Australian Open and Brisbane finalist Justine Henin could not overcome dangerous Argentine Gisela Dulko who won a see-saw 6-2, 1-6, 6-4 match. The 31st seed was very much in form, while Henin showed a bit of rust from an extended layoff. The serve was the key in this one as Dulko lost all three of her service games in set two only to come up with a key reversal in set three and upset her idol. Henin had won their only previous meeting.

Day six of the 2010 Australian Open could have been compared to an exhausted runner who, after finishing a race and drinking ample fluids, immediately finds a soft bed and blacks out for 10 hours of deep, reviving sleep.
Indeed, the end of the third round in the year’s first major tournament marked a point in [...]

Real sadness, the kind of heartbreak which defines the human condition in its deepest vulnerabilities and its most profound moments of loss, exists in Haiti, where a nation screams in agony and wails in lamentation.
Real hardship consists of buildings flattened, lives ended, dreams shattered amidst rubble and wreckage. There’s no question that sportswriters – whenever [...]

In her comeback from a shoulder injury, Maria Sharapova has walked a tightrope, fighting hard to win matches without the form and fitness produced by the regular rhythms of competition. On Wednesday at Wimbledon, the three-time Grand Slam champion lost her balance.
Unable to overcome a spate of untimely errors, Sharapova dropped her second-round match to [...]