Ivan Ljubicic had been in big finals before and always lost. Then getting beat in the first round in five consecutive tournaments last year had him thinking about doing something else. "I had my problems, like everybody else," he said. All that was forgotten ...

Serena Williams and Juan Martin Del Potro have withdrawn from the upcoming ATP and WTA hardcourt tournament here with injuries, organizers said Friday. Argentina's Del Potro had hoped to be back but is still nursing a wrist injury that wrecked his Australian Open campaign. Last year's US Open champion first felt the injury in Shanghai last October and ...

Caroline Wozniacki booked a quarter-final berth at the BNP Paribas Open Tuesday as defending champion Vera Zvonareva joined the list of former champions bowing out. Wozniacki, the charismatic Danish teenager who is seeded second, survived a see-saw battle with Russian veteran Nadia Petrova to win 6-3, 3-6, 6-0. Wozniacki turned up the heat in the third set, surrendering just three ...

Justine Henin's comeback hit its first speed bump as Gisela Dulko ousted the former world number one from the second round of the Indian Wells hardcourt tennis tournament. Henin had made stunning run to the final of the Australian Open in January - in just her second tournament since a return from an 18-month retirement. But Dulko's 6-2, 1-6 ...