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Veteran Japanese Kimiko Date Krumm upset fifth-seeded Spaniard Anabel Medina Garrigues in Thursday's round-robin action, while France's Aravane Rezai secured a berth in Saturday's semifinals at the $600,000 Tournament of Champions tennis event.

RUSSIAN tennis stars Elena Dementieva and Maria Kirilenko will take on Zheng Jie of China and Sania Mirza of India in a "Russia v Asia" clash at Malawati Stadium in Shah Alam on Dec 19-20. The tentative format of play is one doubles on the first day and two singles matches the next day.

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 New Jersey Nets have one chance remaining to avoid a winless preseason after they lost 94-92 to the New York Knicks on Wednesday at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J. The Knicks blew an 18-point lead in the third quarter but pulled it out in the final minutes despite having the end of their bench on the floor against New Jersey's starters.

Defending champion and second seed Jelena Jankovic crashed out of the Kremlin Cup on Friday, the Serb defeated 6-4, 6-3 in the quarter-finals by local hope Alisa Kleybanova.

Enduring four years of hometown heartbreak, Maria Kirilenko took center court and flipped the script in creating a happy homecoming in Moscow today.

Tennis Date Krumm wins Korea Open a day before turning 39: Kimiko Date Krumm of Japan became the oldest winner of a WTA Tour tournament... Tennis Date Krumm wins Korea Open a day before turning 39: Kimiko Date Krumm of Japan became the oldest winner of a WTA Tour tournament since American Billie Jean King in 1983, beating second-seeded Anabel ...

After falling all the way down to No. 68 in the world last month, Shahar Pe'er climbed on Monday to No.

Top seeds Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan and Shahar Peer of Israel were quarterfinal winners Friday at the Tashkent Open.

Russia's Maria Kirilenko moved one step closer to a successful defense of her Korea Open title with a quarterfinal victory on Friday, while top-seeded Daniela Hantuchova was eliminated.

Defending champion Maria Kirilenko of Russia advanced to the Korea Open quarterfinals on Thursday by beating Francesca Schiavone, who retired with an injury early in the second set.

Spain's Anabel Medina Garrigues and Italy's Francesca Schiavone were among the winners in the first round of the Korea Open, while fourth-seeded Sorana Cirstea of Romania was sent home.

Russian world No 53 Maria Kirilenko was given a wildcard by the organizers of the China Open yesterday, which ensures all past winners of the WTA-ATP joint tennis event will show up in the capital next month to vie for top honors.

Tennis is a silly sport -- overgrown ping pong -- but its aficionados are no fools.

MISS something? Tennis mum Kim Clijsters continues her winning comeback while Aussie basketballer David Andersen signs with the Houston Rockets.

Some players have a hunger for success and some players' success is born from hunger.

Here are top tennis players at the Western & Southern Women's Open. In April, she became the 19th women's world No.

FORMER world No. 8 Alicia Molik has set a date for her singles comeback, earmarking a small $US25,000 Pro Circuit event in Darwin next month to launch her return from almost a year in retirement.

Lashinda Demus of the United States and L.J. van Zyl of South Africa set this year's world-best times in the 400-meter hurdles at the Herculis Super Grand Prix on Tuesday.

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