Andy Roddick made an impressive start to his 2011 season today with a straight-sets defeat of Australian Marinko Matosevic at the Brisbane International.

Former world number one Justine Henin will make her return to tennis at the Brisbane International in January.

DEFENDING champion Venus Williams launched her bid for Wimbledon singles title number six with a 6-3 6-2 win over Stefanie Voegele yesterday.

ROGER FEDERER feared for his French Open existence during his testing second-round win over Argentina’s Jose Acasuso yesterday.

The Williams sisters both made it into round three of the French Open today - but in very contrasting styles.

Roger Federer admitted he is facing an important week in his season after breezing into the third round of the Miami Masters.

Former world number one Lleyton Hewitt fought back from a set down to reach the second round of the Miami Masters today with victory over Israel’s Dudi Sela.

Jelena Dokic’s dream run at the Australian Open ended today against third seed Dinara Safina.

Defending champion Novak Djokovic bowed out of the Australian Open after retiring in his quarter-final match against Andy Roddick, handing the American seventh seed a semi-final place against either Roger Federer or Juan Martin Del Potro.

Venus Williams’ Australian Open campaign has come to an abrupt halt with the 10th seed falling 2-6 6-0 9-7 to Bulgarian teenager Tszvetana Pironkova in the opening round.

Jelena Dokic’s misery continued today when she crashed out of Wimbledon in the first round for the first time.

The opening day of Wimbledon 2004 may have been blighted by rain, but two former champions used the breaks in cloud to shine at SW19.

Lindsay Davenport reached the final of the Toray Pan Pacific Open after beating the injured Jelena Dokic in the semi-finals.

Former champion Jennifer Capriati has become the latest big name to withdraw from the Australian Open.

Jelena Dokic is most unlikely to play in this month’s Australian Open, after withdrawing from the adidas International in Sydney.

Jennifer Capriati experienced little difficulty reaching the third round of the US Open at Flushing Meadows as she overpowered Martina Sucha of the Slovak Republic 6-1 6-1.

TOP seed and two-time champion Andre Agassi crushed Spain’s Alex Corretja 6-1 6-2 6-2 in the opening round of the US Open at Flushing Meadows.

Sixth seed Jennifer Capriati, who has emerged as one of the favourites in the absence of injured sisters Serena and Venus Williams, cruised into the second round of the US Open with a 35-minute destruction of Spain’s Cristina Torrens Valero, 6-0 6-1.

French Open champion Justine Henin-Hardenne put her hand injury to the back of her mind as she eased through to the last 16 of the women’s singles.

ANDRE AGASSI admits to feeling his age – but only away from the tennis court.

The decibels diminished but Maria Sharapova underlined her status as the women’s game’s latest big noise by roaring into the third round at Wimbledon today.

JUSTIN HENIN-HARDENNE, the slim Belgian star with the biggest promise of ending the women’s power era at Wimbledon, fought through the pain of a hand injury to reach the second round against tall Ukrainian Julia Vakulenko.

Results so far from Round 1 at Wimbledon.

Top British hope Elena Baltacha fought a gallant battle to take a set from fragile 11th seed Jelena Dokic but eventually went down 6-3 1-6 6-4 in an exciting 101-minute clash that had home fans on the edge of their seats and hopeful of an upset.

THE future and the past were on display at the French Open as Kim Clijsters and Lleyton Hewitt roared into the second round while former men’s champion Michael Chang bade a fond — but tearful — farewell to the Roland Garros crowds.

THE difficulties between the organisers of next week’s multi-million euro Trilogy fashion, music and tennis festival and the charity set to benefit from the event, The Chernobyl Children’s Project, have been settled.

PHOTOGRAPHERS at the ready, loaded lads be prepared — Anna Kournikova will be coming to Dublin in early December for a Ryder Cup-type event between the cream of the female tennis world.

Serena Williams teamed up with Martina Navratilova in the first round of the Toyota Princess Cup, in Tokyo.

Jelena Dokic’s US Open campaign fizzled out with a distracted and dispirited day while rain disrupted the evening session of the third day’s play.

Twelfth-seed Chanda Rubin beat number four Jelena Dokic 6-0 6-2 in 41 minutes to reach the final of the JPMorgan Chase Open.

Anna Kournikova missed two match points and was blown away in the third set by sixth seed Jelena Dokic of Yugoslavia, who advanced to the final of the Acura Classic in San Diego.

All England Lawn Tennis Championships, Wimbledon - Order of Play for Monday, June 1

Jelena Dokic has won her singles third round match against Nathalie Dechy at Wimbledon today.

The seedings for the 2002 Wimbledon Championships have been announced by the All-England Club in London.

World number eight Jelena Dokic continues her preparations for Wimbledon today at the DFS Classic - with mum Liliana by her side.

Anna Kournikova survived a scare in the first round of the Open Gaz de France tournament in Paris.

Lindsay Davenport proved too smooth again for Jelena Dokic as she served up a straight sets win over the teenager at the Sanex Championships.

Jelena Dokic defeated Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario in straight sets to win the Toyota Princess Cup.

Wimbledon champion Venus Williams has withdrawn from next month's Toyota Princess Cup in Tokyo, apparently to avoid a possible clash with her sister Serena.

Revenge will be in the Centre Court air today, as Jennifer Capriati and Serena Williams clash for a place in the Wimbledon semi-finals.

Third seed, Lindsay Davenport has beaten Yugoslav Jelena Dokic on the Centre Court of Wimbledon by two sets to nil.

Lindsay Davenport looked like repeating her semi-final victory of last year over Jelena Dokic as she took the first set 7-5 in their fourth round match on Centre Court.

Number three seed Lindsay Davenport breezed into the last 16 with a straight sets win over Patty Schnyder.