Australian Open: Two players test positive for coronavirus Rafael Nadal has sparked fears that he may miss the upcoming Australian Open after withdrawing from Spain’s ATP Cup opener against Australia with a “stiff Lower back”. The world number two was set to face Alex de Minaur but released a statement on Twitter announcing that he was pulling out of the match. […]

Nick Kyrgios survived an injury scare to eventually win his first match on tour in 344 days on Tuesday evening, and avoided the possibility of entering the Australian Open with just one lead up match under his belt. As Australian colleagues Alex de Minaur and John Millman started Australia’s ATP Cup campaign on Rod Laver Arena, Kyrgios kicked off his […]

It’s possible you don’t like the grunt. Not of any kind. Not the high-pitched shriek nor the multi-syllable one. Not the ones which sound like an unsuspecting fellow hit in the solar plexus nor those which resemble a last, dying gasp of effort. But when the grunt reappeared on Sunday it was among the most beautiful sounds I’d heard for […]

Serena Williams bowled over by NFL star Tom Brady’s success at the age of 43 as she hunts her own record at the Australian Open Tom Brady will play in his 10th Super Bowl for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Serena Williams is getting set to compete at this month’s Australian Open She is using Brady’s success as inspiration as she […]

Johanna Konta in Melbourne Johanna Konta was able to train for five hours a day during quarantine “There’s still masks being worn generally, which is obviously not what we would have considered normal a year ago, but having the opportunity to go to restaurants, to see more people milling about, it definitely does give you a sense of normality. “(On […]

Australian summer tennis is back with a flurry, with fans of the sport handed the arduous task of tracking multiple tournaments on the same site in the same week. With the Australian Open a week away and players desperately trying to get some match play under their belts after their two-week spell of hard or soft quarantine, tournament organisers have […]

Britain’s Katie Boulter began her season in impressive fashion with victory over Anna Kalinskaya but there were defeats for Cameron Norrie and Francesca Jones as the tennis year kicked into gear ahead of the Australian Open. Boulter is ranked down at 371 after a lengthy spell out with a back injury in 2019 and the Gippsland Trophy is just her […]

World No. 3 and reigning US Open champion Dominic Thiem believes the playing conditions at next week’s Australian Open will be similar to the grand slam he won in New York. Thiem, who broke through with his maiden grand slam last year and is seen as the biggest threat to Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal, represents Austria this week in […]

It feels so unusual to not have to wear a mask and to see a lot of people out and about in Melbourne without masks. I have become so used to wearing one that I remember at the US Open last year I accidentally wore the mask in the shower, and didn’t realise it was on until I was under […]

Tennis Australia chief executive Craig Tiley has revealed the most “bizarre request” received from the tennis stars while in quarantine ahead of the Australian Open. Several of the biggest names in tennis have complained about spending two weeks in lockdown ahead of next month’s grand slam — doing nothing to eradicate a perception of some in the sport as entitled […]