On another cold night in the Gulf, Tim Henman advanced to the quarter-finals of the $1m Qatar Mobil Open with victory over Guillaume Raoux. It was in straight sets, but not straightforward, as John Roberts reports from Doha.

"A-aa-aaa-choooo! Excuse me." My interviewee, just off a package flight from Ecuador, is looking a touch green about the gills. "When you spend your entire life on the equator, all this refrigeration is a bit of a shock. Aaaaaa-chooo!"

Andrew Baker talks to John Lloyd about this week's Seniors tennis show

The brilliant Pete Sampras won his fourth ATP Tour Championship yesterday with an overwhelming victory against Yevgeny Kafelnikov.

Tim Henman waved goodbye to the British National Championships yesterday by completing a hat-trick of titles in Telford.

TIM HENMAN fought back from a set and a break of serve down to reach the final of the National Championships with a 4-6 6-3 6-3 win over Danny Sapsford at Telford.

Tim Henman had been expecting to finish a low-key week in Telford at the National Tennis Championships until his phone rang at 11.30 on Thursday night.

Tim Henman's step from the world circuit back into domestic competition suffered a surprising stumble in his opening match of the Guardian Direct British National Championships at Telford yesterday.

Tim Henman, who defeated Greg Rusedski to win the past two National Championships, defends his title at Telford this week.

Tim Henman made a limp exit from the Lyon Grand Prix last night, losing 6-3, 6-4 in barely an hour to Germany's Marc-Kevin Goellner.

The British No 1, Greg Rusedski, beaten in five sets by Goran Ivanisevic in the CA Trophy final in Vienna on Sunday, has considerably improved his chances of gaining a place in the eight-man ATP Tour Championships in Hannover next month.

From the standpoint of British tennis, it matters less where Greg Rusedski came from than where he is going... the United States Open singles final a week ago, the world's top 10 tomorrow. Fatigue, and the superior play of the top-seeded Carlos Moya, curtailed Rusedski's progress yesterday in the semi-finals of the Samsung Open, by which time he had already flogged himself into the history books.

The West Hants Club, an unlikely setting for tennis history, proudly took its place in the record books for a second time yesterday. Greg Rusedski was hailed as the first British man to reach the world's top 10 since computer rankings began in 1973.

The highlight of a hero's welcome for Greg Rusedski on his return from an unforgettable fortnight at the United States Open came at the end of the first set of his opening match in the Samsung Open at the West Hants Club yesterday.