Sofia Kenin beats Coco Gauff in fourth round to reach quarterfinals
Coco Gauff's latest history-making Grand Slam run at age 15 ended with a 6-7 (5-7), 6-3, 6-0 loss in the Australian Open's fourth round to Sofia Kenin on Sunday. Like Gauff, ...
Top-ranked Rafael Nadal keeps it simple in chaotic third round at Australian Open
Rafael Nadal was awake at 1 a.m., engrossed in Roger Federer's third-round match at the Australian Open. The top-ranked Nadal explained, after beating fellow Spaniard Pablo Carreno Busta 6-1, 6-2, 6-4 ...
Roger Federer outlasts John Millman in five sets for 100th match victory at Australian Open
This was the sort of match, riveting and rollicking, that keeps Roger Federer in tennis — even with all of those Grand Slam titles and other accomplishments, even at age ...
Coco Gauff stuns defending champion Naomi Osaka in Australian Open third round
Playing nothing like what her age or her ranking would suggest, Coco Gauff steadily made her way to her latest Grand Slam upset, eliminating defending champion Naomi Osaka in the Australian Open's third round 6-3, 6-4 on Friday. The 15-year-old American became the youngest player ...
Amid rain and red hue, Daniil Medvedev, Angelique Kerber advance at Australian Open
Red dust and rain gave some of the blue courts at the Australian Open a more Roland Garros hue, adding yet another freakish element to the conditions that have plagued the season's first major. Rain on three of the first four days of the tournament ...
Coco Gauff wins to sets up showdown with Naomi Osaka in third round of Australian Open
Plenty was going badly for Coco Gauff in the second round of the Australian Open. The double-faults kept coming Wednesday, nine in all. The deficits, too: First, she dropped the opening set against 74th-ranked Sorana Cirstea. Then, after forcing a third, Gauff fell behind by ...
Defending champion Naomi Osaka threw her racket, tossed a ball and kicked the racket again for good measure, before sitting for a while with a towel over her head. She sensed the crowd was looking for drama, and she gave them a little bit. She ...
Maria Sharapova falls in Australian Open opening round; Rafael Nadal cruises to victory
Maria Sharapova hasn't won a tournament since 2017, and her ranking slipped to 136th by the end of last year. After a 6-3, 6-4 loss to 19th-seeded Donna Vekic at the Australian Open on Tuesday, former No. 1-ranked Sharapova is now on a run of ...
Victorious Novak Djokovic drops a set in Australian Open first round for first time since 2006
Novak Djokovic did something he hadn't in 14 years: He dropped a set in a first-round match at the Australian Open. That didn't bother him, though. He actually looked upon the challenge he faced Monday night under the closed roof at Rod Laver Arena as ...
So this is how the Barty begins Down Under. Top-ranked Ash Barty lost the first set of her first-round match at the Australian Open, where she's aiming to be the first homegrown winner in more than 40 years, before recovering to beat Leisa Tsurenko 5-7, ...
Teenage phenom Coco Gauff sets high goals after repeat win over Venus Williams
Everyone had the same question when the Australian Open draw was revealed: What were the odds that Coco Gauff and Venus Williams would face each other again in the first round at a Grand Slam tournament? "I was a bit shocked," Gauff said, "I'm sure ...
Controversial tennis great Margaret Court complains she is 'persecuted' for beliefs
Australian tennis great Margaret Court said she was being "persecuted" for her beliefs on Monday after criticism of her anti-gay views overshadowed 50th-anniversary celebrations of her 1970 Grand Slam. The 77-year-old, now a church pastor, urged the media to focus on her tennis and not ...
