Wimbledon - Top-seeded Ana Ivanovic was knocked out in the third round of Wimbledon on Friday by 133rd-ranked Zheng Jie of China, extending a spate of stunning upsets at the All England Club.
Ivanovic, who took over the No 1 ranking after winning the French Open earlier this month, slumped to a 6-1, 6-4 loss to the wild-card entry and doubles specialist.
Ivanovic, who saved two match points before overcoming Nathalie Dechy in three sets on Wednesday, had no answer for the hard-hitting Zheng.
"It's a surprise for me," said the 24-year-old Zheng, who won the Wimbledon doubles title in 2006. "Thanks to Wimbledon, (which) gave me a wild card. I just tried my best and had to keep going, going."
It was the earliest exit by a women's top-seeded player at Wimbledon since Martina Hingis lost in the first round to Jelena Dokic in 2001.
Also on Friday, the last remaining American in the men's draw, Bobby Reynolds, lost to Spain's Feliciano Lopez, 6-4, 7-5, 4-6, 6-4.
Ivanovic went out a day after 2004 champion and third-seeded Maria Sharapova was ousted by 154th-ranked Alla Kudryavtseva and two-time men's runner-up Andy Roddick was bounced by Janko Tipsarevic. A day earlier, Australian Open champion and No 3-ranked Novak Djokovic fell to Marat Safin.
Ivanovic committed 17 unforced errors, converted only one of seven break-point chances and lost serve four times. She could lose the No 1 ranking depending on how far No 2 Jelena Jankovic and No 4 Svetlana Kuznetsova advance in the tournament.
The match ended with Zheng's serve hitting the service line and Ivanovic shanking her forehand return into the Court 1 stands.
"She played really well today and it was a tough match for me," Ivanovic said. "I'm disappointed with my loss but I still look at it as a learning experience.
"It was a very emotional last couple of weeks for me and it took a bit of a toll," she added. "I didn't have great preparation."
Zheng has won 11 tour doubles titles, including the 2006 Wimbledon and Australian Open championships with Yan Zi. She has captured three career singles titles, in relatively small events at Hobart in 2005 and Estoril and Stockholm in 2006.
In 2004, Zheng reached the round of 16 at the French Open to become the first Chinese woman to make the fourth round of a Grand Slam. She reached a career high singles ranking of No 27 in 2006.
Zheng will play singles and doubles for China at the Beijing Olympics in August. "I felt today the match gave me more belief for the Olympics," she said.

Wimbledon - Top-ranked Ana Ivanovic was beaten by China's Zheng Jie in the third round on Friday.
Ivanovic, coming into a major for the first time as a Grand Slam champion and with the No 1 ranking, lost 6-1 6-4 to Zheng, who had a No 133 ranking on Centre Court.
The 20-year-old Serbian player had to save two match points in her second-round win over Nathalie Dechy, but had no recovery this time against the powerful shots coming from Zheng, a former Wimbledon doubles champion.
Ivanovic went out a day after third-seeded Maria Sharapova was upset in the second round.
<LI>Meanwhile Lleyton Hewitt warmed up for a show-stopping fourth-round date with Roger Federer by hustling past Italy's Simon Bolelli 6-1 6-3 7-6.
The Australian, the only men's winner in the draw other than five-times champion Federer, barely broke sweat in the opening two sets on a humid afternoon, easily outclassing Bolelli to reach the last 16 for the fifth year running.
Coming off Court One, Hewitt immediately turned his thoughts to his next match with the Swiss world number one.
"You always want to test your game against the best players and he's owned this place for five years and I won here six years ago, so it will be a good match," said the 27-year-old, who has lost to Federer 11 times in a row since 2003.


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STOP MOANING (News 24)
London - World number one Roger Federer told the Williams sisters to stop moaning over the Wimbledon schedule.
Both four-time champion Venus and Serena, a double winner, played their fourth round matches on Court Two, the so-called 'graveyard of the seeds' while men's champion Federer and second seed Rafael Nadal played on Centre Court and Court One respectively.
"The thing is Pete (Sampras) played on Court 2 after winning seven times. Who deserves what here?," said Federer.
"It's the club who decides in the end. We're happy to be playing here. They can put us at Aorangi (the practice courts) or Roehampton (where the qualifiers are held) if they want to, but we have to accept the fact."
Five-time champion Federer, who eased into the quarter-finals with a straight sets win over Lleyton Hewitt, said he would have no problems if he was scheduled to play on Court Two.
"I wouldn't be disappointed if they put me there. More just like, 'Why can I not play on Centre Court or Court 1 because they're such nice courts?' Again, going back on Court 2, sometimes it's kind of cool. You're closer to the crowds. It's kind of a different feeling out there.
Unscathed
"I hope that day will not come for me, that I will have to play on Court 2. I understand there's a little bit of disappointment but I don't think it has anything to do with disrespect. I don't think that's what this tournament is all about."
The American sisters both emerged unscathed from their trip to the court.
Serena, who eased past compatriot Bethanie Mattek 6-3 6-3 said the snub had been particularly hard on her sister, the defending champion.
"I do think it is weird, especially for the defending female champion who has won the tournament four times," she said, before adding sarcastically: "I have only won twice - but hey, that is not so bad."
Venus moved a step closer to her fifth title by beating fast-rising Russian teenager Alisa Kleybanova 6-4 6-3 setting up a quarter-final meeting with Thailand's Tamarine Tanasugarn.
Afterwards she made it clear she had been surprised with the location for her match.
"There is not too much I am going to say about that in the press," she said frostily. "Obviously we know wherever we play we have to play well and that is pretty much all I'm going to say about that."
Despite that claim, Williams went on to agree with a suggestion that Federer or Nadal would not have to put up with similar treatment. "You said it," she said. "It is true."

.....Serena Williams

.. Raphael Nadal..Roger Federer has brushed aside Aussie dangerman Lleyton Hewitt at Wimbledon while rival Rafael Nadal overcame an injury scare to also reach the quarters ....Poland's Agnieszka Radwanska has completed the destruction of the top four seeds at Wimbledon when she beat Svetlana Kuznetsova in the fourth round
Rodger Federer...Roger Federer has shattered father-to-be Lleyton Hewitt's Wimbledon hopes with a victory that took the five-time champion into the quarter-finals.
..Australia's Lleyton Hewitt has confirmed he and his wife are expecting their second child, giving him a boost ahead of his Wimbledon showdown with Roger Federer.(Lleyton lost the match) This all taken from news 24

WIMBLEDON RESULTS- Monday 30th June 2006
X denotes seed of players
London - Wimbledon results on Monday, the seventh day of the 2008 championships at the All England Club (x denotes seeded player):


Men
4th rd
Roger Federer (SUI x1) bt Lleyton Hewitt (AUS x20) 7-6 (9/7), 6-2, 6-4
Rafael Nadal (ESP x2) bt Mikhail Youzhny (RUS x17) 6-3, 6-3, 6-1
Mario Ancic (CRO) bt Fernando Verdasco (ESP x22) 3-6, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 13-11
Feliciano Lopez (ESP x31) bt Marcos Baghdatis (CYP x10) 5-7, 6-2, 3-6, 7-6 (7/4), 8-6
Rainer Schuettler (GER) bt Janko Tipsarevic (SRB) 6-4, 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7/4)
Arnaud Clement (FRA) bt Marin Cilic (CRO) 6-3, 7-5, 6-2
Marat Safin (RUS) bt Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI x13) 6-4, 6-3, 5-7, 6-1
Women
4th rd
Venus Williams (USA x7) bt Alisa Kleybanova (RUS) 6-3, 6-4
Zheng Jie (CHN) bt Agnes Szavay (HUN x15) 6-3, 6-4
Tamarine Tanasugarn (THA) bt Jelena Jankovic (SRB x2) 6-3, 6-2
Nicole Vaidisova (CZE x18) bt Anna Chakvetadze (RUS x8) 4-6, 7-6 (7/0), 6-3
Serena Williams (USA x6) bt Bethanie Mattek (USA) 6-3, 6-3
Nadia Petrova (RUS x21) bt Alla Kudryavtseva (RUS) 6-1, 6-4
Elena Dementieva (RUS x5) bt Shahar Peer (ISR x24) 6-2, 6-1
Agnieszka Radwanska (POL x14) bt Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS x4) 6-4, 1-6, 7-5.

..Andy Murray has reached the last 16 men at Wimbledon, while No 2 seed Jelena Jankovic just managed to avoid another upset in the women's singles
Wimbledon - Britain's sole survivor Andy Murray reached the last 16 at Wimbledon on Saturday after surviving his toughest test yet against German Tommy Haas.
The 21-year-old Scot, seeded 12, came through 6-4 6-7 6-3 6-2 to move into the second week where he will face flamboyant Frenchman Richard Gasquet for a place in his first grand slam quarter-final.
Murray played sublime tennis to lead by a set and a break before Haas pounced on a temporarily lapse to level the match on a tiebreak.
Haas missed an easy volley on a break point at 1-1 in the third set when Murray was wobbling and he was made to pay in the next game when he dropped serve.
Murray seized control again and Haas hardly got a look in as the home favourite surged to victory with some dazzling tennis.
There was no slow start for Venus Williams this time.
After struggling in tight first sets in her opening two matches, the defending champion moved out quickly on Saturday and raised her game when she needed it in the second to beat Spanish qualifier Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez 6-1 7-5 and reach the fourth round at Wimbledon.
Williams served out the match at love, finishing with a 127mph delivery - the fastest recorded by a woman at Wimbledon _-for her 11th ace.
Barely tested
"Yeah, 127 is a good way to end it," she said.
The four-time champion was barely tested in the first set by the 101st-ranked left-hander. But Williams was pushed to the limit in the second when Martinez Sanchez switched to an effective serve-and-volley game.
"I was very pleased with the performance," the seventh-seeded Williams said. "Things got close in the second set. She was really playing well, and I had to come up with something more than she was giving."
Also advancing to the round of 16 was No 2-seeded Jelena Jankovic, who rallied after dropping the first set and overcame a knee injury to down 17-year-old Danish player Caroline Wozniacki 2-6 6-4 6-2 on Centre Court.
Jankovic, who had her left knee heavily strapped and hobbled through the final set, said she would have an MRI scan to assess the injury and hopes to be fit to face Tamarine Tanasugarn in the fourth round on Monday.
"It's very sore now," she said. "I hope for the best so that I will be able to play my next match."
The 25-year-old Martinez Sanchez had never won a Grand Slam singles match until this tournament and looked out of her depth in the first set against six-time major winner Williams. But she scored repeatedly with serve-and-volley winners and angled drop shots and drop volleys in the second set.
"It was a great strategy," Williams said. "In the first set it wasn't working for her from the baseline. I was impressed with the way she changed strategy and made it really competitive in the second."
Six double faults.
The Spaniard rallied from 3-1 down to go ahead 5-4 on serve. But she double-faulted on break point to give Williams a 6-5 lead. Williams finished with 33 winners, as well as 10 unforced errors and six double faults.
She had played erratically in her first two matches against modest British opponents on Centre Court, winning the first set in a tiebreaker against Naomi Cavaday and pressed to 7-5 in the first set against Anne Keothavong.
She will next face 18-year-old Russian Alisa Kleybanova, who is into the second week in her Wimbledon debut after beating Ai Sugiyama 6-4 6-4.
Jankovic is the highest-ranked player left in the women's draw after the upsets of No 1 Ana Ivanovic and No 3 Maria Sharapova. For awhile Saturday, she looked in danger of joining them to make it the first time in the Open era that the top three seeded women failed to make the fourth round at a Grand Slam.
"I was thinking maybe I'm the next one," she said.
But Jankovic bounced back to take the second set, then took an injury timeout for treatment on her left knee, which she strained when she slipped while lunging for a shot in the first set.
"I continued to play and it was getting worse and worse," she said.
Took a risk
Jankovic limped through the third set, but still dropped only two games to close out the match as Wozniacki committed unforced errors on key points. Jankovic complained that the leg strapping was too tight and had the trainer remove it after the fifth game.
"The physio said I probably strained it," Jankovic said. "She taped it but I couldn't move it - I'm not used to it. I took a risk to play without the tape, which the physio was not happy about, but I had to do what I had to do."
Other women advancing to the round of 16 Saturday were fifth-seeded Elena Dementieva, No 21 Nadia Petrova and 154th-ranked Alla Kudryavtseva, who followed her upset of former champion Marion Sharapova by beating China's Peng Shuai 6-3 1-6 6-4.
Men's winners included No 8 Richard Gasquet, Janko Tipsarevic, Arnaud Clement and Rainer Schuettler, the oldest player left in the draw at age 32.
The tournament has been jolted by a series of early-round upsets that have decimated the seeding lists.
Six of the top-10 seeded men have been knocked out so far before the fourth round: No 3 Novak Djokovic, No 4 Nikolay Davydenko, No 5 Ferrer, No 6 Andy Roddick, No 7 David Nalbandian and No 9 James Blake.
Ivanovic's loss on Friday to 133rd-ranked Zheng Jie of China means two of the top three seeded women are already gone. Sharapova, the 2004 champion, was bounced out on Thursday by Kudryavtseva.

News 24 2/7/2008
Wimbledon - The Williams sisters moved closer to another Wimbledon final on Tuesday, using their power tennis to cruise into the semi-finals in straight sets.
Defending champion and four-time winner Venus Williams beat Thailand's Tamarine Tanasugarn 6-4 6-3, and two-time champ Serena swept 19-year-old Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland 6-4 6-0.
The Williams sisters are in opposite halves of the draw and could meet in Saturday's final. The two have been twice before in the Wimbledon final, with Serena winning both in 2002 and '03.
"That would be amazing if we both were in the final," the seventh-seeded Venus said. "I have to take it one more step and keep playing power tennis."
Venus will next face No 5 Elena Dementieva, who wasted a 5-1 lead and two match points in the second set before beating fellow Russian Nadia Petrova 6-1 6-7 (6) 6-3 to reach her first Wimbledon semi-final.
Sixth-seeded Serena will play Zheng Jie, who became the first Chinese player to reach the semi-finals of a Grand Slam by beating Nicole Vaidisova 6-2 5-7 6-1. The 133rd-ranked Zheng is also the first wild-card entrant to reach the women's semis at Wimbledon and second at any Grand Slam.

Chinese sub-plot at Wimbledon (news 24) 01/07/2008
London - Chinese wildcard Zheng Jie provided an absorbing sub-plot to the Williams sister domination on quarter-final day at Wimbledon on Tuesday.
Zheng beat Czech Nicole Vaidisova 6-2 5-7 6-1 to become the first Chinese player to reach a grand slam singles semi-final and the first woman to go so far at Wimbledon after requiring a special invitation from the All England Club.
During an unpredictable tournament riddled with shocks the one constant has been the ruthless efficiency of Venus and Serena Williams and now they look odds on to contest their third Wimbledon final here on Saturday.
Venus, champion here four times and twice runner-up to her younger sister, was engaged longer than expected in beating Thai surprise Tamarine Tanasugarn 6-4 6-3 before Serena made mincemeat of Poland's Agnieszka Radwanska 6-4 6-0.
Serena will play Zheng in the semi-finals while Venus must get past fifth seed Elena Dementieva after she survived a mid-match wobble to beat fellow Russian Nadia Petrova 6-1 6-7 6-3 and reach Wimbledon's last four for the first time.
"I was like, Oops, I did it again; I'm out of the semi-finals," Dementieva, who lost to Dinara Safina in the quarter-finals at Roland Garros this year after having a match point, told reporters.
"I was so tight. I suddenly started to think about the French Open quarter-finals and it was difficult (to get that out of my head). It was so exhausting."
Dementieva threw away a 5-1 lead in the second set but instead of capitulating as she did against Safina she managed to steady her nerves and regain control.
Banana skins
Despite being the highest seed to skip past the banana skins that have tripped many of the top players, Dementieva will start as underdog against seventh seed and defending champion Venus.
The American, who like her sister has not dropped a set at this year's championships, was not at her best against Tamarine but had plenty in reserve when it was required.
Tamarine, at 31 the oldest player to reach the last 16 and the first Thai in a grand slam quarter-final, played admirably despite being outgunned by Venus and had she taken one or two more of the numerous break points her patient baseline game provided, another shock might have been possible.
"I expect when times are tough to get going, those break points you just have to play better and I'm really blessed to have a serve that gets me out of those issues," Venus told reporters, playing down a late scare when she appeared to pull up sharply after a slide.
"I'm fine. I mean, I'm walking around on two legs, doing good, so I'm not really concerned right now."
Zheng repaid the organisers gift of a wildcard into the tournament by knocking out world number one Ana Ivanovic in round three and claimed her fourth seed of the championships with a calm and controlled defeat of Vaidisova.
She appeared to be tiring in the second set as Vaidisova became more aggressive but was the more resilient player in the decider and raced to victory.
Former Wimbledon doubles champion Zheng, who missed the 2007 season with an ankle injury, turns 25 on women's finals day but with Serena Williams in a mean mood she is unlikely to be celebrating it on Centre Court.
"Serena is an outstanding player, and I haven't found any weak link about her. But as a first time semi-finalist, I would rather enjoy this than anything else," Zheng said.
Sixth seed Serena was too powerful, too consistent and too fired-up as she continued to torment the Radwanska family.
In the second round she beat Urszula Radwanska, Agnieszka's younger sister, while in the doubles she and Venus beat Agnieszka and her partner Marta Domachowska.
They may still have some work to do if Saturday is to become a family affair on Centre Court but Serena said she already had a trick up her sleeve for her sister.
"I'm going to sabotage her and eat all the breakfast," she said. "I'll eat all the Wheaties so she doesn't have any chance, if we get that far."