"She likes to hit the ball hard into the corner. Very, very hard."--Fellow tennis player Gabriella Sabitini. Lindsay Davenport had always been a victim of high expectations. Tennis experts saw that she had the skill to be the number one player in the...

Top-ranked Maria Sharapova retired during the second set of her Pan Pacific Open semifinal against Ana Ivanovic on Saturday because of a hamstring injury.After dropping the first set 6-1, the Russian star consulted with her trainer. She won the first game of the second set...

Martina Hingis won her record fifth Pan Pacific Open title Sunday, beating 19-year-old Ana Ivanovic 6-4, 6-2. Hingis, who lost to Elena Dementieva in the final last year, relied on solid groundstrokes to beat the fifth-seeded Serb in just over an hour."It's twice as sweet...

Venus Williams will play in the Fed Cup against Belgium.U.S. Fed Cup captain Zina Garrison said Monday that Williams, who missed the Australian Open with a left wrist injury, has committed to play in the first round on April 21-22 at the Delray Beach Stadium...

Zina Garrison will stay on as the United States Fed Cup captain under a one-year contract extension, The Associated Press has learned. The U.S. Tennis Association said Tuesday that incoming president Jane Brown Grimes will announce the 2007 Fed Cup captain on Wednesday.A person who...