Melbourne  - Roger Federer certainly revels in the spotlight. But the world number two would like to see women start shouldering more of the late-night scheduling load at the Australian Open.

The Swiss played his fair allotment of night-time thrillers at this edition. But after following a long woman's match, a men's contest can end at 2 am in a worst case scenario - well past a civilised hour.

The president of the ATP Player Council believed equal prize money (1.3 million dollars for each champion) should mean equal responsibility.

Perth (Australia), Jan. 31 : The ICC Board on Saturday held the first day of its two-day meeting in Perth, the first of the four scheduled meetings it holds each year.

Among the matters discussed were the following:

Zimbabwe: A task team, headed by Dr Julian Hunte, the President of the West Indies Cricket Board, presented an interim report to the ICC Board. This followed a visit to Zimbabwe by Dr Hunte and ICC Chief Executive Haroon Lorgat in November last year.

Perth, Jan. 31 : ICC President David Morgan today paid tribute to cricket statistician, scorer and author Bill Frindall, who passed away on Thursday, aged 69.

"The news of Bill's passing has shocked me and my thoughts and those of everyone at the ICC go out to his wife Debbie, other members of his family and friends.

"I saw Bill earlier this month when he took part in a Lord's Taverners charity trip to the United Arab Emirates and it is hard to believe he is no longer with us.

Perth, Jan. 31 : New Zealand cricket skipper Daniel Vettori believes Australia''s aura has been washed away following a spate of retirements.

On the eve of the one-day series between the two nations, which kicks off at the WACA Ground on Sunday, Vettori said it was less daunting facing up to Australia since the retirement of Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath, Adam Gilchrist and Matthew Hayden.

Melbourne, Jan. 31 : Former Australian tennis great Tony Roche believes that Swiss player Roger Federer is as great as former Grand Slam champion Rod Laver.

He believes Federer will eclipse Pete Sampras''s all-time record of 14 grand slam titles, even if he fails against Rafael Nadal in the Australian Open men''s final on Sunday.

Hailing Federer the most elegant player he had seen, Roche declared the Swiss master on an irreversible journey to tennis immortality.

Melbourne, Jan. 31 : American Serena Williams on Saturday won her tenth Grand Slam title by winning this year''s Australian Open.

Williams, 27, overwhelmed Russian Dinara Safina 6-0 6-3 in 59 minutes to regain the world No. 1 ranking and become just the seventh woman in history to accrue 10 grand slam titles.

In edging past Monica Seles, Williams now trails only Australian legend Margaret Smith Court (24), Steffi Graf (22), Helen Wills Moody