Flavia Pennetta News

Without Serena and Venus Williams, the United States is relying on 18-year-old Melanie Oudin and a veteran doubles specialist in the Fed Cup final against Italy.

Serena Williams of the USA, left, and sister Venus shake hands at the net after their match this week at the season-ending Sony Ericsson Championships in Doha, Qatar.

You got the feeling that some day, someone somewhere was going to get a kicking from Villarreal.

Host nation Italy has named its roster of the four players who will compete in the upcoming Fed Cup by BNP Paribas final against the United States.

Serena Williams has been officially included on the United States team that will face Italy in the Fed Cup final.

Italian Francesca Schiavone easily defeated Belarus' Olga Govortsova for her second career WTA Tour title Sunday at the $1 million Kremlin Cup.

The Polish tennis player Agnieszka Radwanska gave an interview to Sport Express at the Kremlin Cup that started yesterday.

Shanghai ATP Masters 1000 Shanghai, China Russian Nikolay Davydenko improved his chances of qualifying for the ATP year-end championship on Sunday after giving world No.

Top-seeded Nikolay Davydenko of Russia and third-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland were upset in the first round of the Kremlin Cup on Wednesday.

Bad news, guys. This wasn't even Japan's Kohei Uchimura at his best. Uchimura ran away with the men's title at the world gymnastics championships in London on Thursday night, adding it to his silver medal from the Beijing Olympics.

Sunday, October 18, 2009 OSAKA: Australian third seed Samantha Stosur on Saturday dashed Caroline Wozniacki's title defence to reach the final at the Japan Open women's tennis tournament.

AFP, Austria Top seeds Flavia Pennetta and Agnieszka Radwanska advanced to the semi-finals of the WTA event in Linz on Friday.

Top-seeded Flavia Pennetta came a step closer to winning her first indoor title by beating Ioana Raluca Olaru of Romania 7-5, 6-2 in the quarter-finals of the Generali Ladies on Friday.

Top-seeded Flavia Pennetta retained her chance of reaching the WTA Championships by defeating Anna-Lena Groenefeld of Germany 6-3, 4-6, 6-2 to reach the Generali Ladies quarterfinals on Thursday.

Top seed Flavia Pennetta highlighted Tuesday's opening-round winners at the Generali Ladies Linz tennis event.

AFP/File Flavia Pennetta of Italy, seen here on October 3, kept herself in contention for a place in the WTA Championships Tue Oct 13, 3:37 pm ET LINZ, Austria Flavia Pennetta kept herself in contention for a place in the WTA Championships to be held in Doha later this month when she defeated American Meghann Shaughnessy 6-1, 6-1 in the first round ...

Julia Goerges of Germany beat sixth-seeded Sorana Cirstea of Romania 6-3, 6-3 Tuesday in the opening round of the Generali Ladies.

The official Fed Cup website will offer live streaming of the final. The United States is 9-0 against Italy , but next month's tie marks the first time the Italians will host a Fed Cup final.

Nadia Petrova won a third-set tiebreaker Thursday for a third-round upset of world No.

Venus Williams was among the first-round winners Saturday on the opening day of play at the China Open.