After her successful run to the fourth round of the US Open, Laura Robson continued to make her mark, as she had expected from the Asian tournaments which suit her game, and became the first British woman in 22 years to reach a WTA final (a period longer than Robson's lifetime), but in the title match at the Guangzhou Open, the 18-year-old fell short to Hsieh Su-Wei 6-3 5-7 6-4.

Robson was expecting a big opponnent in the 26-year-old Hsieh, who had beaten her in their only previous meeting and whose shots she finds hard to read. In the final, it looked like the Brit would lose in straight sets, but she saved five match points and even went 3-0 up in the third set, before losing to the Chinese Taipei's player. Read more »

Flavia Pennetta, the first Italian Top 10 player and the first one from her country to rank No.1 in either singles or doubles, has undergone a successful right wrist surgery and is now taking her time to rest before resuming hitting in November and preparing for a comeback next season.

The injury struck in April, forced Pennetta to skip Stuttgart and Madrid and retire from her Rome quarterfinal against Serena Williams. Then she played Roland Garros, 's-Hertogenbosch, Wimbledon and the Olympics, before retiring in her Montreal opener at 1-4 in the first set and missing the subsequent tournaments, including the US Open where she reached all her three Grand Slam quarterfinals.

However, no one is irreplaceable. There was an all-Italian quarterfinal at the US Open between good friends and doubles partners Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci and Italy got its first US Open semifinalist in the Open Era. (source: WTA Tour, photo: Tennis Buzz)

Caroline Wozniacki is showing improved form this week as top seed in Seoul, reaching the semifinals with three straight-set wins, the last one, 6-2 6-3, coming in the quarters against seventh seed Klara Zakopalova, who stopped her five-match losing streak by beating Garbine Muguruza in the first round and then built on it by taking out Magdalena Rybarikova.

This is Wozniacki's first time in three appearances at the Korea Open that she's past the first round. Truth be told, those two appearances were five and six years ago, when the Dane was nowhere near her current top status. Read more »

Top seed Caroline Wozniacki breezed past qualifier Caroline Garcia 6-2 6-3 to reach the quarterfinals of the KDB Korea Open in Seoul. Her previous victory at the tournament was also confident, 6-1 6-2 against Arantxa Rus, which is a nice recovery for the Dane after her first-round loss at the US Open. Next for Wozniacki is seventh seed Klara Zakopalova, who beat Magdalena Rybarikova 6-1 7-6(6).

Maria Kirilenko, the 2008 Seoul champion and second seed this year, retired yesterday at 1-all in the first set against Korean wildcard Lee So-Ra due to a left back injury. Fourth seed Nadia Petrova also fell victim to a back injury, withdrawing today before her second-round encounter with the newlywed Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez. The Spaniard is defending her Seoul title this week, but last time she entered the tournament ranked 36th, while now she’s No.93 – at the end of 2011 she had a knee surgery and this season she joined the circuit in May due to right thigh injuries. (via WTA Tour, photo: sr_cranks)

I've been writing about women's tennis for five and a half years and this is by far the busiest period regarding wedding/hookup/breakup news. In just a period of a week we had the wedding of Iveta Benesova and Jurgen Melzer, announcement of Justine Henin's pregnancy and spottings of Serena and Venus Williams with new boyfriends. Also, just three weeks ago we learned about Maria Sharapova's called-off engagement to Sasha Vujacic, and now we're hearing that Jelena Jankovic ended her four-year relationship with Mladjan Janovic for pretty much the same reasons as Sharapova's – career obligations drew them apart.

Jankovic and the handsome Montenegrin waterpolo player met at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, more precisely in McDonald's, and have since been in a stable relationship, at least according to the information that reached the media, but the fact that Jankovic is traveling the world playing tennis and Janovic is usually in Italy where he plays for Savona has finally taken its toll. The split happened several months ago and it was amicable.

According to a Serbian source, Mladjan spent his summer in Kotor, Montenegro, where Jelena used to be a regular, even before she met him, but this year Jelena didn't visit the seaside town and Mladjan was seen in the arms of another woman.

Related articles:

• November 2011: Jelena Jankovic and Mladjan Janovic still enjoying relationship bliss
• January 2009: Jelena Jankovic and her boyfriend kissing and partying for New Year
• January 2009: JJ and Mladjan celebrating New Year together
• October 2008: JJ and Mladjan seen in Belgrade
• September 2008: Jankovic has a new boyfriend