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SEEDED Jelena Jankovic was ousted in straight sets in the fourth round by Tamarine Tanasugarn yesterday, leaving the women's draw without its top three ranked players.

The collision is coming. Venus against Serena. In two more matches. It doesn't matter who they play to get there.

With top seed Ana Ivanovic and former world number one Maria Sharapova suffering shock early exits, defending champion Venus Williams will be eager to take full advantage in the third round of Wimbledon on ...

Sachin Tendulkar is discovering there are certain advantages to being injured. While his India cricket teammates faced Bangladesh in the Asian Cup on Saturday, the master batsman was a guest in the Royal Box at ...

Japan's Ai Sugiyama saw her 16th successive Wimbledon singles appearance end in a third round 6-4, 6-4 defeat on Saturday at the hands of Russia's Alisa Kleybanova and hinted she would not be back next year.

"Get Eaten by Eaton" read one of the memorable home-made T-shirts run up by the entourage who cheered his every point to the rafters.

The sun was moments from setting on the middle Saturday of Wimbledon, making way for the traditional day of rest, and the Centre Court stands were still packed as Rafael Nadal did his final fist pump of the ...

Justin Gimelstob will make a donation to the Women's Sports Foundation following his derogatory comments about Anna Kournikova.

It seems less a tennis tournament than a curse, something out of the pages of Shakespeare.

Defending champion Venus Williams has advanced to the fourth round at Wimbledon with a 6-1, 7-5 win over Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez.

For the second round in succession, defending champion Venus Williams struggled to get to grips with a British player at Wimbledon.

New fashions ... left to right, Maria Sharapova, Roger Federer, Serena Williams and Venus Williams.

The seventh-seeded American is the defending women's champion. WIMBLEDON, England French Open champion Rafael Nadal beat Ernests Gulbis 5-7, 6-2, 7-6, 6-3 today to advance to the third round at Wimbledon.

Former gold medal winners Serena and Venus Williams and Lindsay Davenport will front the U.S. women's tennis team for the Beijing Olympics.

Defending champion Venus Williams overcame a rash of errors and trouble with her serve to beat Britain's Anne Keothavong and advance to the third round at Wimbledon.

Defending champion Venus Williams scraped through a tight first set and then pulled away for a 7-6 , 6-1 victory over British teenager Naomi Cavaday to begin her bid for a fifth Wimbledon title.

London - Order of play on Thursday at the 22.3-million-dollar Wimbledon Championships:Centre court Venus Williams, 7, US v Anne Keothavong, Britain Andy Murray, 12, Britain v Xavier Malisse, Belgium Andy ...

Serena Williams knows the "graveyard of champions" tag for Wimbledon's No. 2 Court is given for very good reason.

Serena Williams would vote for Barack Obama if she could. Don't even ask Venus Williams what her political leanings are.

Roger Federer has warned the pretenders to his Wimbledon crown he feels as good as ever ahead of his first-round match with Slovakia's Dominik Hrbaty.

He only spent one year at the University of Florida, but Jesse Levine made a lot of friends in Gainesville.

About 20 of them will be at Wimbledon on Thursday for his second-round match against Jurgen Melzer, his second straight lefty vs. lefty match at the All England Club.

The Boca Raton 20-year-old, who buzzed through fellow American Donald Young 4-6, 6-2, 6-3, 6-4 with a few anxious moments near the end, has been in touch with several former classmates who are doing a course internship in London.

Maria Sharapova made sure of her place in the second round at Wimbledon with an almost straightforward win over Stephanie Foretz.

There's a buzz going around Wimbledon about the birds and the bees. Two days after having to deal with a swarm of bees that had encroached on the player locker rooms, Wimbledon organizers received a notice from ...

World number two Rafael Nadal will begin his bid to end Roger Federer's five-year Wimbledon reign today when he takes on Germany's Andreas Beck on Centre Court.

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LONDON: Venus Williams has targeted a dream double of success at Wimbledon followed by Olympic gold in Beijing.

China's Zheng Jie produced the first shock of Wimbledon as she sent Slovakian 30th seed Dominika Cibulkova crashing out in the first round on Monday.

Sania pulled out of the Bangalore Open, saying that she wanted to avoid controversies that chased her everytime she played in India.

WIMBLEDON, England -- Greetings from the 122nd Wimbledon, where we have Lindsay Davenport pushing a stroller through Wimbledon Village, 2006 champion Amelie Mauresmo seeded 29th, Justine Henin bygone and Maria ...

WIMBLEDON, England - The Association of Tennis Professionals board is expected to rubber stamp tough new sanctions for match fixing just as Wimbledon is getting started.

While Roger Federer and Venus Williams set their sights again on the top prize at Wimbledon, two of their aspiring counterparts head into the grasscourt slam with less lofty aspirations.

Ana Ivanovic. Jelena Jankovic. Novak Djokovic. While much was being made of the emerging talent from Serbia coming into Wimbledon 12 months ago, they all were still just the names of up-and-comers from a ...

New world No.1 Ana Ivanovic says when she opens her Wimbledon campaign next week she faces the twin challenges of adapting to grass and regaining her focus after the joy of winning the French Open.

Venus and Serena Williams, who have combined for six of the past eight Wimbledon titles, have been placed in opposite sides of the draw for this year's championship.

SAMANTHA Stosur's encouraging Wimbledon warm-up ended in a semi-final defeat to No.8 seed Nadia Petrova of Russia at the WTA's Eastbourne event.

London, June 20: Sania Mirza was handed an easy first round against unseeded Colombian Catalino Castano in next week's Wimbledon but the going would get tough for the Indian ace thereafter as she could be up ...

Roger Federer may not want to look too far ahead in the Wimbledon draw. Waiting in the semifinals could be the dangerous Novak Djokovic.

MARION Bartoli moved closer to another shot at success on grass as she reached the semi-final of the Eastbourne Championships.

Roger Federer will begin his quest for a sixth consecutive singles title at Wimbledon with a first round match against experienced Slovak Dominik Hrbaty.

The injuries and intrigue, passion for fashion, disdain for the tennis grind and insistence on go-for-broke strokes _ all in the context of a friendly sibling rivalry _ make even Mom reluctant to predict what ...

The Sony Ericsson World Tennis Assn. Tour this week will unveil a global campaign that is being called the biggest push in the tour's history.

Short of snaring both Williams sisters - rare outside of Grand Slam tournaments - the entry list for this year's edition of the women's Rogers Cup is about as star-studded as possible.

Billie Jean King is far from slowing down. The 64-year-old tennis great recently presided over the grand opening of her Women's Sports Center in the new Sports Museum of America in lower Manhattan.

Marion Bartoli is a doubt for Wimbledon after aggravating a wrist injury in her opening match of the DFS Classic in Birmingham.

She's good. She's very good. She is -- what more evidence is required? -- a Grand Slam champion at age 20.

Smiling Ana. Beautiful Ana. Take your pick. They're both appropriate for Ana Ivanovic.

Nadal playing a whole new ball-game Rafael Nadal's latest destruction of Novak Djokovic continued his unprecedented dominance of one of the French Open Venus Williams and her sister Serena are the only American ...

Serena and Venus Williams lost at the French Open today. One of those losses was surprising but the other was pretty shocking.

Ozzie Guillen hadn't drawn extra attention to himself in several days. So when his White Sox lost 4-3 at Tampa Bay, the volatile skipper publicly challenged his general manager to shake up the roster.

Petra Cetkovska congratulates Ana Ivanovic after the second seed gives her a 6-0 6-0 thrashing Flavia Pennetta is brought back down to earth after her superb win over Venus Williams as she strugggles against ...