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A look through the last decade of women’s champions at the Australian Open makes for gloomy reading for other 95 percent of the draw that…

Maria Sharapova will take on world No1 Serena Williams in the semi-finals of the Brisbane International on Friday as she continues her comeback from a…

Part two in our review of the year’s most compelling women’s matches looks at numbers one to three. 1. Wimbledon semi-finals: Sabine Lisicki beat Agnieszka…

The race to Istanbul, host city of the 2013 WTA Championships in 15 days’ time, looks set to go to the wire with the news…

Maria Sharapova and Agnieszka Radwanska are the latest players to have qualified for this year’s WTA Championships in Istanbul. The 26-year-old Sharapova has qualified for…

Maria Sharapova has pulled out of next week’s US Open with a shoulder injury. The 26-year-old Russian was seeded third for the tournament but has…

She will be the defending champion in New York, and she won the French Open this year, too, along with seven other titles, making Serena…

2013 marks the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Women’s Tennis Association. More precisely, the WTA was borne out of a meeting held in…

Serena Williams insists she has no issues with Maria Sharapova and says she has apologised to the Russian in an attempt to quell conflict that…

While many former Grand Slam champions feature in the draw of the All England Club this year, it is a select few who have stepped…

If Maria Sharapova was to defend her French Open title, she would have to find something very special indeed. In arch-rival—indeed her nemesis—Serena Williams, she…

After a semi-final that brought together two such closely-matched women—Maria Sharapova and Victoria Azarenka were separated by one place in the rankings, a couple of…

There were, in the end, few surprises about the last four standing in the women’s French Open semi-finals. Each match contained a former Roland Garros…

Roland Garros may boast only two previous champions in the men’s draw—dominated by the favourite for this year’s title Rafael Nadal—but of the many French…

Just as Maria Sharapova’s arch rival for the Rome and French Open titles, Serena Williams, was taking to court for the first women’s quarter-final at…

The men’s tour has grown used to the ‘big four’ leading the way at almost every big tournament: Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and…

While just three men have held sway over the men’s No1 ranking since 2004—Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic—it has been an entirely different…

When the tall, willowy figure of the 17-year-old Maria Sharapova burst onto tennis’s most famous stage at Wimbledon in 2004 to win her first Grand…

And so, just as the seedings predicted it should, the final of one of the biggest tournaments in the women’s tennis calendar came down to…

Beyond the Grand Slams, the pair of Premier tournaments that fill March are the biggest, most demanding but most rewarding events in the women’s calendar.…

Her name is Maria. She was born in 1987 and turned pro in 2001. She is beautiful, she’s Russian, she has long blond hair, and…