ISTANBUL - With the year-end top ranking out of reach, Serena Williams will settle for the title at the WTA Championships.In her first match since winning the U.S. Open in September, Williams defeated Angelique Kerber 6-4, 6-1...

LONDON - Sony Ericsson is ending its sponsorship of the WTA tour at the end of the 2012 season.Sony Ericsson became the...company's name was dropped from the tour's title in 2011.The WTA said in a statement Friday that "2012 will be the eighth and...

...wearing a small black logo promoting the WTA Tour and its chief sponsor, software company...multimillion-dollar contract, said a Corel WTA Tour patch would violate its ban on uniform...tour chairman Bartlett McGuire said the WTA was sticking to its rules. "It's a major...

...season-ending tour championships, the WTA Tour ruled Friday. A three-member panel...two weeks ago in Munich, Germany. The WTA said Williams remains eligible to collect...one, undertaken by credible experts," WTA Tour chief executive Bart McGuire said.

...changes in the Age Eligibility Rule announced Thursday by the Corel WTA Tour, the 16-year-old Kournikova will be allowed to play...Anne Person Worcester, chief executive officer of the Corel WTA Tour, said. Both Kournikova of Russia and Lucic of Croatia...

DOHA, Qatar - Venus Williams rallied to win the WTA's Sony Ericsson Championships for the first time, defeating...illness. "It was missing, this one," Williams said of the WTA Championships title. She has won 39 tour singles titles, including...

...Williams rallied from a set and two service breaks down to beat French Open champion Anastasia Myskina 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 in the WTA Championships on Wednesday night. U.S. Open winner Svetlana Kuznetsova avoided a second-set collapse and held on to defeat...

...down and a 3-2 deficit in the third to beat an injured Jennifer Capriati 4-6, 6-3, 6-0 in Sunday's semifinals of the WTA Championships. Clijsters won the final 10 games in advancing to Monday's night final for the second straight year. The winner...

...early to prepare for her upcoming wedding after a 6-2, 6-1 loss to Kim Clijsters in an all-Belgian quarterfinal at the WTA Championships on Friday. No. 2 Venus Williams met sixth-seeded Monica Seles in an all-American matchup Friday night. The...

...title of his career.? In Stuttgart, Germany, Maria Sharapova beat Li Na 6-4, 6-3 on Sunday to successfully defend her WTA Porsche Grand Prix title in a final between the last two French Open champions.? In Savannah, Ga., the Georgia College...