MELBOURNE, January 17, 2017 Defending champion Novak Djokovic opened his title bid at the Australian Open with a 6-1, 7-6, 6-2 win over hard-hitting Spaniard Fernando Verdasco. The 29-year-old from Serbia impressed with some brilliant defence skills under the floodlight […]
MELBOURNE, January 17, 2017 Rafael Nadal opened his Australian Open campaign with a convincing 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 victory over German veteran Florian Mayer on Tuesday afternoon in the third match on Rod Laver Arena. It was a vintage Nadal performance, where […]
MELBOURNE, January 16, 2017 Roger Federer made a winning return to the courts, celebrating a 7-5, 3-6, 6-2, 6-2 first round victory at the Australian Open against Austrian veteran Jürgen Melzer. The 35-year-old appeared in his first competitive match in […]
MELBOURNE, January 16, 2017 Tennis Australia’s elite team of data, analytics and sport science experts have been crunching the numbers and the results may surprise you. The Tennis Australia Game Insight Group or GIG is headed up by leading sports […]
MELBOURNE, January 16, 2017 Australian youngster Alex de Minaur was one of the stories of the first day at the 2017 Australian Open in Melbourne. The 17-year-old from Sydney celebrated a successful Grand Slam debut, winning his opening match 5-7, […]
MELBOURNE, January 15, 2017 Defending Australian Open champion Angelique Kerber announced Saturday that she is going to skip Germany’s upcoming first round Fed Cup tie against the United States, which will be played from 11 to 12 February, the weekend […]
MELBOURNE, January 15, 2017 A record 17,537 people have attended Kids Tennis Day at Melbourne Park on Saturday. The annual event aims to drive tennis participation and encourage kids and their families to pick up a racquet and play. More […]
MELBOURNE, January 15, 2017 The start of the 2017 Autralian Open is only hours away and the top players met the media for pre-tournament press conferences. Rafael Nadal has returned to Melbourne Park after he had suffered his first opening-round exit […]
MELBOURNE, January 14, 2017 The draws have been made for the 2017 edition of the Australian Open with Canadians Eugenie Bouchard (Montreal, QC) and Milos Raonic (Thornhill, ON) earning direct entry into the main draw for the first Grand Slam […]
MELBOURNE, January 13, 2017 This is the 105th edition of the Australian Championships, which began in 1905, as well as being the 49th Australian Open and the 196th Grand Slam tournament of the Open Era. Melbourne Park hosts the tournament […]
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