Andy Roddick chose his 30th birthday to announce his retirement from tennis, saying: “It’s time.”

Lleyton Hewitt survived a bad-tempered clash with Juan Ignacio Chela to book his place in the fourth round of the Australian Open.

Andy Roddick survived a third-round clash with Austria’s Jurgen Melzer, and also a grilling from Jim Courier, in the Australian Open today.

Wimbledon champion Roger Federer will take a “good but uneasy feeling” to SW19 after completing an impressive defence of his Gerry Weber Open title in Halle, Germany.