Chakvetadze wins Bronx challenger

Former world number 5 Anna Chakvetadze won the 100k ITF Bronx challenger today. Chakvetadze defeated 7th seed Sofia Arvidsson 4-6, 6-2, 6-2.

4th seeds Kristina Barrois and Yvonne Meusburger won the doubles title. They defeated 1st seeds Natalie Grandin and Abigail Spears 1-6, 6-4, 15-13.

Chakvetadze plays Urszula Radwanska in the first round of the U.S. Open, and she is in the same part of the draw as 8th seed Li Na and 11th seed Svetlana Kuznetsova.

Update on Fed Cup World Group II playoffs

Sweden has defeated China 3-2 in the Fed Cup World Group II playoffs. Notable--perhaps the most notable of the weekend--was Peng Shuai's 6-7, 6-1, 8-6 defeat of Sophia Arvidsson. Arvidsson served for the match twice, and held eight match points.

Sharapova wins Memphis

1st seed Maria Sharapova won the Morgan Keegan Tennis Championsips in Memphis today. Sharapova defeated former Memphis champion Sofia Arvidsson 6-2, 6-1.

Those who are keeping an eye on Sharapova's serve will be pleased to know that she had service stats of 81% and 59%, she hit four aces, and she committed only one double fault.

The doubles championship was won by 3rd seeds Vania King and Michaella Krajicek, who defeated Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Meghann Shaughnessy 7-5, 6-2.

Sharapova to play Arvidsson in Memphis final

There were seventeen breaks of serve in the Memphis semifinal played by qualifier Sofia Arvidsson and Anne Keothavong, and after almost two hours and twenty minutes, Arvidsson won the right to go to the final. She defeated Keothavong 6-4, 4-6, 6-4. Arvidsson's opponent will be top seed Maria Sharapova, who defeated 5th seed Petra Kvitova 6-4, 6-3 (there were eight breaks of serve in that one).

Oudin upset in Memphis

Former Memphis champion Sofia Arvidsson, who tends to know her way around an indoor court, upset 2nd seed Melanie Oudin today at the Regions Morgan Keegan Championships. Arvidsson won 6-1, 6-3, and advances to the Memphis semifinals.

5th seed Petra Kvitova defeated 3rd seed Kaia Kanepi 1-6, 6-3, 7-6 in the quarterfinals, and Anne Keothavong defeaed Karolina Sprem 6-4, 6-3. In the last match of the day, 1st seed Maria Sharapova defeated 8th seed Elena Baltacha 6-2, 7-5.

In the semifinals, Sharapova will play Kvitova, and Keothavong will compete against Arvidsson.

Larcher de Brito watch--into the 2nd round in Memphis

Michelle Larcher de Brito finished off Sofia Arvidsson, 6-2, 6-0, in thirty-nine minutes today in Memphis, in the first round of the Regions Morgan Keegan Championships. Qualifier Michaella Krajicek upset Alla Kudryavtseva, and Julie Coin was defeated by Pauline Parmentier.

Top qualifying seed out in first round

Sofia Arvidsson, the number 1 qualifying seed in Sydney, was defeated today in the first round of qualifying. Stephanie Foretz defeated Arvidsson 6-2, 6-2.

'Cause it makes me that much stronger...Makes me work a little bit harder...

Fatigue, illness, injury, bad patch--whatever it is, it rarely keeps Jelena Jankovic from being a fighter! Tonight was no exception. Down 1-5 in the third set against Sofia Arvidsson, Jankovic broke her opponent twice to get to 5-all. Then it went to 6-all, and Jankovic found herself down 3-6 in the tiebreak.

She then saved five match points, and at 9-10, broke Arvidsson, and won the match on her second match point.

Credit to Arvidsson, who is having an excellent 2008 season, kind of out of nowhere.

Jankovic def. Arvidsson, 6-7, 6-2, 7-6

Tennis Channel was supposed to have shown tennis for five hours tonight, but all they showed was the "live" Federer-Monfils match, and even that was a somewhat delayed broadcast.