Maria Sharapova ended Justine Henin's 32-match winning run to advance to the Australian Open semifinals for the fourth straight year. In one of the most consistent performances of her career, fifth-seeded Sharapova thrashed the world number one 6-4 6-0.

Henin, who suffered her last 6-0 rout back in 2002, hasn't been playing her best tennis in Melbourne and her shaky performance enabled powerful Sharapova to finish the match with such an impressive score. I'm sure the final result surprised everyone!

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Top seed Justine Henin had no trouble with Su-Wei Hsieh of Taipei, beating the world number 158, 6-2 6-2 to advance to the Australian Open quarterfinals. Her opponent will be Maria Sharapova who also quickly finished her fourth round match as she lost only two games to fellow Russian Elena Dementieva.

This quarterfinal clash promises a lot at least judging by their last meeting, in the final of the Sony Ericsson Championships in Madrid. Read more »

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Top seed Justine Henin of Belgium reached the last 16 of the Australian Open on Friday with a hard-fought 7-5 6-4 win over seed No.25 Francesca Schiavone of Italy.

Schiavone was concentrated and performed very well, but you need to be perfect if you want to defeat Henin, even if she is not playing her best tennis, which was the case on Friday.

There were five service breaks in the first set, and three of them went to Henin so she won the close opening set. In seemed that Henin would easily win the second set as she was 4-1 up, but Schiavone battled back and had two break points to level at 5-5. Still, Schiavone could not convert and and Henin closed out the match with three straight points.

In the fourth round, Justine Henin will face Taiwan's Hsieh Su-wei before a possible meeting with Maria Sharapova. (via BBC, photo Getty Images)

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World No.1 Justine Henin of Belgium won the Medibank International in Sydney, while world No.42 Eleni Daniilidou of Greece won the Moorilla Hobart International in Hobart.

Justine Henin won her 28th match in a row beating world No.2 Svetlana Kuznetsova 4-6, 6-2, 6-4 in the final of the Medibank International. It was not an easy victory for Henin, but she overcame the challenge and beat Kuznetsova for the 16th time in her career. Read more »

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Justine Henin has added the 2007 United States Sports Academy Female Athlete of the Year award to her already impressive list of achievements. It's the first time Justine has won this very popular American sports award.

The online ballot was presented by United States' daily newspaper - the USA TODAY and communications giant MSNBC. The poll received hundreds of thousands of votes from all around the world, and Henin took first place on the female side. Second place went to Venus Williams, while American swimmer Natalie Coughlin finished in third place. (via Justine Henin's site)

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