MELBOURNE, Australia — Carlos Alcaraz completed a Grand Slam set by reaching the Australian Open quarterfinals for the first time, setting up a showdown against Olympic champion Alexander Zverev. All four quarterfinalists from the top half of the women’s draw are also into the last eight at Melbourne Park for the first time, with No. … Read more
Australian Open organisers have again banished 10-time champion Novak Djokovic from the Rod Laver Arena night session. Djokovic’s quarter-final match against 12th seed Taylor Fritz has been scheduled for the second match at Rod Laver Arena on Tuesday. While they have said the match won’t start before 2.30pm AEDT, it’s likely to be even later … Read more
The Alex de Minaur of old might have looked on his Australian Open fourth-round defeat with little more than a shrug of resignation and a weary acceptance that his exit was “fair enough”. But the new model ‘Demon’ promises he’s “night and day” a different player these days, and his higher expectations meant he felt … Read more
Alex de Minaur is out of the Australian Open after letting his chance to reach the quarter-finals for the first time slip in a dramatic five-set capitulation to world No.5 Andrey Rublev. The local hope fought back from losing the first set to snag a two-sets-to-one lead at Rod Laver Arena on Sunday and appeared … Read more
Sometimes all you can do is laugh. That has never been truer than for Frenchman Adrian Mannarino during his bloodbath against inexorable Serbian tennis legend Novak Djokovic during their fourth-round Australian Open clash on Sunday afternoon. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Crowd goes wild as Novak Djokovic loses a game. Watch the latest sport on Channel … Read more
Cruz Hewitt has made his Australian Open debut in the junior boys’ championship, receiving a taste of what dad Lleyton experienced as a big crowd packed into Court 3 for the occasion on Sunday. Among those in the stands were his former world No.1 father but mum Bec, Lleyton’s parents Glynn and Cherilyn and Australian … Read more
Australian Open organisers have banished 10-time champion Novak Djokovic from the Rod Laver Arena night session for the first time in three years. Djokovic’s fourth-round match against French 20th seed Adrian Mannarino has been scheduled for the second match at Rod Laver Arena on Sunday, not before 1.30pm AEDT. Organisers have instead given local hope … Read more
Defending champion Novak Djokovic has cruised into the last 16 of the Australian Open after dominating 30th seed Tomas Martin Etcheverry on Friday night. The 10-time champion, who had surprisingly dropped sets in his first and second-round matches, needed just under two and a half hours to wrap up the 6-3 6-3 7-6 (7-2) victory … Read more
A smile creased Daniil Medvedev’s face as he walked to the net in Rod Laver Arena at 3:39 a.m., finally a winner in the Australian Open’s second round after five sets spread across nearly 4 1/2 hours in the third-latest finish in Grand Slam history. Zero chance Medvedev would have been there at that time … Read more
Australia’s greatest male representation at its own grand slam in 26 years has been ravaged in the space of just five days. The country entered the Australian Open with an astonishing 14 players in the men’s singles draw, coming on the back of nine sitting inside the top 100 in the world rankings. Both feats … Read more
