Samantha Stosur secured a Fed Cup World Group II playoff win for Australia over Switzerland on Sunday when she beat Stefanie Voegele 7-6 (2), 5-7, 6-3 in the reverse singles Sunday. The win gave Australia, playing at home on grass courts, a 3-0 lead and a place in the World Group II in 2010. Australia held a 2-0 lead after the opening singles matches on Saturday, when Stosur beat Amra Sadikovic and...

Australia could face a one-year suspension from the Davis Cup after refusing to travel to India in May for the tennis competition, citing "high-risk" security concerns. Tennis Australia said Saturday there is an "unacceptable level of risk" in Chennai, India, and had appealed for a change of venue after the International Tennis Federation said last week that the southern Indian city was approved...

Jelena Jankovic and Ana Ivanovic won their singles matches Saturday to give Serbia a 2-0 lead over Spain in a Fed Cup World Group playoff series. Jankovic beat Maria-Jose Martinez Sanchez 6-3, 6-4, and Ivanovic rallied to beat Anabel Medina Garrigues 3-6, 6-1, 6-2 to leave Serbia one win away from reaching the World Group for the first time.

Rookie Alexa Glatch upset Iveta Benesova 6-1, 6-2 Saturday to give the United States a 1-1 tie with the Czech Republic after the opening singles of the Fed Cup semifinals. Petra Kvitova defeated American Bethanie Mattek-Sands 6-3, 7-6 (2) in the first match on the indoor hard court at Rondo Arena. Glatch, playing her debut match for the U.S.

Flavia Pennetta and Francesca Schiavone won their singles matches Saturday to give Italy a 2-0 lead against Russia in the Fed Cup semifinals. Pennetta beat Anna Chakvetadze 6-4, 6-0, and Schiavone rallied to defeat Svetlana Kuznetsova 1-6, 6-2, 6-3 on the clay courts at Nova Yardinia tennis club. Pennetta broke twice in the opening set, and lost only nine points in the second to close out the match...

Tennis Australia says it will not allow its team to travel to India for a scheduled Davis Cup match in May due to security concerns, risking a one-year suspension from the competition and a $100,000 fine. The International Tennis Federation on Friday rejected Australia's appeal against playing in India and upheld the decision to hold the match in Chennai as originally planned from May 8-10.

Andy Roddick will play in the Wimbledon warm-up tournament at Queen's Club, where he has won four titles. The American won the Queen's Club grass-court title from 2003-05 and again in 2007. This year, he will face a challenge from defending champion Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray. Roddick has twice followed up wins at Queen's Club with an appearance in the Wimbledon final, losing in 2004 and '05 to...

Irving V. Glick, the U.S. Open tennis tournament doctor for more than 25 years, has died after a long illness. He was 92. Glick died Friday at his home in Great Neck, N.Y., Haggard Funeral Home in Jefferson said. He was buried Wednesday in the East Texas town of Jefferson, where his wife, Tommie, was born and kept close ties, the Longview News-Journal reported.

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Gael Monfils could miss next month's French Open because of a left knee injury. The Frenchman, who reached the semifinals at Roland Garros last year, told sports daily L'Equipe on Tuesday that he underwent MRI exams and that the results were "not good." He is set to have further scans in two weeks. "Frankly, it's really hard to explain.

Monica Seles figures she bought every self-help book on the market. She felt sure that if she just found the right diet, if she just hired the right trainer, she'd lose weight and reclaim her tennis career. Instead Seles would gain it back as quickly as she dropped it, sneaking off on late-night supermarket runs and bingeing on junk food in secret.

Dinara Safina was left off the Russian team that will face Italy in the Fed Cup semifinals on the same day she took over as the world's top-ranked women's tennis player. Russia will be represented by Vera Zvonareva, Svetlana Kuznetsova, Nadia Petrova and Anna Chakvetadze, the International Tennis Federation announced Monday.

Dinara Safina officially took over the top ranking on the WTA Tour on Monday, making her and older sibling Marat Safin the only brother-sister duo to have been No. 1 in professional tennis. Safina, who has yet to win a Grand Slam title but twice reached a major final, is the 19th woman to top the rankings since they were introduced in 1975.