(CNN) -- Samantha Stosur stopped Caroline Wozniacki from clinching the year-end women's No. 1 tennis ranking with a shock 6-4 6-3 victory at the WTA Championships in Qatar on Wednesday night.

The Australian romped to her second straight victory in the Maroon Group, following her revenge win over French Open champion Francesca Schiavone on Tuesday.

The Roland Garros runner-up's kick serve was a potent weapon against Wozniacki, with the triumph giving the 26-year-old every chance of reaching the semifinals ahead of her final group match against Russia's Elena Dementieva on Thursday.

It was her second victory over a top-ranked player this year, having beaten Serena Williams on the way to reaching the final in Paris.

The fifth seed fired 26 winners to Wozniacki's 14, and could afford to serve two double-faults in the deciding game before the Dane returned a backhand long on her first match-point.

Wozniacki, who thrashed seventh seed Dementieva on Tuesday, will next take on Italy's Schiavone on Thursday.

Kim Clijsters, who won the $4.5 million season-ending event in 2002 and 2003, earlier triumphed in her opening White Group match 6-2 6-3 against fellow former No. 1 Jelena Jankovic despite serving 10 double-faults.

The Belgian, returning to action after having a mole cut off her foot, broke Jankovic to love in the first game of the match and then again in the seventh.

The three-time U.S. Open champion was less impressive in the second set but had enough to see off the Serbian, who is struggling with illness in the oppressive heat in Doha. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What kind of win did Stosur get against Schiavone?
2. True or False: Stosur played against Wozniacki on Friday morning.
3. When did they play each other?
4. How old is Stosur?
5. Was her win in Qatar expected?
6. True or False: Serena Williams beat Stosur.
7. How much money did Clijsters win?
8. When?
9. Where is Clijsters from?
10. What did she have removed?
11. Where is Jankovic from?
12. Is she in good health?
13. Why?
14. Did Wozniacki reach the women's top rank?
15. In what game did she lose her chance at it?
16. What is Schiavone champion of?
17. Who was Stosur's final group match against?
18. True or False: Dementieva is from Sweden.
19. What country, then?
Answer: 1. Revenge win
2. False
3. Wednesday night
4. 26-year-old
5. No, it was a shock
6. False
7. $4.5 million
8. 2002
9. Belgian
10. A mole which was cut off her foot
11. Serbia
12. No, she is struggling with illness
13. Due to the oppressive heat in Doha.
14. No
15. 6-4 6-3 defeat in the WTA Championships in Qatar on Wednesday night.
16. The French Open
17. Elena Dementieva
18. False
19. Russia

(EW.com) -- Since everything about "Les Miserables" is fortissimo including but not limited to its unabashed pursuit of awards that are shiny or globular or both you have perhaps already heard a little about the movie now storming the Bastille of your wallet.

You may already know that to make his movie adaptation of the internationally popular theatrical musical conjured from the 19th-century political novel by Victor Hugo, director Tom Hooper ("The King's Speech") bade his actors sing live during filming. You probably already know that Anne Hathaway, as the wretched single mother-turned-prostitute Fantine, is reputedly a formidable Oscar favorite for her sobbing and warbling and haircutting-in-real-time.

You've learned, from posters and trailers, that Hugh Jackman, as former convict Jean Valjean, looks impressively stricken and that Russell Crowe, as implacable police inspector Javert, looks disconcertingly dyspeptic.

What's left to learn is this: "Les Miserables" provides compelling reasons for Crowe to be peeved, beginning with the humiliation of having to sing Broadway-style, when it clearly is so not his thing, and ending with the Cap'n Crunch wardrobe into which the gentleman is packed. (O, for Crowe's costumed glory days in "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World!")

Jackman has a right to be cranky too, although he's too much of a trouper to show it as he overemotes on demand and sings of finding God after he steals a pair of candlesticks from a nice priest. (Long story.) Hathaway looks happy enough channeling Liza Minnelli for her tremulous rendition of the Susan Boyle-appropriated anthem ''I Dreamed a Dream,'' but that's no doubt because she knows that soon after the song, she's pretty much done for the night. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who wrote the political novel the movie is based off of?
2. Who is the director?
3. Who was the single mother that starred in the movie?
4. Who played the police investigator?
5. Who played the former convict?
6. What did he sing about finding?
7. What did he steal?
8. From who?
9. What anthem did Hathaway sing?
10. Who did Hathaway channel?
Answer:
1. Victor Hugo
2. Tom Hooper
3. Anne Hathaway
4. Russell Crowe
5. Hugh Jackman
6. God
7. a pair of candlesticks
8. a nice priest
9. I Dreamed a Dream
10. Liza Minnelli