JOHN ISNER and Nicolas Mahut’s first-round Wimbledon encounter will today go into a third day after a titanic battle yesterday that will go down as one of the most remarkable ever witnessed at the All-England Club.

Third seed Novak Djokovic overcame the brutal serve of Taylor Dent to ensure a welcome early conclusion to the second match of his Wimbledon campaign.

Roger Federer recovered from a first-set wobble to cruise into the third round of the French Open after a rain-hit victory over Alejandro Falla.

Lleyton Hewitt will begin the defence of his US Men’s Clay Court title against Indian lucky loser Somdev Dewarman following a busy day of first round play in Houston, Texas.

Top seed Andy Roddick made light work of his second-round clash at the SAP Open in San Jose today.

World number one Roger Federer sent out an ominous warning to his rivals with the most comfortable of second-round victories over Victor Hanescu at the Australian Open today.

Top seed Nikolay Davydenko cruised into the quarter-finals of the ATP Proton Malaysian Open in Kuala Lumpur this evening with a straight-sets win against Taylor Dent.

Injury-torn American Taylor Dent promised Andy Murray a battle for every point as he set up a third-round meeting with the world number two at the US Open last night.

Roger Federer’s quest for his first title of 2009 remained on course with a straight sets 6-3 6-2 win over Taylor Dent.

Dinara Safina and Ana Ivanovic crashed out of the Sony Ericsson Open in the third round today, while sisters Venus and Serena Williams advanced.

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.

Third seed and last year's runner-up Lleyton Hewitt will begin his quest for the Australian Open title with a first round match against Czech Robin Vik.

British number one Tim Henman believes the emergence of Scottish youngster Andy Murray is excellent news for his own game.

Top seed Roger Federer booked his place in the last 16 of the US Open with a 6-3 7-6 (8/6) 6-2 victory against Olivier Rochus at Flushing Meadows.

RAFAEL NADAL was left licking his wounds yesterday after his US Open campaign came to a shuddering halt at the hands of American wildcard James Blake.

Third seed Lleyton Hewitt advanced to the fourth round of the US Open today after a thrilling five-set victory against Taylor Dent.

World number one Roger Federer put in an uncharacteristic error-filled display in his 100th Grand Slam match but still managed a 7-5 7-5 7-6 (7/2) victory over Fabrice Santoro in the second round of the US Open.

ROGER FEDERER eased into the Wimbledon quarter-finals with a 6-3 6-4 7-6 victory over Spain’s Juan Carlos Ferrero.

Former champion Lleyton Hewitt held off a spirited challenge from big-serving American Taylor Dent to reach his third quarter-final.

SECOND seed Andy Roddick became embroiled in a bitter row after surviving a scare against unheralded Italian Daniele Bracciali to book his place in the third round at Wimbledon after a rain interrupted day yesterday.

Former champion Lleyton Hewitt was made to work unexpectedly hard by unseeded American Justin Gimelstob before reaching the fourth round for the fourth time in six years.

Andy Roddick will not be defending his title at the $6.56m (€5m) Nasdaq-100 Open.

Andre Agassi’s quest for a sixth SAP Open title got off to a good start.

FOUR-TIME champion Andre Agassi used lobs and stinging passes to hold off Taylor Dent 7-5, 7-6 (7-3), 6-1 yesterday, reaching the fourth round of the Australian Open and moving closer to a showdown with Roger Federer.

Andre Agassi played down talk of his imminent retirement after booking his place in the third round of the US Open at Flushing Meadow.

France's Mary Pierce has beaten Venus Williams in the women's singles event in Athens.

Greg Rusedski reclaimed his place in the world’s top 100 by out-gunning fellow big-server Alexander Popp 7-6 (7/5) 7-6 (7/5) at the Hall of Fame Tennis Championship at Newport, Rhode Island.

REIGNING Wimbledon champion Roger Federer dodged the showers and weathered a storming fightback from Lleyton Hewitt amid the gathering gloom on Centre Court last night to book a place in tomorrow’ semi-finals against 10th seed Sebastien Grosjean, of France.

Andy Roddick fired the fastest serve ever seen at Wimbledon as he battled past Holland’s Sjeng Schalken into the semi-finals.

ANDY Roddick and Roger Federer reached the round of 16 at Wimbledon while thousands of fans lined up to be part of the third People’s Sunday in 127 years.

Second seed Andy Roddick has joined Roger Federer in the fourth round of Wimbledon, beating Taylor Dent 6-3, 7-6 (8-6), 7-6 (7-1).

World number one Andy Roddick blasted his way into the fourth round of the Australian Open today with a comprehensive straight-sets victory over fellow American Taylor Dent.

World number one Andy Roddick survived a tough first-round clash at the Australian Open – but for last year’s finalist Rainer Schuettler it was another day to forget.

Fourth-seeded American Andy Roddick was anxious to complete his fourth-round singles match against Xavier Malisse at the US Open.

Andre Agassi survived his biggest test of the US Open thus far but got some help from Taylor Dent's injured right leg.

Rain has delayed the start of the second week at the US Open.

ANDRE AGASSI walked onto the court at Arthur Ashe Stadium for the third day in a row, but the world number one has still managed to finish only one match in that span as rain halted the US Open yesterday.

Jennifer Capriati solved a puzzling opponent to advance to the fourth round of the US Open.

Andre Agassi overpowered Andreas Vinciguerra of Sweden to move into the third round of the US Open at Flushing Meadows with a 7-6 (7/1) 6-1 6-4 victory.

The red clay of Roland Garros splattered the white shirt of Andre Agassi but the years refuse to cling to tennis’ version of Peter Pan.

Top seed Andy Roddick survived a tight second set for a straight sets win over Spaniard Alberto Martin in the first round of the Internationaler Raiffeisen Grand Prix in St Polten.

WHEN Paul Carbery steered Bobbyjo to victory in the Martell Grand National in 1999 there was more than an element of DNA symmetry to the performance.

Andre Agassi and Pete Sampras were first-day winners, while Yevgeny Kafelnikov was upset by Scott Draper at the Kooyong Classic exhibition tennis tournament in Melbourne.