MELBOURNE - Ireland were celebrating their first win at a grand slam tournament when Louk Sorensen beat Taiwan’s Lu Yen-Hsun 6-4 3-6 6-2 6-1 at the Australian Open on Tuesday.
MELBOURNE - Ireland were celebrating their first win at a grand slam tournament when Louk Sorensen beat Taiwan’s Lu Yen-Hsun 6-4 3-6 6-2 6-1 at the Australian Open on Tuesday.
MELBOURNE - Although Serena Williams opened her title defence with a clinical 6-2 6-1 victory over Poland’s Urszula Radwanska on Tuesday, her subdued performance provoked questions about whether she was reining in her personality.
A lesson for Melbourne locals: the little balding bloke sitting in the corner having dinner may be Nikolay Davydenko. Or it may not be.
MELBOURNE - Serbia’s Ana Ivanovic took another small but important step in a long trek she hopes will take her back to the top of world tennis when she easily won her first round match at the Australian Open on Tuesday.
MELBOURNE - England’s Kate O’Brien says Britain’s women tennis players have a better work ethic than their male counterparts and this difference was reflected in recent results.
MELBOURNE - Maria Kirilenko and her boyfriend Igor Andreev wanted to start 2010 with a bang.
Defending champion and second seed Rafael Nadal wore down Australian Peter Luczak to begin his Australian Open campaign with a straight sets victory on Monday.
MELBOURNE - Fifth-seeded Russian Elena Dementieva set up a mouth-watering second-round clash with Justine Henin after dispatching compatriot Vera Dushevina 6-2 6-1 on Monday.
MELBOURNE - Justine Henin insisted she was still capable of beating the top players after she downed fellow Belgian Kirsten Flipkens 6-4, 6-3 in the first round of the Australian Open on Monday.
MELBOURNE - Former champion Maria Sharapova crashed out of the Australian Open on Monday but there were no dramas for Dinara Safina and Kim Clijsters who spearheaded the charge into the second round.