobiography contains an admission he used crystal meth in 1997 and lied to tennis authorities when he failed a drug test.

Elena Dementieva lit up the WTA Championships on Tuesday with a sensational comeback to beat title holder Venus Williams 3-6 7-6 6-2 on the opening day of group matches.

KUALA LUMPUR: World No. 5 Elena Dementieva will join forces with fellow Russian Maria Kirilenko to take on two of Asia's current tennis icons - Sania Mirza of India and Zheng Jie of China - in the Showdown of Champions at the Malawati Stadium in Shah Alam on Dec 19 and 20.

The world's top eight tennis players pose with officials at Qatar's Museum of Islamic Art yesterday.

Svetlana Kuznetsova slipped by Venus Williams and is ranked No. 3 in Monday's women's tennis rankings.

Russian favorite Mikhail Youzhny was among Monday's opening-round winners at the $1.08 million Kremlin Cup tennis event.

World number one Serena Williams, Frenchman Gael Monfils and four-time champion Lleyton Hewitt have been confirmed to play in the WTA/ATP Sydney International in January, organisers said.

SYDNEY International organisers have gambled by making Serena Williams the centrepiece of their advertising campaign for January's event, despite the fact she might not be allowed to play.

Russian Elena Vesnina has confirmed her return for the 2010 Classic, which this year was one of her "biggest moments". Photo / Kenny Rodger Organisers believe they are still in the running to recruit former world No 1 and seven-time Grand Slam winner Justine Henin to headline January's ASB Classic tennis tournament.

The four huge yellow cranes that tower over the Olympic tennis center are witness to the ambitious plans for the China Open, which was relaunched last week with neither a bang nor a whimper but something in between.

Doha: Current World No. 6 Venus Williams and World No. 7 Victoria Azarenka are the latest players to qualify for the Sony Ericsson Championships - " Doha 2009, in the singles competition.

Elena Vesnina of Russia. Photo by AP. Improving Russian tennis player Elena Vesnina, the beaten finalist in the 2009 ASB Classic, has confirmed her return for January's tournament.

The inevitable did happen. Serena Williams got her ranking, and Dinara Safina lost hers.A It is a fair result, and would eventually bring the Russian more joy than disappointments in the long term.

Earlier this week headlines whispered that Frenchwoman Amelie Mauresmo was considering retirement from tennis.

French Open champion Svetlana Kuznetsova was an easy quarterfinal winner, while Olympic gold medalist Elena Dementieva went by way of the upset Friday at the $4.5 million China Open.

Russia's Marat Safin gestures to fans after his China Open quarterfinal match against Rafael Nadal in Beijing last night.

Elena Dementieva joined the exodus of top seeds from the China Open on Friday when she was upset 7-5 6-3 by Poland's Agnieszka Radwanska in the quarter-finals of the WTA's new "crown jewel" tournament.

RUSSIA'S tennis stars dominated the courts at the China Open on Wednesday, with fourth seed Nikolay Davydenko and sixth seed Svetlana Kuznetsova advancing to the quarterfinals in Beijing.

FOURTH seed Elena Dementieva continued her golden run at the Olympic tennis centre with a 6-4 6-3 victory over Hungarian Melinda Czink in the second round of the US$6.6 million China Open on Tuesday.

CHINA'S Peng Shuai defeated a tired Maria Sharapova 6-2, 6-4 in the third round of the US$6.6 million China Open yesterday, delighting the crowd at the Olympic tennis center in Beijing.

Women's Tour On the rise ... Williams reclaims the No.1 ranking early on in China.

Six-time world number one Svetlana Kuznetsova will make her fifth appearance at the 4.55-million-dollar WTA year-end championships from October 27 to November 1 in Doha after becoming the fifth player to qualify for the wrap-up. She will be the third Russian in the field along with world number one Dinara Safina and Elena Dementieva.

Spearheaded by world number one Dinara Safina, the Russian girls look to call the shots again at the Olympic Green Tennis Centre where they had a clean sweep of the podium at the Olympic tennis tournament just one year ago.

World number four Elena Dementieva admitted to getting goose bumps when she returned to the scene of her greatest triumph for this week's $4.5 million China Open.

Maria Sharapova sealed her first title since her lengthy injury lay-off after Jelena Jankovic retired in the final of the Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo yesterday.

BEIJING: The reality of life on the pro tennis tour hit home for teenager Melanie Oudin yesterday, when she crashed out in qualifying for the China Open just weeks after her surprising run to the US Open quarter-finals. Oudin lost to fellow American Alexa Glatch 2-6, 7-5, 6-3. Oudin, who just turned 18, was ranked 42nd in the world.

Taylor Dent is making forward progress after years of career-threatening injuries.