$31,500 – that’s the total amount of fines being collected at the 2009 US Open according to tournament spokesman Chris Widmaier.

The majority of this is obviously covered by the $10,000 fine incurred by Serena Williams for unsportsmanlike conduct for abusing a line judge during her semi-final loss to Kim Clijsters.  Williams was also fined $500 for racquet abuse during the same match. 

This amount is only 3% of her prize money for reaching the Semi-finals.  However, the fine coul...

Kim Clijsters claimed her biggest win since coming out of retirement as she defeated third seed Venus Williams 6-0 0-6 6-4 in the US Open fourth round.

The former world number one, in her first Grand Slam for two years, breezed through the opening set with a flurry of powerful winners.

Williams regrouped and came blazing back, but was undone as the Belgian clung to a solitary break in the third.

Serena Williams advanced with a 6-2 6-0 demolition of Daniela Hantuchova.

Clijsters and Ve...

The Williams sisters had to utilise all their resolve and battling prowess to progress into the US Open fourth round.

Defending champion Serena snatched the first set against Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez and then survived a second-set fightback before prevailing 6-3 7-5.

Third seed Venus produced an erratic display against Magdalena Rybarikova and, after struggling on serve throughout, eventually won 6-2 7-5.

Serena now faces Daniela Hantuchova, with Venus up against Kim Clijsters.

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Defending champion Serena Williams gave a stunning display of power tennis as she demolished Hungary's Melinda Czink in the second round of the US Open.

The American, playing in front of a record night-session crowd of 24,206, won 6-1 6-1 in 53 minutes.

Her sister Venus, the third seed, came through her earlier match with Bethanie Mattek-Sands despite wearing heavy strapping on her injured knee.

Venus made plenty of errors but still saw off the world number 124, 6-4 6-2.

Venus was aga...

Third seed Venus Williams was three points from defeat before recovering to beat Russia's Vera Dushevina in the first round of the US Open.

Williams, 29, required treatment to her left knee after just three games of the first of the night session matches.

And Dushevina, the world number 47, was close to a shock victory in game 10 of the second set before Williams came back to win 6-7 (5-7) 7-5 6-3.

Williams will face fellow American Bethanie Mattek-Sands in round two.

It was a wildly ...

Roger Federer dropped a set and it didn’t rain on Wimbledon Day 5. The rain had been forecast, the dropped set had not.

At the start of the day, the weather forecast had predicted a 40% chance of heavy rain. But few people would have expected Philipp Kohlschreiber to get anything from his match against Federer given that he had lost in straight sets to the Swiss in three previous meetings.

There was not a drop of rain but Kohlschreiber gave Federer a contest 6-3, 6-2, 6-7 (5-7), 6-1.

Day One of the 123rd Wimbledon Championships – and it was a disaster. Well, it was if you had just spent a fortune on a new roof for the Centre Court. So, what sort of weather did we have on the dawn of the brave new age of life with a roof? Sunshine, a few clouds and hours and hours of uninterrupted play. Not a drop of rain to be seen. Rats! The roof will have to wait for another day.

Other than that, Day One could not have been better. The brand-spanking new No.2 Court was opened by th...