ANDY MURRAY meets world No1 Roger Federer today in the first round of the Dubai Championship ... He said: "It's tough but I'm excited to get the chance to play ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Roger Federer lost his second straight match, beaten by Andy Murray 6-7 (6), 6-3, 6-4 Monday in the first round of the Dubai Tennis Championships. This was Federer's first match since he lost to Novak Djokovic in the ...

Murray, ranked 11th in the world, powered past Federer with 10 aces and broke Federer's serve twice ... It was the second consecutive match loss for Federer, who last played in the Australian Open semifinals, losing to Novak ...

Murray then broke Federer in the fifth game of the third set before he served out for a 6-7 (6/8) 6-3 6-4 win, his second straight victory over the Swiss having defeated him in Cincinnati in 2006. Both players confidently held serve in a ...

It was the fourth Federer-Sampras exhibition; Federer won two of their three encounters in Asia last year ... After the match, Federer referred to Sampras as "my childhood ...

Federer has lost his last two competitive outings, falling to Novak Djokovic in the Australian Open semi-final and then making a first-round exit to Andy Murray in Dubai as he continues his recovery from glandular fever. (c) 2008 Evening ...

ANDY Murray is relishing the chance to gauge his progress when he takes on Roger Federer in round one of the Dubai Open today ... "It's a tough draw but I'm really excited to get the chance to play Federer," said ...

1 Federer in straight sets Saturday, with the lopsided score -- 6-3, 6-2 -- making it even more of a stunner ... Federer, the Swiss star who has seemed almost invincible most of the past five years, has looked vulnerable so far this ...

By Alfred De Montesquiou, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Andy Murray upset Roger Federer in the first round of the Dubai Tennis Championships on Monday, handing the top-ranked Swiss his second loss in a row ... Federer, ...

He is the first player other than Federer or Rafael Nadal to win one of the big four championships since Marat Safin triumphed in Melbourne in 2005 but the talented 20-year-old, who last year rose from 16th to third in the world rankings, is far ...

-- Andy Roddick whacked one last thunderous serve to finally beat Roger Federer, then slowly walked to the net with his head down, as if unsure how to celebrate such a rare achievement ... Roddick dominated with his serve and took advantage of ...

1 player, Roger Federer of Switzerland 6-3, 6-2, and Djokovic beat world No ... Fish ended Federer's 41-match win streak over American ...

1 Sampras 6-3, 6-7 (4), 7-6 (6) in an encounter that certainly doesn't settle the "Who is better?" debate, given that one participant is 26 and the other is 36, nothing more than bragging rights was on the line, and, frankly, who can truly know how hard ...

Federer, going for his fourth Indian Wells title in five years, reached the semifinals when his quarterfinal opponent, Tommy Haas, had to forfeit because of a sinus infection ... The 26-year-old Fish, making his sixth appearance in the desert ...

By disposing of Roger Federer in the first round Murray had opened up his route to a possible third final of the year, but instead it will be Davydenko, a player he had beaten in their three previous meetings, who will meet Feliciano Lopez, the world No ...