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The day that Laura Robson put out Venus Williams in the first round of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia, the younger Williams sister Serena had some…

Rome is the last major stop on the way to the clay-season climax at Roland Garros in around 10 days’ time. The sun-drenched, marble-white Foro…

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…

As family achievements go, the records put together by Venus and Serena Williams must rank as some of the finest in any sport. It is…

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…

The witty, smart and slow-maturing Li Na is back, and for tennis fans, that is certainly something to celebrate. The 31-year-old has never been one…

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.…

One of the biggest women’s titles of the year outside the Grand Slams and the WTA Championships, the Qatar Open Premier in Doha, saw a…

With no fewer than 10 Grand Slam winners in the draw for this year’s Australian Open, one could be forgiven for thinking that the women’s…

As 2011 became 2012, one name seemed destined to dominate women’s tennis. Petra Kvitova had soared through the previous 12 months to reach No2 in…

It turned into one of the most memorable US Open’s of recent years. The weather may have been familiar, the climax on a third Monday,…

The last women’s Grand Slam match of the year may have had to sit out the New York storms, but this particular Flushing Meadows cloud…

As surely as night followed day, so it had become a near certainty that the last four men standing at the sharp end of a…

It appears that quality will out when it comes to the women’s draw at the US Open. Of the top dozen seeds, only two have…

One wonders whether anything could make Serena Williams’ summer of 2012 any better: a fifth Wimbledon title followed by Olympic gold sealed her ‘Golden Slam’,…

Despite her consecutive losses to Serena Williams in the semis of Wimbledon and the Olympics, Victoria Azarenka’s consistency since she opened 2012 with four straight…

It had happened only once before, at the first of London’s record-breaking three Olympics: Wimbledon hosted this most special of tennis tournaments in 1908. Until…

Serena Williams had the look of the queen of the court even before the women’s final of the London 2012 Olympics had begun at the…

It seems as though the tennis storyline for London 2012 was preordained. Perhaps it is only right that two of the greatest players of their…

One door closes and another opens—to the very same sporting arena: the All England Lawn Tennis Club. In the blink of an eye, the same…