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GSTAAD, Switzerland (AFP) - Rejuvenated German Nicolas Kiefer made the switch from grass back to clay, mowing down Italian qualifier Gianluca Naso 6-3, 6-2 on Tuesday to reach the second round of the Gstaad Open.

GSTAAD, Switzerland (AFP) - Frenchman Paul-Henri Mathieu will face a repeat of his recent losing Wimbledon match after Croatian Marin Cilic booked a place against the top seed at the Gstaad Open on Monday.

PARIS (AFP) - Rafael Nadal's epic final victory over Roger Federer at Wimbledon has seen him close the gap on the world number one to 545 points in the ATP rankings released on Monday.

LONDON (AFP) - Rafael Nadal dethroned five-time champion Roger Federer as king of Wimbledon on Sunday with an epic 6-4, 6-4, 6-7 (5/7), 6-7 (8/10), 9-7 win in one of the greatest Grand Slam finals of all time.

LONDON (AFP) - Newly-crowned Wimbledon champion Rafael Nadal savoured his greatest ever victory but insisted that dethroned All England Club king Roger Federer was still the best player in the world.

LONDON (AFP) - Roger Federer described his Wimbledon final defeat by Rafael Nadal as the most painful loss of his career, but vowed that he is not about to give up his world number one status to his great rival.

LONDON (AFP) - Rafael Nadal beat defending champion Roger Federer in five sets to win the Wimbledon men's singles title on Sunday.

LONDON (AFP) - Play in the Wimbledon men's singles final resumed on Sunday evening after a second interruption for rain with the match between Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer delicately poised at 2-2 and 40-40 in the fifth and final set.

LONDON (AFP) - Defending champion Roger Federer won a fourth-set tiebreak to force the Wimbledon final against Rafael Nadal into a decisive fifth set on Sunday.

LONDON (Reuters) - Rafael Nadal stands on the verge of becoming the best player in the world, even if Monday's rankings showed that he was still number two.

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - Total prize money at the U.S. Open will top $20 million for the first time this year, with the men's and women's singles champions each earning a tournament-record $1.5 million.

WASHINGTON - Three days after losing to her sister in tennis' showcase event, Serena Williams awoke Tuesday morning at her part-time home in Paris. She flew to London, where she had a layover of a few hours, then hopped a trans-Atlantic flight in which she "slept pretty much the whole way."

MADRID (Reuters) - The Spanish media have proclaimed Rafael Nadal the best player in the world after his epic final victory over Roger Federer at Wimbledon.

NEWPORT, R.I. - Top-seeded Mardy Fish is in for some excitement this week even before he plays on the Hall of Fame's grass courts.

PALERMO, Sicily - Third-seeded Aravane Rezai and No. 6 Yanina Wickmayer were upset in the first round of the Palermo International on Tuesday.

LONDON (Reuters) - Rafael Nadal punched a mighty hole through Roger Federer's aura of invincibility on Sunday to become the first Spaniard in over four decades to win the Wimbledon men's singles crown.

STUTTGART, Germany - One day after winning the Wimbledon title for the first time, Rafael Nadal pulled out of the Mercedes Cup on Monday with muscle pain above his right knee.

BUDAPEST, Hungary - Greta Arn of Hungary upset fourth-seeded Iveta Benesova of the Czech Republic 6-4, 6-4 Tuesday in the first round of the Gaz de France Budapest Grand Prix.

LONDON (Reuters) - Venus Williams would never swap one of her five beloved Wimbledon singles titles for a different grand slam trophy but she said on Sunday that Olympic gold medals were an even bigger prize.

WIMBLEDON, England - Rafael Nadal's epic victory over Roger Federer in the Wimbledon final allowed him to significantly narrow the gap at the top of the ATP rankings.

STUTTGART, Germany - Sixth-seeded Agustin Calleri beat Jurgen Melzer of Austria 7-6 (3), 6-4 to advance to the second round of the rain-plagued Mercedes Cup on Tuesday.

LONDON (Reuters) - Venus and Serena Williams returned to Center Court three hours after doing battle in the singles final to secure the Wimbledon doubles title with a 6-2 6-2 thumping of American Lisa Raymond and Australian Samantha Stosur on Saturday.

WIMBLEDON, England - With darkness enveloping Centre Court and the clock showing 9:15 p.m., Rafael Nadal watched as Roger Federer's errant forehand settled into the net, ending what might have been the greatest men's final on the greatest stage in tennis.

BASTAD, Sweden - Wimbledon semifinalist Marat Safin rebounded from an early 3-0 deficit to beat Marc Lopez of Spain 7-6 (6), 7-5 in the first round of the clay-court Swedish Open on Tuesday.

LONDON (Reuters) - Venus Williams survived a fierce onslaught from Serena Williams to win her fifth Wimbledon singles title on Saturday, finally subduing her younger sister 7-5 6-4.

WIMBLEDON, England - A look at Wimbledon on Sunday:

GSTAAD, Switzerland - Dominik Meffert won his first ATP Tour match of the year Tuesday, upsetting Andreas Seppi of Italy 6-2, 5-7, 6-4 in the first round of the Swiss Open.

LONDON (Reuters) - Roger Federer said on Saturday his Wimbledon final opponent Rafael Nadal had made him a tougher player because of their great rivalry.

WIMBLEDON, England - After moving within a victory of his sixth consecutive Wimbledon title, Roger Federer found time to catch only a few games of Rafael Nadal's semifinal. Federer does have a DVD of Nadal's match, but he wasn't exactly rushing to use it for scouting purposes before they meet for the Wimbledon championship Sunday.