And after the Russian lost back-to-back French Open finals in 2008 and 2009 and also lost the 2009 Australian Open final, ...

And not against just any opponent: She eliminated former No. 1 Dinara Safina, the runner-up at the ... on trying to start a family before her husband encouraged her to rejoin the tennis tour ...

I’ll put up one each day until January 5, when the new season begins. Today, I remember Dinara Safina—again—the former No. 1 who retired this year at age 27. Dinara Safina, as I remember her ...

Kvitova, 19, won the final-set tiebreaker 7-5 when top seed Safina floated a backhand long to end the two-hour, 34-minute affair on Louis Armstrong Stadium. "Disappointing. Very disappointing ...