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For a woman aged just 28 years old, and one who has faced and overcome so many injury time-outs in her tennis career, Maria Sharapova…

Will it be history for Serena? Serena Williams: one of the greatest women ever to play tennis, one of the finest female athletes in any…

In this opening week of the 2016 season, with six events offering the chance to stoke the competitive fires ahead of the first Grand Slam…

Six times, across a dozen years, Serena Williams has been the Australian Open champion, and during that span, only two active players have broken her…

Perhaps last year, the code-breaking, high-octane melting pot of the International Premier Tennis League looked rather like a brilliant flash-in-the-pan when some of the biggest…

A little under a year ago, Maria Sharapova was putting together one of the best seasons of her long tennis career. Her first title came…

Hot-foot from her second Cincinnati title, the mighty Serena Williams, world No1 with more than twice the points of No2, aims to make history—or more…

World No1 and six-time US Open champion Serena Williams will begin her campaign for a fourth consecutive US title as the top seed when the…

How do you solve a problem like Maria? The tall, talented, and popular Maria Sharapova burst onto Wimbledon’s stage like a breath of fresh air…

Amid a fine day’s offering of women’s tennis as the third round got under way at Roland Garros, there was plenty to whet the appetite.…

The French have been out in force at Roland Garros already this week—and not just in the stands. In the men’s draw, the home nation…

The top two seeds at the climax of the clay season in Paris both have cause to be optimistic about their chances of claiming the…

As Serena Williams begins her campaign at the Foro Italico this week, she is the woman to beat, the woman who will have topped the…

The semi-final line-up at the Caja Majica certainly oozed class. All three former Madrid champions were present and correct: Maria Sharapova defending her title; two-time…

One of the four elite WTA events of the year follows hot on the heels of the first as the Miami Premier Mandatory takes off…

World No2 and former Indian Wells champion Maria Sharapova and her beau, the No11 Grigor Dimitrov, are as close as tennis comes to Hollywood in…

It’s big, it’s beautiful, it’s star-studded: Indian Wells also happens to be one of the toughest challenges in tennis. And yet the best player in…

Neither rain nor flu nor world No2 Maria Sharapova could dampen the spirit or reputation of the inspired and inspiring Serena Williams in Melbourne, as…

World No1 Serena Williams and No2 Maria Sharapova will meet for the 19th time to contest their ninth final at the climax of the women’s…

The world No2 and 2008 Australian Open champion returned to her dominant best against and the fourth round in Melbourne in beating Zarina Diyas in…

It took the strong, towering presence of one of tennis’s most popular players, Maria Sharapova, to steady the Australian Open ship on the first day…