Rafael Nadal News

There is no dispute that Rafael Nadal and Serena Williams are the clear-cut favorites to win the French Open.

Andy Murray made it official today withdrawing from the French Open. The 26-year-old Murray cited ongoing back issues that he aggravated last week in Rome as the reason.

Okay, so the men's final in Rome was an avert-your-eyes blowout in which Rafael Nadal razed the game of Roger Federer .

Garrett Boleslav and Brent Boleslav practice serves before their Class A Section III semifinal match against Baldwinsville on Monday at Skytop.

The Rafael Nadal 2013 Clay Domination Tour continues apace. Nadal took the Italian Open on Sunday, one week after winning the Madrid Open.

Sixth-seeded Jarkko Nieminen waited out a two-hour rain delay before putting a quick end to a run of two first-round clay losses with a 6-3, 6-1 defeat of Lukas Lacko at the PowerHorse Cup on Monday.

With his emphatic win today at the Rome Italian Open final, Rafael Nadal improved his head-to-head record over rival Roger Federer to 20-10 and 13-2 on the clay courts.

Serena Williams didn't lose a set on the way to capturing the Italian Open for the second time in her career.

Anyone hoping to put an end to Rafael Nadal 's French Open dominance has to be disappointed with his Rome Masters performance.

After two rather sluggish semifinals, the right guys have emerged to the Sunday Rome Masters final: It's Roger Federer v Rafael Nadal, episode 30! More on the rivalry in a bit, but first a quick recap of today's play.

Australia's Will Tomlinson has successfully defended his International Boxing Organisation super featherweight world title with a hard-fought win over smiling South African Malcolm Klassen.

Serena Williams is one victory away from winning her fourth consecutive title this year - with the French Open only one week away.

A routine win turned into a nightmare today for Novak Djokovic. Playing Tomas Berdych, a player he owned 13-1 in their head-to-head, Djokovic led 62, 52 before losing five straight games and eventually the match 26, 75, 64.

We counted Roger Federer out for the clay-court season this year. After all, he didn't even bother preparing for the red dirt.

Tomas Berdych recorded his first win in three years over Novak Djokovic on Friday as he battled back from the brink of defeat to reach the semi-finals of the Internazionali BNL d'Italia with a 2-6, 7-5, 6-4 victory.

Rafael Nadal of Spain enters the 2013 French Open as an underdog due to his world ranking.

A match against Rafael Nadal is the reward Ernests Gulbis gets for surviving Viktor Troicki's temper tantrum.

Back pain forced Andy Murray to retire midway through his second-round match at the Italian Open on Wednesday.

Nadal, travel expert: Or is he? Rafael Nadal did a sitdown with CNN to explain what he's learned from years of traveling the globe and readers walk away learning, well, almost nothing.

Six-time champion Rafael Nadal overcame one of the worst opening sets of his career to edge Latvian qualifier Ernests Gulbis 1-6, 7-5, 6-4 Thursday and reach the Italian Open quarterfinals.