Williams has been fighting Sjogren’s Syndrome and hasn’t played a sanctioned match since the U.S. Open in August.

WIMBLEDON, England _ Time and again after losing a point, Venus Williams rolled her eyes, slumped her shoulders and let out a shriek of dismay that echoed through Centre Court, reverberating off its roof. Facing the most, uh, experienced woman in the Wimbledon field _ 40-year-old Kimiko Date-Krumm of Japan _ Williams was mired in [...]

  ATH–OBIT-WAITZ   OSLO, Norway _ Grete Waitz, a Norwegian runner who won nine New York City Marathons and the silver medal at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, died Tuesday after a six-year battle with cancer. She was 57. Moved. By Nils Myklebost.   NEW/DEVELOPING:   OLY–BOA DISPUTE   LONDON _ Britain’s two major Olympic [...]

The last Jamaican man to play at Wimbledon was Richard Russell in 1970. He failed to qualify in 1972. Russell was also the last Jamaican man to appear in a Grand Slam tournament, losing in the second round in the French Open in 1974.

AUSTRALIAN OPEN MELBOURNE, Australia _ The Williams sisters hold court at the Australian Open, a back-to-back Venus-Serena doubleheader that left the siblings still in the mix for yet another Grand Slam singles title. Moved. WITH: _ MELBOURNE, Australia _ BC-TEN–AUSTRALIAN OPEN-IVANOVIC. Moved. By Tanalee Smith. _ MELBOURNE, Australia _ BC-TEN–AUSTRALIAN OPEN NOTEBOOK. Moved. By Jocelyn [...]