Sporting comebacks, often, are like breakfasting on the dregs of last night's champagne. The taste is still more or less the same but the fizz has mostly gone. But Justine Henin is looking very promising as an exception to the loose rule that sports people, once they retire ...

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Serena Williams would like to partner Andy Roddick in the 2012 London Olympics mixed doubles after combining with sister Venus to win gold in the women's event at the 2000 Sydney and 2008 Beijing Games. Mixed doubles were added to the London 2012 program last year and will include 16 teams in an elimination format. "Hopefully I ...

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - A year after Rafa Nadal reduced Roger Federer to bitter tears by dashing his hopes of a record-equaling 14th grand slam at the Rod Laver Arena, life has come full circle for the Swiss maestro. Subsequent wins at Roland Garros and Wimbledon enabled Federer to wrest back the world number one ranking from arch-rival Nadal and the hunger ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Roger Federer has done everything necessary to etch his name in the annals of tennis immortality and all that remains for the Swiss world number one is to add more grand slams to his remarkable tally of 15. Last season, Federer ticked the two remaining boxes on his career checklist when he won the French Open for the ...