Japanese Date Krumm upsets defending Tokyo champion Sharapova in round one
Just a day shy of her 40th birthday Kimiko Date Krumm of Japan sent Maria Sharapova packing in the first round match featuring former champions at the Toray Pan Pacific Open.
The 1995 Tokyo winner...
Maria Sharapova wins Tokyo title as Jelena Jankovic retires
Maria Sharapova claimed her first title since April 2008 when Jelena Jankovic retired during the first set of their Toray Pan Pacific Open final.
The unseeded Russian, ranked 25th in the world, was leading 5-2...
Jelena Jankovic, Maria Sharapova move into Tokyo final
Seventh seed Jelena Jankovic and unseeded Maria Sharapova will play each other in the Toray Pan Pacific Open final.
In the semifinals, Serbia’s Jankovic benefited from Li Na’s 40 errors to defeat the Chinese No.15...
Maria Shapova, Jelena Jankovic advance to Tokyo semifinals
Jelena Jankovic of Serbia and Maria Sharapova of Russia remain on course to face each other in the final of the Toray Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo.
The seventh-seeded Jankovic, the highest-ranked player left in...
Jankovic, Azarenka, Sharapova advance to Tokyo quarterfinals
Jelena Jankovic and Victoria Azarenka were the only Top 8 seeds not to have fallen in the first two rounds of the Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo and on Wednesday they went through to...
Elena Dementieva, Caroline Wozniacki upset in Tokyo second round
Now we can stop counting… Elena Dementieva of Russia and Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark have quickly joined a bunch of top players in their early Pan Pacific Open exit.
Third seed Elena Dementieva was beaten...
Dinara Safina, Venus Williams, Svetlana Kuznetsova exit Tokyo in second round
Top seed Dinara Safina, second seed Venus Williams and fifth seed Svetlana Kuznetsova all suffered upsets in the second round of the Toray Pan Pacific Open. The fact that so many of them got...
No end to Ana Ivanovic’s woes, upset in Tokyo round one
Ana Ivanovic’s slump is still strong, as she followed her first-round loss at the US Open with a first-round exit at the Toray Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo.
The Serbian world No.11 Ivanovic was buried...
Daniela Hantuchova to focus on singles after Ai Sugiyama’s retirement
Ai Sugiyama of Japan, 34, is planning to retire after the Toray Pan Pacific Open, which will leave Slovakian Daniela Hantuchova without a doubles partner.
Hantuchova addresses the issue in her Seoul blog:
We're playing our...
WTA reintroduces byes for Rome and Tokyo semifinalists
The Women's Tennis Association has agreed to bring back byes to certain tournaments in 2009 in order to give players more time to rest between certain high-intensity events.
Rome is a 56-draw tournament followed by...
