Jodie Burrage took the fight to Coco Gauff before falling to a second-round loss at the Australian Open. The 25-year-old Briton won only two games the last time the pair met on grass in 2023 but she threatened to take the game’s form player to a deciding set before going down 6-3 7-5.

Defending champion Aryna Sabalenka extended her Australian Open winning streak to 15 matches on a rain-soaked opening day at Melbourne Park. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.

Carlos Alcaraz is ready to start the new season and hopes to achieve a prestigious result at the 2025 Australian Open. The current world number 3 has never had a particular feeling with this tournament so far, but hopes that the situation will change in this edition which starts on Sunday 12 January.

The grandest stage on the tennis calendar’s first spectacle each year—Rod Laver Arena at the Australian Open— has both a public-facing persona and one known only to the players and their teams.

Laver concluded his career with 11 grand slam singles titles to his name. He reached 17 major finals, losing only six of them. His first final – at Wimbledon ... renamed Rod Laver Arena in ...

The American's incremental assent to the top 10 has brought a burst of attention and expectation. For Navarro, it's an adjustment

Iga Swiatek rushed through the first set in 26 minutes and completed her 6-0, 6-2 second-round win over Rebecca Sramkova in an hour at the Australian Open. The five-time Grand Slam champion makes a habit of advancing quickly through the early rounds at the majors.

Blinkova produced one of the moments of the 2024 Australian Open, when she won a 42-point match tiebreak against Elena Rybakina in the third round. Blinkova will face a different kind of challenge from the partisan crowd on Margaret Court Arena, as Saville attempts to reach the second round at her home major for the second time.

Of the dozen Aussies in action, Kyrgios and talented teenager Maya Joint fell short, though she was pitted against the recent US Open finalist Jessica Pegula. Likewise Chris O’Connell, who battled bravely in a four-hour, five-set thriller against 12th seed Tommy Paul.

NICK KYRGIOS was slammed as “embarrassing” for “harassing” the 16-year-old son of a tennis legend. Aussie Kyrgios is never one to shy away from controversy. And he

Zieliński and Hsieh Su-wei of Taiwan have advanced to the second round of the mixed doubles competition at the Australian Open Grand Slam tennis tournament in Melbourne.

Elo ranking, which takes into account the quality of opponents, puts 2021 US Open winner at world no 13 – ahead of Katie Boulter