Roger Federer won his first title of the year on Sunday, the world number three beating Russia's Mikhail Youzhny 6-7 (5/7), 6-3, 6-4 in the ATP final at Halle. This was the 31-year-old Swiss great's sixth Halle title and the 77th title of his career. After losing the opening set the former world number one battled back to preserve his perfect record over Youzhny in 15 meetings in over two hours of play.

Rain played havoc with the schedule at Queen's Club on Saturday as Lleyton Hewitt's clash with defending champion Marin Cilic was moved from the main show-court in a bid to get both semi-finals finished on time. Former world number one Hewitt was due to face Croatian fifth seed Cilic in the first of the day's semi-finals, but heavy rain fell just before the scheduled 1215GMT start at the pre-Wimbledon warm-up event. The rain eventually relented for long enough to allow the Australian and his opponent to begin the tie at 1425GMT.

Collated results from the sixth day of the ATP tournament at Queen's Club on Saturday (x denotes seeding): Semi-finals Marin Cilic (CRO x5) bt Lleyton Hewitt (AUS) 6-4, 4-6, 6-2 Andy Murray (GBR x1) bt Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA x4) 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 afp

Andy Murray avenged last year's embarrassing Queen's Club exit against Nicolas Mahut as the world number two kicked off a hectic Thursday with a 6-3, 7-6 (7/4) victory in his rain delayed second round clash. Murray had suffered a shock defeat against Mahut at the same stage of the pre-Wimbledon warm-up event 12 months ago, but the US Open champion's dominant display ensured there would be no repeat.