American fifth seed Serena Williams withdrew from her Italian Open quarter-final with French qualifier Alize Cornet on Friday because of a back injury, organisers said.
Russia's Maria Sharapova battled past Denmark's Caroline Wozniacki to move into the Italian Open quarter-finals with a 6-4, 7-6 win on Thursday.
Serena Williams hurled her racket skyward and bounded up and down in joy after winning her third US Open title with a 6-4, 7-5 victory over Jelena Jankovic of Serbia in the women's final on Sunday.
Defending champion Serena Williams battled to a 3-6, 7-5, 6-3 victory over world number four Svetlana Kuznetsova to reach the Sony Ericsson Open final on Thursday. The American, who had to cope with back trouble along with the hot and humid conditions, is bidding to equal Steffi Graf's record of five title successes in the tournament.
Sania Mirza dropped 10 places to 60 while Somdev Devvarman rose to 320 in the rankings list released on Monday.
The 26-year-old American, winner of eight Grand Slam titles, had pulled out of the event last year due to illness.
Champion Serena Williams, top seed Justine Henin and Rafael Nadal had things their way while booking fourth round slots at the Australian Open.
Dinara Safina reached the French Open final with a 6-3, 6-2 win over fellow Russian and fourth seed Svetlana Kuznetsova on Thursday.
Captain Michael Ballack grabbed an 82nd minute winner for Germany, who fought back from a goal down to beat Serbia 2-1 on Saturday in their last friendly before the Euro 2008 finals.
Angelique Kerber, who will reclaim the world number one ranking on Monday, breezed to a 6-2, 6-1 second-round victory over fellow German Andrea Petkovic at the BNP Paribas Open on Saturday.
Roger Federer, Venus Williams and Jelena Jankovic all ran into a spot of bother on Monday before emerging unscathed to kick-start their French Open campaigns.
Amelie Mauresmo battled over three sets to overcome fellow Frenchwoman Marion Bartoli in the semi-finals of the Strasbourg Open on Friday.
Serena Williams reached the Family Circle Cup semi-finals on Friday by beating number two seed Maria Sharapova 7-5, 4-6, 6-1 while Vera Zvonareva upset top seed Jelena Jankovic 6-2, 3-6, 6-2. Sharapova, who won only nine of 35 points in a final set during which Williams made only one unforced error, lost to the American for the fifth time in seven career matches.
Former winner Maria Sharapova, her Russian compatriot Anna Chakvetadze and Serb Ana Ivanovic joined world number one Justine Henin in the semi-finals of the WTA Championships on Thursday.
The writing was on the wall only a couple of games into the match. Patty Schnyder had come with a specific game plan and she executed it to perfection. The fourth seeded Swiss beat China's Zi Yan 6-3, 6-4 in an hour and 15 minutes to advance to the final of the WTA Tier II Bangalore Open on Saturday.
Second seed Venus Williams avoided a second defeat within 24 hours at the hands of Shuai Peng as she scraped past the Chinese in the second round of the WTA Bangalore Open on Thursday evening.
The Russian swept aside Danish teenager Caroline Wozniacki to set up a clash with Polish teenager Agnieszka Radwanska.
The Indo-US duo beat Severine Bremond and Jelena Jankovic in the first round of women's doubles.
Fifth seed Maria Sharapova crushed Jelena Jankovic, while Ana Ivanovic recovered from a terrible start to beat Daniela Hantuchova in the Australian Open semi-finals.
Russian Maria Sharapova produced a blistering performance to overpower world number one Justine Henin 6-4 6-0 in the Australian Open quarter-finals on Tuesday.
Justine Henin and Maria Sharapova set up an explosive Australian Open quarter-final with crushing wins.
Justine Henin qualified for the WTA Championships semi-finals with a 6-2, 6-2 win over Jelena Jankovic.
Serbian third seed Novak Djokovic survived a tough challenge from big-serving Croatian teen-ager Marin Cilic 6-7, 7-5, 6-4, 7-6 in a late-night slugfest to reach the fourth round of the U.S. Open on Sunday.
The Belgian was joined by Svetlana Kuznetsova, Jelena Jankovic and Tatiana Golovin in the semi-finals of the Stuttgart Open.
Lindsay Davenport defeated second seed Daniela Hantuchova 6-4, 3-6, 6-2 to win the Bali Classic.
World number one Justine Henin and second seed Jelena Jankovic refused to be blown off course by recording quarter-final wins on a wild and windy day at the Toronto Cup on Friday.
The world number one beat China's Peng Shuai 7-5, 6-2 in the third round.
Maria Sharapova pulled out before her Los Angeles Classic semi-final against Nadia Petrova with a strain in her lower left leg.
The Indian ace was shown the door by the eighth seeded Italian in the second round of the Birmingham DFS Classic.
Novak Djokovic beat Russia's Igor Andreev 6-3, 6-3, 6-3 to reach the semi-finals of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time.
Maria Sharapova made it to her maiden semi-finals of the French Open by beating fellow Russian Anna Chakvetadze 6-3, 6-4.
World No 3 Maria Sharapova withdrew on Monday from the end-of-season WTA Championship in Istanbul due to the shoulder injury that also kept her out of the US Open.
The third seeded Russian rallied to beat the American to reach the semi-finals of the Warsaw Cup.
Top seed Nadia Petrova made short work of China's Zheng Jie with a 6-2, 6-3 victory to move into the quarter-finals of the Amelia Island championship on Thursday.
Top seed Justine Henin rallied from a set down to beat Jelena Jankovic and reach the final of the Qatar Open.
Justine Henin knocked out Swiss Patty Schnyder 3-6, 6-4, 7-5 to reach the Qatar Open semi-finals.
Amelie Mauresmo reached the Dubai Open final after Serbia's Jelena Jankovic retired through injury when trailing 6-2 on Friday.
Andy Roddick and Serena Williams scored contrasting wins to enter the Australian Open quarterfinals.
Top seed Maria Sharapova was stretched by Serbia's Ana Ivanovic before she claimed a 7-6 7-5 win to reach the semi-finals of the Linz Open on Friday.
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