World number one Ana Ivanovic battled her way into the third round of the Montreal Cup to keep her nose in front in the fight for the top ranking on Wednesday. Number three Maria Sharapova, however, will take no further part after withdrawing from the tournament with a shoulder injury following her win over Poland's Marta Domachowska.
World number ones Roger Federer and Ana Ivanovic head a strong field at the Olympic tennis tournament in Beijing next month. The International Tennis Federation , which released the entry lists for the men's and women's singles and doubles on Wednesday, said Beijing would witness the best lineup since tennis returned as a full medal sport in Seoul 1988.
As the event goes into its second week, only six of the men's top 16 seeds and eight of the women's have made it through to the fourth round.
Order of play on the main showcourts on the first day of the June 23-July 6 Wimbledon tennis championships on Monday.
Indian ace Sania Mirza grabbed the last spot to be seeded 32nd at the Wimbledon championhips.
Novak Djokovic kick-started his 2011 campaign with a well-earned victory on Sunday as top seeds Serbia took an unbeatable 2-0 lead over Kazakhstan in their opening match at the Hopman Cup mixed team event.
Former world number one Ana Ivanovic's alarming slump was prolonged by Czech Lucie Safarova in the first round of the Pan Pacific Open on Sunday.
Former world number one Amelie Mauresmo had to forfeit her Brisbane International semi-final against compatriot Marion Bartoli Friday after receiving treatment on her lower back and left leg. The Frenchwoman, who had stunned top seed Ana Ivanovic 6-3, 6-2 in the quarter-finals on Thursday, was serving at 0-4 when she called for the trainer.
Former world number one Amelie Mauresmo upset top seed Ana Ivanovic 6-3, 6-2 to advance to the semi-finals of the Brisbane International on Thursday.
Ana Ivanovic discovered there was no where to hide at Flushing Meadows as she slumped out of the US Open in the first round with a 2-6, 6-3, 7-6 defeat by Ukrainian Kateryna Bondarenko on Tuesday.
Serb Jelena Jankovic has rediscovered her form in time for the U.S. Open, while compatriot and fellow former world number one Ana Ivanovic is still looking to turn her season round.
World number three Serena Williams and fourth-ranked Ana Ivanovic withdrew from the WTA Championships on Friday.
The Serbian used her new-found stamina to beat a stubborn Caroline Wozniacki in the fourth round of the Australian Open.
Ana Ivanovic and Vera Zvonareva had contrasting victories on Saturday to reach the final of the Linz Open.
The Indo-Serbian pair lost to eighth seeds Shinobu Asagoe and Katarina Srebotnik at the Nasdaq-100 Open.
Indian veteran Leander Paes and his doubles partner Hugues Herbert turned it around remarkably for the Japan Warriors, who beat UAE Royals 24-21 to record their first win of the tournament in the opening match of the International Premier Tennis League's India leg in New Delhi.
Third seed Venus Williams booked her place in the quarter-finals at Wimbledon on Monday after Serbian 13th seed Ana Ivanovic retired injured in their fourth-round clash.
In an interview with rediff.com's Bikash Mohapatra, Ivanovic talks about her success, those 'disappointing' years in between and her future expectations.
Olympic champion Elena Dementieva began her warm-up for Wimbledon with a swift 6-2, 6-2 win over fellow Russian Maria Kirilenko at the Eastbourne International on Monday.
A tortured and tormented Venus Williams whimpered out of the French Open on Friday while a Portuguese teenage upstart made a very noisy departure. Four-times champion Nadal barely broke into a sweat as he overcame potential banana skin Lleyton Hewitt to extend his Paris record to 31-0.
Holder Ana Ivanovic underlined her credentials for a second French Open title with a 6-0, 6-2 demolition of Czech Iveta Benesova in the third round on Friday. The Serbian eighth seed needed just over an hour to set up a meeting with either ninth seed Victoria Azarenka of Belarus or Spaniard Carla Suarez Navarro, seeded 22nd.
Ana Ivanovic used her champion's instinct on Sunday as she was made to sweat for more than two hours by a little-known Italian who had never won a French Open match. While Ivanovic barely resembled the player crowned queen of Roland Garros 12 months ago, Andy Murray looked every inch a seasoned claycourt campaigner during a 6-2, 6-2, 6-1 first-round demolition of Argentine dangerman Juan Ignacio Chela.
Holder Ana Ivanovic was made to sweat much more than expected in a 7-6, 6-3 victory over unheralded Italian Sara Errani to reach the second round of the French Open on Sunday. The eighth-seeded Serb needed two hours and two minutes to break the resilience of world number 44 Errani to set up a meeting with either France's Camille Pin or Tamarine Tamasugarn.
Ana Ivanovic's sharp loss of form since she won last year's French Open, and a niggling knee injury, have cast doubts over her title defence at the Paris grand slam which starts Sunday.
World number three Venus Williams followed her sister Serena out of the Madrid Open Tuesday when she was beaten 6-3 3-6 7-5 by unseeded Russian teen-ager Alisa Kleybanova in the second round.
The opening day of the Olympic tennis turned into a nightmare for the organisers as rain washed out most of the schedule and women's top seed Ana Ivanovic pulled out with a swollen thumb. Just nine of Sunday's slated 45 matches survived the torrential downpours and thunderclaps that left fans frustrated and volunteers mopping the courts with towels.
Indian Aces suffered their second successive loss in the inaugural International Premier Tennis League as they went down fighting 20-25 to Manila Mavericks in the last match of the Singapore leg on Thursday.
Jelena Jankovic was upset 7-5, 6-2 by Slovakia's Dominika Cibulkova in the quarter-finals of the Montreal Cup on Friday.
Dinara Safina shattered Jelena Jankovic's chances of securing the women's number one ranking with a 7-6, 6-1 victory in the semi-finals.
Since Justine Henin's departure the field is without a clear leader.
Champion Ana Ivanovic of Serbia and Russian Vera Zvonareva completed crushing victories on Friday to set up a title clash in the final of the WTA event at Indian Wells. Top seed Ivanovic pummelled 17-year-old Russian Anastasia Pavyluchenkova 6-2, 6-3 in the evening semi-final after fourth-seeded Zvonareva had swept aside her doubles partner Victoria Azarenka of Belarus 6-3, 6-3.
Ana Ivanovic survived two match points before beating France's Nathalie Dechy 6-7, 7-6, 10-8 in a second round thriller at Wimbledon.
Defending champion Ana Ivanovic beat Argentina's Gisela Dulko 6-3, 6-3 to reach the fourth round of the WTA event in Indian Wells on Monday. The Serbian fifth seed was not totally convincing but did enough to set up a clash with Italian 12th seed Flavia Pennetta.
Ana Ivanovic will become the first player representing Serbia to be ranked world number one when the new WTA rankings are released on Monday. The 20-year-old Serb dislodged Russia's Maria Sharapova from the top when she defeated compatriot Jelena Jankovic to reach the final of the French Open on Thursday.
Serena Williams has withdrawn from next week's Stanford Classic due to a thumb injury, organisers said on Thursday.
World number two Ana Ivanovic suffered a surprise 6-2, 7-5 defeat by Elena Dementieva in the semi-finals of the German Open.
Two years in the tennis wilderness has not been all bad for Ana Ivanovic, the former world number one says it has helped her get over her fear of failure. The 22-year-old Ivanovic has won just one Tier II tournament since her breakthrough Grand Slam victory at the French Open in 2008, falling to number 58 in the world, but she showed promising signs by reaching the last four at the Italian Open this week.
Serbia's tennis titans locked in their second round Australian Open spots on Monday while Andy Roddick scorched a sacrificial Swede and Roger Federer schmoozed his way through on Day One of the year's first Grand Slam. Ana Ivanovic, Jelena Jankovic and Novak Djokovic flew through early at Melbourne Park as did Roddick. Federer was a delight under the stars, finessing his way to round two with a 6-1 7-6 7-5 win over Italy's Andreas Seppi.
Super Serbs Ana Ivanovic, Jelena Jankovic and Novak Djokovic locked in their second round Australian Open spots on Monday as Andy Roddick routed a sacrificial Swede on Day One of the year's first grand slam.
Doing enough but failing to dazzle, Ana Ivanovic safely navigated the first round of the Australian Open Monday with a 7-5, 6-3 win over Julia Goerges.
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