Virgine Razzano, a 24-year-old player from France ranked #33 in the world who won the Tier III Guangzhou International Women's Open last week, defeated 6-time grand slam champion and World #8 Venus Williams 4-6 7-6(7) 6-4 to win the Tier III AIG Japan Open Tennis Championships today. Venus had 3 match points at 6-3 in the second set tie-break, after coming back from being down 2 games to 5 games in the 2nd set. However, Razzano saved all three match points and at 4-4 in the 3rd set was able to break Venus and hold serve to win her second consecutive title. Venus had won her third title of the year in Korea last week.Meanwhile, Serena Williams lost 6-3 6-3 to 2007 US Open finalist Svetlana Kuznetsova in the quarterfinals of the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart. World #2 Kuznetsova lost to Tatiana Golovin 6-4 6-2 in the semifinals and World #1 Justine Henin defeated World #3 Jelena Jankovic (again!) 7-6(2) 7-5 to set up a Henin-Golovin final. Henin has now won 15 consecutive matches in a row, since her shocking loss to Marlon Bartoli in the Wimbledon semifinals.
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