Black Tennis Pros

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Earlier today American Serena Williams advanced to the quarterfinals of the Kremlin Cup by beating Tatiana Perebiynis of the Ukraine 7-5, 6-4.

Perebiynis saved three match points before Williams won with a powerful backhand.

"I don't I think I've played up to my standards today but I was glad to get through," Williams said.

After a rain delay prevented American Venus Williams from completing her 6-2, 4-1 first round match against Denmark's Caroline Wozniacki, Venus came out today rockin' an outfit from her 'EleVen' line and wrapped up that match 6-2, 6-2.

A little later in the day Venus played her second round match against the home player Tamarine Tanasugarn of Bangkok, Thailand, and quickly dismissed her 6-4, 6-1 in a 74 minute match.

"She played aggressive and went for her shots trying to do the best for the fans. But I t take control of the match and I'm happy that I closed her out,"ried to said Williams.

Frenchwoman Camille Pin is up next, "guard your grill Camille, Venus is on a mission!"

The French doubles team of Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Sebastien Grojean are making noise at the Kremlin Cup. The duo defeated the team of Daniel Nestor of Canada and Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia 5-7, 6-4, 11-9. They moved into the quarterfinals where they will meet the Russian team of Marat Safin and Dmitry Tursunov.

American Venus Williams had her foot on the throat of the game of Denmark's Caroline Wozniacki. At 6-2, 4-1 play was suspended due to rain. The two will continue their match on Thursday.

The Swedes may have treated James Blake like a play cousin during Davis Cup, but Blake eased his pain a bit today. At the end of a serious challenge from Swede Jonas Bjorkman, Blake came out the victor 6-7(3), 7-5, 6-3. Now I must tell you that in the second set at 5-5, I almost had a heart attack. I sometimes think that Blake is on a personal mission to give me a coronary!.

Blake is the reigning champion at the Stockholm Open. He is also attempting to become the first man to win this title three straight times. He currently sits level with Thomas Enqvist (1995-1996) and Boris Becker (1990-1991) as the last two men to claim the title twice.

Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga fell to a man seeking to defend his title, Russian Nikolay Davydenko. The top seed has been paying attention to Tsonga, and it paid off. Davydenko took Tsongo out 7-6(0), 6-2.

After trading breaks early in the first set, the defending champion won the tiebreaker without his French opponent scoring a point. Fourth-ranked Davydenko twice broke Tsonga in the second set to close the indoor carpet match.

"I was preparing myself for his style of playing, however, he was not playing this way, making life much easier for me today."




Tsonga And Grosjean Prevail In Doubles

Tsonga may have been bounced out of the singles, but he and fellow Frenchman Sebastien Grosjean defeated the German team of Philipp Kohlschreiber and Michael Berrer 6-3, 5-7, 10-4.