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Players arrive for Australian Open; straight into quarantine

Two-time Australian Open champion Victoria Azarenka was among the earliest arrivals into Melbourne on one of the 15 charter flights bringing players and officials into the city for the first...

DATE: Jan 15, 2021 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Davis Cup feud between Hewitt, Tomic deepens Down Under

MELBOURNE, Australia – The feud between Australia’s Davis Cup captain and an exiled player escalated at the season-opening major when Lleyton Hewitt said Bernard Tomic threatened him and his...

DATE: Jan 17, 2019 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Venus Williams, Roger Federer age well under the Australian sun

Veterans back in the thick of a Grand Slam

DATE: Jan 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

A distracting day at the Australian Open tennis tournament

Murray, Konta win to reach semifinals

DATE: Jan 27, 2016 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Keys unlocks semis

Djokovic easily advances to the last four

DATE: Jan 28, 2015 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Berdych shows Nadal the door

Sharapova sets up an all-Russian semifinal

DATE: Jan 27, 2015 | CATEGORY: High School Sports

Nadal out, Sharapova, Makarova advance in Australia

MELBOURNE, Australia – Rafael Nadal’s lack of match fitness from nearly six months of inactivity finally caught up with the 14-time Grand Slam singles champion at the Australian Open on Tues...

DATE: Jan 26, 2015 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Road to No. 19 won’t be easy for Serena Williams

MELBOURNE, Australia – Top-seeded Serena Williams will play Alison Van Uytvanck of Belgium in the first round of the Australian Open as she begins her attempt to win a 19th Grand Slam single...

DATE: Jan 16, 2015 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

No beating British weather

Sunny one day, windy and raining the next

DATE: Jul 18, 2014 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

And we meet again ...

LONDON – For all their time on the world’s biggest tennis stage – Roger Federer in 24 Grand Slam finals and Novak Djokovic in 13 – two of the sport’s “Big 4” have met in only one major final...

DATE: Jul 5, 2014 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

King admires the new queens of the tennis court

LONDON – Billie Jean King believes Wimbledon finalists Eugenie Bouchard and Petra Kvitova are creating one of the most exciting times in women’s tennis in decades. King ought to ...

DATE: Jul 4, 2014 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

The wicket’s ready for first pitch

Diamondbacks and Dodgers arrive Down Under for the MLB season opener

DATE: Mar 18, 2014 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports