Ana Ivanovic svetlana kuznetsova

Of Serbia and was eliminated in second round last year • It is the third edition of the tournament as mixed and the Magic Box

The first rounds of each tournament are often deployed by the surprises that leave the early days. If Saturday was the resounding defeat of Svetlana Kuznetsova on Sunday eliminations are Ana Ivanovic and Aravane Rezai most striking negative note on the third day of competition at the Madrid Open Mutual.

Serbia's Ana Ivanovic continues calenadrio offering in a lime and a sand. The fifteenth seeded tournament in Madrid said goodbye to the capital for an early exit losing to American Bethanie Mattek-Sands by a score of 0-6, 6-4, 6-4 after an hour and forty-three minutes playing in a clash played at the stadium Arantxa Sanchez Vicario. The Balkans, which closed the first set with a 'donut' in his favor and came to dominate the second set to break up, collapsed and physical emotionally to an American, Mattek-Sands, every tournament is more competitive. The Yankee player will see in the next round against compatriot Vania King and Nadia Petrova.

Another has been the resounding defeat of France's Aravane Rezai, who won last year by winning the final against Venus Williams, who surprisingly fell to a player from the preliminary stage, Sweden's Sofia Arvidsson, who won the passage to the second round with a marker 6-3 overall, 3-6 and 6-4 after one hour and fifty minutes. The Nordic player will have to see their faces now with the Belarussian Victoria Azarenka.

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)

Remove serbia Ana Ivanovic WTA tournament in Montreal. Montreal, July 31 (AFP) .- The serbia Ana Ivanovic, the world number one, was eliminated from the WTA tournament in Montreal, Canada, which distributes $ 1.34 billion, after falling so surprising to the Austrian Tamira Paszek. Paszek, the world number 94, raised his level of play to eliminate the competition to Canadian Ivanovic in three sets by partial 6-2, 1-6 and 6-2.

Although the 17-year-old Austrian had a 48 per percent effective in their service and committed five double faults, showed character and thrust during the hour and 55 minutes of play to reach the quarterfinals.

Now the original Dornbirn will face in the next round before the winner of the duel that takes place at this time between the Belarussian Victoria Azarenka and French Virginie Razzano.

In other results, serbia Jelena Jankovic and Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova, second and fourth favorite, classified the quarter-finals without many complications in their respective third round of duels. Jankovic overcame the Canadian Stephanie Dubois, 6-3 and 6-2, while Kuznetsova realized the Portuguese Michelle Larcher de Brito, 7-5, 2-6 and 6-4.

In other results, French Marion Bartoli (10) dropped to sixth and planted Russian Anna Chakvetadze, 4-6, 7-5 and 7-6 (7 / 4), while Russian Dinara Safina beat Switzerland's Patty Schnyder (9), dual 6-2. Results of third round matches of the WTA tournament in Montreal, Canada:
Tamira Paszek (AUT) Ana Ivanovic (SER / 1) 6-2, 1-6 and 6-2 Jelena Jankovic (SER / 2) Stephanie Dubois (CAN) 6-3 and 6-2 Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS / 4 ) Michelle Larcher de Brito (POR) 7-5, 2-6 and 6-4 Marion Bartoli (FRA/10) Anna Chakvetadze (RUS / 6) 4-6, 7-5 and 7-6 (7 / 4 ) Dinara Safina (RUS / 7) Patty Schnyder (SUI / 9) 6-2 and 6-2 Dominika Cibulkova (SVK) Nadia Petrova (RUS/12) 7-6 (7 / 2) and 6-2.

If the defeat of Maria Sharapova produced surprise, Wimbledon did not want to deprive another incredible result. The serbia Ivanocic Ana, the world number one fell at the hands of china Jie Zheng, 133 in the world ranking.

The china tennis player Zheng Jie gave the big surprise of the day to eliminate the world's number one. Ivanovic, who had risen two points to match in the second round at the French Nathalie Dechy, again displayed far from their level and fell with the number 133 in the world by 6-1 and 6-4.

For its part, the Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova, fourth-seeded was a perfect birthday present with a comfortable victory over the Czech Barbora Strycova. Kuznetsova served 23 years with a nearly perfect match, which was imposed by a resounding 6-4 and 6-3. "I always want to win, unless your birthday is a bit bad," he said before going to celebrate in a Japanese restaurant in London with his friends.

In another - seeded, won by 7-5. In the second sleeve, Williams won a 5-0 advantage to close the match with a resounding 6-1. This is the first time that Mauresmo does not reach the fourth round of Wimbledon in his last six appearances.

Meanwhile, the Russian Anna Chakvetadze, eighth preclasificada, beat his compatriot by Evgeniya Rodina 6-4 and 6-3, while the Hungarian Agnes Szavay defeated by the Spanish Anabel Medina Garrigues 7-6 (7-5), 2 -- 6 and 6-2. Also moved disputed match on Friday, Serena Williams won the battle of former champions to overcome a 7-6 and 6-1 by Mauresmo and also agreed to the round. The American, champion at Wimbledon in 2002 and 2003, won a first set of high intensity with a game high level before closing the match with solvency in the second.

Mauresmo, champion in 2006, recovered after being 3-0 at a disadvantage at the start of the match and forced a 'tie-break', in which Williams, sixth round of the Polish Agnieszka Radwanska and Czech Nicole Vaidisova.