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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Andy Murray won his fourth tennis tournament by beating Stanislas Wawrinka in the final of the Qatar Open hard court tennis tournament in Doha on Sunday.
Murray started the tornament as third seed, and beat the Swiss player Stanislas Wawrinka with an aggressive baseline game. He won in three sets, 6-4, 4-6, 6-2. It was [...]

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Lindsay Davenport won the Auckalnd ASB Classic Tennis tournament on Saturday by thrashing the unseeded Frenchwoman Aravane Rezai 6-2, 6-2 in less than one hour on Saturday.
Davenport described her display in the ASB Classic as “pretty solid” and cruised through the whole tounament without ever looking threatened.
She is now turning her attention to the more [...]

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The tennis world number four, Nikolay Davydenko, continues to deny any part in the ongoing betting scandal investigations, and according to the USA sports channel ESPN described his treatment by the ATP as “idiotic”.
Nikolay Davydenko was fined in October for what was described as a “lack of effort” in a match against Croatian qualifier Marin [...]

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Lindsay Davenport continued her effortless progress in the Auckland Classic tennis tournament yesterday in New Zealand, beating fifth seed Anabel Medina Garrigues of Spain 6-1, 4-6 and 6-0 to reach the quarter finals.
“I think I played well today and I think I’ll get better with each game I play,” said Davenport
Top seed Vera Zvonareva [...]

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As well as 2008 being the year of the Beijing Olympics, it is also the year that most tennis pundits suggest Roger Federer will surpass Pete Sampras’ 14 Grand Slam victories. He is currently on 12 with the Australian Open next on the calandar.
But it is the French Open where Federer will want [...]

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