Ajla Tomljanović

PERTH - The Serbia national tennis team is out of the United Cup after Natalija Stevanovic lost 6-1, 6-1 to Australia's Ajla Tomljanovic in Perth on Wednesday.

Winning after only 65 minutes of play, Tomljanovic handed Australia a decisive 2-0 lead in the quarter-final tie against Serbia.

Stevanovic was a stand-in for Olga Danilovic.

Serena Williams has given birth to a baby girl, she posted on Aug. 22 on Instagram, almost exactly a year after her last match as a tennis star.

Adira River Ohanian is the second child — and second daughter — for the 41-year-old Williams and her husband, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian. Their first, Olympia, was born in 2017.

Maria Sakkari of Greece upset third-seeded Venus Williams 6-4, 7-6 (2) on Friday night in the quarterfinals of the Mubadala Silicon Valley Classic.

Sakkari came back from 0-3 in the first set and 3-5 in the second set.

She advanced to face American Danielle Collins - with the reaching her first WTA final.

Romanian tennis player Ana Bogdan qualified for the semifinals of the WTA tournament in Monterrey, Mexico, with total prizes worth 226750 USD, on Friday, after she defeated US player Danielle Collins, 6-2, 6-4.

Bogdan (25 years, WTA's 90th), 6th seed, won in one hour and 18 minutes against a better ranked player, (24 years, WTA's 53rd), a recent semifinalist in Miami.

Bulgaria's tennis player Tsvetana Pironkova started her participation in the China Open tennis tournament with a victory.

She beat the American Nicole Gibbs by 4:6, 6:2, 7:5, and qualified for the next round. There the Bulgarian tennis player will face Croatian Ajla Tomljanović.