NOCAK Djokovic will strive to show that his recent case of indigestion at the Australian Open was just a case of bad luck, with the Serb world number two returning to action as top seed at the Rotterdam Open starting here on Monday.
HINGIS COMEBACK!SORTA! - Like a cancer gnawing at her soul, Martina Hingis watches comeback Belgians Kim Clijsters and Justine Henin eat up the women's tennis spotlight.
The record books will show that Andy Murray reached the Australian Open semi-finals here yesterday as a result of Rafael Nadal's retirement with a knee injury.
Posted By funwithsmiley 23 hours, 16 minutes ago in Sports Do you still remember tears in Roger Federer's eyes when Rafael Nadal beat him in last year Australian Open final? That sad memory doesn't happen twice.
Before it all began, as tennis experts weighed in with their predictions as to who would win the Australian Open, it seemed the future was now.A The names of Djokovic, Murray, Nadal, and Davydenko frequently came up, with surprisingly little mention of Roger Federer, hisA No.
When we look back at the 2010 Australian Open, there won't be any "Ah, remember that one?" moments, like Roger Federer's marathon win over Andy Roddick at last year's Wimbledon, or Rafael Nadal's shocking loss to Robin Soderling at the French Open.
ANDY Murray's impressive run to the final of the Australian Open has been rewarded with a rise up the ATP world rankings.
Eds: APNewsNow. AP Photo MEL195, MEL351 MELBOURNE, Australia Australian Open champions Roger Federer and Serena Williams have maintained their No.
A match that promised so much didn't really live up to its hype. Thank, mostly, Roger Federer for that.
Melbourne, Australia - Rafael Nadal will miss up to four weeks of competition to recover from a knee injury that forced him to quit in the third set of his Australian Open quarterfinal against Andy Murray.
RAFAEL Nadal will drop out of the world's top three tomorrow for the first time since his debut there in mid-2005, and although the Spaniard has been cleared of a recurrence of the knee tendonitis that sidelined him for nine weeks last year, a small muscle tear sustained at the Australian Open will prevent Nadal from playing for the next month.
UNLIKE Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, whose rivalry had been white-hot - played out on the final day of six grand-slam events - the Williams-Henin conflict was the Cold War of women's tennis.
MELBOURNE, Australia Rafael Nadal will miss u0 to four weeks of competition to recover from a knee injur9 that forced him to quit in the third se4 of his Australian Open quarterfinal against And9 Murray.
What do tennis greats Rafael Nadal of Spain and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga from France have in common? They both use the same brand of tennis racquet, the famed Aeropro Drive from French company Babolat.
It seems barely possible that, in this very week just one year ago, the tennis world was predicting that Rafael Nadal could become only the third man in history to complete the tennis Grand Slam.
