Eugenie Bouchard

Romanian tennis player Simona Halep secured a sensational victory against world's No. 1 female tennis player, American Serena Williams 6-0, 6-2, in her second match at the WTA Finals in Singapore on Wednesday.

Halep, #4 in the world, scored the biggest win of her career in only 65 minutes, after losing the three matches previously played against Serena Williams.

Bulgarian tennis player Tsvetana Pironkova defeated Austrian Lisa-Maria Moser with 6: 2, 6: 3 in a match of the first round of the tennis tournament in Linz, with a prize pool of USD 250,000.

As expected, Pironkova outplayed Moser, which is currently number 395 in the world rankings, Bulgaria's Nova TV reports.

BELGRADE - Serbia's tennis player Ana Ivanovic is through to the third round of the WTA tournament in Beijing beating Romina Oprandi of Switzerland 6-4, 6-2 on Tuesday.

Ivanovic is next to take on German Sabine Lisicki, who bested Canadian Eugenie Bouchard 6-2, 6-4.

AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi

NEW YORK - Serbian qualifier Aleksandra Krunic lost her fourth round match at the US Open to Victoria Azarenka of Belarus in three sets (4-6, 6-4, 6-4) early on Tuesday CET.

In the match that lasted two hours and 18 minutes, the 21-year-old Serbian showed flashes of brilliance before struggling to keep her focus in the final set, which cost her a place in the quarter-finals.

CINCINNATI - Serbia's Jelena Jankovic and Ana Ivanovic have reached the third round of the USD 2,567,300 Cincinnati WTA Masters 1000 tournament.

In the second round, Jankovic beat Annika Beck of Germany 6-1, 7-6 (7-0) early Thursday, while Ivanovic defeated Christina McHale 6-4, 6-0.

Romania's female tennis player Simona Halep, WTA's no. 3, has failed to advance to the women's single final of the Wimbledon tournament as she lost on Thursday to Canada's Eugenie Bouchard, seed no. 13, 7-6 (5), 6-2 in one hour and 34 minutes.

For her qualification to the semifinals, she will receive 780 WTA points and 440,000 British pounds. AGERPRES

Maria Sharapova had given warning that she was ready for a three hour French Open final - and she was true to her word, stopping the clock at three hours two minutes to lift the trophy.

CHARLESTON - Serbia's female tennis player Jelena Jankovic failed to qualify for the Charleston WTA semifinal as she lost the quarterfinal match to Canada's Eugenie Bouchard late on Friday, 2-1 (6-3, 4-6, 6-3).

This was the third match between the 8th and 20th player on the WTA list and the second victory for the young Canadian player.

Photo Tanjug, T. Valic (archive photo)

CHARLESTON - Serbia's Jelena Jankovic reached the quarter-finals of the WTA tennis tournament in Charleston by beating Ajla Tomljanovic of Croatia 7-5, 6-1 late Thursday.

Jankovic's next opponent will be Eugenie Bouchard of Canada, who beat Venus Williams of the United States 2-1.

Bulgarian tennis star Grigor Dimitrov played a demonstration tennis show in the Pacific Ocean with Canada's Eugenie Bouchard.

The two played on a makeshift court 14x5 meters, placed in the water off the coast of Acapulco, Mexico.