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Australian Open: Madison Keys can win her first Slam title and stop Aryna Sabalenka's threepeat

Jan. 24, 2025 02:03 AM EST

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The Madison Keys who will play two-time defending champion Aryna Sabalenka for the title at the Australian Open on Saturday night is not the same Madison Keys who was the runner-up at the U.S. Open back in 2017, the one other time the American participated in a Grand...

Australian Open: Iga Swiatek vs. Madison Keys and Jannik Sinner vs. Ben Shelton semifinals are set

Jan. 22, 2025 07:02 AM EST

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Iga Swiatek is dominating her Australian Open opponents the way no one has at Melbourne Park since Maria Sharapova in 2013. Swiatek's latest lopsided win came via a 6-1, 6-2 scoreline in the quarterfinals against No. 8 seed Emma Navarro on Wednesday. ...

Jannik Sinner gets past Holger Rune at the Australian Open in a match with net and medical delays

Jan. 20, 2025 06:48 AM EST

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — First came the medical timeouts, one each for Jannik Sinner and Holger Rune with the temperature above 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 Celsius) at the Australian Open. Then came the bizarre sight of a 20-minute delay because the net at Rod Laver Arena...

Elina Svitolina rallies to reach the Australian Open quarterfinals for the third time

Jan. 19, 2025 21:42 PM EST

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Elina Svitolina rallied from 4-1 down and took 11 of the next 12 games in a 6-4, 6-1 victory over Veronika Kudermetova on Monday to reach the Australian Open quarterfinals for the third time. The 30-year-old Ukrainian is into the last eight at a Grand...

Australian Open: Iga Swiatek is in total control during a 6-1, 6-0 rout of Emma Raducanu

Jan. 18, 2025 09:15 AM EST

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Everything came so easily for Iga Swiatek during a 6-1, 6-0 victory over Emma Raducanu on Saturday in the only Australian Open women's third-round match between two past Grand Slam champions — if you thought that meant it would be close, you'd have been rather wrong...

Iga Swiatek moves into a 3rd-round match against Emma Raducanu at the Australian Open

Jan. 16, 2025 11:29 AM EST

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Iga Swiatek tends not to waste time in the first week of Grand Slams. When the five-time Grand Slam champion dispatched Rebecca Sramkova 6-0, 6-2 in a clean hour at the Australian Open on Thursday, Swiatek was living a habit of advancing quickly through...

Monfils outduels fellow Frenchman in an Australian Open 1st-round match for the ages

Jan. 14, 2025 03:47 AM EST

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The pragmatic pro in Gael Monfils would like to have finished off his first-round win in straight sets against up-and-coming fellow Frenchman Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard at the Australian Open. The entertainer's instinct in him got a lot of value out of...

Sinner, Djokovic in opposite halves at the Australian Open, Sabalenka vs Stephens in 1st round

Jan. 09, 2025 01:55 AM EST

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Defending champion Jannik Sinner and 10-time Australian Open winner Novak Djokovic have landed in opposite sides of the draw for the season’s first major, ruling out a replay of last year’s semifinal match. Sinner upset Djokovic in the semifinals...

Gauff and Fritz put US in United Cup semifinals. Kazakhstan beats Germany to advance

Jan. 01, 2025 15:50 PM EST

PERTH, Australia (AP) — Coco Gauff and Taylor Fritz powered the U.S., tournament winner two years ago, into the semifinals of the United Cup mixed teams tennis event on Wednesday. In the first singles match, Gauff had a 7-6 (4), 6-2 win over China's Zhang Shuai. Fritz then made...