Elena Rybakina put on a brilliant performance to defeat favourite Aryna Sabalenka 64, 46, 64 and lift her first Australian Open trophy.
Jannik Sinner was in ominous form on the Rod Laver Arena court he has ruled for two years before the match was cut short.
Madison Keys fought off a late challenge from fellow American Hailey Baptiste to book her spot in the French Open quarter-finals with a 6-3, 7-5 victory at Roland Garros on Monday.
List of Wimbledon women's singles champions after Iga Swiatek beat Amanda Anisimova in the final on Saturday:
Aryna Sabalenka will battle American 19th seed Madison Keys in the final on Saturday looking to become the first woman since Martina Hingis from 1997-99 to win the Australian Open title three times in a row.
Aryna Sabalenka beat China's Zheng Qinwen 6-3 6-2 to retain the Australian Open women's singles title on Saturday.
Former world number one Lindsay Davenport has given birth to a baby girl, her agent said on Sunday.
Spaniards Rafael Nadal and Garbine Muguruza were named as the International Tennis Federation (ITF) world champions on Friday - the first time in 19 years the awards have gone to players from the same country.
Roger Federer and former tennis greats Pete Sampras, Martina Navratilova and Steffi Graf will play in exhibition matches on Friday to raise money for victims of the Haiti earthquake.
Former world number one Martina Hingis said on Tuesday she may make a second return to the women's tour, this time on the doubles circuit.
Former US Open winners Marat Safin, Svetlana Kuznetsova and Lindsay Davenport skidded out of the Grand Slam on Friday.
Former champion Lindsay Davenport, who has been struggling with a right knee injury, pulled out of Wimbledon on Thursday.
Triple Grand Slam winner Lindsay Davenport is pregnant with her second child and has pulled out of next month's Australian Open. The 32-year-old former world number one will be off the tour indefinitely.
A display of raw desire over a decade ago from sister Serena inspired Venus Williams to ascend the summit of the women's game but there will be no room for sentiment when the siblings meet for the fourth time in a Wimbledon final on Saturday.
Champion Venus Williams and second seed Rafael Nadal survived a few anxious moments to reach the third round of Wimbledon. Williams, seeking a fifth singles title at the All England Club, had to draw on all her big-match experience to repel world number 92 Anne Keothavong 7-5, 6-2 while Nadal also endured some first-set jitters before toppling rising Latvian Ernests Gulbis 5-7, 6-2, 7-6, 6-3.
Top seed Maria Sharapova reached the Amelia Island championships final after Lindsay Davenport withdrew due to illness on Saturday. Sharapova's opponent will be unseeded Slovakian Dominika Cibulkova, who reached her first WTA Tour final when she beat France's Alize Cornet 6-2, 2-6, 6-4.
Top-seeded Maria Sharapova advanced to the semi-finals of the Amelia Island championships after a 6-7, 6-3, 6-2 victory over Ukraine's Alona Bondarenko. The Australian Open champion will meet former world No 1 Lindsay Davenport. The American beat Hungary's Agnes Szavay 6-4 7-6, while Slovakia's Dominika Cibulkova will play Alize Cornet in the other semi-final. Cornet beat Virginie Razzano 6-4, 6-2 while Cibulkova beat France's Amelie Mauresmo 6-1, 7-6.
Lindsay Davenport was one of seven seeds to advance but four went out, including number three Daniela Hantuchova, fifth-seeded Patty Schnyder and Austrian Sybille Bammer, in the second round of the Amelia Island Championships.
Former world number one Lindsay Davenport claimed her 55th career title by cruising to a 6-2, 6-1 victory over teenager Olga Govortsova of Belarus in the Memphis Championship on Saturday. The 31-year-old fourth seed needed just 60 minutes to beat the fifth-seeded Govortsova in their first career meeting.
Sania Mirza will take on Venus Williams in the opening singles match at the Watson Water Champions Challenge.
The 18-year-old tennis star showcased her own brand of perfume, line of watches on a promotional tour to Japan
The victory helped the Russian secure the eighth and final berth in the WTA's Tour Championships.
Reader Ruchi Damani sent us a picture of Davenport from Los Angeles.
Reader Ruchi Damani sent us a picture of Davenport from Los Angeles.
Top seed Amelie Mauresmo and third seed Maria Sharapova also marched on with straight-sets victories at the US Open.\n
World number one Amelie Mauresmo lost 6-4, 7-5 to defending champion Lindsay Davenport in the New Haven quarter-finals.
Former American World No 1 Lindsay Davenport, a winner of three Grand Slam singles titles, headlined the list of nominees up for induction into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
Former world number one Lindsay Davenport has pulled out of the French Open starting on Sunday because of personal reasons, organisers said on Tuesday. The 31-year-old American, who returned to the court last September after an 11-month absence to have a baby, lies 26th in the WTA rankings.
The American has been out of action since March with a shoulder problem.\n
Lindsay Davenport revived memories of when she was the game's top-ranked player by crushing Ana Ivanovic 6-4, 6-2 in Miami.
Serbians Jelena Jankovic and Ana Ivanovic registered easy victories to advance to the fourth round of the Pacific Life Open. Third-seeded Jankovic shrugged off gusting winds to sweep aside Ai Sugiyama of Japan 6-1, 6-1, while top seed Ana Ivanovic, the world number two, also progressed with great ease, dispatching Italy's Tathiana Garbin 6-3, 6-0.
Serena Williams' career has been so astonishing that it could fuel umpteen movies
Lindsay Davenport swept aside Danish teenager Caroline Wozniacki 6-0, 6-2 in the Memphis quarter-finals.
Ashley Harkleroad sealed victory for the United States over Germany in their world group first-round tie with a 6-4, 7-5 defeat of teenager Sabine Lisicki.
The Indian ace dropped two places to be ranked 34th in the WTA rankings
Martina Hingis of Switzerland climbed 232 places to number 117 after reaching the quarter-finals of the Australian Open.
Russian Maria Sharapova produced a scintillating display to end the run of comeback mum Lindsay Davenport at the Australian Open on Wednesday, hammering the 2000 champion 6-1, 6-3 in the second round.
The former world number one beat Aravane Rezai of France 6-2, 6-2 in the final of the Auckland Classic.
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