Rafael Nadal easily avoided the embarrassment of a back-to-back first round exits at the Australian Open on Tuesday, ramping up his serve and rattling off 39 winners to beat Florian Mayer 6-3, 6-4, 6-1 on Rod Laver Arena.
Mhieslhouto (left) of Nagaland and Khamgailung of Manipur, among the ball kids selected for the Australian Open '09, at a function in New Delhi on Monday.
Images from the matches played on Day 8 at the Australian Open at Melbourne Park on Tuesday
Melbourne may not continue to host the Australian Grand Prix after the current contract runs out in 2014, the Premier of the state of Victoria John Brumby said on Wednesday.
Serena Williams ended the fairytale run of Mirjana Lucic-Baroni at the Australian Open on Thursday with a crushing 6-2, 6-1 win that set up a final against her sister Venus.
His 11th Grand Slam title has only whetted Leander Paes' appetite for success and the Indian ace on Sunday said he remains a "student of tennis" who draws inspiration from Roger Federer and strives for perfection.
Mike and Bob Bryan defended their Australian Open doubles title on Saturday with a 6-3, 6-7, 6-3 win over Canada's Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia.
Images from day 12 of the 2010 Australian Open Grand Slam tennis tournament in Melbourne, on Friday.
Roger Federer was at his imperious best on Friday, demolishing world number 10 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-2, 6-3, 6-2 to advance to the Australian Open final. The world number one will meet Britain's Andy Murray in Sunday's final in a rematch of the 2008 US Open final, which Federer won.
American Frances Tiafoe celebrated his 21st birthday by stunning Bulgaria's Grigor Dimitrov 7-5, 7-6(6), 6-7(1), 7-5 in the fourth round of the Australian Open on Sunday.
Rafael Nadal is the overwhelming favourite to win Friday semi-final and advance to his first final at Melbourne Park but Fernando Verdasco presents some unusual problems for him.
Serena Williams continued her love affair with Melbourne by easing to an emphatic 6-3, 6-4 victory over an in-form Elena Dementieva to advance to a fourth Australian Open final in Melbourne on Thursday. The 27-year-old Williams will meet another Russian in the title match, taking on third seed Dinara Safina, who overpowered compatriot Vera Zvonareva 6-3, 7-6.
Elena Dementieva downplayed any suggestions she was the favourite for the Australian Open title after she romped into the quarter-finals with a 6-2 6-2 demolition of Slovakia's Dominika Cibulkova on Monday. The victory, in just 76 minutes, was the 14th in a row for the fourth-seeded Russian, who won the Auckland and Sydney tournaments before arriving at Melbourne Park. She is unbeaten in 2009 and plays Spain's unseeded Carla Suarez Navarro in the last eight.
Andy Murray, Serena Williams and Rafael Nadal led a charge into the fourth round of the Australian Open on Saturday as the focus switched back to tennis and away from ethnic clashes which had marred the "Happy Slam."
Champion Novak Djokovic wasted little time in advancing to the third round of the Australian Open on Wednesday then just as effortlessy dismissed the pre-tournament favourite status of Britain's Andy Murray.
Roger Federer completed his preparations for a tilt at Pete Sampras's record of 14 grand slam titles with an easy 6-1, 6-3 victory over Swiss compatriot Stanislas Wawrinka at the Kooyong Classic on Saturday.
Federer is tied with Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic in the race to be the most successful men's singles Grand Slam champion of all time and Australian Open organisers would have been hoping to have all three at Melbourne Park.
Venus Williams cantered into the Australian Open third round and second seed Svetlana Kuznetsova also came through.
Serena Williams and Justine Henin fought off nerves and tricky conditions in their first-round matches at the Australian Open.
In the email, the WTA said it wanted to "clear up false and misleading information" about the conditions players would face at the Australian Open.
Novak Djokovic and Rogerer Federer loom over Melbourne Park for the year's opening Grand Slam as favourites for the Australian Open as questions remain as to whether one of Generation Next could finally end their stranglehold.
Ash Barty carries a nation's hopes of ending the long wait for a home champion into the Australian Open
Halep has struggled for form and fitness since her first-round defeat at the US Open last August and came to Australia on a five-match losing streak and without a coach after long-serving Darren Cahill left for "family reasons".
Players in the men's draw at the Australian Open will be allowed 10-minute breaks during matches as part of an updated extreme heat policy at the year's first Grand Slam.
The Scottish broadcaster said Murray was self-isolating and still had hopes of competing in the Australian Open next month.
Serbia's Novak Djokovic will launch his Australian Open defence at next year's Brisbane International, a new event that has been added to the tennis calendar.
The 31-year-old Spaniard has not played since he withdrew from the season-ending World Tour Finals in London in November with a knee injury. He had already withdrawn from an exhibition tournament in Abu Dhabi that starts later on Thursday.
While Federer and Nadal will look to reignite the flair and fight they showed to reach last year's final, 2018 could have a different script at play.
Kyrgios and Kokkinakis, nicknamed the 'Special Ks' as juniors, claimed their first major title
The former world number one was especially proud of the way she has managed to mould her mindset to deal with tough losses.
Nadal fought from two sets down to defeat Medvedev in a five-set thriller at Rod Laver Arena.
Barty says she hopes to earn a more coveted medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Russian Sharapova pulled out because of a hamstring injury while Serena is still down with flu.
Briton Andy Murray regained his winning form as he eased past Croatia's Ivan Ljubicic 6-3 6-2 in the first round of the World Indoor Tournament on Tuesday.
Serena Williams thrashed Russia's Dinara Safina 6-0, 6-3 on Saturday to win the Australian Open title and reclaim the world number one ranking. The American raced to victory in just 59 minutes to capture her fourth singles title at Melbourne Park, after her previous wins in 2003, 2005 and 2007, and her 10th Grand Slam overall.
World number one Rafael Nadal survived the longest match in Australian Open history to reach his first Melbourne Park final and earn a chance to deny rival Roger Federer a record-equalling 14th grand slam singles crown.
Dinara Safina charged into the semi-finals of the Australian Open on Tuesday with a 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 win over a brave Jelena Dokic. Dokic's emotionally-charged run at Melbourne Park had captured the imagination of her adopted homeland but her luck finally ran out against the in-form Safina.
The Serb said he threw in the towel in the quarter-final against Andy Roddick because of 'cramping and soreness in the whole body'.
A clinical Milos Raonic stormed past Gael Monfils 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 to reach the semi-finals of the Australian Open for the first time.
Jelena Dokic, riding high on a wave of public sympathy and support, upset Russian 17th seed Anna Chakvetadze 6-4, 6-7, 6-3 on Wednesday to reach the third round of the Australian Open. The Serbian-born Australian registered her first win over a player ranked in the top-20 for five years and her first victory on Melbourne Park's centre court for a decade. Dokic's brave win was charged with a combination of raw emotion and pain.
