Melbourne - Serena Williams of the United States routed Russia's Dinara Safina 6-0, 6-3 on Saturday for the Australian Open title and a return to the top of the women's tennis rankings.

Williams, 27, stretched her Melbourne success run to four titles after earlier wins in 2003, 2005 and 2007. Her 10th Grand Slam singles title came a day after she lifted the doubles crown with her sister Venus Williams.

Hamburg - Bayern Munich's dream of a grand start out of the German football winter break lasted only 72 hours as SV Hamburg exposed that they are only human after all.

Munich appeared superhuman in a 5-1 cup rout on Tuesday at VfB Stuttgart, but all their ambitions froze on a cold Friday when they were beaten 1-0 by Hamburg in the Bundesliga restart.

Mladen Petric's winner shortly before halftime made sure that Hamburg and not Munich moved to the top of the standings (at least until later Saturday) to the delight of the 57,000-strong crowd.

Instead of starting a planned winning streak to take the league by storm Munich's inconsistency prevailed in their third season defeat.

Dubai, Jan. 31 : New Zealander Jeff Crowe of the Emirates Elite Panel of ICC Match Referees has reached another landmark.

Today, as Kenya hosts Zimbabwe at the Nairobi Gymkhana for the third match in a five-game series, Crowe will notch up 100 One-Day Internationals as an ICC match referee.

To mark the occasion, ICC's High Performance Manager Richard Done made a presentation to the New Zealander before the game on behalf of the ICC.

"I would like to congratulate Jeff on his achievement," said ICC Umpires' and Referees' Manager Vince van der Bijl.

Brisbane, Jan. 31: Australian all-rounder Andrew Symonds failed for a second day in his first-class cricket comeback to leave his South African tour hopes hanging by a thread.

Symonds lasted just eight balls on Saturday as he was caught behind for three, hot on the heels of his first-innings five, on return from knee surgery for Queensland at the Gabba.

The wayward all-rounder edged a forward defensive push to a good length ball by Steve Magoffin, giving gloveman Luke Ronchi a regulation catch low down.

Melbourne, Jan. 31: Tennis legends are split over who will eventually win this year''s Australian Open men''s title -- Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal -- but all agree it could shape up as another match for the ages.

Between them, Rod Laver, Ken Rosewall, John Newcombe and Tony Roche won 27 grand slam titles.

Victory for Federer would give the brilliant Swiss a record-equalling 14th slam - more than half of that illustrious quarter put together.

London, Jan. 31: Dancing On Ice star Jessica Taylor has said that her husband Kevin Pietersen''s shock resignation as England cricket captain, has left everyone in the family hurt, and added that it has not been easy to live with it.

"It's been tough. It hasn't been easy. It's never nice to see someone you love going through something hurtful," The Sun quoted her, as saying.

She said that she was proud that Kevin has returned to play for England.