Elena Vesnina

NEW YORK - Serbia's Jelena Jankovic is out of the US Open after a 6-1, 6-4 defeat to Carla Suarez Navarro in the second round of the tournament.

Navarro won after just over an hour of play and is now 4-4 head-to-head against Jankovic.

The Spaniard will next face Elena Vesnina of Russia.

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Russia's hopes of winning a place in the Fed Cup final suffered a setback as world number two Maria Sharapova dropped out through injury just days ahead of the semi-final with Germany.
      

Bulgaria's top female tennis player Tsvetana Pironkova won in the first round of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championship on Sunday.

Pironkova defeated the Czech Klara Koukalova with 6:3, 4:6, 6:3 in a game that lasted just over two hours, daily Dnevnik reports.

The Bulgarian recorded a fifth victory in seven encounters with her Czech opponent

Romanian tennis player Irina Begu qualified, as a first, in the third round of the Australian Open, the first Grand Slam tournament of the year, on Wednesday, in Melbourne, after defeating Katerina Siniakova (the Czech Republic), by 7-5, 6-4.

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NEW YORK - Serbian female tennis player Aleksandra Krunic defeated the double Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic in the Saturday match, 6-4, 6-4, and thus qualified for the U.S. Open third round.

ROME - Serbia's Jelena Jankovic and Russia's Alisa Kleybanova failed to qualify for the qurterfinals in the WTA doubles event in Rome after losing to the Russian pair Ekaterina Makarova / Elena Vesnina in straight sets 7-5, 6-4 late on Thursday.

ROME - Serbia's Jelena Jankovic and Russia's Alisa Kleybanova are off to a successful start in the doubles competition of the Internazionali BNL d'Italia in Rome, defeating on Tuesday the Russian-Australian pairing of Svetlana Kuznetsova/Samantha Stosur in straight sets 7-5, 6-4.

DUBAI - Serbia's Ana Ivanovic had a successful opener at the WTA tournament in Dubai on Tuesday notching a 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (6) win against Germany's Angelique Kerber.

Ivanovic is next to take on Venus Williams of the U.S., who scored a 6-3, 6-2 victory against Russia's Elena Vesnina.

Earlier on Tuesday, Serbia's Jelena Jankovic outlasted Ukraine's Maryna Zanevska 6-4, 6-3.