Diatchenko, who has a career-high ranking of World No. 71 on the WTA circuit, was traveling to Corsica to contest an ITF tournament via Cairo-Warsaw-Nice. She was, however, asked to forfeit her flight ...

As Serena Williams embarked on what could be the most epic tournament challenge of her career on Monday, her first match against Vitalia Diatchenko was anything but. Diatchenko showed up for their ...

Under the bright lights of opening night at the U.S. Open, Vitalia Diatchenko took the Arthur Ashe Stadium court with hot pink shoes that might as well have been a pair of cinder blocks. She seemed ...

LONDON — These are not the sorts of matches Maria Sharapova is supposed to lose, letting lead after lead slip away Tuesday against a qualifier ranked 132nd — and in the first round of Wimbledon, no ...

MARIA SHARAPOVA’S dream return to Wimbledon turned into a nightmare with humiliating defeat in the Russian derby. Vitalia Diatchenko’s first ever Grand Slam win on grass came against the one-time ...