Former world number one Lindsay Davenport swept to a 6-2 6-2 victory over fifth seed Eleni Daniilidou of Greece at the Commonwealth Bank Tennis Classic in Bali on Tuesday.

The 31-year-old Davenport has returned to the singles after being away for almost a year after giving birth to son Jagger in June. Before this singles match, the American had played doubles at the Pilot Pen tournament in August, and is also playing doubles in Bali this week.

In her career, Lindsay Davenport has earned $21 million in prize money. She has three Grand Slam singles titles to her credit, as well as an Olympic gold medal.

As for the tournament in Bali, she was a champion in 2005. (via BBC)

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It was a big surprise to see Maria Sharapova at the US Open 2007 men’s final sitting in Novak Djokovic’s box, and clearly rooting for him.

Everyone was perplexed, but luckily, we didn’t have to wait long for an explanation from the Serb himself: “No, let’s not go too much with Maria. It’s just a friendship we have. It was nice for her to come and support me. As well, Robert, he was yesterday on the match, and today. I mean, it’s amazing feeling to see such successful people, you know, in my box supporting me, playing with me I can say, living every emotional moment. It’s great. It’s great.” Read more »

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In their first tournament together, Dinara Safina of Russia and Nathalie Dechy of France won the US Open women's doubles title on Sunday. The seventh-seeded duo beat Taiwanese fifth seeds Chan Yung-Jan and Chuang Chia-Jung 6-4 6-2.

However, Dechy said she and Safina had not yet talked about playing together in the future.

"We have time," she said. "But definitely, the way we played, it means we can do some great things also in the future."

Dechy also won last year's doubles championship at Flushing Meadows, but with Vera Zvonareva as her partner - and Safina was the runner-up, pairing with Katarina Srebotnik. (via Fox Sports, photo via BBC)

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Maria Sharapova attended the 2007 US Open men’s final on Sunday, and was sitting in the box of Novak Djokovic! Wow, it seems that she’s not at all angry at Nole for all the hilarious impersonations he has done of her. Additionally, not only was she sitting in the Serb’s box, but she was eagerly rooting for him. By the way, you can see legendary actor Robert DeNiro in the picture too.

At this year’s US Open, Maria Sharapova suffered a surprising loss to Agnieszka Radwanska in the third round.

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According to a Serbian tabloid newspaper called Svet, tennis beauty Ana Ivanovic and Spanish world number eight Tommy Robredo are in love.

Everything started at this year’s Australian Open. Tommy Robredo is a close friend of Novak Djokovic, who is, as we all know, Ana’s very good childhood friend. Robredo started hitting on Ana, but she didn’t take him seriously since he’s famous for being a joker. But now, at the US Open, the Serbian beauty has succumbed to the charm of the Spaniard realizing that his love signals are for real. In addition, the 19-year-old Ivanovic has her mother’s support, which was concluded because of the fact that Robredo was watching Ana’s match against Vera Dushevina while sitting in the VIP, not far from Ana’s mother. Read more »

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