Tennis News

WIMBLEDON, England - Rainer Schuettler has reached the Wimbledon semifinals for the first time, beating Arnaud Clement 6-3, 5-7, 7-6 (6), 6-7 (7), 8-6 in a match that took two days to complete.

PARIS (AFP) - Rafael Nadal's epic final victory over Roger Federer at Wimbledon has seen him close the gap on the world number one to 545 points in the ATP rankings released on Monday.

WIMBLEDON, England - Justin Gimelstob's disparaging comments about Anna Kournikova have created a stir at Wimbledon, where World Team Tennis teammate Serena Williams denounced the remarks as unprofessional.

LONDON (AFP) - Rafael Nadal dethroned five-time champion Roger Federer as king of Wimbledon on Sunday with an epic 6-4, 6-4, 6-7 (5/7), 6-7 (8/10), 9-7 win in one of the greatest Grand Slam finals of all time.

LONDON (AFP) - Newly-crowned Wimbledon champion Rafael Nadal savoured his greatest ever victory but insisted that dethroned All England Club king Roger Federer was still the best player in the world.

LONDON (AFP) - Roger Federer described his Wimbledon final defeat by Rafael Nadal as the most painful loss of his career, but vowed that he is not about to give up his world number one status to his great rival.

LONDON (AFP) - Rafael Nadal beat defending champion Roger Federer in five sets to win the Wimbledon men's singles title on Sunday.

LONDON (AFP) - Play in the Wimbledon men's singles final resumed on Sunday evening after a second interruption for rain with the match between Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer delicately poised at 2-2 and 40-40 in the fifth and final set.

LONDON (AFP) - Defending champion Roger Federer won a fourth-set tiebreak to force the Wimbledon final against Rafael Nadal into a decisive fifth set on Sunday.

LONDON (AFP) - Roger Federer kept the defence of his Wimbledon men's singles title alive on Sunday by winning the third set of the final on a tiebreak after Rafael Nadal had claimed the first two.

LONDON (AFP) - Nine-time Wimbledon champion Martina Navratilova believes that Venus Williams's fifth All England Club title proves that the women's tour is in good health.

LONDON (AFP) - Rafael Nadal won the second set of the Wimbledon men's singles final on Sunday to open up a two-set lead over defending champion Roger Federer.

LONDON (AFP) - Rafael Nadal won the first set of the Wimbledon men's singles final 6-4 against defending champion Roger Federer on Sunday.

LONDON (AFP) - Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal got their eagerly-awaited Wimbledon final underway on Sunday after rain showers, which delayed the start by 35 minutes, relented.

LONDON (AFP) - Venus Williams outhit younger sister Serena to claim her fifth Wimbledon crown in exhilarating fashion here on Saturday.

LONDON (AFP) - Canada's Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia won the Wimbledon mens' doubles title on Saturday with a 7-6 (14/12), 6-7 (3/7), 6-3, 6-3 win over Jonas Bjorkman of Sweden and Kevin Ullyett of Zimbabwe.

LONDON (AFP) - Serena Williams shrugged off her heartbreaking Wimbledon defeat to big sister Venus to predict that the two Americans are far from finished as Grand Slam winners.

LONDON (AFP) - Venus Williams admitted she would love to go on and match Martina Navratilova's record of nine Wimbledon titles after overcoming sister Serena to notch up title number five at the All England Club.

LONDON (AFP) - Roger Federer won't be knocked out of his confident stride by Rafael Nadal in Sunday's Wimbledon final even if the Spaniard embarks on a Centre Court go-slow.

LONDON (AFP) - Venus Williams won her fifth Wimbledon title with a 7-5, 6-4 victory over sister Serena in the final here on Saturday.

LONDON (AFP) - Defending champion Venus Williams won the first set of the Wimbledon women's singles final 7-5 on Saturday against sister Serena.

LONDON (AFP) - Marat Safin, one of the few current players to have tasted Grand Slam success, believes the rivalry between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal will go down as the greatest in the history of tennis.

LONDON (AFP) - Serena Williams joked earlier this week that she would steal her sister Venus's breakfast on Saturday if they both made it to another Wimbledon singles final.

LONDON (AFP) - John McEnroe, who won the last of his three Wimbledon titles two years before Rafael Nadal was born, admitted he was stunned by the power of the Spaniard when they practiced together on Friday.

LONDON (AFP) - Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal will renew their epic rivalry on Sunday when the world's two greatest players meet in a third successive Wimbledon final.

LONDON (AFP) - Serena and Venus Williams warmed up for their Wimbledon singles final by teaming up to reach the doubles title match as well on Friday.

LONDON (AFP) - Roger Federer marched into his sixth consecutive Wimbledon final with an awe-inspiring demolition of the revitalised Marat Safin on Friday.

LONDON (AFP) - Roger Federer's Wimbledon waltz collides with the wild world of Marat Safin on Friday as the volatile Russian looks to complete his All England Club fairytale and stop the Swiss superstar in his elegant tracks.

LONDON (AFP) - Venus and Serena Williams, who boast six Wimbledon titles between them, will clash for the third time in an All England Club final on Saturday.

LONDON (AFP) - Germany's Rainer Schuettler defeated Frenchman Arnaud Clement on Thursday to reach the Wimbledon semi-finals in a tie which equalled the record for the second longest match in All England Club history.