It's been the best part of a quarter of a century since a British woman last won a Women's Tennis Association singles title, so Heather Watson deserves all the toasts raised in her honour after winning the Japan Open. This may not be the most competitive of tournaments, but the fact she came back after almost winning, then losing, the second set, and saved four match points before clinching victory, shows a strength of character that augurs well.

British No 1 is narrowly foiled in his attempt to win a third successive Shanghai Masters title

World No 1 swept aside on a historic weekend for British tennis

Roger Federer races past milestones with the speed of some of the taxi drivers on the freeways here in China's largest city. The latest target in the sights of the 31-year-old Swiss is a record 300th week at the top of the world rankings, which he will achieve if he reaches at least the quarter-finals of this week's Shanghai Masters.

Andy Murray warned that the rest of the season might be tough and his point was underlined yesterday when the draw was made for this week's Japan Open in Tokyo. Murray's first match since his US Open triumph will be against Gaël Monfils, who has the game to trouble any of the best players in the world.

Novak Djokovic began the defence of his US Open title with a crushing 6-1 6-0 6-1 victory over Italy's Paolo Lorenzi on Arthur Ashe Stadium tonight.

Games gold medallist seeded to meet Federer in semi-final and world No 2 Djokovic in final

Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic have been the men in form over the last fortnight but two former Grand Slam champions are tipping Andy Murray to win the US Open, which begins in New York next week. Mats Wilander and Goran Ivanisevic both believe that the improvements Murray has made since appointing Ivan Lendl as his coach can help him to win his first Grand Slam title.

Olympic champion Andy Murray suffered a second pre-US Open setback in as many weeks when he was knocked out of the Cincinnati Masters in the third round last night, losing 6-4 6-4 to France's Jeremy Chardy.

Top three seeds Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray moved into the third round of the Cincinnati Open with relatively comfortable straight set victories last night.

Top-seeded Novak Djokovic won his second straight Rogers Cup title and third overall, beating Richard Gasquet 6-3, 6-2 last night.

The venue and the opponents will be the same but this time it will be Olympic gold at stake when Andy Murray and Roger Federer rejoin battle here tomorrow. Just four weeks after Federer ended Murray's dream of becoming Britain's first men's singles champion at Wimbledon for 76 years, the greatest player in history will again aim to deny him glory in a final on Centre Court.

Andy Murray stormed into the final of the Olympics men's tennis singles last night, setting up a dream rematch against Roger Federer, to whom he lost at the climax of Wimbledon only weeks ago.

Roger Federer’s dream of adding a singles Olympic gold medal to his extraordinary list of achievements is still alive but the Wimbledon champion had to win a record-breaking epic against Juan Martin del Potro at Wimbledon to book his place in Saturday's final.