WORLD No.1 Lleyton Hewitt and girlfriend Kim Clijsters stayed on course for an Australian Open double after racing into the third round yesterday.

Monica Seles outplayed Chanda Rubin to win the Hong Kong Ladies Challenge tennis tournament.

ANNA KOURNIKOVA flew out of Dublin at 5am yesterday but that didn’t mean there weren’t many other attractions awaiting the fans at the Trilogy Challenge in the RDS.

Kim Clijsters cruised into the semi-finals of the WTA Championships with a comfortable 6-2 6-1 victory over Justine Henin.

Venus Williams underscored her US Open intentions with a convincing win, while compatriot Jennifer Capriati again had her dreams shattered in her home Grand Slam.

JENNIFER CAPRIATI became the first of the big four Americans to fall at the US Open when she lost to Amelie Mauresmo on Wednesday.

The dominance of Venus and Serena Williams on women’s tennis was further enhanced as both won their matches at the US Open last night, albeit in contrasting styles.

Martina Hingis will meet Monica Seles in the fourth round of the US Open, after the Swiss star beat Amanda Coetzer 6-3 6-4.

Justine Henin finally got the better of Monica Seles at the fifth time of asking to book her place in the Wimbledon semi-finals.

Nine-times Grand Slam champion Monica Seles remains on course for a first-ever Wimbledon crown but was taken all the way by unseeded Ai Sugiyama in a fiercely-contested third-round tie.

Fourth seed Monica Seles, of America, has beaten Japan’s Ai Sugiyama 4-6 6-1 6-4 in the women’s third round match at Wimbledon.

Second seed Venus Williams stamped hard on the accelerator again today as she careered to another straight sets victory at the French Open, this time over sixth seed Monica Seles.

Three-time champion Monica Seles became the first woman to reach the French Open quarter-finals today at Roland Garros as she disposed of Daniela Hantuchova.

Second seed Venus Williams breezed through her second round match at the French Open this afternoon then declared herself satisfied with the work-out.

World number six Monica Seles suffered a shock defeat in the Federation Cup but backed the United States' decision to drop Jennifer Capriati.

Jennifer Capriati beat Monica Seles in three sets to reach the final of the Nasdaq-100 Open.

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

Top seed Martina Hingis partially atoned for her defeat in the Australian Open final by going one better at the Toray Pan Pacific tournament in Tokyo.

Martina Hingis battled back from a set down to beat Monica Seles in the semi-finals of the Australian Open.

Women’s singles quarter-finals:

The opening match of the day at the Australian Open ended when Spaniard Anabel Medina Garrigues injured her knee in the seventh game against 10th seed Monica Seles.

Monica Seles booked her place in the fourth round of Australian Open with a 6-4 6-4 victory over Italian Francesca Schiavone.

Venus Williams counted her blessings and breathed a massive sigh of relief today as she squeezed through to the last 16 of the Australian Open in Melbourne.

Monica Seles is the latest player to miss Wimbledon through injury.

Three-times champion Monica Seles has pulled out of the French Open.

Australian Open winner Jennifer Capriati reached the semi-finals of the WTA US Indoor tournament in Oklahoma City with a 6-4 3-6 6-4 triumph over fellow American Lisa Raymond.

Top seed Monica Seles continued the defence of her US Indoors title in Oklahoma with a 6-3 6-4 quarter-final triumph over fellow American Alexandra Stevenson.

Jennifer Capriati reached her second successive Australian Open semi-final.

Venus and Serena Williams suffered defeat for the first time in 18 months on their return to the court on which they won Olympic gold together just over three months ago.