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The Australian Open will begin on a Sunday next year, expanding the Grand Slam tennis tournament to a 15-day event for the first time, with the intention of decreasing the likelihood of late-night finishes. Tennis Australia announced the change Monday, saying it hopes to make things better for the athletes

Novak Djokovic has made a winning start to his 2024 Australian Open campaign, battling past 18-year-old Croatian qualifier Dino Prizmic in the first round on Sunday night, 6-2, 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-4. And it’s a milestone victory: the 90th Australian Open win of Djokovic's career, just the third tennis player

One thing you can say about sports these days: It’s full of surprises. You never know which games are going to be played, which are going to be postponed, and which are going to vanish forever. It’s true for tennis as well. This week the men remain in Cologne for

BIRMINGHAM, England (AP) — Two-time Grand Slam winner Garbine Muguruza isn't lacking confidence as she starts the buildup to defending her Wimbledon title. "I believe I can win the trophy again," said the 24-year-old Spaniard, despite playing on grass — a surface she hasn't always liked. "The tricky part (of

Eighth seed Serena Williams will take on home favorite Bianca Andreescu in Sunday’s Rogers Cup final after rallying to defeat qualifier Marie Bouzkova, 1-6, 6-3, 6-3, in Toronto on Saturday. Williams is bidding to win her first title since becoming a mom, having last tasted victory at the 2017 Australian

On Friday, Madison Keys defeated Bernarda Pera, 6-2, 6-7 (5), 7-5, to advance to the semifinals of the Volvo Car Open in Charleston. This match is one that Keys made very difficult on herself, as the American really let things get out of hand after breezing through the first set.

In just their second tournament as a doubles team, at the 2019 BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, Elise Mertens and Aryna Sabalenka won the title. Two weeks later, the spirited duo completed the rare Sunshine Double in Miami, cementing themselves as the hot new team on the block. Their

No rain fell in Rome on Wednesday, but many top players did continue to shine as they inch closer to the title. However, some favorites were stopped in their tracks by up and coming players. These are the Top 5 Photos from the Italian Open. 1 Rafael Nadal Although it's

Jack Sock is in for a busy weekend at the third staging of the Laver Cup, set to take over Geneva on Friday. Team World captain John McEnroe believes Sock is currently the game’s best doubles player, and he’s probably right. Perhaps that’s why McEnroe has featured the Nebraska native

Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE): ATP No. 8, UTR No. 13 (15.65) vs. Daniil Medvedev (RUS): ATP No. 14, UTR No. 5 (15.94) This marquee matchup between two of the game’s brightest rising stars is exciting enough given their abilities and game styles. But it is even more exciting knowing the history

Fritz, an 18-year-old Californian, says that playing Wawrinka will be “complicated.” That sounds like a euphemism for difficult, challenging, maybe even scary. Fritz burst into the Top 100 this winter with a smooth backhand and a smoother serve; he did things, like win a title in his third tournament, that

Roger Federer is all tied up with Rafael Nadal in Grand Slam singles titles, with 20—and there is just as little to choose between their games, according to Boris Becker. Becker, in a column for the Daily Mail, rated them almost the same level across several categories. Both Federer and

Novak Djokovic returned to the well recently to plumb one of his most famous riffs. The not-so-closeted Djoker has a penchant for being semi-serious intermittently, as with his moonlighting at a photo shoot with girlfriend Jelena Ristic, just before he turns on the funny again. (See: his late-night appearance on

Serbia and Canada went the distance in this semifinal tie in 2013. A year after helping Serbia lift the Davis Cup trophy for the first time, Novak Djokovic’s lone 2011 appearance in the competition was a disaster: After his nation staved off elimination against Argentina in the semifinals with a

Coming into the Australian Open, Roger Federer was one of the few names of note opting not to play an ATP event ahead of the year’s first major. Throughout the past week in Melbourne, the 38-year-old appeared relaxed at the Rally for Relief exhibition, in press and was even caught

WUHAN, China (AP)—Top-ranked Serena Williams retired from her second-round match due to a viral illness at the Wuhan Open on Tuesday, dropping a third match to Alize Cornet this year. Williams, playing her first match since winning the U.S. Open, had just converted a break point for a 6-5 lead

Daniil Medvedev is currently riding a 14-match win streak dating back to his triumph at the Paris Masters last November. Of his 14 wins, nine have come against opponents ranked inside the Top 10. It appears, like Bianca Andreescu in 2019, that he’s forgotten how to lose. But no matter

NEW YORK (AP) Roger Federer was reminiscing about watching New York Knicks games at Madison Square Garden on TV in the early 1990s, and Grigor Dimitrov couldn't help but interject: ''I was born around the '90s.'' It was no coincidence the 17-time Grand Slam champion was matched against the player

PicMIAMI—Today's matches will produce the first two semifinalists of the men’s draw, and fill out the semifinal brackets on the women's side, now that Maria Sharapova (seeded No. 2) and Caroline Wozniacki (No. 4) have advanced to that stage. Let’s take a quick look at all four singles matches on