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Elena Dementieva Leaves Court an Almost Champ
By Greg Couch - AOL NewsWe never say goodbye to the almosts, and Elena Dementieva wasn't asking, anyway. She retired from tennis Friday, not after a long farewell tour or anything like that. The sports world won't even notice. But tennis will. She lost a match in Doha, Qatar, and just said she was done. The whole thing lasted for one emotional moment, and women's tennis is now less without her. She was almost a winner of a major championship in her career, and while she is unknown outside of tennis, she was almost a major sports superstar, too. Women's tennis mixes talent and marketability more than any game. By ...
Elena Dementieva Retires From Tennis
By Hal Spivack - AOL NewsElena Dementieva, one of the most accomplished women's tennis players of the last decade, retired from tennis Friday. "It's so emotional," Dementieva, 29, told the crowd after Francesca Schiavone defeated her 6-4, 6-2 in her last round-robin match at the year-end WTA Championships in Doha, Qatar. "It's so hard to say goodbye to all of you. I'm going to miss you so much." Dementieva finishes her career with 16 WTA titles after 12 years on the tour. She entered the top 20 in September 2000 and remained ranked inside the position for 524 weeks of the last 529, including this week. Although ...
Caroline Wozniacki Falls in WTA Championships at Doha
By Hal Spivack - AOL NewsTop-ranked Caroline Wozniacki will have to wait at least another match before she clinches the year-end No. 1 WTA ranking. Group play continued Wednesday on Day 2 at the WTA Championships in Doha and featured the streaking Wozniacki for the second consecutive day. The 20-year-old Dane came into her match needing only one more round-robin victory or a Vera Zvonareva loss to clinch the year-end No. 1. But she got neither on Wednesday. Wozniacki was upset by Samantha Stosur in straight sets, 6-4, 6-3. Stosur took command of the match when she earned the contest's first break of serve against ...
WTA Championships Day 1: Wozniacki, Zvonareva, Stosur Win
By Hal Spivack - AOL NewsThe official year-end WTA Championships commenced on Tuesday in Doha, Qatar, featuring the world's eight best players on the women's tour, minus defending champion Serena Williams and sister Venus, who both pulled out of the event due to injury. The prestigious tournament runs at the Khalifa Tennis Complex from Oct. 26-31 and features each player participating in three round-robin group stage matches. The top two players from each group then progress to the knockout stage consisting of a semifinal round and final match. The Maroon Group includes No. 1-seeded Caroline Wozniacki, No. 4-seeded ...
Caroline Wozniacki Tops Dementieva to Win Pan Pacific Open
By Hal Spivack - AOL NewsTop-seeded Caroline Wozniacki claimed her fifth title of the year by rallying to defeat No. 7-seeded Elena Dementieva of Russia 1-6, 6-2, 6-3 in a two-hour finale at the Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo on Saturday. The victory sealed Wozniacki's fourth tournament title since Wimbledon. The 20-year-old Dane has rattled off 24 wins in her last 26 matches. Wozniacki will surpass Serena Williams as the top-ranked player on tour if she reaches the quarterfinals of next week's China Open in Beijing. The Pan Pacific Open and the China Open are both considered WTA Premier events, carrying a total purse of ...
Caroline Wozniacki Cruises; Kimiko Date Krumm Wins on Birthday
By Hal Spivack - AOL NewsTop-seeded Caroline Wozniacki wasted no time getting back on track Tuesday after a disappointing semifinal loss to Vera Zvonareva at the U.S. Open. The No. 2-ranked Dane defeated Greta Arn in straight sets, 6-1, 6-3, in a little over an hour during her second-round match at the Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo. Wozniacki has now won 20 of her last 22 matches on tour. Wozniacki's service game was precise in her opening match -- the streaking Dane was only broken once, winning 74 percent of her first-serve points and 80 percent of her second-serve points. The biggest story on Tuesday, however, was ...
Samantha Stosur Downs Dementieva in Record-Setting Match at US Open
By Hal Spivack - AOL NewsSamantha Stosur made a comeback for the ages in her fourth-round U.S. Open match against 12th-seeded Elena Dementieva. The fifth-seeded Stosur defeated Dementieva in a three-set match that ended later than any women's match in U.S. Open history. Stosur needed two hours, 38 minutes to score a 6-3, 2-6, 7-6(2) victory, capping off the win at approximately 1:35 a.m. ET Monday morning at Flushing Meadows. "When everyone stays out here and cheers and supports us like that, it couldn't be any better," 2010 French Open runner-up Stosur said in an on-court interview in Arthur Ashe Stadium. In ...
Caroline Wozniacki Rallies Back to Earn Spot in Pilot Pen Final at New Haven
By Hal Spivack - AOL NewsCaroline Wozniacki, the U.S. Open's No. 1 seed, rallied back in championship fashion on Friday to defeat 13th-ranked Elena Dementieva of Russia at the Pilot Pen semifinals. Dementieva dominated the second-ranked Dane in the first set, but Wozniacki limited her errors and tightened up her groundstrokes to prevail in three sets 1-6, 6-3, 7-6 (5). Wozniacki is seeking her third straight title in New Haven. Wozniacki, who has already clinched the U.S. Open Series, will enter Flushing Meadows next week with a chance to trigger the $1 million dollar bonus that goes along with the Grand Slam ...
Maria Sharapova Survives, Advances to Stanford Semifinals
By Hal Spivack - AOL NewsIt wasn't smooth or pretty, but after almost three hours of play in the Bank of the West Classic at Stanford on Friday night, fifth-seeded Maria Sharapova emerged victorious against second-seeded Elena Dementieva. Sharapova overcame 15 double faults to defeat Dementieva in three sets, 6-4, 2-6, 6-3. This week's tournament at Stanford is the first event in the women's hard-court Olympus U.S. Open Series. Dementieva, who won last year's Series, was playing in her first tournament since injuring her calf in the French Open. Both Sharapova and Dementieva struggled with their service games. Both ...
Dementieva Fails to Prove Semi-Tough
By Greg Couch - AOL NewsPARIS -- This goes against everything we stand for in sports. You spend your life hoping to climb the highest mountain, and when you are almost at the top, you keep climbing no matter what. Sort of an I-would-give-my-right-arm-for kind of moment. That's where Elena Dementieva, the world's fifth-ranked tennis player, was Thursday in the semifinals of the French Open. She has never won a major and time is running out. And then, after losing the first set in a tiebreaker, she broke into tears, shook her opponent's hand and retired from the match. "I just have a tear in my left calf,'' she ...
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