Russia’s Elena Dementieva served notice of her Australian Open intent with a thumping win over world number one Serena Williams in the final of the Medibank Sydney International today.

MARCOS Baghdatis remains confident he can beat Roger Federer and win Wimbledon — even though the Swiss master outclassed him in the quarter-finals of the Gerry Weber Open.

Marcos Baghdatis had never won a match on grass until one month ago and had responded to a first round defeat to Romanian wild card Andrei Pavel in Halle by insisting: “Grass is for playing football”.

World number one Roger Federer claimed his seventh grand slam title with a four-set victory in the Australian Open final against unseeded Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis.

THE Rod Laver Arena rocked to a Greek-Cypriot beat as the unseeded, unheralded and practically unknown Marcos Baghdatis extended his amazing run by reaching the Australian Open men’s final.