Ana Ivanovic elena dementieva

Venus Williams Vera Zvonareva AND ARE A STEP IN THE SEMIFINALS

Vera Zvonareva and Venus Williams reached her second victory in the WTA Tour Championship being played in Doha (Qatar) to be imposed on Ana Ivanovic and Elena Dementieva respectively, while Serena Williams made his debut in the tournament 'masterpieces' with victory over Elena Dementieva .

Vera Zvonareva, eighth favorite, was imposed to Ana Ivanovic, head of the fourth installment of the tournament, a marker 6-3 overall, 6-7 (5) and 6-4 after two and a half hours of play. After this match, the Russian has two victories and two defeats Serbian, both framed in the White Group.

The first set was well matched, but it was Zvonareva who was more blunt to the rest, from where he managed two breaks. The Russian was very safe and firm in the bottom of the track and Ana Ivanovic erred in not forced certain moments that caused you to lose the first race. Belgrade had the opportunity to close the second set with 5-3 in favor, service, and squandered two balls from Sept. 5-4 with the rest, but the incombustible Zvonareva resisted. He was unable to do the same in the tie-break, where Ivanovic managed to equalize the match and virtually take the third set.

The clash was the third manga
Ivanovic was on deposit reserve and had no gasoline for much more. Still, fell on the track. Zvonareva reached For more INRIA, the Serb had to be attended by medical services, and the same thing happened on the first day due to lower tension, the result of the temperature and humidity suffered in Doha.

Beyond unravel, Ivanovic pulled caste to remain in the party. He left the second Sept. motivated and it was she who led the domain, building on the first ball before the break. He changed tactics, climbed over the network and the results were positive. Of the early break that offered him a partial 3-0 in their favor. The Serbian always been reversed, tried to react, even had a ball break, but not the Zvonareva took advantage and marked distances. The Russian was able to close the match with a 5-3, and service, but Ivanovic had not said the last word. Profiting forces managed to break the service weakness and equalize the contest. An oasis in the desert, then forced an error and not a double failure to Ivanovic, 'gave' the match to Zvonareva to below.

After this victory, Zvonareva leading time of the White Group with two wins, four sets in favor and one against. The Russian will play the first place group with Jelena Jankovic, who plays tomorrow before Svetlana Kuznetsova. For his part, Ivanovic was eliminated by the struggle to count their final two matches in four sets by defeats against and only one in favor.

As extradeportivo memo, outlining the presence of Spanish Fernando Verdasco in the stands of 'Khalifa International Tennis Complex' in Doha, cheering on her friend Ana Ivanovic. Viewed Apparently, it was not the talisman of Belgrade.

The tennis player Ana Ivanovic serbia continues another week, at the head of the WTA world rankings, with a slight advantage over his compatriot Jelena Jankovic, and the emerging threat of Russian tennis players, which Cope six of the ten top ranking .

The income Ivanovic does not reach the hundred points, just before the beginning of the last Grand Slam of the season, the U.S. Open to be held in New York, and that seems more open than ever.



Jankovic continues as number two in the world, while Serena Williams is third, and precedes the Russian legion, and that six players from that country are within the top ten in the world ranking.

Among the top twenty positions, stresses the arrival of the young Danish Caroline Wozniacki, who imposed after New Haven-which won the end to the Russian Anna Chakvetadze got his second title of summer school and was among the 20 best.

Also, Anabel Medina Garrigues Spanish remains the best placed in the ranking, vigesimosexto to occupy the post, while Carla Suarez (51), Maria Jose Martinez (79) struggling to get into the top 50, while Nuria Llagostera ( 93) and Lourdes Dominguez (96) are intended to ensure its position among the hundred best.

The World Rankings WTA

1. (1) Ana Ivanovic (SRB) 3,612 points.

2. (2) Jelena Jankovic (SRB) 3,515.

3. (4) Serena Williams (USA) 3,341.

4. (3) Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS) 3,181.

5. (6) Maria Sharapova (RUS) 3,131.

6. (5) Elena Dementieva (RUS) 3,070.

7. (7) Dinara Safina (RUS) 3,047.

8. (8) Venus Williams (USA) 2,586.

9. (11) Anna Chakvetadze (RUS) 2,230.

10. (9) Vera Zvonareva (RUS) 2,117.

11. (10) Agnieszka Radwanska (POL) 2,076.

12. (12) Daniela Hantuchova (SVK) 1,847.

13. (13) Marion Bartoli (FRA) 1,635.

14. (15) Victoria Azarenka (BLR) 1,593.

15. (16) Patty Schnyder (SUI) 1,542.

16. (14) Agnes Szavay (HUN) 1,489.

17. (18) Alize Cornet (FRA) 1,415.

18. (22) Caroline Wozniacki (DIN) 1,403.

19. (17) Flavia Pennetta (ITA) 1,335.

20. (19) Dominika Cibulkova (SVK) 1,202.

Nadal Ivanovic and the head of the U.S. Open series in 2008

The Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal and serbia Ana Ivanovic premieres in a Grand Slam tournament of their respective terms of world number one, to be located on Tuesday as early favorites of individual Open table tennis United States.



According to the list released by the U.S. Tennis Federation (USTA), Nadal, newly crowned Olympic champion in Beijing, heads a select field that includes 10 Champions Grand Slams, including the former number one of ATP, Swiss Roger Federer, second-seeded in New York.

The U.S. Open, the last of the four biggest tournaments of the season, will be played from August 25 to September 7 in the courts of Flushing Meadows in New York.

Nadal, aged 22, was released on Monday in Firstly the ATP ranking, displacing Federer, who defended the position in the course of 237 consecutive weeks.

The Mallorcan tennis player has won eight of the last ten tournaments he has played, including two Grand Slam: Roland Garros and Wimbledon.

In Flushing Meadows will seek his ninth title of the year and 31 of his career in a tournament on fast tracks which so far has been very elusive.

The Spanish attempts to become the first man in the same year won Roland Garros, Wimbledon and U.S. Open, since the legendary Rod Laver do so in 1969.

Behind Nadal and Federer were located on Serbian Novak Djokovic (N.3), the Spanish David Ferrer (N.4), Russian Nikolay Davydenko (N.5), Britain's Andy Murray (n.6), the Argentinian David Nalbandian (N.7), Americans Andy Roddick (N.8) and James Blake (N.8), and Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka (N.10).

Nalbandián is the best Latino ranked among the 32 seeded men's table, and that includes the Chilean Fernando Gonzalez (n.11) and the surprising Argentine Juan Martin Del Potro (n.17), winner of four successive tournaments this year.

The serbia Ivanovic, 20 years and who won his first Grand Slam title this season in the French Open, ha ido rising as the foam and will be seeking its third parchment of 2008.

Behind her compatriot Ivanovic were seeded Jelena Jankovic (N.2), Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova (N.3), American Serena Williams (N.4), the twice U.S. Open champion and Russian Elena Dementieva (N.5), individual gold medal in the Olympic in Beijing.
The relationship of the 10 first planted in each branch is:

-- Women:
1. Ana Ivanovic (SRB)
2. Jelena Jankovic (SRB)
3. Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS)
4. Serena Williams (USA)
5. Elena Dementieva (RUS)
6. Dinara Safina (RUS) 7. Venus Williams (USA)
8. Vera Zvonareva (RUS)
9. Agnieszka Radwanska (POL)
10. Anna Chakvetadze (RUS)


-- Men:
1. Rafael Nadal (ESP)
2. Roger Federer (SUI)
3. Novak Djokovic (SRB)
4. David Ferrer (ESP)
5. Nikolay Davydenko (RUS)
6. Andy Murray (GBR)
7. David Nalbandian (ARG)
8. Andy Roddick (USA)
9. James Blake (USA)
10. Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI)