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Vera Zvonareva and Maria Sharapova will face each other in an all-Russian final at the Qatar Total Open in Doha on Sunday. Unseeded Zvonareva reached her second final of the year with a 3-6 6-3 6-3 win over China's Na Li, while Sharapova avenged her tough 2007 US Open loss to Agnieszka Radwanska with a 6-4 6-3 victory over the Polish teenager.
To win the semifinal match against China's Na Li, world No.27 Zvonareva battled back from a break down in both the second and third sets. Zvonareva...
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World No.5 Maria Sharapova needed three sets to beat fellow Russian Vera Zvonareva 6-1, 2-6, 6-0 for the Qatar Total Open title, but the important thing is she won and kept her perfect season intact as she extended her match record this year to 14-0.
This is Sharapova’s second title at Doha, previously she won the tournament in 2005. Also, it’s her 18th career title and second of the year following her triumph at the Australian Open last month.
The fourth-seeded Sharapova quickly took the...
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Australian Open champion Maria Sharapova maintained her perfect start to the season beating holder Daniela Hantuchova 7-6 6-1 to advance into the Pacific Life Open semifinals where she’ll meet fellow Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova.
Fourth-seeded Sharapova, champion at Indian Wells in 2006, stormed back from 5-2 down in the first set and forced a tie-break which she won 7-2. In the second set, Sharapova broke fifth-seeded Hantuchova in the second and sixth games to secure her 18th successive win...
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Top seed Vera Zvonareva has won the ECM Prague Open in straight sets. Zvonareva defeated 3rd seed Victoria Azarenka 7-6 6-2. The win was Zvonareva’s 6th career title. "It was a tough match," Zvonareva said afterwards. "She is a tough young player and it was really close, especially the first set. We both had our chances in that set but I was able to pull it out. It felt great to get through such a tough match." "It always looks easier from the scoreboard; on the court I try to give it 100...
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Top seed Ana Ivanovic defeated Vera Zvonareva 6-1 6-4 to reach the last four of the Pacific Life Open and join Maria Sharapova and Svetlana Kuznetsova there.
Playing her fourth quarterfinal in five tournaments this year, world No.2 Ivanovic broke twelfth-seeded Zvonareva four times and lost only one of her own service games. In the Indian Wells quarterfinal the Serb produced one of her best ever first serve percentages of 73, and powerful groundstrokes enabled her to defeat world No.21...
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Australian Samantha Stosur upset third seed Vera Zvonareva 6-3 6-2 in the second round of the Stanford Classic in California on Friday .
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By Matthew Cronin STANFORD, Calif., July 17 (Reuters) - Australian Samantha Stosur upset third seed Vera Zvonareva 6-3 6-2 in the second round of the ...
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Third-seeded Vera Zvonareva was upset by Australian Samantha Stosur Thursday in the second round at the $600,000 Bank of the West Classic tennis event.
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The evergreen Tamarine Tanasugarn shocked 13th seed Vera Zvonareva to progress to the third round.
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