Fourth-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska reached the WTA Championships semi-finals on Friday but needed three-and-a-half hours to beat Italian seventh seed Sara Errani in a record-setting clash. Radwanska fought back to win …

Top-seeded David Ferrer beat his Spanish Davis Cup teammate Nicolas Almagro 6-3 7-5 on Friday to reach the semi-finals of the Valencia Open tennis event. World No.5 Ferrer was little …

Juan Martin del Potro struggled into the Swiss Indoors semi-finals on Friday by beating South African Kevin Anderson 3-6 7-6 (7-3) 6-2, a day after qualifying for the year-ending World …

Maria Sharapova swept past Sam Stosur 6-0 6-3 at the WTA Championships on Friday to retain a small chance of finishing the year as the No.1-ranked player in the world. …

Samantha Stosur failed to make the most of her late call-up to the WTA Tour Championships with the Australian suffering a three set loss to world No.7 Sara Errani. Handed …

David Ferrer cruised to an easy 6-4 6-2 victory over fellow Spaniard Albert Ramos on Thursday to reach the quarter-finals of the Valencia Open. Ferrer, seeded No.1 at the indoor …

Juan Martin del Potro dominated in a 7-5 6-1 win over American Brian Baker on Thursday to advance to the quarter-finals of the Swiss Indoors tennis tournament. The second-seeded Argentine …

Serena Williams clinched her third win at the WTA Championships on Thursday with a 6-4 6-4 victory over Victoria Azarenka that prevented the Belarusian guaranteeing the end-of-year No.1 ranking. World …

Spanish tennis superstar Rafael Nadal, out of action since June, will miss the ATP Tour Finals in London and also next week’s Paris indoor event at Bercy owing to his …

And Australian sports’ fans most popular athlete for 2012 is … AFL superstar Buddy Franklin? No Socceroos goalscoring dynamo Tim Cahill? No Golden girl Sally Pearson? No How about champion …

Victoria Azarenka took a long and vital step towards the year-end world No.1 ranking by saving two match points in a heroic tussle against Angelique Kerber at the WTA Championships …

Lleyton Hewitt has failed to back up from his shock first-round win at the Valencia Open, going down to Croatian qualifier Ivan Dodig on Wednesday. Two days after upsetting world …

Roger Federer was put to the test at his home Swiss Indoors but conjured up a 6-3 6-7 (6-8) 7-5 defeat of Thomaz Bellucci to advance to the quarter-finals. The …

Serena Williams has overcome the emotions that impelled her to smash a racket and earned her a code violation warning to advance to the verge of the semi-finals of the …

Juan Martin del Potro has overcome a first set back problem to make a winning start at the Swiss Indoors with a 6-4 6-1 defeat of Alejandro Falla. The South …

WTA Champion Petra Kvitova has abandoned her title defence due to a viral illness, a day after losing her opener 6-4 6-1 to Agnieszka Radwanska. The error-strewn, emotionally-fraught loss to …

World No.6 Petra Kvitova will lead title holders the Czech Republic in the Fed Cup final against Serbia in Prague on November 3-4, the Czech team says. Kvitova, last year’s …

Former Australian Davis Cup coach Roger Rasheed says Bernard Tomic needs a heart-to-heart with his father to nut out just what he wants from tennis. Tomic’s troubles continued on Tuesday …