By James CrookJanuary 21- The Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) have announced the World Tour calendar for 2014, featuring a new event in Rio de Janeiro in February amongst other changes.

World number one Novak Djokovic won the ATP World Tour Finals in London last yearThe Rio Open 500 event

By James CrookJanuary 6 - Andy Murray has dedicated his Brisbane Open title to friend and Team GB tennis doubles representative Ross Hutchins, who has been diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma.

week, after tasting defeat in the final in 2010 and 2011, with world number one and current holder Novak

Djokovic seeded first and four-time champion Roger Federer seeded second.Contact the writer of this

won the International Sports Press Association (AIPS) European Female Athlete of the Year award as Novak

Djokovic took the men's title for the second consecutive year

skier Marit Bjoergen in second and 44 ahead of Belarussian tennis star Victoria Azarenka in third.Novak Djokovic

By Tom DegunDecember 27 -  Jamaican sprint icon Usain Bolt and American tennis star Serena Williams have been named the United States Sports Academy's (USSA) 2012 Male and Female Athletes of the Year respectively after both producing a phenomenal 12 months.

Olympic medals make him the most decorated Olympian of all-time, finished second with tennis player Novak

Djokovic in third.In the women's category American Olympic swimmer Missy Franklin, who won four gold

By Emily GoddardDecember 11 - Novak Djokovic of Serbia and American Serena Williams are the 2012 International

Taking the title for the second successive year, Djokovic (pictured top) finished top of the world rankings

I am proud to have been named ITF World Champion for the second successive year," Djokovic said."

In such a strong era for men's tennis, it is a great achievement for Novak to retain his year-end number

By David GoldSeptember 15 - Serbian tennis player David Savić has lost an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) against his lifetime ban from the sport for match-fixing.

The news is a blow to Serbian tennis, which has been basking in the glory of Novak Djokovic's achievements

over the last year.In 2011 Djokovic went 43 matches unbeaten until he lost to Swiss legend Roger Federer

athletes' parade, one of our gold medallists was absent – Andy Murray was preparing for his showdown with Novak

Up against a man, in Serbia's Novak Djokovic, who has five grand slam titles to his name, went 43 matches

in the final of a grand slam.Andy Murray serves during his US Open men's singles final match against Novak

Then Djokovic did what he does best.

games of the match for a famous triumph.Andy Murray reacts with sheer disbelief following his win over Novak

history by winning the US Open at the Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York with a dramatic victory over Novak

Djokovic tonight.

impossible positions, that it took six set points for Murray before he finally took one to win the set 12-10.Novak

that was a huge moment, with the first set so hard fought, and Djokovic seemed to suffer as he lost

energy seeming drained from him and movement diminished.Andy Murray smiles during an interview next to Novak

Novak is so strong, he fights until the end of every match and I don't know how I managed to come through

Djokovic, who congratulated his opponent, said: "I'm disappointed to lose, but I gave it my all."

By Tom Degun at Casa Brasil in LondonSeptember 8 - Rio de Janeiro, the hosts of the next Summer Olympics and Paralympics, have secured another of the major sporting events on the calendar as the Brazilian city was today unveiled here as the location of the 2013 and 2014 Laureus World Sports Awards.

The 2012 awards in London saw Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic and Kenyan long-distance runner Vivian

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By Andrew Warshaw on Centre Court at WimbledonAugust 5 - Andy Murray saved the performance of his life for the Olympic men's tennis final today as he clinched another gold medal for Britain and denied Roger Federer – perhaps the best player the world has ever seen – the one accolade missing from a trophy cabinet comprising a record 17 Grand Slam titles.

proud" to have claimed silver in this, his fourth Olympics.Juan Martín del Petro, who upset Serbia's Novak

Djokovic, took the bronze for Argentina after a 7-5, 6-4 victory.Sisters Serena (left) and Venus

By Tom Degun on Centre Court at WimbledonAugust 3 - Swiss tennis icon Roger Federer has booked his spot in the London 2012 gold medal match, where he will face a rematch with Britain's Andy Murray, in dramatic fashion here by defeating Argentina's Juan Martin Del Potro 3-6, 7-6, 19-17 in an epic 4 hour 26 minute encounter, the longest Olympic tennis match in history.

in four sets.Andy Murray celebrates reaching the final of London 2012 with his victory over Serbia's Novak

best performances of his career to record a straight sets 7-5, 7-5 win over Serbia's world number two Novak

produced blistering ground stokes from the start that had his opponent momentarily rattled.However, Djokovic

meets Federer in a game which, like their last match, will be a best of five-set encounter.The win over Djokovic

By David Gold at the Main Press Centre on the Olympic Park in LondonJuly 26 - Swiss tennis champion Roger Federer says he hopes Stanislas Wawrinka, with whom he won the Olympic doubles gold four years' ago, beats British number one Andy Murray in their first round London 2012 clash at Wimbledon.

Federer, along with Murray and Serbia's Novak Djokovic, whom he deposed as world number one, will be

By Tom Degun at the Main Press Centre on the Olympic Park in LondonJuly 19 - Spanish tennis star Rafael Nadal, the Beijing 2008 men's singles champion, will not get the chance to defend his crown at London 2012 after being forced to pull out of the Games because of a knee injury.

and fears over his participation at the Olympics increased after a recent exhibition match against Novak

Djokovic in Madrid was cancelled due to the problem.Nadal's last match took place during the second

By David GoldJuly 10 - Yohan Blake is in contention for this month's United States Sports Academy (USSA) Athlete of the Month award after beating world record holder and London 2012 favourite Usain Bolt in the Jamaican Olympic trials.

Nadal is also up for the USSA award after making history with his victory over Serbian world number one Novak

Djokovic in the final of the French Open, 6-4, 6-3, 2-6, 7-5.The victory meant the Spaniard became the

By Andrew Warshaw at the All England Club in WimbledonJune 21 - Andy Murray may still be awaiting his first Grand Slam tennis title but the 25-year-old Scot says winning Olympic gold for Team GB would rank just as highly in terms of prestige and achievement.

Four years ago, [Novak] Djokovic won a bronze and was in tears."

Both Serbia's Djokovic (pictured above) and Spaniard Rafael Nadal, the top two in the world, have already