Jelena Jankovic was defeated by Justine Henin 36 76(4) 63 in the quarter-final of the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in 2 hours and 23 minutes. Henin extended her unbeaten run against Jelena to 10-0!

"Jelena was really aggressive today. Slowly but surely I stayed focused and fought," Henin said. "It was a long time since we had played but a lot of them have been close. I just tried to stay calm and do my job the best I could."

Jelena who was so close to win in the second set, said:

"Today was another match. I wasn't thinking about our other matches. I had the match in my hands but unfortunately it didn't go my way. As soon as you drop a little bit, she takes her opportunities and gets on top of you.

"She's playing as well as she used to, maybe better."

Dinara Safina, who was playing her first tournament after a three month injury lay-off, was defeated by Shahar Peer 63 62 in the other quarter-final of the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix.

"It was a good start. I was 3-1 up with a chance to go 4-1 up. I didn't win that game, she won some points, I went a little bit down... I haven't played many matches, that's probably the cause," Safina said. "This was my first time playing points again so to win my first match here is already not a bad result."

"At the start I couldn't find my game, but then I started using the court more," Peer said. "I had it in my mind she hadn't played for a long time, but I knew she wouldn't give it to me. She won her match yesterday so I knew I had to win the match."

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Watch Svetlana Kuznetsova, Victoria Azarenka and Caroline Wozniacki driving around the Weissach test track in the new 911 GT3 RS.

Just watch Kuzi's face at 1:05, hahaha, hilarious!!

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Watch highlights from the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix 2010 on April 30, 2010.

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After Andy Murray and Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic spent some free time to play tennis with kids in "kids Village" in Rome on April 28, 2010. Here are the photos, enjoy!






(via Italian Tennis Federation)

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Watch Rafael Nadal who discusses his straight-sets win over Stanislas Wawrinka, Fernando Verdasco who talks about his marathon win over Novak Djokovic in the Rome quarter-finals, Ernests Gulbis' interview after his quarter-final win over Feliciano Lopez and David Ferrer who discussed his quarter-final win in Rome Friday.

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Watch quarter-final action from Rome Masters, including Fernando Verdasco's marathon win over Novak Djokovic.

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Fernando Verdasco defeated Novak Djokovic 7-6(4), 3-6, 6-4 in a enthralling quarter-final match at the Internazionali BNL d’Italia and proved one more time that he is in a great form now.

This is Verdasco's third ATP World Tour semi-final in as many weeks. He reached his first ATP World Tour Masters 1000 final two weeks ago as he finished runner-up to Rafael Nadal at the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters, and last week he captured his fifth ATP World Tour title at the Barcelona Open BancSabadell (d. Soderling).

"I think if you have to look at something (that made the difference) then it was my mentality; how I was taking the match up in the important points like that tie-break in the first set and also how I felt the match in the last game because he didn't give me an easy time. So, if I need to look at something then, it is the way I controlled the situation." - said Verdasco.




Novak Djokovic, who was competing in the quarter-finals at the Foro Italico for the fourth straight year said:

"I'm happy with the way I played, so definitely the French Open is the place where I want to get a good result," said Djokovic. "Obviously I'm very disappointed to lose the match. I was very close to victory and I know that this match could have gone either way; only a couple of points decided the winner. But he won because he played well and he deserved to win."

Verdasco will now face compatriot David Ferrer, who beat Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-4 6-1.

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Saturday, May 1, 2010

Center Court (from 14.30hrs)
1. Singles Final: Iveta Benesova vs. Simona Halep
2. Doubles Final: Benesova/Medina Garrigues vs. Hradecka/Voracova

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CENTER COURT start 1:30 pm
13] D Ferrer (ESP) vs [6] F Verdasco (ESP)

Not Before 4:00 PM
E Gulbis (LAT) vs [3] R Nadal (ESP)
[7] L Kubot (POL) / O Marach (AUT) vs [2] B Bryan (USA) / M Bryan (USA)


PIETRANGELI start 12:00 noon
P Cuevas (URU) / J Monaco (ARG) vs J Isner (USA) / S Querrey (USA)

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Saturday, May 1, 2010

Center Court (from 14.00hrs)
1. Justine Henin vs. Shahar Peer
2. Govortsova/Rosolska vs. Peschke/Srebotnik
3. Anna Lapushchenkova vs. Samantha Stosur (NB 18.30hrs)
4. Dulko/Pennetta vs. Black/Peer

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Friday, April 30, 2010

Singles - Semifinals
(7) Iveta Benesova (CZE) d. Alizé Cornet (FRA) 63 46 75
(Q) Simona Halep (ROU) d. Renata Voracova (CZE) 75 64

Doubles - Semifinals
(1) Benesova/Medina Garrigues (CZE/ESP) d. Coin/Cornet (FRA/FRA) 64 75
(2) Hradecka/Voracova (CZE/CZE) d. Manasieva/Zakopalova (RUS/CZE) 75 61

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Friday, April 30, 2010

Singles - Quarterfinals
Shahar Peer (ISR) d. (2) Dinara Safina (RUS) 63 62
(WC) Justine Henin (BEL) d. (4) Jelena Jankovic (SRB) 36 76(4) 63
(7/WC) Samantha Stosur (AUS) d. Li Na (CHN) 63 63
(Q) Anna Lapushchenkova d. (RUS) Lucie Safarova (CZE) 76(1) 16 61

Doubles - Quarterfinals
(2) Peschke/Srebotnik (CZE/SLO) d. Borwell/Kops-Jones (GBR/USA) 62 64
(3) Black/Peer (ZIM/ISR) d. Dulgheru/Szavay (ROU/HUN) 36 64 107

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Friday, 30 April, 2010

Singles - Quarter-finals
[6] F Verdasco (ESP) d [2] N Djokovic (SRB) 76(4) 36 64
[3] R Nadal (ESP) d S Wawrinka (SUI) 64 61
[13] D Ferrer (ESP) d [7] J Tsonga (FRA) 64 61
E Gulbis (LAT) d F Lopez (ESP) 76(6) 61

Doubles - Quarter-finals
[2] B Bryan (USA) / M Bryan (USA) d N Almagro (ESP) / M Granollers (ESP) 63 36 10-6
[7] L Kubot (POL) / O Marach (AUT) d [3] L Dlouhy (CZE) / L Paes (IND) 63 64
J Isner (USA) / S Querrey (USA) d [WC] Y Allegro (SUI) / R Federer (SUI) 64 64
P Cuevas (URU) / J Monaco (ARG) d [WC] S Bolelli (ITA) / P Starace (ITA) 64 64

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