Tennis

Highlights of the third day of the Australian Open at Melbourne Park on Wednesday, all times local (GMT +11): 2329 MONFILS DOWNS BUBLIK Gael Monfils sealed a solid 6-1 6-0 6-4 victory ...

Greek world number four Stefanos Tsitsipas put on a clinical show against familiar opponent Mikael Ymer of Sweden during a 6-2 6-4 6-3 victory in the opening round of his ...

Britain’s teenage sensation Emma Raducanu cleared a dangerous first-round hurdle at the Australian Open, seeing off experienced American Sloane Stephens 6-0 2-6 6-1 in a topsy-turvy contest on Tuesday. ...

Andy Murray dipped into the depth of his defensive skills to tame big-hitting Nikoloz Basilashvili during a thrilling 6-1 3-6 6-4 6-7(5) 6-4 win on Tuesday to reach the second ...

Highlights of the second day of the Australian Open at Melbourne Park on Tuesday, all times local (GMT +11): 1905 MURRAY OUTLASTS BASILASHVILI Five-times runner-up Andy Murray, who accepted a wildcard to ...

Novak Djokovic ended speculation over his Australian Open title defence by announcing on Tuesday that he would compete at the season’s opening Grand Slam event after receiving a medical ...

Australian Open champion Naomi Osaka said rediscovering her love for tennis and not focusing on results and rankings were among her top goals for 2022, following her return to action in ...

Stefanos Tsitsipas showed little sign of the elbow problem that forced him out of his ATP Cup singles opener but failed to find a way past Diego Schwartzman as the ...

Rafa Nadal confirmed his bid for a record 21st Grand Slam title on Friday by posting a picture of himself at Melbourne Park on social media and allaying fears that ...

Russian Daniil Medvedev’s 2022 season opened with a stunning defeat at the hands of Frenchman Ugo Humbert at the ATP Cup on Sunday, while Italy’s Matteo Berrettini suffered a ...

With players starting to arrive in Sydney for the men’s season-opening ATP Cup, there was still no clarity on Monday whether top-ranked Novak Djokovic would be taking part in ...

Andy Murray given wildcard for Australian Open By PA Sport Staff Andy Murray will return to the Australian Open next month, three years after playing what he feared would be ...

Australian Open boss Craig Tiley feels organising the 2022 edition of the Grand Slam has been “10 times” more difficult than this year’s edition as the highly infectious Omicron variant of ...

Olympic champion Alexander Zverev is confident a changing of the guard is almost complete in men’s tennis with next year’s big silverware likely to be shared between Novak ...

Australian Open chief Craig Tiley is confident Rafa Nadal will be at Melbourne Park for next month’s Grand Slam despite testing positive for COVID-19, but he is still uncertain ...

Rafa Nadal said on Monday he had tested positive for COVID-19 after returning from his comeback appearance at the Mubadala World Tennis Championship exhibition event in Abu Dhabi last week. ...

Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai said on Sunday that she had never accused anyone of sexually assaulting her, and that a social media post she had made early last month ...

Emma Raducanu hailed the “insane” support she has received in 2021 after capping an incredible 12 months by being voted the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year. The 19-year-old completed a ...

World number one Novak Djokovic was named on the official entry list for next year’s Australian Open on Wednesday but 23-times Grand Slam singles champion Serena Williams will not ...

Novak Djokovic was named in Serbia’s team for the men’s season-opening ATP Cup in January in Sydney, although the world number one has yet to commit to the ...

The Russian Tennis Federation will play Croatia in the Davis Cup final after U.S. Open champion Daniil Medvedev comfortably beat Jan-Lennard Struff 6-4 6-4 to give his team an ...

Roger Federer has nothing left to prove as he sets his sights on a comeback next year but the 40-year-old must be mentally prepared for playing his final match, according ...

The Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) has announced the immediate suspension of all tournaments in China due to concerns about the well-being of former doubles world number one Peng Shuai ...

The Australian Open’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate is about protecting the community, not about ‘blackmailing’ Novak Djokovic, a state government official said on Wednesday. Organisers of the year’s first ...