Elena Baltacha News

Elena Baltacha believes her Fed Cup heroics are proof that her first round defeat at last month's Australian Open was nothing more than "a blip". The Ipswich-based British number one played a talismanic role for her country as Great Britain reached the Fed Cup play-offs with victories against Portugal, Holland, Israel and Austria last week.

Israel failed to take advantage of playing at home in the Federation Cup European Group qualifiers in Eilat, as they missed out on a place in the World Group playoffs.

Judy Murray's Great Britain side completed a superb four days in Israel by beating Austria to reach the World Group II play-offs in the Fed Cup.

JUDY Murray's Great Britain team continued on a roll at the Fed Cup yesterday, whitewashing hosts Israel 3-0 to set up a play-off clash against Austria today after making it three wins out of three in their Europe & Africa Zone group.

THE pressure was on Elena Baltacha to haul Great Britain back into contention in their Fed Cup group last night after Anne Keothavong lost to Bibiane Schoofs of the Netherlands in the opening singles rubber in Eilat, Israel.

Elena Baltacha beats Michaella Krajicek 6-3 6-3 to level Great Britain's tie with the Netherlands at 1-1 in their Group C of the Europe/Africa Zone Group I tie in Israel.

Great Britain's Fed Cup campaign got off to a flying start on Wednesday as Anne Keothavong and Elena Baltacha claimed singles wins.

Judy Murray feels more focus should be put on improving British tennis at every level rather than the obsession with grand slam performances.

Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal left millions of tennis fans across the world mesmerised by their enthralling five-set Australian Open final.

British women's number one Elena Baltacha was moved to remark following her Australian Open first round loss that winning tennis matches is not as easy as Andy Murray makes it look.

Last year's finalists Kim Clijsters and Li Na both raced into the third round of the Australian Open on Wednesday.

The Golden Globes were last night and while so many were watching to see the winners and who wore what on the red carpet, tennis fans were watching the Happy Slam to see the winners and losers and who wore what on the blue courts in Melbourne.

Coverage: Watch live on Eurosport; singles finals and one men's semi-final on BBC Two/Red Button/HD channel/website; listen on BBC Radio 5 live; text commentaries and reports on the BBC Sport website Fed Cup captain Judy Murray believes there are plenty of positives to take despite five Britons crashing out of the Australian Open in the first ... (more)

The British effort at the Australian Open totally unravelled on day one with the Union Jack folded up at the end of day one with not a single set being won.

We caught up with British number one Elena Baltacha ahead of her Australian Open campaign to get her predictions and verdict on Andy Murray .

Coverage: Watch live on Eurosport; singles finals and one men's semi-final on BBC Two/Red Button/HD channel/website; listen on BBC Radio 5 live; text commentaries and reports on the BBC Sport website In the women's draw, Guernsey's Heather Watson, 19, faces third seed Victoria Azarenka, while 17-year-old Laura Robson meets 13th seed Jelena ... (more)