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Open Extended Reactions Iga Swiatek in action in her first round clash at the Australian Open. Robert Prange/Getty Images The second round continues at the 2025 Australian Open, with Iga Swiatek, Jannik Sinner, Daniil Medvedev, and Elena Rybakina all taking to the court. Follow along for all the news and results from Melbourne Park.

Naomi Osaka has been dealing with a lot over the past two weeks. (AP Photo/Asanka Brendon Ratnayake) For the first time in three years, the tennis world will see Naomi Osaka in the third round of a Grand Slam. The two-time Australian Open champion advanced to the third round of the tournament on Wednesday with

Two-time Grand Slam runner-up Stefanos Tsitsipas said “it sucks” after being on the end of the first big upset of the Australian Open on Monday, with the worst part having to hang around before his next tournament. The 11th-seeded Greek, who played Novak Djokovic in the 2023 final at Melbourne Park, crashed out 7-5, 6-3,

Open Extended Reactions The 2025 Australian Open is underway, with warm weather welcoming the first Grand Slam of the year in Melbourne. Welcome to our live blog from the courts at Melbourne Park, in which we’ll bring you the latest news, schedules, results, and more.

The Australian Open starts Saturday evening ET, the first major tournament on the calendar and the unofficial kickoff for the 2025 tennis season. Let the bright sun and electric blue courts of Melbourne transport you to the other side of the world, where it’s summer instead of dreary winter. Aryna Sabalenka and Jannik Sinner will

File image of Sumit Nagal.© AFP India’s highest-ranked singles tennis player Sumit Nagal will take on Tomas Machac of the Czech Republic in the opening round of the Australian Open, beginning here on Sunday. The 27-year-old Nagal, currently 96th on the ATP, made it to the main draw of the season-opening Grand Slam by virtue

Jan 7, 2025, 08:27 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Recent doping controversies involving top players have not damaged tennis’s reputation but having a single commissioner for the sport would go a long way towards clearing up any confusion surrounding cases, John McEnroe said. Men’s world number one Jannik Sinner failed two drug tests in March

Naomi Osaka has had no shortage of health issues in recent years. (Photo by Hannah Peters/Getty Images) Naomi Osaka may be dealing with a significant injury, with the 2025 Australian Open nearly a week away. The former world No. 1 and four-time Grand Slam champion retired from the final of the WTA Auckland Open, the

Coco Gauff and Iga Swiatek will battle for United Cup glory after the USA and Poland won their respective semi-finals on Saturday in Sydney amid bizarre circumstances. Swiatek beat Elena Rybakina to help last year’s runners-up Poland see off Kazakhstan and they were joined in Sunday’s final of the mixed-teams tournament by the Gauff-led United

ESPN News Services Jan 3, 2025, 11:06 PM ET Open Extended Reactions SYDNEY — Poland marched into a second straight United Cup final Saturday with a convincing 2-0 victory over Kazakhstan after Hubert Hurkacz and Iga Swiatek won their singles matches. Last year’s runners-up will take on the United States or Czech Republic in Sunday’s

Associated Press Dec 31, 2024, 12:29 AM ET Open Extended Reactions BRISBANE, Australia — World No. 1-ranked and two-time Australian Open defending champion Aryna Sabalenka has started her Brisbane International singles campaign with a 6-4, 6-0 win Tuesday over Renata Zarazua of Mexico. After a first-round bye, Sabalenka took just 63 minutes to reach the

File image of Emma Raducanu.© AFP Former US Open champion Emma Raducanu pulled out of the Auckland Classic on Tuesday with a “back niggle” in a blow to her Australian Open preparations. Britain’s Raducanu will now fly to Melbourne to begin rehabilitation ahead of the year’s first major starting on January 12. The 22-year-old has

Associated Press Dec 27, 2024, 11:16 PM ET Open Extended Reactions BRISBANE, Australia — Nick Kyrgios will make his return to tournament tennis Saturday at the Brisbane International when he takes on 21-year-old Giovanni Perricard of France. It will be the first tour-level appearance by Kyrgios since the Stuttgart Open in June 2023. The 29-year-old

Sumit Nagal has yet again refused to play for the country in the Davis Cup, putting “unreasonable conditions” for his return even as Sasikumar Mukund on Friday came back to the national squad for the tie against Togo after his suspension was revoked by the AITA Executive Committee. Nagal, who has been struggling on the

Novak Djokovic is confident he can still win Grand Slams, starting at the Australian Open, with the Serbian kickstarting his bid for an unprecedented 11th title and record 25th major crown in Brisbane this week. Top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka, who is gunning for a third Melbourne Park trophy, joins him at the Queensland Tennis Centre from December

Dec 20, 2024, 09:27 AM ET Open Extended Reactions IT’S AN EARLY Friday morning in late November, and Joseph “Joey” Losgar and seven other men, all dressed in gray sweatpants or shorts and white T-shirts, are setting up pickleball nets in a brightly lit gym. Their sneakers squeak on the wood surface as they roll

Associated Press Dec 19, 2024, 11:07 AM ET Open Extended Reactions ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The identities of 15 “highly abusive account authors” were reported to national law enforcement and about 12,000 posts or comments were pointed out to social media platforms this year as part of a new attempt to protect tennis players and

Reflecting on a turbulent year for the World Anti-Doping Agency, marked by controversies over Chinese swimmers and Jannik Sinner, its president in an interview with AFP pushed back against “unfair, defamatory attacks.” Last spring, the sports watchdog was severely criticized for clearing swimmers who tested positive for trimetazidine to compete at the Tokyo Olympics in