Defending champions Rafael Nadal and Maria Sharapova both crashed out on a day of shocks at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells.

Defending champion Rafael Nadal survived a serious scare against Radek Stepanek before recovering to reach the third round of the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells.

Stanislas Wawrinka expects his Australian Open triumph to persuade other players that the big four of men’s tennis are there to be shot at.

Stanislas Wawrinka has won the Australian Open men’s singles title by beating Rafael Nadal 6-3 6-2 3-6 6-3 in the final in Melbourne.

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Stanislas Wawrinka reached his first Grand Slam decider at the expense of Tomas Berdych at the Australian Open yesterday, the 28-year-old following up his stunning upset of defending champion Novak Djokovic by beating the Czech 6-3 6-7 7-6 7-6.

The Australian Open will have a new women’s champion after Victoria Azarenka joined the purge of the favourites in Melbourne.

Stanislas Wawrinka turned the tables on Novak Djokovic in spectacular fashion to reach the semi-finals of the Australian Open.

Tomas Berdych has reached the semi-finals of the Australian Open for the first time with a four-set win over third seed David Ferrer.

Serena Williams was sensationally dumped out of the Australian Open in the fourth round by a resurgent Ana Ivanovic.

Defending champion Novak Djokovic will meet David Ferrer in the final of the Mubadala World Tennis Championship exhibition event in Abu Dhabi.

Juan Martin del Potro admitted he struggled to focus on tennis after scraping past Richard Gasquet to win his first match at the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals.

Rafael Nadal began life back at world number one with a convincing victory at the Shanghai Masters to join Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer in the third round.

Rafael Nadal’s bid to regain the world number one ranking got off to a fine start with a routine 6-2 6-4 win over Colombian qualifier Santiago Giraldo in the first round of the China Open in Beijing.

Novak Djokovic may have number one by his name but he knows he will face the best player in the world in today’s US Open final.

Novak Djokovic may have number one by his name but he knows he will face the best player in the world in tomorrow’s US Open final.

Rafael Nadal will take on Novak Djokovic in a sixth grand slam final at the US Open on Monday.

Novak Djokovic won an epic match against Stanislas Wawrinka for the second time this year to reach a fourth consecutive US Open final.

Andy Murray hinted the emotional impact of his Wimbledon victory had taken its toll as his US Open defence was brought to an end by Stanislas Wawrinka in the quarter-finals.

Andy Murray’s US Open title defence came to an end in the quarter-finals with a straight-sets defeat by Stanislas Wawrinka.

Andy Murray was relieved to make it through to the quarter-finals of the US Open in tricky conditions at Flushing Meadows.

Tomas Berdych served notice of his intent to Andy Murray and all the title favourites with a demolition of Julien Benneteau to reach the fourth round of the US Open.

Top seed and home favourite Roger Federer suffered an early exit from the Credit Agricole Suisse Open as big-hitting Daniel Brands powered his way into the quarter-finals.

Andy Murray reached the second week of Wimbledon in style with a straight-sets victory over 32nd seed Tommy Robredo under the Centre Court roof.

For the first time in his career, Rafael Nadal will wake today with a first-round loss at a grand slam against his name, but he is adamant that it will not be long before he is back to put that right.

The departure of Rafael Nadal caused the major stir on the opening day of play at this year’s Wimbledon.

Roger Federer will seek solace in the grass courts after a humbling defeat by Jo-Wilfried Tsonga at the French Open.

Novak Djokovic wants to win the French Open in the memory of his former coach and mentor, Jelena Gencic.

Defending champion Roger Federer was stunned by Japan’s Kei Nishikori in the last 16 of the Mutua Madrid Open.

Andy Murray crashed out of the Monte Carlo Masters with a straight-sets defeat to Switzerland’s Stanislas Wawrinka which saw him win only three games.

Maria Sharapova has denied inside knowledge will be a factor in her Australian Open semi-final against Li Na tomorrow and insisted it will come down to “execution” on the day.

Novak Djokovic showed no ill-effects from his marathon encounter with Stanislas Wawrinka by brushing aside the challenge of Tomas Berdych at the Australian Open.

Andy Murray eased through to his ninth successive grand slam quarter-final with a straightforward victory over fatigued Frenchman Gilles Simon at the Australian Open.

World number one Novak Djokovic kept his hopes of a third successive Australian Open title alive with an extraordinary defeat of Stanislas Wawrinka yesterday.

World number one Novak Djokovic kept his hopes of a third successive Australian Open title alive with an extraordinary defeat of Stanislas Wawrinka.

Novak Djokovic laughed off suggestions he became embroiled in ’exhibition tennis’ before seeing off Radek Stepanek at the Australian Open today.

Novak Djokovic could not hide his satisfaction after completing the first step on the road to a place in history at the Australian Open.

Maria Sharapova last night maintained her remarkable record in deciding sets to defeat Marion Bartoli and reach the US Open semi-finals for the first time since winning the title six years ago.

Fourth seed David Ferrer continued his smooth progress through the draw with a straight-sets victory over Richard Gasquet to reach the US Open quarter-finals for the second time.

Andy Roddick set up a blockbuster fourth-round clash against Juan Martin Del Potro at the US Open as he kept the fat lady at bay for at least a couple more days.

David Ferrer battled his way past Lleyton Hewitt to reach the fourth round of the US Open on Sunday while defending champion Novak Djokovic continued his New York stroll.

Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray won their opening matches at the Western & Southern Open in straight sets.

Nikolay Davydenko upset Alexandr Dolgopolov in the first round of the Western & Southern Open at Cincinnati.

Novak Djokovic is targeting Olympic gold in London and his place among the sporting immortals.