Rafa Nadal and Justine Henin, the two best clay court players in their divisions, powered to first round wins as other in-form players strutted their stuff on Tuesday.

On Monday, challenges came from unlikely sources on the men’s side but heat management may have saved Andy Murray and helped Novak Djokovic as the 3 and 4 seeds lived to see another day.

Federer and Nadal stay on track for final round pairing in Madrid.

Unflappable, poised, experienced and relentless, Andy Roddick went about his work on Sunday.

America’s Slam-Bang-Thank-You-Ma’am kid is gone! In his place is a motivated, highly professional, media magnet and experienced strategist extraordinaire, 27 year-old global Nebraskan Andy Roddick.

Three heavyweights have been joined by upset specialist Tomas Berdych of Czechoslovakia to battle in the semifinals of the Men’s Draw in Miami at the Sony Ericsson on Friday.

Tournament organizer’s could not have charted Wednesday’s Men’s Quarterfinal outcomes any better. The lower draw will now feature a semifinal pairing between two of the tour’s big names and biggest guns when American Andy Roddick challenges Spain’s Rafa Nadal on Friday.

He is mortal, after all. The question is, is the greatest player to ever hold a racket more mortal than ever? For the second week in a row, top seed Roger Federer took an unexpected tumble on Tuesday in Miami.

Rehabilitated David Nalbandian has always been tough on Rafa Nadal, and the one-time world number three showed why on Sunday.

A remarkable day of men’s tennis was capped late Friday night when American Andy Roddick steadied the ship in time to oust Russian Igor Andreev 6-4, 6-4. The 27-year old American only faced one break point and fired 12 aces to hold serve throughout the match. Roddick felt the Miami humidity was slowing the ball and adjustments were needed after the relatively fast conditions at Indian Wells.