World no. 2 Rafael Nadal continued his serene progress at the Barcelona Open after defeating No. 5 seed Janko Tipsarevic 6-2 6-2.
updated: Fri Apr 27 2012 14:34:00
Novak Djokovic gives us an insight on his media obligations as we go behind the scenes with the tennis star.
She lives in Monaco, and she honed her skills in Marbella and Arizona -- but world No. 1 Victoria Azarenka was most definitely made in Minsk.
updated: Fri Apr 27 2012 05:17:00
Hard work is paying big dividends for Victoria Azarenka as she targets the French Open, Wimbledon and the Olympics.
Former world No. 1s Maria Sharapova and Caroline Wozniacki lit up the court at the Miami Masters on Thursday, but the lights went out on Agnieszka Radwanska and Marion Bartoli in the other women's semifinal.
Women's tennis No. 1 Victoria Azarenka is looking forward to more success despite the end of her perfect start to 2012.
updated: Thu Mar 29 2012 10:39:00
Want a jump smash like Sampras? The fourteen-time Grand Slam winner shows CNN's Pat Cash how it's done.
updated: Wed Mar 28 2012 08:03:00
World No. 1 Victoria Azarenka talks to CNN's Mark McKay after winning the Indian Wells title to be 23-0 this year.
Serena Williams avenged her 2011 U.S. Open final defeat to Samantha Stosur with a straight-sets win over the Australian sixth seed to reach the last eight of the WTA tournament in Miami Monday.
Women's world number one Victoria Azarenka is through to the third round of the Miami Masters, extending her winning run in 2012 to 24 matches after beating Michaella Krajicek of the Netherlands in straight sets.
World number one Victoria Azarenka has taken her unbeaten run to 23 matches in 2012 after outplaying second seed Maria Sharapova in the women's final at Indian Wells on Sunday.
Great tennis rivals Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal will lock horns once again in Saturday's semifinals of the Indian Wells Masters event in California.
Longtime rivals Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal remain on course for a semifinal showdown at the Indian Wells Masters after both former world No. 1s moved into the last eight of the U.S. hard-court tournament.
Agnieszka Radwanska is already the most successful Polish female tennis player, but her achievements will reach a new level when the world rankings are released on Monday.
World No.1 Victoria Azarenka pulled out of the Dubai Open Wednesday because she did not wish to risk an ankle injury she has been carrying since winning the Australian Open last month.
Victoria Azarenka surrendered just three games to Samantha Stosur as she claimed her third title of an impressive year at the Qatar Open.
Victoria Azarenka is through to the final of the Qatar Open after a straight sets victory over Poland's Aginezska Radwanska in Doha on Saturday.
World No. 1 Victoria Azarenka made it 15 straight wins in 2012 after she defeated Yanina Wickmayer to reach the Qatar Open semifinals.
Victoria Azarenka's peerless run of form in 2012 has seen her secure a maiden grand slam title and cement her place as the finest women's tennis player on the planet.
updated: Mon Jan 30 2012 10:28:00
Victoria Azarenka talks to World Sport's Patrick Snell after winning the Australian Open women's singles title.
Victoria Azarenka has claimed her first grand slam title after comprehensively beating Maria Sharapova 6-3 6-0 in the final of the Australian Open in Melbourne.
MELBOURNE, Australia -- Some thoughts on Thursday's women's semifinals at the Australian Open, where Maria Sharapova and Victoria Azarenka advanced with three-set victories to set up a final in which the winner will become the WTA's new No. 1 ...
In terms of age, just two years separate Australian Open finalists Maria Sharapova and Victoria Azarenka. But in terms of what the two young women have achieved in their tennis careers so far, they are poles apart.
It is a noise that has become synonymous with watching top-level tennis -- the sound of ear-splitting shrieks and grunts as star players battle against each other in a bid to claim the sport's biggest prizes.
Third seed Victoria Azarenka defeated defending champion Li Na 6-2 1-6 6-3 on Friday to win the Sydney International in their final warm-up for next week's Australian Open.
Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova out-fought Victoria Azarenka in three tough sets to win the season-ending WTA Tour Championships in Istanbul.
Petra Kvitova will face Victoria Azarenka in the final of the WTA Championships in Istanbul on Sunday.
U.S. Open champion Samantha Stosur stormed into the semifinals of the season-ending WTA Championships after crushing China's Li Na 6-1 6-0 in Istanbul.
Maria Sharapova has pulled out of the season-ending WTA Championships in Istanbul after suffering successive straight-sets defeats.
Poland's Agnieszka Radwanska has secured the final place in the eight-strong field for the WTA Championships in Istanbul next week after illness ended the hopes of her closest rival.
Russian Vera Zvonareva came from 5-1 down in the opening set to beat Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova 7-6 6-0 in the semifinals of the WTA tournament in Tokyo Friday.
Top seed Caroline Wozniacki and tournament favorite Serena Williams both came through third round matches in straight sets Saturday at the U.S .Open.
World number one Caroline Wozniacki cruised into the second round of the U.S. Open Tuesday with a straight sets victory over Nuria Llagostera Vives of Spain.
Bounce ... bounce ... bounce ... bounce ... bounce ... bounce ... bounce ... bounce ... bounce ... bounce ...
Maria Sharapova powered her way to a first Wimbledon final in seven years after she brushed aside Sabine Lisicki to set up a meeting with Petra Kvitova.
updated: Fri Jul 01 2011 05:38:00
CNN's Ayesha Durgahee interviews Maria Sharapova at Wimbledon 2011.
Tournament favorite Maria Sharapova powered into the Wimbledon women's singles semifinals on Tuesday, crushing Dominika Cibulkova for the loss of just two games.
Li Na set up a French Open semifinal clash with former world number one Maria Sharapova after toppling fourth seed Victoria Azarenka at Roland Garros.
Maria Sharapova survived another tight encounter to book her place in the quarterfinals of the French Open Monday with a straight sets win over Polish 12th seed Agnieszka Radwanska.
Maria Sharapova remains on track for a first French Open title after reaching the last 16 with a comprehensive win over Taiwanese qualifier Chan Yung-Jan on Saturday.
Put aside the Novak Djokovic-Rafael Nadal storyline for a moment. It's one of the sport's most compelling developments in years, perhaps to come to a head at the French Open, but from this corner, the best story of the Rome Masters was Maria Sharapova's stirring triumph.
Assuming that Novak Djokovic is not doping, what else would explain his meteoric rise (yes, even from No. 3 to No. 2 is a huge bump up)? -- Seth Aaronson, New York
World number one Caroline Wozniacki has crashed out of the Madrid Masters, beaten by Germany's Julia Gorges for the second time in just over a week.
The mind searches for an image of Kim Clijsters on the dance floor. It comes easily.
1. Clockwork Caro. Clay-court season kicked off last week. There were a number of counterintuitive results, but form held in Charleston where top-ranked Caroline Wozniacki won her third title of 2011, taking the Family Circle Cup. Among her victims: Jelena Jankovic and then Elena Vesnina in the final. "I know I can win a Slam," Wozniacki professes. Her next chance comes in Paris in a few weeks.
Caroline Wozniacki cemented her position as world number one with a straight sets win over unseeded Russian Elena Vesnina in the final of the WTA tournament at Charleston Sunday.
A Best of Five after Nadal and Djokovic played as fine a best of three as you'll ever see ...
World No. 1 Rafael Nadal will have the chance to avenge his Indian Wells final defeat by in-form Novak Djokovic on Sunday after joining the Serbian in reaching his second successive Masters Series title match.
World No. 1 Rafael Nadal is looking forward to renewing his "special" tennis rivalry with Roger Federer in the semifinals of the Masters Series event in Miami on Friday.
Kim Clijsters is looking forward to taking a break after her title reign at the Miami Masters ended at the quarterfinal stage.
A quick vegemite sandwich while wondering if, this being the Asian/Pacific Slam, Nadal might want to try Eastern Medicine ...
Samantha Stosur stopped Caroline Wozniacki from clinching the year-end women's No. 1 tennis ranking with a shock 6-4 6-3 victory at the WTA Championships in Qatar on Wednesday night.
1. Reckless gamble: I was talking to a prominent men's doubles player recently about pressure. Playing for the Wimbledon final, he asserted, was nothing compared to the stress of playing a pro-am match in the Huggy Bear tournament. Come again? The Huggy Bear is the Skull and Bones of tennis events, a private affair held before the U.S. Open on private courts in the Hamptons. No TV, no sponsors, a small handful of fans. But some of the most intense matches of the year.
NEW YORK -- Typically when an athlete gets injured, a familiar routine unfolds: the injury is named, the severity articulated and the prescription detailed.
Defending U.S. Open champion Kim Clijsters stormed past Australia's Sally Peers in a comfortable straight sets victory, taking less than an hour to secure her place in the third round in New York.
The draw holds many treasures. These are some of the matches I'd like to see if things break just right at the U.S. Open:
A few years back, there was a dog in my neighborhood who barked at everything. Barked at air, barked at life, barked at the price of eggs. All day long. I love animals, but this hound was driving me nuts, so I went on a search-and-silence mission.
1. Vika is for victory: The U.S. Open Series swung through California last week. That a tall, Soviet-born, Americanized heavy hitter won the Bank of the West event at Stanford was no surprise. That it was Victoria Azarenka, not Maria Sharapova, however, was a considerable upset. In throes of a miserable slump, Azarenka found her game in a big way, beating Sam Stosur in the semis and then waxing Sharapova, 6-4, 6-1, to take her first title of 2010. True, one tournament is an awfully small sample size. But if Azarenka can sustain this level of play, she suddenly becomes a player to watch at the U.S. Open, especially if it's a Serena-less affair. A few hours south at the Farmers Cassic event in Los Angeles, Sam Querrey, king of the U.S. events, bagged still another one to defend his title. Querrey's defeat of Andy Murray, staving off a match point, might well mark the biggest win of his career. If he could replicate a win of this nature in a major -- ironically, he lost to Murray in his
Victoria Azarenka of Belarus thrashed former world number one Maria Sharapova 6-4 6-1 in the final of the WTA tournament in Stanford to win her first title of the year.
World No. 4 Andy Murray will seek to win his first tennis title of 2010 when he faces defending champion Sam Querrey in Sunday's final of the Farmers Classic in Los Angeles.
Defending champion Marion Bartoli has been beaten in the quarterfinals of the Bank of the West Classic in Stanford, losing in three sets to Belarusian Victoria Azarenka.
Unseeded pair Ekaterina Makarova and Victoria Azarenka will contest the final of the prestigious WTA tournament at Eastbourne after shock semifinal victories on Friday.
U.S. Open champion Kim Clijsters crashed out in the quarterfinals of WTA tournament in Eastbourne as she went down in straight sets to Victoria Azarenka of the Belarus.
World No. 1 Serena Williams survived the longest match of her career to bounce back from her Rome disappointment and reach the third round of the Madrid Open on Monday.
Roger Federer is through to the Sony Ericsson Open fourth round in Miami, after beating Frenchman Florent Serra in two tough tie-breaks.
1. Ring in the old: It was a good week for players in need in strong results. Some of you wondered why Maria Sharapova would take a pass on the well-paying Dubai event to enter Memphis. Perhaps the answer: to bolster her confidence and get in some matches and pick up some appearance-fee bounty in the process. She did all three at the Regions Morgan Keegan event, winning her first title of 2010. Other highlights from the bank of the Mississippi: Ernests Gulbis, a top 10 prospect not long ago, put together some nice wins and reached the semis. Nicole Vaidisova, whose career has been in the abyss, won a main draw match for the first time in a long time. In Dubai, Venus Williams, perhaps still stung by a disappointing loss in the Aussie Open quarters, won her 42nd career title, beating Victoria Azarenka in the finals. Don't count her out yet. Michael Llodra won both the singles and doubles in Marseille. David Nalbandian returned in Buenos Aires. Juan Carlos Ferrero, suddenly resurgent,
Venus Williams claimed the 42nd title of her glittering career as she successfully defended her Dubai Tennis Championship crown on Saturday.
A year after being denied entry due to her Israeli nationality, Shahar Peer has reached the quarterfinals of the Dubai Tennis Championship by knocking out top seed Caroline Wozniacki.
Defending champion Venus Williams cruised into the last 16 of the Dubai Tennis Championships on Tuesday, but 2008 winner Elena Dementieva was forced to retire in her second-round tie.
So much about the Australian Open suggests a year of intrigue and fresh storylines, but there is disturbing familiarity to the biggest story: Rafael Nadal's fading invincibility, and the notion that we've seen the best of his rivalry with Roger Federer.
Ana Ivanovic was ousted from the Australian Open in the second round by Argentina's Gisela Dulko, losing in a three-set thriller.
Elena Dementieva remained on course to defend her Sydney International title with a convincing 6-2 6-3 win over world number two Dinara Safina in an all-Russian quarterfinal.
Defending champion Venus Williams reached the semifinals of the $4.55 million WTA Championships in Qatar on Friday without hitting a ball
A tearful Dinara Safina was forced out of the WTA Championships with a serious back injury and will lose her world number one ranking to Serena Williams.
Maria Sharapova continued her rehabilitation from injury with a comfortable victory at the L.A. Women's Tennis Championships on an opening day that saw early exits for three of the four seeded players in action.
Top seed Dinara Safina battled from a set down to defeat Belarusian teenager Victoria Azarenka at the French Open, but there was no escape for scheduled semifinal opponent Maria Sharapova who suffered a humiliating exit.
Dinara Safina continued her remorseless pursuit of a first grand slam title with a 6-1 6-0 demolition of Aravane Rezai as defending champion Ana Ivanovic crashed out in the fourth round of the French Open on Sunday.
Venus Williams was given a scare before edging past Lucie Safarova of the Czech Republic 6-2 4-6 6-2 at the Italian Open in Rome.
Rising young star Victoria Azarenka of the Belarus made a shock second round exit in the WTA tournament in Stuttgart to Gisela Dulko.
Belarussian Victoria Azarenka has pulled out of next week's star-studded Family Circle Cup tournament in the United States with a shoulder injury.
Has there been a more fun time in men's tennis than now? Rafael Nadal is definitively on top, Roger Federer is still in the mix with a will to regain his form, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray have officially arrived, Juan Martin del Potro is continuing to make strides, and Andy Roddick seems to be right on the verge this season. With variations for surface, there seem to be six players in the mix to some extent for any major tournament right now. Let's hope they all stay healthy. -- Dan, Atlanta
An injury-hampered Serena Williams slumped to a straight sets defeat to Victoria Azarenka of Belarus in the final of the WTA Tier One tournament at Key Biscayne in Florida.
Victoria Azarenka of Belarus continued her remorseless rise up the world rankings by reaching the final of the Sony Ericsson Open at Key Biscayne in Florida.
Defending champion Ana Ivanovic enjoyed the easiest of passages into the semifinals of the WTA tournament at Indian Wells.
Russia's Dinara Safina saw her chance to claim the top spot in the women's world rankings disappear with a shock 6-7 6-1 6-3 defeat to eighth seed Victoria Azarenka at the WTA tournament in Indian Wells, California.
Top seed Andy Roddick is through to the semifinals of the Memphis Open after a battling three-set victory over fellow-American Sam Querry on Friday.
World No. 2 Serena Williams headed to the quarterfinals Monday after No. 13 seed Victoria Azarenka pulled out due to illness.
2007 champion Serena Williams marched into the fourth round of the Australian Open with a 6-1 6-4 win over Shua Peng of China on Saturday.
Victoria Azarenka has won her maiden WTA title after defeating Marion Bartoli of France in the Brisbane International women's final on Saturday -- the tournament's official Web site reports.
France's Amelie Mauresmo is an injury doubt for the Australian Open after a thigh strain forced the former world number one to quit her semifinal at the WTA tournament in Brisbane.
Jelena Jankovic, set to regain the world number one slot next week, defeated Vera Zvonareva in the quarterfinals of Stuttgart's Porshce Grand Prix to book a semifinal with Venus Williams.
Jelena Jankovic booked her semifinal berth at the East West Bank Classic to continue her progress toward the world No.1 ranking.
MOSCOW -- Maria Sharapova suffered another tough defeat on Wednesday at the hands of one of the WTA Tour's crop of future stars, Victoria Azarenka, in her opening match here at the Kremlin Open. It was the two-time Slam champion's first match since her disappointing third-round loss at the U.S. Open.
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