Fourth-seeded Hungarian Agnes Szavay beat Tour veteran and top seed Patty Schnyder 2-6 6-4 6-2 to win the GDF SUEZ Grand Prix in Budapest.

Szavay is now a three-time singles titlist, with her previous two titles coming in 2007. Schnyder, whose best recent result has been a semifinal showing at Madrid, hasn’t managed to win her 12th career title in her 25th Tour final.

World No.37 Szavay, who was once ranked 13th, is working her way back to the top. In addition to winning the Budapest title, this year Szavay scored Top 10 wins over Ana Ivanovic in Miami, Victoria Azarenka in Madrid and Venus Williams at Roland Garros. (photo: Ralf Reinecke)

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Third seed Venus Williams saved a match point against Lucie Safarova in the second round, but today the American succumbed to Agnes Szavay’s first match point to lose in the third round of Roland Garros third time in a row.

Szavay, who was winless in the first two months of the season, upset the world No.3 Williams with an impressive score of 6-0 6-4. A bagel! Wow! We can now officially say that Szavay, once a rapidly rising tennis star, is back where she should be.

Szavay, the 29th seed, scored her seventh Top 10 win defeating a player she lost to in three sets in the quarterfinals of Acapulco in February.

The Hungarian's next opponent will be 20th seed Dominika Cibulkova, who defeated Gisela Dulko 6-4 6-2 in the third round.

As we’ve already posted, holder Ana Ivanovic went safely through to the fourth round, while 16-year-old Portuguese wunderkind Michelle Larcher de Brito didn’t manage to scream her way into the fourth round and fell to Aravane Rezai 7-6 (3) 6-2 after an interesting match. (photo: Ralf Reinecke)

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Women’s tennis stars Agnes Szavay, Dominika Cibulkova, and Caroline Wozniacki modeled new Bluetooth watches that can be used to control a mobile phone. The watches were unveiled on Wednesday by Sony Ericsson. Read more »

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Agnes Szavay, seeded second at the Nordea Nordic Light Open in Stockholm, was defeated 6-4 7-6 by last-year’s finalist Vera Dushevina in the second round of the Tier IV tournament.

Szavay broke early in both sets, but couldn't capitalize. In the first set she was leading 5-4 and was serving for the set, but made two double-faults and two forehand misses. Eventually, Dushevina entered the quarterfinals by winning a close tiebreaker against Szavay.

World No.14 Szavay made it big last year, but this season hasn’t been so bright for the Hungarian. We’re waiting for her to rise again and reach the very top. (source: CBS, photo: Getty Images)

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Defending champion Ana Ivanovic of Serbia finished her quarterfinal match against Hungarian Agnes Szavay with a victory and in that way reached the final four of the Qatar Telecom German Open where she'll play Elena Dementieva.

Ivanovic and Szavay started their match yesterday, but it was called off at one-set all due to bad light. Today, Ivanovic wasted little time in taking the third set and the final score was 3-6 6-4 6-3.

Seed No.2 Ivanovic and seed No.7 Demetieva will play the semifinal later today. The Russian has won all three of their previous meetings, including a defeat three months ago in the Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships, but they have never played each other on clay. Ivanovic needs to reach the final to hold on to her number two ranking otherwise Russian former number one Maria Sharapova will overtake her.

In the other semifinal, Russian Dinara Safina, who sent home Justine Henin and Serena Williams, plays Viktoria Azarenka of Belarus. (via Reuters, photo: Getty Images)

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