Elena Dementieva News

Svetlana Kuznetsova beat Elena Dementieva 7-5, 6-3 in an all-Russian match at the WTA Championships on Wednesday. The seventh-ranked Dementieva has now lost two matches after Tuesday's defeat to U.S. Open champion Maria Sharapova and has little chance of reaching the semifinals for the first time since 2000. Later, Sharapova played two-time champion Kim Clijsters of Belgium and opening day winner Nadia Petrova of Russia can inflict a second loss ...

Third-seeded Elena Dementieva of Russia overcame cramps and unforced errors to beat Katarina Srebotnik of Slovenia 4-6, 7-5, 7-5 and reach the quarter-finals of the Porsche Grand Prix on Wednesday. Also gaining the quarter-finals was second-seeded Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova, the former U.S. Open champion who swept past German wild-card Martina Muller 6-1, 6-4. In first-round matches, Iveta Benesova of the Czech Republic, who lost in qualifying but replaced an injured ...

Third-seeded Elena Dementieva overcame cramps, errors and a tough opponent Wednesday to beat Slovenia's Katarina Srebotnik 4-6, 7-5, 7-5 and reach the quarter-finals of the Porsche Grand Prix. Dementieva , a semifinalist at the tournament last year, had a bye into the second round. The Russian raised her record to 6-0 against Srebotnik. In the first round, Tsvetana Pironkova of Bulgaria beat Karolina Sprem of Croatia 6-1, 6-4 in a ...

Jelena Jankovic lost so many matches in a row this year, she lost count. But she'd taken enough stats classes in college to figure this: It was probably time to quit tennis and go back to school in Belgrade. On Tuesday, Jankovic graduated _ to her first Grand Slam semifinal, that is _ by taking away No. 4 Elena Dementieva's serve and coasting 6-2, 6-1 at the U.S. Open. ``I ...

By Stephen Wilson WIMBLEDON, England (AP) _ For the first time in nearly a century, no Americans will play in the Wimbledon quarter-finals. The last U.S. player left in either the men's or women's draw _ Shenay Perry _ lost 6-2, 6-0 Monday to seventh-seeded Elena Dementieva. The 62nd-ranked Perry was gone in 54 minutes. She dropped 10 ...

By Jim Armstrong TOKYO (AP) _ Martina Hingis missed a chance for her first title in her comeback, falling 6-2, 6-0 to Russia's Elena Dementieva on Sunday in the Pan Pacific Open. The second-seeded Dementieva overpowered Hingis in the championship match at Tokyo's Metropolitan Gymnasium to win her first Tier 1 WTA Tour singles title. Hingis, who ...