Topic: South Africa
Fifth seed Elena Dementieva swept into the French Open quarter-finals here on Sunday with an emphatic 6-1, 6-3 victory over South African qualifier Chanelle Scheepers. The Russian, who had struggled to complete her third-round win over Aleksandra Wozniak due to a calf ...
PARIS (Reuters) - A match-up often seen as a practice session turns deadly serious Sunday when Roger Federer plays close friend and fellow Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka for a place in the quarter-finals of the French Open. The two, who won Swiss gold ...
Russian fifth seed Elena Dementieva admits she was in so much pain during her French Open third-round win over Aleksandra Wozniak that she almost threw in the towel. Dementieva, who faces South African qualifier Chanelle Scheepers in Sunday's last 16, has been ...
Chanelle Scheepers became the first South African woman to reach the fourth round of the French Open for 13 years when she beat Uzkbekistan's Akgul Amanmuradova 6-3, 6-3 here on Friday. The 26-year-old Pretoria resident will now face either Russian fifth seed ...
South Africa's Chanelle Scheepers said she was so stunned by her breakthrough victory over world number 45 Gisela Dulko at the French Open that she didn't realise what she had achieved. Scheepers, ranked 86 places below her Argentine opponent, came from behind ...
South African number one Chanelle Scheepers reached the French Open third round by coming from behind to defeat Argentina's Gisela Dulko 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 here on Wednesday. Scheepers, 26, becomes the first South African to reach the third round at Roland Garros ...
Defending champion Svetlana Kuznetsova reeled off 11 of the last 12 games to move into the French Open second round with a 6-3, 6-1 win against Romania's Sorana Cirstea on Sunday. But 10th seeded Belarusian Victoria Azarenka, a quarter-finalist in 2009, and ...
Defending champion Svetlana Kuznetsova reeled off 11 of the last 12 games to move into the French Open second round with a 6-3, 6-1 win against Romania's Sorana Cirstea on Sunday. The 24-year-old Kuznetsova arrived in Paris having won just one claycourt ...
American tennis player Wayne Odesnik received a two-year ban on Wednesday from the sport's governing body the International Tennis Federation (ITF) for doping offences. The 24-year-old South African-born player - who reached a world best ranking of 77 last April - was ...
Former French Open champion Ana Ivanovic won for the first time since January, defeating France's Pauline Parmentier 6-4, 6-3 on Thursday to reach the third round of the WTA and ATP Miami Masters. The Serbian, who stood number one in the world ...
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