Simona Halep has waved goodbye to professional tennis, with the 33-year-old revealing persistent injuries do not allow her to compete at the highest level. The Romanian played her first match of the ...

Aryna Sabalenka has earned the right to fight for the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup for a third straight year. The world No.1 brought her trademark intensity and firepower and was often unplayable ...

A well-known story in tennis lore is Virginia Ruzici’s 1978 Roland Garros victory and the subsequent pay-cheque she received – scenes Richard Williams witnessed on television and which inspired him to ...

Glancing at different draws at Australian Open 2025, familiar names found themselves in the final stages. Of the eight semifinalists in singles, for example, seven had already been in the last four, ...

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 ...

Alexander Zverev has closed to within a win of shaking his Grand Slam hoodoo after advancing to the Australian Open final following Novak Djokovic's retirement due to a left leg injury. In his ninth ...

As a five-time Australian Open finalist, Andy Murray was in a familiar place in his return to Rod Laver Arena. He was also in familiar company sharing that court alongside Novak Djokovic, given the ...

Madison Keys admits she would be lying if she never had doubts whether she would ever have another shot at realising her Grand Slam dream. It was more than seven years since her sole prior appearance ...

Madison Keys is finally a Grand Slam winner. The 29-year-old stunned two-time defending champion Aryna Sabalenka to earn the Australian Open 2025 women’s singles title, triumphing 6-3 2-6 7-5 under ...

To paraphrase former top-10 star Andrea Petkovic, who has been commentating in Melbourne for Australian Open 2025: big hitters don’t like playing big hitters. This was true for Aryna Sabalenka, the ...

Czech Katerina Siniakova and American Taylor Townsend added the Australian Open women’s doubles title to the one they won together at Wimbledon last year with victory over Hsieh Su-Wei and Jelena ...

Alexander Zverev was reduced to tears after being beaten by Jannik Sinner in the Australian Open 2025 men’s singles final on Sunday night. The 27-year-old buried his head in his hands following a ...