Petra Kvitova put defending champions the Czech Republic into the Fed Cup final with a 6-4, 7-6 win over Italy's Francesca Schiavone on Sunday.
The Indian ace was beaten by Francesca Schiavone of Italy at the Ordina Open.
Images from the women's singles final at the French Open in Paris on Saturday.
Francesca Schiavone repeated her French Open final triumph over Samantha Stosur on Sunday as Fed Cup holders Italy completed a 4-1 victory over Australia in their World Group last eight tie.
In the women's draw, defending champion Garbine Muguruza will play 2010 French Open winner Francesca Schiavone
Flavia Pennetta and Francesca Schiavone gave Italy a shock 2-0 lead over champions Russia, while the United States and the Czech Republic were level at 1-1 after day one in the Fed Cup semi-finals on Saturday. Pennetta swept past an out-of-sorts Anna Chakvetadze 6-4, 6-0 in windy conditions at Castellaneta Marina before Schiavone fought back to beat Svetlana Kuznetsova 1-6, 6-2, 6-3.
Italian tennis ace Francesca Schiavone has said that she regards Serena Williams better than Steffi Graf after she drew within four Grand Slam titles of the former German great's Open-era record.
Anabel Medina Garrigues and Virginia Ruano Pascual claimed the women's doubles crown at the French Open.
Top seed Caroline Wozniacki and former World No 1 Venus Williams ensured Auckland Classic organisers' dream final remained on track with the duo both recording comfortable victories in their first round matches on Tuesday.
Sixth seed Daniela Hantuchova of Slovakia, eighth seed Francesca Schiavone of Italy and India's Sania Mirza moved into the second round of the $1.3 million Qatar Open on Monday.
The Indian ace won the first set but was outplayed in the next two by Francesca Schiavone in the second round of the US Open.
The Belgian fifth seed thrashed Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-3, 6-1 in the semi-finals of the Sydney International.\n
Kim Clijsters beat Francesca Schiavone of Italy 6-4, 6-4 in the Warsaw Cup quarterfinals
Russia's Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova stands on the threshold of finally delivering the title long predicted
India's Sania Mirza and Switzerland's Martina Hingis entered the women's doubles third round.
Belgian Justine Henin-Hardenne twice clawed herself back from the brink of defeat to beat Italy's Francesca Schiavone 4-6, 7-5, 7-5 in the final.
Five things to watch out for on day five of the French Open on Thursday
Venus Williams rolled back the years to beat Belgium's Kirsten Flipkens in the first round of the U.S. Open on Monday as the final Grand Slam of the year burst into life.
Sania Mirza and her American partner Bethanie Mattek-Sands scored a straight set win over Francesca Schiavone and Samantha Stosur to move to the quarter-finals of the WTA Premier event in Rome.
Australia's Bernard Tomic backed up his victory over World No1 Novak Djokovic by dismantling Italian journeyman Andreas Seppi 6-3, 7-5 at the Hopman Cup team event on Thursday.
It's been a decade since an American won in Paris. For that matter, no player from the country has made it to the final at Roland Garros since. Historically, the French Open is the lone major where Americans have struggled to assert their authority. There's something about
The distractions of being French Open champion led to six wasted months, said 2011 winner Li Na, who has finally found her form again in time to defend her title next week.
The top two seeds advanced to the Madrid Open second round on Sunday when Victoria Azarenka dispatched Svetlana Kuznetsova 7-6, 6-4 and Maria Sharapova crushed Irina-Camelia Begu 6-0, 6-2.
Li Na hits the ball hard and flat, displays her emotions, cracks acerbic jokes, is relatively old at 29 and her landmark triumph at the French Open will be welcomed far further afield than China.
French Open champion Li Na could so easily have slipped away from tennis but the first Chinese player to win a grand slam singles title was glad she stuck to the task after adding 500,000 followers to her blog in hours.
The star pull-outs from this year's Commonwealth Games continue with French Open finalist Samantha Stosur becoming the latest to decide against competing in the Delhi event to focus on top WTA tournaments. The Australian tennis ace joins the country's top male tennis player Lleyton Hewitt in pulling out of the Games, according to an Australian Associated Press report.
Russian Elena Dementieva, who won gold at the 2008 Olympic Games, announced her retirement from tennis at the WTA Championships on Thursday.
World number one Caroline Wozniacki moved into the quarter-finals of the Qatar Open with a 6-3, 6-2 win over Russian Nadia Petrova but third seed Francesca Schiavone was upset by China's Peng Shuai on Wednesday.
Top seed Caroline Wozniacki out-muscled Victoria Azarenka of Belarus 6-2, 6-7, 6-4 to reach the final of the Pan Pacific Open on Friday.
French Open champion Li Na was upset 6-2, 5-7, 7-6 by Czech qualifier Petra Cetkovska in the semi-finals of the New Haven Open on Friday. Cetkovska, ranked a career-high 40th, will face world number one Caroline Wozniacki in Saturday's final, the Dane having beaten Italy's Francesca Schiavone 7-6, 6-3 in the last four.
Elena Dementieva lost 6-4, 6-2 to Italy's Francesca Schiavone at the WTA Championships on Friday before stunning the crowd by announcing her retirement from tennis.
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Caroline Wozniacki rolled up her sleeves and battled back from a set down to defeat Francesca Schiavone of Italy 3-6, 6-1, 6-1 at the WTA Championships on Thursday, sewing up the year-end world number one ranking.
Elena Dementieva has pulled out of next week's Wimbledon because of a calf injury, the Russian world number five said on Tuesday. The 28-year-old Muscovite suffered the injury during the French Open, forcing her to retire from her semi-final earlier this month against eventual winner Francesca Schiavone.
Elena Dementieva and Jelena Jankovic, two of the nearly women of the game, will bid for another crack at Grand Slam glory in the French Open semi-finals on Thursday.
French Open champion Svetlana Kuznetsova and her fellow Russian Elena Dementieva won their opening round matches at the Sydney International Sunday, one of the major lead-up events to the Australian Open.
A gale force in the shape of Roger Federer blew aside local favourite Gael Monfils 6-4, 6-3, 7-6 on a blustery Tuesday at the French Open as the Swiss set up a mouth-watering French Open semi-final with Novak Djokovic.
Sania Mirza and her Italian partner Francesca Schiavone, seeded 14th, survived a scare from unseeded Ekaterina Dzehalevich of Belarus and Czech Renata Voracova before recording a 5-7, 7-5, 6-1 win to advance to the women's doubles second round.
Sania Mirza's campaign ended with a straight-set defeat in the women's doubles' third round on a disappointing day for the Indians at the Australian Open in Melbourne on Sunday.
A jet-lagged Andy Murray won his opening match of the year on Monday but it was not enough to prevent Britain from losing 2-1 to Italy in the Hopman Cup mixed team event.
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