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/ 26 January 2009
Rafael Nadal and Serena Williams stayed on track at the Australian Open on Monday but Andy Murray’s campaign came shuddering to a halt.
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/ 22 January 2009
Rafael Nadal hammered out his intentions with a thunderous display on Thursday while Serena Williams made her way to the third round.
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/ 21 January 2009
World number one Jelena Jankovic and men’s defending champion Novak Djokovic showed glimpses of their best form at the Australian Open on Wednesday.
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/ 19 January 2009
Roger Federer made heavy weather of little-known Andreas Seppi at the Australian Open Monday before joining Jelena Jankovic in the second round.
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/ 15 January 2009
This year Roger Federer comes to the Australian Open with a few questions to answer — the one is can he regain number-one ranking?
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/ 13 January 2009
A year after withdrawing from the Kooyong Classic with a mystery virus, Roger Federer returned on Tuesday and declared himself fit and ready.
Fabrice Santoro was shorn of all magic while going down 6-0 6-1 to world number-one Rafael Nadal in the first round of the Qatar Open on Tuesday.
Former world number one Roger Federer believes he can dominate men’s tennis again.
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/ 16 December 2008
In Wimbledon’s murky gloom on a Sunday in July, men’s tennis hailed Spanish king Rafael Nadal.
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/ 4 December 2008
A fast court, plenty of fast serves and a straight-sets win. It was all vintage Pete Sampras.
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/ 2 November 2008
Jeff Coetzee and Wesley Moodie became the first SA pair to qualify for the year-end Masters Finals in eight years on Saturday.
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/ 20 October 2008
South African Davis Cup player Wesley Moodie has recovered from injury and is playing as though he had never been out of the game.
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/ 14 October 2008
The pressure is on to complete a new tennis complex in Johannesburg for the revived South African Open in February.
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/ 13 September 2008
Tennis player Nikolay Davydenko was cleared by the ATP on Friday after a year-long investigation into suspicious betting patterns on a match he lost.
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/ 7 September 2008
Forgive Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic if this US Open is one grand-slam event he would like to forget.
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/ 6 September 2008
World number two Jelena Jankovic advanced to her first grand-slam final in the US Open on Saturday, setting up a showdown with Serena Williams.
Spain’s Rafael Nadal has replaced Roger Federer as the new world number one in tennis rankings released on Monday.
Spain’s Rafael Nadal adds Olympic gold to his glittering season collection as he destroys Chilean Fernando Gonzalez in the men’s singles final.
Novak Djokovic claimed Serbia’s first-ever Olympic tennis medal on Saturday while the giant-killing run of China’s Li Na came shuddering to a halt.
Roger Federer’s troubled season took another turn for the worse when he was sent crashing out of the Olympic Games in a shock quarterfinal defeat.
Top seed Roger Federer avenged his Athens 2004 humiliation with a convincing win over Tomas Berdych as he remained on course for an Olympic final.
High hopes for South African tennis this week at the Olympic Games and in Washington, DC, have ended in failure.
US sisters Serena and Venus Williams powered on towards a likely gold-medal showdown with easy second-round wins on Tuesday.
China’s Li Na produced a shock defeat of Svetlana Kuznetsova as the Olympic tennis tournament produced a catalogue of upsets on Monday.
Rafael Nadal is aiming to add Olympic glitter to his trophy room, which already brims with the laurels of 30 titles.
Rafael Nadal marked a changing of the guard in tennis on Friday with a quarterfinal victory at the Cincinnati Masters.
Last year, Roger Federer gave Rafael Nadal a ride from the Canadian Masters in his private jet. There will be no such cosiness this time.
The Australian Open, Roland Garros, Wimbledon and the US Open. And this year, a fifth Grand Slam: the Beijing Olympics.
South Africa completed a 5-0 Davis Cup clean sweep in the Euro-Africa Group Two tie at Emperors Palace on Sunday.
South Africa clinched their Euro-Africa Davis Cup tie 3-0 against Denmark at Emperors Palace on Saturday by winning the doubles clash.
The South African Davis Cup team took a 2-0 lead against Denmark in a Euro-Africa Group Two tie at Emperors Palace on Friday.
With Wimbledon’s dust settled, Steve Bierley asks: Who’s number one now?