Defending champ Oudin out at Aegon Classic

TennisVroue-enkelspel EERSTE RONDE: Ajla Tomljanovic (Kro) k Melanie Oudin (VSA) 6-3, 6-1; Jamie Hampton (VSA) k Su-Wei Hsieh (10, Taiw) 6-2, 6-3; Tsvetana Pironkova (Bulg) k Lauren Davis (VSA) 6-2, 6-1.Mansenkelspel EERSTE RONDE: Jan Hernych ...

Birmingham, England Rising American Jamie Hampton was an opening-round upset winner, while defending champion Melanie Oudin was sent packing Monday at the $235,000 Aegon Classic, a grass-court Wimbledon tune-up. The world No. 42 Hampton subdued ...

Zheng Jie of China hits a return to Melanie Oudin of the US during their women's singles match at the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris, May 30, 2013. [Photo/Agencies] PARIS - Zheng Jie of China becomes the only ...

Success on the Grand Slam stage, and everything that went with it, probably came too quickly for Melanie Oudin, a surprise quarterfinalist at the 2009 U.S. Open at age 17. She realizes that now. She accepts it. And she's ready to add to her resume — ...

PARIS -- Bethanie Mattek-Sands skipped backward across the clay, her wagging tongue framed by a smile as she savored yet another surprising victory for American tennis at the French Open. More from ESPN.com Despite a trio of rain delays and odds ...

The top two seeds at the key Wimbledon warm-up event at Edgbaston experienced contrasting fortunes at the WTA grasscourt tournament on Wednesday. Top seed Kirsten Flipkens of Belgium had to battle all the way to go through to the third round in ...

Second seed Ekaterina Makarova bowed out of the WTA warm-up event at Birmingham. Makarova lost a three-set epic 7-6 (8/6), 3-6, 6-0 to New Zealand's Marina Erakovic. Top seed Kirsten Flipkens of Belgium had to battle all the way to go through to ...

HALLE (Germany), June 11: Roger Federer is hoping to kick-start his season on the Halle grass this week as he goes in search of a morale-boosting first tournament success this season. The 31-year-old top seed has not won a single trophy this season ...

Hsieh Su-wei of Taiwan and Japan's Ayumi Morita both slumped to surprise first-round straight-set defeats at the WTA event in Birmingham on Monday. Neither 10th seed Hsieh nor Morita, seeded 11, put up much resistance as the former went down 6-2, ...