A top-20 fixture for all but two years of the past decade, Madison Keys wears Frances Tiafoe’s tongue-in-cheek nickname for her as a badge of honour. Tiafoe has affectionately called his fellow ...

Australian Open 2018 champion Caroline Wozniacki will make a special appearance at AO 2025 as a headline guest at the ninth annual AO Inspirational Series event on Thursday 23 January, hosted by ...

The men’s singles draw at Australian Open 2025 threw up a tantalising prospect. With 10-time AO champion Novak Djokovic seeded seventh, and Carlos Alcaraz seeded third, it set up the potential for a ...

In addition to all the usual sights and sounds at Australian Open 2025, visitors this year will be able to enjoy more wheelchair tennis. The sport has come a long way in the last two decades, with the ...

The cool, dimly-lit network of tunnels underneath Rod Laver Arena are a contrast to the hot, bright sun and loud frivolity of the Australian Open outside. Walking down a short staircase to a corridor ...

Carlos Alcaraz will have to wait to complete his full set of Grand Slam titles after 37-year-old ironman Novak Djokovic stopped him in his tracks in a late-night thriller that finished in the early ...

Toppling second seed Alexander Zverev is no easy feat. The German became the first man through to the Australian Open 2025 semifinals, recovering from set point deficits in the first two sets to ...

The 19th seed is the only American women’s singles player to reach the semifinals, outlasting the four countrywomen who sit above her in the world rankings: Coco Gauff, Jessica Pegula, Emma Navarro ...

While most Italian fans will have been tracking the progress of their world No.1 player Jannik Sinner during the opening 10 days of Australian Open 2025, it’s been another of the country’s troop of 10 ...

The three-peat remains alive, but only just. Top seed Aryna Sabalenka dropped a set for just the second time in three years at Melbourne Park on Tuesday evening, pushed hard by the power of 27th seed ...

There’s an oft-quoted expression in Spain – “a la tercera va la vencida” – to which Grand Slam semifinal debutant Paula Badosa subscribes. It loosely translates to “third time’s a charm”, the perfect ...

Deep in the throes of battle, when the struggle of mind over matter reaches its peak, Jannik Sinner freely admits a little luck never goes astray. His body had been revolting against him from the ...