Lindsay Davenport News

Miffed at a miss, Mardy Fish held the racket right in front of his face and spit through the strings.

AIMING FOR TOP SPOT: As Roger Federer eased along, Jelena Jankovic and Elena Dementieva, both aiming for the No.

Pacific Coast News Playing tennis has been Lindsay Davenport 's life for as long as she can remember, but now that she is mother to son Jagger Jonathan , 14 months, it puts a whole new spin on her career.

Lindsay Davenport "felt it was a little bit tough for me to get much rhythm" as she moved on to the third round in straight sets, 7-5, 6-3, experiencing some difficulty from Alisa Kleybanova along the way.

Lindsay Davenport, the Dara Torres of tennis - " minus about a decade - " rolled through her first-round match, 6-4, 6-2, over Canada's Aleksandra Wozniak.

Venus Williams in action at Flushing Meadows on Saturday. New York: Wimbledon champion Venus Williams marched into the fourth round of the US Open with a commanding 6-2, 6-1 victory over Ukrainian 27th seed ...

The second-seeded Jelena Jankovic advanced to the fourth round of the US Open thanks to a 7-5 7-5 victory over China's Zheng Jie on Friday.

Notable winners: Men ; Women Friday's featured matches 11 a.m.: No. 2 Jelena Jankovic vs.

Maybe today, or the next day, or the week after, Lindsay Davenport will decide if Friday night's match was her last.

FLUSHING MEADOWS, N.Y., Aug. 25 -- Lindsay Davenport skipped the French Open, then withdrew from Wimbledon just hours before her scheduled second-round match. The pain in her injured right knee had become too much to play through, halting the momentum she had gained by playing well after her comeback.

The situation got even worse when it came time to begin the women's singles tournament at the Olympics -- an event that was one of the reasons she returned from semi-retirement last September -- and Davenport was forced to bow out.

Dodgers' slump continues...Bosox blast Yanks...Indians stay hot Washington The Dodgers' 5-4 loss to lowly Washington was their season-high sixth straight defeat overall and eighth straight on the road.

Qualifier Julie Coin scored the biggest upset in US Open women's open era history on Thursday, sending world No 1 and top seed Ana Ivanovic crashing out in the second round.

Outside Ashe Stadium, a life-sized, cardboard cutout of Lindsay Davenport stands tall, hawking a skin-gel rejuvenator, "Juvederm." During this Flushing fortnight, Davenport is looking for a rejuvenator for her ...

He will go down in tennis-dad history as an absolutely insane madman, which is to say Richard Williams always will be remembered as a genius.

NEW YORK -- Late in his mostly blah summer, Andy Roddick on Wednesday night suddenly looked so clear-headed, so sublime and so dominant in the U.S. Open first round that at 40-love in the final game his ...

Canadian Frank Dancevic was at a loss to explain his opening-round exit from the U.S. Open on Wednesday.

Jelena Jankovic's leg cramped so badly, she couldn't take another step. Luckily for the No.

Russians Elena Dementieva and Svetlana Kuznetsova and American Lindsay Davenport were among the winners Monday on the first day of the 2008 U.S. Open.

Chris Evert hugged Maria Sharapova and Martina Navratilova, while Ivan Lendl and Boris Becker exchanged pleasantries just yards away.

Olympic champions Rafael Nadal and Elena Dementieva showed their mettle at the U.S. Open, overcoming early challenges to win Monday in the start of what's expected to be a wide-open tournament.