Jelena Jankovic of Serbia and the American Williams sisters were among Thursday's women's winners at the French Open tennis tournament in Paris. Jankovic, the fifth seed and a semifinalist each of the last two years, was a 6-1, 6-2 winner over Slovakia's Magdalena Rybarikova. Venus Willams, the third

Jill Craybas pulled off the biggest surprise on the opening day of the BNP Paribas Open Wednesday with a 6-4, 6-2 victory over Jelena Dokic. The first day of the 12-day tournament at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden featured 16 matches, none of which involved the 32 seeded players.

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A deceased and convicted Melbourne drug trafficker loaned women's tennis star Jelena Dokic $60,000 last year, the Sydney Telegraph reported Friday. The report said Dokic is accused of owing the money to John Anthony Giannarelli, who died of cancer late last year. Giannarelli's family wants more than $50,000 of her Australian Open purse, the newspaper said. Dokic allegedly turned to Giannarelli during the depths of her emotional torment in early 2007, and his friend, Ben Cousins, says he paid for Dokic and her Croatian boyfriend to live in a high-rise Melbourne apartment for months after Giannarelli became her manager. His uncle, Max Novelli, told the Telegraph Thursday that Dokic had an agreement with Giannarelli to repay him $60,000 once her international career was back on track. Johnny did a hell of a lot for her, Novelli said.

Top-seeded Serb Ana Ivanovic posted a straight-set victory Monday in the opening round of the Brisbane International tournament in Australia. Ivanovic, winner of the French Open last year, eliminated unranked Czech Petra Kvitova, 6-4, 6-2. The fourth seed, Daniela Hantuchova of Slovakia, was ousted