Serena Williams, of the United States, reacts after winning a game against Jelena Jankovic, of Serbia, during the women's finals championship match at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York, Sunday, (Monday morning Malaysian time) - AP Poto/Charles Krupa

All these years later, Serena Williams is back as the U.S. Open champion, and she's back at No. 1, too.

Tennis

FedEx checks in

Roger Federer stormed into his fifth successive US Open final on Saturday but the rest of the day’s play was washed out, tossing the last weekend of the Open into disarray.

Headlines

BAM set to appoint chief coaches for singles and doubles

The Badminton Association of Malaysia (BAM) are likely to opt for two chief coaches in their new coaching and training set-up geared towards the 2012 London Olympics.

Table Tennis: Tianwei serves up a stunner

Singapore's Feng Tianwei shocked the Chinese camp when she bundled out reigning world champion Guo Yue to advance to the semi-finals of the Volkswagen World Cup women's table tennis tournament at the Kuala Lumpur Badminton Stadium last night.

Squash: Nicol in seventh heaven with Dutch victory

Top seed Nicol David gunned down her seventh consecutive Women's International Squash Players Association (Wispa) title with a convincing win over world number two Natalie Grinham of Holland in the Dutch Open final in Amsterdam yesterday.