World number one Serena Williams has warned her Australian Open rivals she will be tough to beat after dropping just three games to reach the quarter-finals of the Sydney International on Tuesday. The 11-times Grand Slam champion had a 70-minute workout in temperatures topping 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit) in her first match of the season and put away ...

French Open semifinalist Dominika Cibulkova of Slovakia has pulled out of the U.S. Open, citing a rib injury. Cibulkova is No. 16 in this week's WTA rankings and she would have been seeded at the year's last Grand Slam tournament. Her withdrawal allows ...

PARIS (Reuters) - Dinara Safina and Svetlana Kuznetsova, the world's best women claycourters in 2009, relied on their wealth of experience to set up an all-Russian final at the French Open on Thursday. Safina, in pursuit of a maiden grand slam title, barely resembled a player who tops the world rankings but that did not stop her beating Slovakian teenager ...