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Former world No. 1 Dinara Safina will miss next week's WTA Tour event in Dubai because of a back injury.

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Great Britain have been handed a tough draw in the Fed Cup this week starting with Bosnia & Herzegovina in Lisbon today.

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CHARLIE Wyett covered his first Australian Open for London's Sun newspaper in 2006.

Every day during the Australian Open, former world number four Greg Rusedski joins Rob Curling in the British Eurosport studio.

And my mistake, it's Sam Stosur v Kristina Barrois on Rod Laver Arena now. The Williams sisters are both in action on Hisense later.

Scottish players have made the tennis world sit up and take notice at the Australian Open.

If anyone had been overheard at the Australian Open predicting that Kim Clijsters would win fewer games in her third-round match against Nadia Petrova than Britain's Elena Baltacha would win in hers against Dinara Safina, they would have been suspected of overdoing it in the Heineken Garden.

The Scot ran out 7-5, 6-1, 6-4 winner in just under two hours. Murray has yet to lose a set in the three games he has won so far and has dropped just 22 games in the nine sets he has played.

Well, she may yet. But a double fault on break point down - for the third time today - sees the British number one go a break down .

ELENA Baltacha last night insisted her injury torment is behind her after reaching the third round of the Australian Open.

After the disappointment of missing out on qualifying for the women's singles event at the Australian Open, British teenager Laura Robson received the next best thing: a first-round win in the women's doubles on her 16th birthday.

IT IS not often that Elena Baltacha can stride into the locker room at a Grand Slam tournament secure in the knowledge she has upstaged Maria Sharapova.

They are currently knocking up, Baltacha sporting her new green number, Bondarenko decked out in pink.

SCOTS star Elena Baltacha admits the stress of maintaining her new-found status as a top-100 player nearly cost her victory in her first-round clash in Melbourne.

British No 2 Katie O'Brien has joined compatriot Elena Baltacha in the second round of the Australian Open after a straight sets win over Patricia Mayr.

Andy Murray muscled into the second round of the Australian Open with a 6-1 6-1 6-2 demolition of South Africa's Kevin Anderson Monday.

Maria Sharapova was the richer, the taller and the louder of the two Russian Marias on the Australian Open's Rod Laver Arena today, Kirilenko was the blonder, the cuter and the sharper.