All the brilliant numbers came down to one simple equation for Roger Federer: He was two sets short of a Grand Slam season. Federer returns to Melbourne Park as the overwhelming favourite and defending Australian Open champion, one of three majors he ...

Defending champion Andy Roddick set up a championship match against top-ranked Roger Federer in the Kooyong Classic exhibition tournament, beating Scotland's Andy Murray 6-4, 6-4 on Friday. Roddick, of the United States, has only one win in 13 ATP To ...

Top-seeded Tommy Robredo and No. 3 seed David Ferrer will meet in an all-Spanish final to the Heineken Open after winning rain-delayed semifinals Friday. Robredo beat seventh-seeded Agustin Calleri of Argentina 6-4, 6-0 while Ferrer beat Olympic silv ...

Top-seeded Rafael Nadal opened the year with a 6-4, 6-2 win over Rainer Schuettler of Germany, and second-seeded David Nalbandian was upset by Kristian Pless 2-6, 6-3-, 7-5 in the opening round of the ATP Tour's Chennai Open. The 20-year-old Nadal st ...

World No. 2 Maria Sharapova said Tuesday she has put on some more muscle over the past year to play better in Grand Slams. The 19-year-old Russian spoke to reporters on the eve of Hong Kong's three-day Champions Challenge exhibition, a warm-up for th ...

Martina Hingis needed only 46 minutes Tuesday to complete a 6-0, 6-1 win over Australian Nicole Pratt at the Australian Women's Hardcourt Championship. The former top-ranked Hingis returned to this tournament last season after three years on the side ...

Lleyton Hewitt, playing singles for the first time since losing in the Davis Cup last September, beat Serbia's Janko Tipsarevic at the Adelaide International on Tuesday after Tipsarevic retired late with a thigh injury. The former top-ranked Australi ...