Before Novak Djokovic’s win in the Australian Open, the first major tennis tournament of 2008, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal had won the last 11 Grand Slam events.
Novak Djokovic’s grand slam win has catapulted him into the elite of the world’s top tennis stars.  But not many people had heard about him until he beat [...]

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Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, the young frenchman who knocked out Andy Murray in the first round shocked the world of tennis last night by thrashing world number two Rafael Nadal to reach the Australian Open final at Melbourne Park. He won the first set in an amazing 32 minutes!
In only his fifth grand slam tournament, the [...]

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Maria Sharapova has beaten the No.3 seed Jelena Jankovic to make it to her second successive Australian Open final.
Sharapova beat Jankovic 6-3 6-1 in 78 minutes.
Sharapova, the No.5 seed, started the match in tremendous form and stormed into a 4-0 lead in the opening set. Jankovic had injury problems and was never in the [...]

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The Australian Open Women’s Tennis semi finals will see the third-seeded Jelena Jankovic of Croatia play No. 5 seed Russian Maria Sharapova, and Ana Ivanovic of Croatia against ninth-seeded Daniela Hantuchova of the Slovak Republic, who defeated the Polish teenager Agnieszka Radwanska by 6-2, 6-2 to reach her first Grand Slam semi final at the [...]

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Justine Henin and Maria Sharapova are both safely through the fourth round of the Australian Open and will meet in the quarter finals.
The favourite to win this year women’s Australian Open, Justine Henin beat Hsieh Su-wei 6-2, 6-2 in 74 minutes on Sunday to extend her winning streak to 32 matches.
Maria Sharapova swept Elena Dementieva [...]

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Andy Murray has been beaten in the first round of the Australian Open tennis championship this morning in four sets by Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, 7-5 6-4 0-6 7-6 (7-5).
Murray had been tipped by many critics as “one to watch” after winning the Qatar Open in Doha earlier this month.
After losing the first two sets, Murray [...]

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The Australian Tennis Open will be using a new blue indoor surface, replacing the traditional green Rebound Ace courts in use at Melbourne Park since 1988. The new court surface is called Plexicushion and is expected to create a consistently medium-paced game play.
Australian Open officials stated yesterday that any players breaching strict gambling regulations [...]

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