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At next week’s Australian Open,Roger Federer the four time champion will defend its Grand Slam title as he sets out to wrestle back the No1 ranking from Rafael Nadal.

The season has been launched by victory by Federer in Qatar Open.Then he moves to Australia where he had trailed his great Spanish rival by a whopping 3 145 ranking points.

Last year was very lucky for Nadal as he creep up to number # 1 spot in and reeled off the French, Wimbledon and US Open crowns, but Federer, the record Major leader with 16, is not prepared to stay at No2 this year.

Nadal has seven titles to defend this year, including his three Grand Slams, to preserve his rankings lead and will be under pressure if Federer can regain his spark.

At the Australian Open 2011,on Thursday,World No. 1 superstar Rafael Nadal was an easy second-round winner.

American Ryan Sweeting was blasted helpless by nine-time major champion Nadal 6-2, 6-1, 6-1 in 1 hour, 42 minutes at Melbourne Park’s Rod Laver Arena.The 24-year-old Spaniard swatted seven aces and piled up eight service breaks against the 23-year-old Sweeting.

Rafay Nadal,winner of reigning U.S. Open, Wimbledon and French Open,who captured his lone Aussie Open championship in 2009 by beating Roger Federer in the finale is now planning to break the 42 years old record to win the Grand Slam title consecutively for forth time.. Aussie legend Rod Laver won all four majors, for a true Grand Slam, way back in 1969. Laver also captured all four Slams in the same year in 1962.

For a second time, Justin Henin has announced her retirement for the second time from tennis yesterday.

She revealed that in Australia saying that she had suffered further injury to elbow she initial had an injury at Wimbledon last summer. She said she had been advised that the elbow was “too fragile and hurt so that my passion and my profession at high level cannot continue to exist.”

While Henin was no.1 in the world ranking she announced her retirement for the first time,then she face on her second comeback after twenty years in Australian Open where she reached in final,but her season was curtailed when she damaged elbow ligaments in a fall at Wimbledon. She returned in the Hopman Cup earlier this month and reached the third round here, losing to Svetlana Kuznetsova. The last win of her career was against Britain’s Elena Baltacha.

“The past few weeks there was a little bit more pain every day, but I thought my willpower would prevail. Today, the tests and my doctors are adamant,” she said.

Novak Djokovic,World number three is now eyeing to win a maiden Wimbledon title and has committed to playing at the Queen’s Club in preparation.

For his second Grand Slam triumph in Australian Open final,The Serb beat Andy Murray and has instantly turned his thoughts to winning on grass.

“Wimbledon is the most important tournament of the year for me,” the 23-year-old, who has twice reached the semi-finals at the All England Club, told the BBC.

“The Queen’s Club has got great grass courts, it’s a great atmosphere with always a packed house of spectators, and you just feel good there.

“Rafa (Nadal) and I had an incredible match in the Queen’s final in 2008 and it was the closest I ever got to a grass-court title.

“I really want to do well at Queen’s and Wimbledon this year.”