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Serena Jameka Williams (born September 26, 1981) is an American professional tennis player who is currently ranked World No. 1 in both singles and doubles. The Women’s Tennis Association has ranked her World No. 1 in singles on five separate occasions. She regained this ranking for the fifth time on November 2, 2009. She became [...]

Mardy Fish. Bearing the brunt of a lot of puns in yesterday’s papers, American Fish finished off Andy Murray in a third set tie-break, 7-2, in the resumption of their third round match. Dusting off his shoes and changing his top, the American returned an hour and a bit later to face Michael Llodra for [...]

The No. 1-ranked Williams had surgery last week in Los Angeles to repair deep cuts on her right foot. She tweeted Tuesday about spending a “5th day in bed. arghhhh” The American was hurt while she was in Munich this month — shortly after winning her fourth Wimbledon singles title on July 3, and before [...]

Rank Player Country Earnings Points 1 Rafael Nadal …. Spain $5,506,278 10745 2 Novak Djokovic …. Serbia $1,507,962 6905 3 Roger Federer …. Switzerland $2,887,135 6885 4 Andy Murray …. Scotland $1,696,422 5155 5 Robin Soderling …. Sweden $1,920,028 4835 6 Nikolay Davydenko …. Russia $542,278 4740 7 Juan Martin del Potro …. Argentina -* [...]

Murray Starts 2008 in style, archiving the first title of the year in Doha but the Briton’s hopes are soon dashed at the Australian Open as he runs into Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the first round in Melbourne.

Rafael Nadal might want to skip the trip to Argentina to be a cheerleader for Spain at the Davis Cup final. Emilio Sanchez Vicario, captain of the Spanish team, says his country will stand a better chance if the world’s No. 1 player — injured and unable to compete — is not courtside for the [...]

In the end, even the world’s most indestructible tennis player proved mortal in the face of an unbending, unending calendar. Worn down from his most successful season ever, Rafael Nadal withdrew on Monday from the season-ending Tennis Masters Cup Shanghai. There had been immediate speculation that Nadal would skip Shanghai to prepare himself for the [...]

There were gigantic names like Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. But no myth could stop Britain’s Andy Murray to win his second Madrid Masters title in a row. The Briton, 21, followed up his semi-final win over Roger Federer with a 6-4 7-6 (8-6) victory. Simon struggled physically, having needed final set tie-breaks in his [...]

The world number two rallied from 5-3 down in the second set tie-break to win on his return from a five-week break. “I’m happy to be back on tour,” said the Swiss. “It was always going to be tough against Radek and he played a great second set.” Elsewhere, American qualifier Robby Ginepri battled to [...]

Britain’s Andy Murray progressed to the third round of the Madrid Masters after his Italian opponent Simone Bolelli retired hurt early in the second set. Bolelli, who had lost the first set 6-0 in under 30 minutes, appeared to sustain a shoulder injury when he attempted a smash shot to hold at 0-1.