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The US Open tennis tournament is adding a 15th day by moving to a Sunday start in 2025

Jan. 29, 2025 14:55 PM EST

The U.S. Open is expanding to 15 days this year, shifting to a Sunday start for the first time in the Open era that began in 1968. Fans who subscribed for ticket information from the USTA were informed of the change for the season’s last Grand Slam tennis tournament — and its new...

Jannik Sinner beats Alexander Zverev in 3 sets for his second Australian Open title in a row

Jan. 26, 2025 09:27 AM EST

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — There's all sorts of ways beyond merely the score to measure just how dominant Jannik Sinner was while outplaying and frustrating Alexander Zverev during the 6-3, 7-6 (4), 6-3 victory Sunday that earned the 23-year-old Italian a second consecutive Australian Open...

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: Madison Keys upsets Iga Swiatek and will face Aryna Sabalenka in the final

Jan. 23, 2025 17:22 PM EST

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — When Madison Keys finally finished off her 5-7, 6-1, 7-6 (10-8) upset of No. 2 Iga Swiatek in a high-intensity, high-quality Australian Open semifinal on Thursday night, saving a match point along the way, the 29-year-old American crouched on the court and placed a...

Australian Open: Ben Shelton will face defending champion Jannik Sinner in the semifinals

Jan. 22, 2025 07:54 AM EST

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Ben Shelton's Australian Open quarterfinal foe, Lorenzo Sonego, produced the shot of the tournament — diving to his left for a volley with so much spin that the ball bounced on one side of the net, then floated back over to the other — but it was the American who...

Coco Gauff says she has more work to do after losing at the Australian Open. Djokovic beats Alcaraz

Jan. 21, 2025 09:23 AM EST

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Coco Gauff's retooled forehand and serve abandoned her in the worst way and at the worst time at the Australian Open. The unforced errors just kept accumulating Tuesday, and so did the double-faults and break points, often followed by a palm placed over her eyes or a...

Coco Gauff and Aryna Sabalenka move closer to an Australian Open rematch. Djokovic and Alcaraz win

Jan. 17, 2025 09:59 AM EST

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Coco Gauff still hasn't lost a match or even at set at the Australian Open — or, actually, this season. She moved into the fourth round at Melbourne Park with a straightforward 6-4, 6-2 victory over 2021 U.S. Open runner-up Leylah Fernandez on Friday night. ...

Learner Tien beats Daniil Medvedev and is the youngest US man in Australia's 3rd round since Sampras

Jan. 16, 2025 12:13 PM EST

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Learner Tien, a 19-year-old qualifier from California, became the youngest American man to reach the Australian Open's third round since Pete Sampras in 1990, upsetting a racket-tossing Daniil Medvedev 6-3, 7-6 (4), 6-7 (8), 1-6, 7-6 (10-7) in a match that began...

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...

Coco Gauff is into the Australian Open's 3rd round and still unbeaten in 2025

Jan. 15, 2025 07:02 AM EST

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Coco Gauff stretched her unbeaten start to 2025 to seven matches and 14 sets by moving into the third round at the Australian Open with a 6-3, 7-5 victory over 173rd-ranked Jodie Burrage of Britain at Rod Laver Arena on Wednesday. Gauff, the 2023 U.S....